Posted on 12/09/2009 4:31:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin's Op-Ed in Wednesday's Washington Post slamming the Copenhagen climate change summiteers for using "agenda-driven" global warming science has heated up critics' temperatures.
Pointing to "Climate-gate," the leaked e-mails from a British climate research center last month that suggested that scientists inflated evidence to pad their case for global warming, the former Republican vice presidential nominee went rogue in her op-ed piece about how the U.S. shouldn't pay -- literally and figuratively -- for untrustworthy science.
"The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse," Palin wrote.
Storm clouds quickly rolled across the Blogosphere.
"By 'radical' [environmental movement], Palin means the overwhelming scientific consensus: virtually every major science academy in the country," wrote the Atlantic's political blogger Marc Ambinder, in a paragraph-by-paragraph response to Palin's op-ed.
Calling the Palin piece "falsehood-laden," Media Matters for America blogger Jeremy Schulman ripped Palin for distorting the nature of the e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit Phil Jones, the scientist at the heart of the e-mail flap.
Schulman pointed to The Post's own reporting, which found that the scientist used the phrase "hide the decline" to refer to substituting more accurate data for flawed, tree-ring data.
But most damning was a blog item from The Post's own Joel Achenbach: "Ms. Palin lives in the Arctic. She can see the North Pole. She has field-dressed moose on Denali glaciers. What she knows is that there's still a lot of snow out there. There's ice all over the place. Frankly, it's way too cold. Warm things up a bit and Alaska might actually be habitable!"
Conservatives, however, were quick to champion the former Alaska governor’s call to protect American taxpayers' wallets with a wait-and-see approach, that "our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policy-making is about weighing real-world costs and benefits -- not pursuing a political agenda."
Declared the Red Hot Right blog, "Extremely well-written, factual, Sarah's article goes straight to the heart of the matter and shows that she's totally up on the real science, not the bull--- being spewed by the high priest Algore of the church of global warming alarmists."
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This just confirms that the media’s credibility continues to decline as does their desire to even try being a bit more investigative in their efforts and a bit less exploitative of discredited data.. the sophomoric attempts to refute one more ‘denier’ speaks volumes about their agenda.
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The Establishmedia likes the GOP Porch Conservatives like Romney, Huck, Georgie Will and InSain. They know their place, Saracuda doesn’t.
Pray for America and Gov Palin
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Notice that she's wearing a cross. Libtards are cowering, hissing, and cringing in fear!
Bwahahahahah!
Not really. None of those mentioned have the balls that Sarah has. Sarah is luring them into a trap, and they’re all falling for it, hook, line and sinker.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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Sarah’s smack down of Algore is fun. The libtards are really going to be mad when they read that.
I honestly think she is doing the most outward yet subtle poking of liberals with a stick that I’ve ever seen. Its masterful.
I honestly think your right and I love it! Go Sarah!!!
And the rules are always to be followed:
And, of course.....
The proprieties must be observed!!
A cross but no ring...what’s up with that???
I love every minute of it. I wish the men of the GOP had half her balls.
I'm gonna need a LOT more popcorn between now and 2012....LOL.
Who knows. Maybe they reversed the photo and that's her right hand she's waving with. Maybe Todd is getting it upgraded due to the recent influx of much deserved cash from book sales.
My daughter bought me Sarah’s book today and I just started reading it. She is even more amazing than I thought. How can you not love her?
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