Alaska Dispatch

According to former Gov. Palin's latest posts on the micro-blog website, Twitter, despite being the daughter of a retired science teacher, she called climate-change science "bogus" and "snake-oil" and said it's full of "junk data" even though she only cites the so-called "Climategate" matter as proof. Palin then urged President Obama to boycott the proceedings of the international summit on climate change in Copenhagen this week. Read more from her Twitter feed here if you can stomach the idea of using that service as a platform for policy discussion. If you're not as well informed as you could be about climate change or the scientists who research it -- and let's face it, most of us aren't -- there are some resources that may help. Time magazine has a rather long article aimed at informing readers about five things we should all know about the circumstances surrounding the hacked material from the UK's Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich; read it here. Also, a long-time science journalist has posted a series of pointedly non-ideological videos on YouTube to explain climate change research as it occurs in the scientific literature. Here's his "Climate Change" playlist, his channel, and the first video in his thus-far six-part series.

[Correction, 12/08, 12:39 AKDT: Originally we wrote that the CRU was located in London; however, the CRU is actually located in Norwich. We regret the error and thank our alert reader for notifying us.]

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