Boycott Copenhagen?

Fat chance, but that's what Sarah Palin urges Barack Obama to do in an editorial column in today's Washington Post.

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.

As you might expect, I would agree.  Obama shouldn't be dragging American into some treaty that is going to put us at a competitive disadvantage, particularly when unemployment stands at 10%.  But if anything has been made clear by the email scandal, fighting climate change is not about the climate or the weather.  It's all about extending the reach of government, and that continues to be Barack Obama's primary goal.