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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Wow!
That beautiful picture of her says it all:
SARAH PALIN IS JUST PLAYING WITH THE DEADLY “GOREFLAKES”* COZ SHE’S IMMUNE FROM IT.
That lucky man Todd is just standing at her back, always watching her.
*Borrowed from Malkin.
The real news is Sarah Palin’s response to Al Gore at the FB. It’s a hit piece against dorky Gore.
Yes, we must do whatever we can NOW to curb greenhouse gases. 30%
* No, it’s all been blown out of proportion. 67%
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“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.”
Anyone know what Post article this refers to?
Seems to me that the phrase “hide the decline” means that something (e.g., a data set) is declining and that “we scientists must hide that fact.”
As a rule of thumb, if the field of study has the word “science” in it it isn’t.
He really is easy on the eyes, isn't he? ;-)
And good for Sarah...telling it to the left....AGAIN.
Keithy Olbermann was just wetting his pants on his show tonight over Palin’s editorial.*
*I was just flipping through the channels, honest!
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Do you believe global warming is a serious problem?
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RINOs are of the same elitist ilk as the leftist elitists.
Let’s make sure we distinguish between “elite” and “elitist”, though. There are elites that DON’T believe they have the right and duty to make decisions for everyone else. Thomas Jefferson was just such a person. There are some modern conservative elites of the same mindset.
Eww, I hope spitter Barney did not speak to her, as he is literally within spitting distance.
Let’s make sure we distinguish between “elite” and “elitist”, though. There are elites that DON’T believe they have the right and duty to make decisions for everyone else. Thomas Jefferson was just such a person. There are some modern conservative elites of the same mindset.
True, and Thomas Jefferson fought very hard to keep elitists from taking over.
No 69% at the poll.
Wonder if Governor Palin has heard Al Gore’s poem yet? Sarah MUST be in major face-palm mode after engaging this airhead on Facebook the other day...
Check out this Palin Pic.. Awesome!
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