Posted on 12/16/2009 9:23:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ALBANY -- State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis swiped back at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and other deniers of man-made climate change during remarks at this week's international climate conference in Copenhagen.
"Last week, Sarah Palin -- you all remember her -- put a new posting on her Facebook page challenging the severity of climate change and telling President Obama to boycott Copenhagen," Grannis told his audience Monday.
He pointed out that in the last 50 years, temperatures in Alaska have increased 6 degrees, and some coastal villages are at risk of falling into the ocean because of melting permafrost.
"Maybe instead of giving President Obama advice, (Palin) should be looking for a house further inland," Grannis said.
The commissioner is attending the Copenhagen conference to promote New York's role in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, in which 10 states are limiting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide through a cap-and-trade program like the one currently being considered on the national level by the U.S. Congress.
But Grannis began his remarks at the International Carbon Action Partnership by telling his audience about the political climate in America, where former Gov. Palin as well as many Republican lawmakers reject the science behind climate change and oppose efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
But "a new day has dawned in America," Grannis said in his address. "We now have a president who understands that this is an environmental crisis, not a political annoyance."
Climate change contrarians have recently been emboldened since more than 1,000 e-mails from scientists at an English climate change research center were stolen by unknown parties and posted on the Internet this month. A smattering of the e-mails, which cover a decade, show some of the English scientists expressing minor misgivings or scorn for contrarians; the material has led to claims that decades of research from around the world is unreliable, even though this conclusion has been rejected by the scientific community.
During his remarks, Grannis also touted the state's efforts to fight climate change through the RGGI cap-and-trade program launched in September 2008.
Under RGGI, total emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide are set with a cap, with power plants required to acquire state-auctioned allowances to cover their emissions.
The allowances can be bought and sold like any other commodity by plant owners, investors and environmental groups. Starting in 2012, the amount of allowances will be reduced, which is meant to force plant owners to cut emissions by switching to less CO2-intensive fuels.
Grannis' trip to Copenhagen was not made at state expense, said DEC spokesman Yancey Roy. The cost was picked by a private foundation in conjunction with Georgetown University Law School, he said.
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Brian Nearing can be reached at 454-5094 or at bnearing@timesunion.com.
The full text of Grannis' remarks can be found at The Green Blog, at http://blog.timesunion.com/green/
What a mindless robot of the Left, this guy is.
New York - Massive deficits and will probably go bankrupt.
Who ya going to believe?
I am not a Palin supporter but:
1) She is exceedingly well informed on all matters related to energy and the environment
2) Palin must scare the bejesus out of the riff-raff democrat party hacks like this weasel.
Why is it they use ambiguous words like "some" rather than naming the village? Gore told stories of "some" islanders in the South Pacific having to leave their island and resettle in Australia and New Zealand. The MSM in those countries had the stones to demand to know who these islanders were and Gore couldn't produce a name. He said he would have the name "at my next stop", whereupon he was "recalled to the US for urgent business". Yeah, right.
Just protecting his investments apparently.
http://www.environmental-finance.com/conferences/2008/CFNA08/programme.htm
A private citizen posted something on FaceBook and these people feel the need to resort to idiotic attacks. Their numbers are phony, their agenda is stupid and their “solution” is blatantly unrelated to the topic.
Fact is Greenland was once green, northern England was a vinyard... the seas were calm.... who is to say that the warm period of 400-500 years ago isn’t NORMAL?
Exactly, who is this guy and how could he raise the heat on Palin. She agrees with the public and the truth. This guys is hoping to sell the public a hoax. Personally when the public and the truth coincide, I am betting on the public and the truth.
Most on the left are mindless.
[[He said he would have the name “at my next stop”, whereupon he was “recalled to the US for urgent business”. Yeah, right.]]
Well now, while he’s blatting on and on about claims he can’tt support with evidence would be a good time to ask him to back up what he claims- and to provide the EVIDENCE that proves the islanders had to actuaklly move because of irsing seas- I suspect that IF some had to move- there were otehr reasons- NOT sea rises that cuased them to move- le him PROVE the rising sea forced them to move- the burder of proof is on him
It is amazing: When Sarah Palin speaks the world is listening
How about we just coin a phrase..."Better a Climate Denier than a Climate Liar"?
And what a pathetic tool he is.
Guess these obscure bureaucrats have figured out that if they want that ‘fifteen minutes’; all they need to do is mention Sarah Palin in one of their blathering rants. Go figure... I thought she was ‘yesterday’s news’.
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