Sarah Palin says Barack Obama should boycott Copenhagen climate talks

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In the practice of preaching to the choir, Sarah Palin appears to have all but patented the art of saying what a few want to hear.

Palin, who was the Republican nominee for vice president, is suggesting that President Obama ‘boycott’’ an international conference on climate change underway in Copenhagen, because some hacked e-mails questioning the ethics of some scientists at a university in Great Britain have given the obstinate opposition to the concept of global warming -- let alone to the science indicating man’s hand in climate change -- all the fuel it needs to declare the case closed, conference over, thank you ma’am.

The president’s withdrawal from the conference, with an appearance planned near the summit’s finish next week, would come as quite a surprise to a global community that has witnessed the reengagement of the United States in an international dialogue about the fate of the planet that the previous president had all but withdrawn from.

But, for a small share of the American electorate that fears the consequences of limitations on the emissions of pollutants that could force the U.S. to find alternative, and in some cases more costly, sources of energy -- the fabled ‘energy tax’’ -- talk such as Palin’s comes straight from the wand of the maestro.

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-- Mark Silva

[Updated 1:50 p.m. Friday: An earlier version of the photo caption misspelled the name of Sarah Palin’s book as ‘Going Rouge.’]