It's no coincidence that Alaskan legislators are getting their marching orders from national organizations like A.L.E.C., and the NRA, and others---The same kind of divisive and misleading politics are being practiced in DC by the big boys in the republican leadership, toward the same ends:  Abdicating doing their jobs in favor of being mouthpieces for big business.  

It's easy money, a guaranteed cash flow; and in the kind of advocacy described here, all you have to do is establish doubt:  It's not a matter of finding evidence, but of finding a constituency of believers---Something Sarah comes equipped with.

None of this is surprising.  It's very revealing, in fact, that Lamar Smith chairs the House Science, Space and Technology Committee (those meetings can't be much fun!); in that kind of atmosphere, Palin will be right at home, and I think it's a good place for her:  May she do for Climate Science Denial what she seems to be doing for the Trump Campaign!