Nope! It's still there Mr Liar!
Posted on 12/11/2009 9:31:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The gloves are off in a heated battle between Sarah Palin and Al Gore, after Palin said climate change warnings are nothing more than doomsday scare tactics.
Sarah Palin has landed herself in hot water again – this time raising the ire of former Vice President Al Gore in an op-ed critical of the climate change community.
In a Washington Post piece titled “Copenhagen’s political science,” the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate wrote, “While we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can’t say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes.”
Not surprisingly, the opinion drew a sharp rebuttal from Gore, reported msnbc.com, quoting the former vice president’s dismissal of “deniers” during an interview with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “Global warming is not a political issue but a moral one,” he said.
But Palin’s critique focused on a controversy that has hit the climate change community just as climate talks are underway in Copenhagen. In recent weeks, hackers got their hands on the e-mails of leading climate scientists from Britain’s University of East Anglia and published on the Internet. Skeptics of man-made global warming say the emails prove that scientists have been in cahoots and are trying to hide evidence about climate change.
“Leading climate ‘experts,’” Palin wrote, have “destroyed records, manipulated data to ‘hide the decline’ in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals.”
Ahead of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, called the matter of the leaked emails serious, and said it would be examined in detail.
But Gore told Mitchell that, “The deniers are persisting in an era of unreality.”
“The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our eyes,” he added. “What do they think is happening?”
Following Palin’s editorial, Gore emphasized that for decades, climate change experts have been conducting sound scientific research. "It's a principle in physics," he said on Mitchell’s show. "It's like gravity, it exists."
But Palin disagreed. Using Facebook, she took her claims a step further, charging that concerns over global warming are “doomsday scare tactics pushed by an environmental priesthood.”
"This scandal obviously calls into question the proposals being pushed in Copenhagen," she wrote in The Post. "Our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policymaking is about weighing real-world costs and benefits — not pursuing a political agenda."
She further called on President Obama to boycott the Denmark climate talks, in light of the controversy raised by the leaked e-mails. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans should be wary about what comes out of this politicized conference," wrote Palin.
Obama has made no such move, and Gore said the political divide on climate change is thanks to the modern Republican party. (Lindsey Graham, for example, is a Republican leader who accepts the science, he noted.)
But he emphasized that climate change be a bipartisan issue. “It used to be,” he said.
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algore the blimp should not mess with the cuda.
Hello South Carolina. You guys got a recall button? Just wondering.
Nope! It's still there Mr Liar!
Hey Al, what should the temperature be?
In addition the S Pole where 90% of earth ice is is growing in side and depth. Course they don’t mention that.
Pray for America and Gov Palin
If I’m a “denier”, why isn’t the man behind the curtain an “asserter”?
Nope. No recall button, unfortunately.
Thank you Sarah for continuing to take on the powers that be.
She is not afraid. She endures undue, and unrelenting criticism from the liberals on TV, in newspapers, and left the Governorship due to the malicious petty lawsuits being continuously brought against her:which had to be addressed and took big money and time.
HEy, Gore, you dumb@ss...Maybe the North Pole is shrinking slightly or maybe not at all, but the South Pole is expanding. Or didn’t you notice?
Let’s see, I’m a Denier, I’m a Birther, ...what else?
This explains why children are attracted to Al Gore.
“doomsday scare tactics pushed by an environmental priesthood.” No kidding.
But then, all religions seem to develop one sort of hierarchy or another. This one just has an out-of-touch, overweight, lying, fraudulent failed politican heading it. Oops. I apologize for the redundancy in that last sentence.
Sarah Palin “While we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can’t say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes.”Al, you opened that door.Former Vice-President Al Gore “Global warming is not a political issue but a moral one,” he said.
Sarah Palin “doomsday scare tactics pushed by an environmental priesthood.”
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