Palin: Obama should boycott Copenhagen

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has used her Facebook page to call on President Obama to boycott the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Palin posted her thoughts Thursday in an item headlined "Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change "Experts." She said Obama should rethink his decision to go to Copenhagen following the "Climategate scandal."

Opponents of the theory that human activity is causing global warming have seized on thousands of e-mails retrieved by a hacker from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain, arguing they show scientific dishonesty.

"The leaked e-mails involved in Climategate expose the unscientific behavior of leading climate scientists who deliberately destroyed records to block information requests, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and conspired to silence the critics of man-made global warming," she said. "I support Senator James Inhofe's call for a full investigation into this scandal. Because it involves many of the same personalities and entities behind the Copenhagen conference, Climategate calls into question many of the proposals being pushed there, including anything that would lead to a cap and tax plan."

The scientists involved, including leading U.S. climatologists, say the e-mails have been taken out of context.