Super-blogger Andrew Sullivan has an intriguing feature on his site called The Odd Lies of Sarah Palin in which he catalogues the way the most popular so-called "conservative" in the country today lies seemingly reflexively, even about topics which are not the least bit controversial. (For instance, whether or not she consulted her daughters about accepting the nomination to be Vice-President last year.)
Well, here's another one. Yesterday Palin published an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which she claimed that global warming is real, but "a natural, cyclical environmental trend."
In an interview yesterday, Al Gore scoffed:
"The north polar ice cap has been there for 3 million years, the
size of the continental United States, and it is disappearing before
our very eyes. What do the skeptics think is causing that? Could it
possibly have anything to do with the fact that we are putting 90
million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere here every
24 hours and that these consequences have been predicted for decades by
the scientists?"Gore chuckled, then added, "It is not sun spots."
"This is physics, it is not politics. Gravity is well understood.
The fact that the earth is round is pretty well accepted now. The moon
landing was not, as some claimed, staged on a movie lot. If there was a
large budget from carbon polluters designed to promote controversy
about those findings, I am sure we would have a debate about it. The
fact that carbon dioxide is trapped in the atmosphere is not
complicated. Not controversial. Not in dispute. And we are putting so
much of it up there every day, that the heat buildup is proceeding as
the scientists warned it would. There are lot of reasons why some
people don't want to accept that. It is, to coin a phrase, an
inconvenient truth for many, but it is a reality that we have to accept
and respond to."
To which Palin tweeted:
"amazing 2 see Al Gore's denial of the controversy–it's like denying gravity"
One has to almost admire the audacity of her misleading. Al Gore did mention controversy, denial, gravity; so why not claim that he is denying the controversy as if he were denying gravity?
Only Palintologists and those in the stodgy reality-based community will care..
[pic courtesy of the phenomenon's 2009 Calendar, put out by her photgrapher friend Judy Patrick]
Kit Stolz 
