The Washington Post has run another Sarah Palin op-ed. And this time it's worse than ever — it's about the myth of global warming and how she is the true defender of science because she kills polar bears.

The piece essentially says that because man-made global warming is clearly non-existent, based on leaked emails from climate change scientists, Obama should boycott Copenhagen. It is not clear whether Palin is delusional, or a liar. Or which would be worse: in the first case she genuinely believes the idiocy she is spouting. In the second she is not a moron but instead cynically exploits misinformation to appeal to her base. In any case it seems the only thing to do is take her ridiculous claims one-by-one, lest we explode in a fit of outrage trying to tackle this filth as a whole.

The premise is based on this opening sentence:

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point.

Expounded upon in the third paragraph:

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals.

They don't reveal anything of the sort — and that the Washington Post would allow such shabbiness as the premise for an op-ed is a matter for genuine shame. The emails, of course, were only damaging because right-wingers tried to make a bunch of pretty insignificant missives into a smoking gun for a global warming conspiracy. Palin is doing here what she does best — she's taking lies and, by blithely presuming they're facts, lending them credence. It is worth remembering that she coined the phrase 'death panels' to refer to the myth that Obama was to begin killing old people as part of his healthcare reforms.

She goes on:

