Right wingers screaming for investigations into “Climategate” are on the same side as the apartheid theocracy of Saudi Arabia.

COPENHAGEN — Saudi Arabia called for an independent investigation into “climategate” Monday, warning that the scandal over stolen e-mails threatened to undermine the global-warming negotiations beginning here.

“We believe this scandal — or what has been referred to as the ‘climategate’ scandal — we think this is definitely going to affect the nature of what could be trusted in our deliberations,” the Saudi Arabian negotiator said.

Now, why would one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world want to promote “Climategate” as a crisis of confidence for global warming? Hmm. It’s a head-scratcher, all right.

The very last thing the Saudis want is for the western world to get serious about alternate sources of energy.

And climate change deniers are playing right into their hands.