For the next few days, the blog will continue to focus on Copenhagen and an overview of how going green will be a huge part of the solution. Iraq, Afghanistan, the Nobel Peace Prize, the economy, who has NOT slept with Tiger Woods, health care reform, etc., is ALL rendered irrelevant if we do not start to live in the planet as if we intend to stay. Check out the story on Australia below.

The classic example, rather than focus on real issues, Sarah, “Drill, Baby, Drill,” Palin has joined the delusional birthers.

Does it not stand to reason that if Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton campaign advisor, could not unearth an authentic Kenyan birth certificate in a desperate bid to undermine candidate Obama in December of ’07 BUT produced papers written by Barack in kindergarten AND the third grade stating his desire to be president, that this “conspiracy theory” refusing to accept his Honolulu birth is absurd?

Yesterday, the Washington Post provided a venue to herald her inanity and announcement that she is now a flat earther:

Copenhagen’s political science By Sarah Palin

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

“Climate-gate,” as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle — the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won’t change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse. READ MORE

Al Gore responds:

“The basic facts are incontrovertible. What do they think happens when we put 90 million tons up there every day? Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto!–physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn’t trap heat anymore?” Gore asked, and pressed his point harder: “And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it?” — Al Gore

It would be ____________ [fill in the blank] to discuss the following headline below, with those of the “denier” mind set to learn how they explain it:

• Giant iceberg heading towards Australia

(CNN) — A massive iceberg — more than twice the size of New York’s Manhattan island — is drifting slowly toward Australia, scientists said Wednesday.

The iceberg, measuring 140 square km (54 square miles), cleaved off an ice shelf nearly 10 years ago and had been floating near Antarctica before commencing on its unusual journey north. READ MORE

• Fair and Balanced (and Phony) Science by Joe Conason

Evading the challenges of climate change—and the human responsibility to save the planet—is simple enough even for the laziest citizen. Pay attention only to the theories that support the comforting skepticism of the oil industry. Focus on a set of purloined e-mails that prove nothing except that scientists can be as unpleasant to each other as can the members of any other group. Get the “facts” from Fox News Channel, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Moonie-controlled Washington Times and all the other conservative outlets that are as fair and balanced as an Exxon press release. READ MORE

Former President-elect Gore, well, in my world, is giving interviews to debunk the “flat earthers” — 14:31 minute interview below:

Before any more coverage of the conference in Copenhagen, here is an interesting video of from the Davos Annual Meeting 2009 last January:

Rising to the Challenge of Copenhagen

MNN.com: Al Gore flies commercial

In an interview with the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, Gore unloads on the fear and doubt mongers trying to delay taking action on global warming.

Al Gore sat down yesterday with the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove to talk about global warming, the organized delay and doubt campaigns being waged by Big CO2 and their minions, his thoughts on what he hopes will come out of the talks in Copenhagen, and his electricity bill.

It’s a great interview that you should click over to read, but if you don’t have the time right now, here are a few quick highlights.

Gore on “Climategate”:

“I haven’t seen anything that poses the slightest challenge to the scientific consensus over the prevailing evidence that’s just overwhelming. I haven’t seen anything that really has any substance to it. Now, there is a large noise machine that receives a lot of financing from carbon polluters, a lot of support from ideological opponents of government doing anything at all.”

Gore on the efforts to stall taking action on climate change:

“They have drawn out the timetable in much the same way the tobacco companies delayed the recommendations from the surgeon general back in 1964, when they dressed up actors as doctors, and gave them cigarettes and told them to look into the camera and tell people that there was no real linkage between smoking cigarettes and lung diseases.”

Gore on being rich:

“I’ve never particularly cared about money or been motivated by money, but I enjoy the challenge of it and it’s very interesting. And I have pursued a business structure that at least gives me the feeling that I’m doing good while doing well.”

Gore on his electricity bill:

“Well, first of all, in 2007 our home received a LEED gold certification which is the second highest you can get. We went through a two-year effort to get the zoning changed to allow us to put 33 solar panels on the roof. We dug seven geothermal wells.”

And yes, he’s flying on a commercial plane out of Newark to Copenhagen. Swing over and read Lloyd Grove’s entire interview with Gore at the Daily Beast.