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 governors 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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I think Palin can wear that as a badge of honor.
The hate it when someone speaks truth to power and they have been the power.
Check out her recent Greta TV interview....ring prominently on display.
There is no THERE there. Give it a rest. Todd was on prominent display at the Gridiron event last weekend with an Alaska-flag cummerbund, all smiles:
Sarah takes the ring off to do the rope line.
Best,
Chris
“A cross but no ring...whats up with that???”
You can’t necessarily tell the left and right side in a photo....
“She just pokes, pokes, pokes...LOL”
She did say she was a hockey mom! Back in High School there was a guy on our team that would always just keep lightly tapping the guy he was covering on the ankles with his stick. Very small and very discrete. It was usually good every game for a penalty on the other team when the opponent finally got sick and tired of it and gave him a cross check or something!
AP reversed the pic to suit the layout.
That guy is going to look better than I EVER have - EVER - six months after he’s dead.
Poor cap choice. Someone will photoshop a red star on it.
Me too. I’m a guy and there oughtta be a law against guys like that...LOL.
RINO's will never stand up for the people against the elites.
Sarah’s latest tweet tweet..
SarahPalinUSA Glad Wash.Post ran my Op-Ed on”Global Warming”Climategate scandal;amazing 2 see Al Gore’s denial of the controversy-its like denying gravity
Get a hobby or reread Going Rogue.
He is so cute! They make such an attractive (first, I hope) couple.
Big Dipper.
I hear you, but that cross she's wearing pretty much dominates the 'iconographic space'. Juxtaposed with that a communist symbol would just look fussy and trite.
Everyone at science academies considers global warming to be suspect but they know they must stay silent to protect institutional funding and keep their jobs.
Media Matters, the same group whose 'trustworthy' employee-turned-Kerry operative stole the personal credit report of Mike Steele. And the same group that called for an investigation into the death of Glen Beck's mother.
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