Palin, Schwarzenegger Global Warming Debate Heats Up

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Sarah Palin added fuel to the firery debate between her and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over climate change.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Copenhagen Tuesday night for the International Climate Change Summit and responded to Palin's calls for President Barack Obama to boycott the climate talks.

In a recent opinion-editorial in The Washington Post, Palin asked President Barack Obama to boycott the summit.

Palin wrote, "This is a political move. The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs - particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science. Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans should be wary about what comes out of this politicized conference. The president should boycott Copenhagen."

Schwarzenegger responded to Palin's demands. In an interview with The Financial Times he said, "You have to ask: What was she trying to accomplish? Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the Republican presidential nomination? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt."

Later Tuesday night Palin posted the following response on her facebook page:
"Greener Than Thou?

Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation's only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change. While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can't primarily blame man's activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn't do was hamstring Alaska's job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act "greener than thou" when talking to reporters.

- Sarah Palin"

The former Republican vice presidential nominee and governor of Alaska has questioned climate change and whether human activity is to blame. Palin has blasted Schwarzenegger's Cap and Trade policy, a plan used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing emissions of pollutants.

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