Palin's own Climategate

“Alaska’s climate is warming,” Palin wrote to Alaskans in a July 2008 newsletter. “While there have been warming and cooling trends before, climatologists tell us that the current rate of warming is unprecedented within the time of human civilization. Many experts predict that Alaska, along with our northern latitude neighbors, will warm at a faster pace than any other areas, and the warming will continue for decades.”…

Palin cites the “Climate-gate” e-mail scandal as reason enough for the president to skip the Copenhagen summit. I’ve written about those e-mails and why, despite what skeptics say, they do not begin to prove that climate science is fraudulent, politicized or fundamentally flawed. The most compelling evidence for climate change is found in the Arctic, and Palin has seen it firsthand…

I predict we’ll see more artful dodges of this kind from Palin. She made any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor — and now, it seems, will be obliged to renounce them all. Her tea-party legions have one answer — a shouted “No!” — for every question.