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Sarah Palin, climate expert?
The Week ^ | Dec 10,2009 | The Week

Posted on 12/10/2009 12:10:29 PM PST by InterceptPoint

Sarah Palin, climate expert?

Publishing her op-ed about global warming has caused big trouble for the Washington Post

Sarah Palin has created controversy for one of America’s most esteemed newspapers with a recent op-ed urging President Obama, in light of revelations from the Climategate scandal, to boycott the Copenhagen summit. The Washington Post has — in the words of one its top editors — been “ripped” for the decision publish Palin’s piece, which critics maintain distorts well-established scientific facts on climate change, including ones reported in the pages of the Post. To add to the humiliation, they say, Palin’s opinion piece was just a warmed-over version of a recent Facebook posting. Did the Post lower its standards to justify printing Palin's views on global warming — or is this just another case of the GOP star’s remarkable power to rile up her political opponents? (Watch an NBC report about Sarah Palin's climate change comments)

What was The Washington Post thinking? "George Will's fabrications" on Climategate in the Post are bad enough, says Tim Lambert in ScienceBlogs, but in publishing this wildly inaccurate hit job from "climate expert Sarah Palin" — the Post's own reporting "directly contradicts" what she's written — the once-great newspaper is proving it "simply does not care about the accuracy of the columns it publishes." It "can't go out of business fast enough."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianright; climategate; military; obama; palin; sarahpalin
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To: InterceptPoint
Hey!, The Week doofuses...

I'd rather discuss the huge fraud perpetrated by the network of crooks passing themselves off as "scientists?

How about it?

I suppose Al Gore is a Science Expert? The Divinity flunk-out?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

41 posted on 12/10/2009 1:21:36 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: InterceptPoint
What was The Washington Post thinking?

Evidently, not about the First Amendment or the radical- conservative-extremist concept of a Free Press!

42 posted on 12/10/2009 1:31:29 PM PST by rfp1234 (R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Yep...and when the earth was cooler, e.g. during the last few ice ages, the sea level was 300 to 400 feet lower.

Up, down, up, down...its no big deal really.


43 posted on 12/10/2009 2:03:05 PM PST by mkboyce
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To: mkboyce
Up, down, up, down...its no big deal really.

Unless you own ocean front property. In ten - twenty thousand years you could lose your entire investment.

44 posted on 12/10/2009 5:38:17 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Sherman Logan

My cursory math does not add up with 10 minutes of search and computation, roughly 5.4million square miles of Antarctic ice average 1mile thick versus roughly 140 million square miles of ocean.


45 posted on 12/11/2009 8:33:09 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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