Copenhagen's Political Science

by Sarah Palin - December 9, 2009 - Washington Post

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately 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.

The entire chicken little campaign to convince the world that there is a man caused global catastrophe which we must counter by world socialist government, has finally started to unravel. This article is an excellent, well written explanation of why we must NOT listen to the climate extremists.

CO2 is not a green house gas. It is time to start developing the most effective energy options possible so that economic success can fund the smooth transition to other cost effective options for the long term future.

Some day many of the so-called "green" solutions will be the basis of our energy use. However they should wait until we reach the point where they are the most cost effective. Rushing to artificially implement them while better options still exist is pure insanity.