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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If those “science” fellows were so confident of their position why would they destroy data and whisper behind the backs of critics?
Good call. I see two and can infer one more on the other ear. Am I still missing one?
I do!
The only place where “consensus” is good sciene is in the realm of Political Science.
You can’t necessarily tell the left and right side in a photo....
Hint: if you'd read her book Going Rogue you'd already know the answer.
Cheers!
Is is possible that President Palin can send Hotbottom to jail?
A 45yo brilliant woman unashamedly wearing beautiful long hair and a cross to profess her faith. Ahhh.... Wake me up somebody! Bob
It is refreshing.
It is also sad that something so basic and wholesome is also so rare in public figures.
May God watch over and protect her and hers.
She wearing more than one cross.....check out her earrings, too!
At least the crosses are protecting her from Barney making any physical contact.
Well, I can’t read the book till Christmas, so what’s the answer?
Exactly. She has a delightful capacity to make libs go utterly insane. Not that they weren't already, but you get the idea.
By 10 am, the Post piece had over 3000 comments. That op-ed section never gets more than a couple of hundred at the most, and its the same people talking back and forth.
Palin draws blood on the Left. A golden quality in a conservative.
Cheers!
Sarah’s Wa Po op ed popped the cork on bottled up news coverage. NBC tonight at long last reported about the e-mails and fairly respectfully mentioned Sarah’s article. I didn’t expect respect from Charlie over at ABC, but he, too, covered the story. People are talkin’.
up to 67%
Wow!
That beautiful picture of her says it all:
SARAH PALIN IS PLAYING WITH THE DEADLY “GOREFLAKES”* COZ SHE’S IMMUNE FROM IT.
The lucky man Tood is just standing at her back, always watching her.
*Borrowed from Malkin.
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