CLIMATE CHANGE FACE OFF

BANZAI7 NEWS--In a Washington Post Op Ed piece titled "Copenhagen's Political Science," former Alaska governor Sarah Palin charged that "leading climate 'experts'" have "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 like People and Us Magazine."

Former Vice President Gore bit back during an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell to air Wednesday afternoon. The former presidential candidate said "the deniers are persisting in an era of unreality. The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our eyes ... what do they think is happening?"

Palin hissed back: "I don't know what he is talking about, I can see the good ol' North Pole right from my back porch. I have also read extensively about the government and people of the North Pole."

Gore retorted: "Now I don't mean to be disrespectful to chimpanzees, but that woman makes Bonzo  look like a Nobel Laureate."