Sarah Palin Denies Being a Global Warming Denier

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The reaction to Sarah Palin's Washington Post op-ed Wednesday has been swift and harsh among her liberal critics in the press. As Politics Daily's Walter Shapiro notes: "The Post was attacked for publishing the piece, sneered at for not fact-checking Palin's assertions, and ridiculed for failing to identify Palin's presumed ghostwriter. At the Atlantic's Web site, Marc Ambinder wrote a scathingly critical annotation that is almost as long as Palin's original text." In response, Palin has taken to her usual platform -- Facebook -- to defend herself:

The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists."

Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

However, he's wrong in calling me a "denier." As I noted in my op-ed above and in my original Facebook post on Climategate, I have never denied the existence of climate change. I just don't think we can primarily blame man's activities for the earth's cyclical weather changes.

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