Do you agree with Sarah Palin’s call for President Barack Obama to boycott the Copenhagen summit?
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Originally published in The Hill
By Aaron Keyak, Communications Director of the National Jewish Democratic Council
No. I don’t agree with Sarah Palin’s call for President Barack Obama to boycott the Copenhagen climate talks. In fact, I can barely find a single individual in the Jewish community who agrees with Palin on almost any issue (besides our common distaste for Levi Johnston). Palin’s characterization of evidence supporting climate change as “junk science” reminds us that Palin is just another Republican leader who has fully paid her “membership dues to the anti-science, flat-earth society.”
The importance of discussions in Copenhagen and the seriousness of global warming is clearly something that Palin does not fully appreciate – even as carbon emissions have “already thawed permafrost, melted sea ice, and shrunk glaciers in Alaska.” But I guess Palin’s concern for Alaska is now behind her.
It is dangerous when GOP leaders continue to label the scientific evidence behind global warming as “just plain old politics.”
Actually, there is one more issue on which Palin and I can apparently find common ground – we both want to restore “science to its rightful place” in our political discourse.
But boycotting Copenhagen is exactly the wrong way to achieve that goal.
