Posted on 12/14/2009 10:01:48 PM PST by pissant
Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a "global challenge." He might entertain "opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." He might even explore ways to "participate in carbon-trading markets."
Oh, wait. Those quotes aren't from some smug Euro-socialist manifesto. They're from an administrative order Palin signed in September 2007, as governor of Alaska, establishing a "sub-Cabinet" of top state officials to develop a strategy for dealing with climate change.
Back then, Palin was the governor of a state where "coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, retreating sea ice, record forest fires, and other changes are affecting, and will continue to affect, the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans," as she wrote. Faced with that reality, she sensibly formed the high-level working group to chart a course of action.
"Climate change is not just an environmental issue," wrote Palin. "It is also a social, cultural, and economic issue important to all Alaskans."
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WOW how desperate is the left. She already spoke at length about what she did in Alaska..Eugene Robinson is such a HACK, Hey Eugene, you got a problem with someone expressing their opinion you dufus
Gov. Palin’s response should be: “We looked at the climate change issue and determined that every year the problem is solved. In the Winter it gets cold and in the Summer it gets hot. We tried to survey the polar bears, but they kept eating the survey takers. ;)
Not on the Climate, I think. A lot of Americans believed and no longer believe. I think all she needs to say is the scientists were telling us one thing, but now we see they were lying.
This is really weird reasoning. Sarah Palin points at the ClimateGate scandal and all that has come out in the run up to it and says.. she gets the fact that Alaska had been getting warmer and she was in the thick of doing something about it, when it became obvious that the warming isn't man made.
Where is the scandal? Where?
Yeah she already said that she looked at the climate change issue while serving as Governor. This isn’t a shock, she already said this, she never hid anything. It’s already public record and its also in her book. The left love their pathetic little Al Gore so much they will do anything to defend his bogus global warming BS
She should quote Jeremiah 5:22, and say she was wrong, and be done with it, and then encourage Obama to do the same.
That is, if she ain’t being taken out of context, or being lied about.
What else are they attacking in or out of office? No one but Sarah. Do you know what her book sales number is at now?
She was wrong. Now she’s right.
I believe she has already sold 3 million books from what I heard. This Eugene turd acts as if this is some kind of scandal LOL Sarah talks about it at length both in her book and on her facebook posts. WOW, poor Eugene, his messiah is a negative 18 points and tanking yet he has to go after Sarah Palin
That doesn’t say humans are causing it.
So much for the Hopenhaggle Conference
Climate change is a normal, natural phenomena and a good leader of a coastal state would be remiss if they didn’t seek to implement policies to plan for the inevitable changes in climate that will occur.
The “carbon” myth is a scam intended to transfer wealth from developed nations to less developed nations. It won’t build dykes, dams, or sea walls. It won’t slow down climate change in either direction. It won’t affect climate change in any meaningful manner.
Coastal states and states with land below sea level with topography conducive to channeling coastal and other types of flooding should develop emergency plans to evacuate residents, restrict construction in endangered areas, and set aside monies or purchase insurance to help offset the inevitable costs that a major climate related disaster will cause in damages and loss of life.
And that doesn’t set aside the individual’s responsibility to ensure one’s safety and that of their family.
Hey, is the MSM saying she isn’t entitled to be defrauded like everyone else?
Hey Eugene, dumb ass, read her facebook post..she wasn’t hiding a damn thing..
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.
The e-mails reveal that leading climate “experts” deliberately 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. What’s more, the documents show that there was no real consensus even within the CRU crowd. Some scientists had strong doubts about the accuracy of estimates of temperatures from centuries ago, estimates used to back claims that more recent temperatures are rising at an alarming rate.
This scandal obviously calls into question the proposals being pushed in Copenhagen. I’ve always believed that policy should be based on sound science, not politics. As governor of Alaska, I took a stand against politicized science when I sued the federal government over its decision to list the polar bear as an endangered species despite the fact that the polar bear population had more than doubled. I got clobbered for my actions by radical environmentalists nationwide, but I stood by my view that adding a healthy species to the endangered list under the guise of “climate change impacts” was an abuse of the Endangered Species Act. This would have irreversibly hurt both Alaska’s economy and the nation’s, while also reducing opportunities for responsible development.
Our representatives in Copenhagen should remember that good environmental policymaking is about weighing real-world costs and benefits — not pursuing a political agenda. That’s not to say I deny the reality of some changes in climate — far from it. I saw the impact of changing weather patterns firsthand while serving as governor of our only Arctic state. I was one of the first governors to create a subcabinet to deal specifically with the issue and to recommend common-sense policies to respond to the coastal erosion, thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice that affect Alaska’s communities and infrastructure.
But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can’t say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs. And those costs are real. Unlike the proposals China and India offered prior to Copenhagen — which actually allow them to increase their emissions — President Obama’s proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions. Meeting such targets would require Congress to pass its cap-and-tax plans, which will result in job losses and higher energy costs (as Obama admitted during the campaign). That’s not exactly what most Americans are hoping for these days. And as public opposition continues to stall Congress’s cap-and-tax legislation, Environmental Protection Agency bureaucrats plan to regulate carbon emissions themselves, doing an end run around the American people.
In fact, we’re not the only nation whose people are questioning climate change schemes. In the European Union, energy prices skyrocketed after it began a cap-and-tax program. Meanwhile, Australia’s Parliament recently defeated a cap-and-tax bill. Surely other nations will follow suit, particularly as the climate e-mail scandal continues to unfold.
In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to “restore science to its rightful place.” But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices, the president has upped the ante. He plans to fly in at the climax of the conference in hopes of sealing a “deal.” Whatever deal he gets, it will be no deal for the American people. What Obama really hopes to bring home from Copenhagen is more pressure to pass the Democrats’ cap-and-tax proposal. 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.
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Steven Hayward has a great article in The Weekly Standard on the Climategate scandal. Be sure to check it out.
The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.”
Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.
However, he’s wrong in calling me a “denier.” As I noted in my op-ed above and in my original Facebook post on Climategate, I have never denied the existence of climate change. I just don’t think we can primarily blame man’s activities for the earth’s cyclical weather changes.
Former Vice President Gore also claimed today that the scientific community has worked on this issue for 20 years, and therefore it is settled science. Well, the Climategate scandal involves the leading experts in this field, and if Climategate is proof of the larger method used over the past 20 years, then Vice President Gore seriously needs to consider that their findings are flawed, falsified, or inconclusive.
Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists. You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it.
- Sarah Palin
It is hardly a “gotcha” that Palin once took the issue seriously, when Palin has opened her argument by stating that she took the issue seriously.
Libs are so desperate to defend this global warming farce they will stop at nothing. It’s really a shame, how low they will stoop.
Har! As soon as I saw the byline was “Eugene Robinson”, I knew it would be not just a hack job but a shoddy hack job. Liberal assclown Eugene, of course, never bothers to discern between “climate change” and “MAN-MADE global warming”. There really is a pertinent distinction.
Careful with that axe Eugene.
Now we know that the climate scientists listened to by the UN and IPCC have been "cooking the books" and the "experts" have been doing everything possible to prevent those who question the science and especially the connection between man, CO2 and natural global climate change from getting data, reproducing IPCC results and even publishing their doubts in learned scientific journals. Quite a change from two years ago. And besides that, the draconian proposals by the Obama government to stop and "correct" climate change should be examined by all as to impacts on our economy, lifestyle and future, whether manmade global warming is real or not.
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