Let’s start with your buddies at the Daily Green that screams “she doesn’t beleive in global warming”.
Not a single quote regarding Palin on GW except the Newsmax interview- “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made”. That was her strongest protestation against “man-made” global baloney she ever has made.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/sarah-palin-vp/2008/08/29/id/325086
Nowhere does she say she doesn’t believe in warming, just that she won’t attribute it to being “man-made”. The fact that she IS attributing “it” at all means she believes its real, as you will see. And she obviously is catering to Newsmax’s conservative readers. Lying would be more like it, actually.
So what does she say to other audiences? Well, she created a bondoggle of a bureacracy called the “Alaska Climate CHange Sub-Cabinet” on Sept 14, 2007.
http://www.climatestrategies.us/library/view/638
And just what did she instruct them to do and to look for besides waste $$ studying an ALgorian wetdream fairytale?
10. Opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions (I thought it wasn’t man-made) from Alaskan sources, including the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy efficiency, renewable energy, land use management and transportation planning.
12. The Opportunites to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the operations of State Government. (wait, aren’t those man-made so called greenhouse gasses?)
13. The opportunities for Alaska to particpate in carbon trading markets, including the offering of carbon sequestration. (That evil manmade CO2!)
Strange, huh, how she would worry about carbon so much, yet she wasn’t talking about the natural CO2 from plants, unless they were planning on trading pine trees to California for oranges or somesuch.
And in a December 18 op-ed in teh Anchorage Daily News about the Polar Bears, Palin said THIS:
“What is justified is worldwide concern over the proven impacts of climate change.
“The group asking for the polar bear listing recently disclosed that its goal is to force the government to either stop or severely limit any public or private action that produces, or even allows, the production of greenhouse gases. Such limits should be adopted through an open process where environmental issues are weighed against economic and social needs, and where scientists debate and present information that policymakers need to make the best decisions. But the Endangered Species Act is not the correct tool to address climate change — the act actually prohibits any consideration of broader issues.
“There is little doubt that the world’s climate is warming. I established a Cabinet-level task force to address the effects of climate change in Alaska, charging the task force with developing recommendations to deal with the effects of climate change.
“Climate change is a serious issue. I urge all Alaskans to become involved by offering comments and suggestions to the task force for constructive action by the state. Listing the polar bear as threatened is the wrong way to get to the right answer.”
If she sounded any more alarmist, you’d think she was a better looking version of Henry Waxman.
Then there’s this classic with Katie Couric:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5778018&page=1
Couric: Is it man-made, though in your view?
Palin: “You know there are — there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, these impacts. I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate. Because the world’s weather patterns are cyclical. And over history we have seen change there. But kind of doesn’t matter at this point, as we debate what caused it. The point is: it’s real; we need to do something about it.”
WTF? LOL
Then there’s this little nugget from her interview with Uncle Charlie:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2008/09/12/palin_global_warming
Gibson asked Palin whether she still believed that global warming was not the result of human behavior.
Palin responded, “I believe that man’s activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change.” When Gibson then asked her whether this marked a change on her stance on the issue, Palin replied, “Show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that.”
ROFLMAO.
But it gets funnier. Because the Palintards like you will say “she said many of those things during her short tenure as McCain’s VP protege, that some of those don’t count.
Well, what did she say in her book, which came out long after McCain and Palin were beaten like red-headed stepchildren by the boy marxist?
Here she is bitching in her book about the COuric interview, bemoaning the fact that she was really algore in a skirt but Katie edited it out. From Going Rogue on page 272-273. Read CAREFULLY:
“I couldn’t have known it then, but what transpired during the series of interviews and what CBS actually aired were two different breeds of cat. ...
“For example, when John and I sat down with Katie for a segment in kColumbus, Ohio, she started with an energy-related question. “Governor Palin, it will take about ten years for domestic drilling to have an impact on consumers,” the anchor said. “So isn’t the notion of ‘drill, baby, drill’ a little misleading to people who think this will automatically lower their gas prices and quickly?”
“I said, “And it’s why we should have started ten years ago tapping into domestic supplies that America is so rich in. Alasca has billions of barrels of oil and hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of clean, green natural gas onshore and offshore. Should have started doing it ten years ago, but better late than never.”
“That’s the part CBS left in. They edited *out* a discussion of the need to wean ourselves off hydrocarbons and a call for America to stop spending billions of dollars on foreign oil when we could be investing it at home. Did Katie think Americans wouldn’t be interested to know that I was in favor of alternative energy sources and reducing our carbon footprint? Or that I might be a conservative who was both pro-development *and* pro-environment. Perhaps my answer didn’t fit her agenda.”
Damn that’s funny.
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And your article from Feb 9, 2010 was AFTER ClimateGate was exposed and she rightly called the East Anglia’s research “snake oil”.
As did every other global warming pimp under the sun. Newt Pelosi-Gingrich called them out saying “they paint an ugly picture of a willingness on the part of these influential scientists to suppress research that calls into question the accuracy of supposed warming trends”. Even old RINO Smerconish wanted to “put the science on trial”.
ANd finally, here’s what she was babbling about as post VP, pre-Climate Gate gubner when Obama flunky Interior stooge Ken Salazar visited Alaska in 2009:
http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2009/04/sarah_palin_global_warming_con.php
“Many believe that in order to mitigate these long term and systematic changes it will require a national and global effort to decrease the release of human produced greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. However, simply waiting for low carbon emitting renewable capacity to be large enough will mean that it will be too late to meet the mitigation goals for reducing CO2 that will be required under most credible climate change models, including the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) modeled scenarios.
“Meeting these goals will require a dramatic increase, in the very near term, to preferred available fuels - including natural gas - that have a very low carbon footprint and that can be used within the existing energy infrastructure. These available fuels are required to supply the nation’s energy needs during the transition to green energy alternatives. ... Stopping domestic energy production of preferred fuels does not solve the issues associated with global warming and threatened or endangered species, but it can make them worse.”
IOW, you lose. Palin is Newt Pelosi-Gingrich in a skirt.
Ping to a fairly thorough, but by no means exhaustive, thumping.
From your own sources. Fecking liar that you are you can't admit it...
meanwhile, during the Palin Climate Panic, what was actually going on?
Area of thick Arctic ice doubled in two years
http://www.iceagenow.com/Area_of_thick_arctic_ice_doubled_in_two_years.htm
Glaciers in Norway, Alaska, growing again
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/27/glaciers-in-norway-alaska-growing-again/
Media Ignore Near-Record Cold in Alaska
http://newsbusters.org/node/11847
Record Cold Expected in Alaska | StarTribune.com
http://www.google.com/#q=alaska+record+cold&hl=en&prmd=ivns&ei=NpFZTaT5GYz2swOzlcyiDA&start=10&sa=N&fp=92188ee12107320c
Anchorage Alaska has Record Cold Summer
http://www.churchofglobalwarming.com/2008/07/anchorage-alaska-has-record-cold-summer/
People who talk about “weaning ourselves off
hydrocarbons” and “reducing our carbon footprint”,
and favor government placing a cap on greenhouse gases,
are either true Gorian believers or terribly misguided.