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Posted on 04/15/2009 7:47:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate change: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledges global warming is affecting her state But the former GOP vice presidential candidate contends gas drilling will help curb rising temperatures
By Kim Murphy | Tribune Newspapers April 15, 2009
ANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledged Tuesday that global warming is harming her state but said stepped-up natural-gas production could mitigate its effects.
Palin spoke at a hearing before Interior Secretary Ken Salazar — the third of a series he is holding across the country to consider renewed oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf.
The 2008 Republican nominee for vice president said relatively clean-burning natural gas can supplant dirtier fuels and slow the discharge of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
"We Alaskans are living with the changes that you are observing in Washington," she said. "The dramatic decreases in the extent of summer sea ice, increased coastal erosion, melting of permafrost, decrease in alpine glaciers and overall ecosystem changes are very real to us."
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Nooooooo!!!
Climate change is real
The left chooses to use it as a political and social policy tool by inflating claims about the role that humans play in it.
Huh? Say it aint so Sarah!
Its so sad how the GOP has let rhetoric and pseudo science take a hypothesis and make it political reality..
So.
She’s joined Newt on the Global Warming Band Wagon.
NEXT!
I guess I’ll have to lust after another woman from now on....
“Climate change is real.”
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It certainly is.
It is warmer today than it was yesterday, but it is supposed to be colder tomorrow.....
She acknowledges warming, but not as “man-made” warming. She’s calling their bluff. If it’s warming, then we need to develop more natural gas which has a low carbon footprint.
Is she turning into a loon?
I'm a big Palin fan, but it pains me to point out that she's talking about "greenhouse gases" and "carbon footprints" and "green energy".
She seems to have swallowed to kool-aid.
The left chooses to use it as a political and social policy tool by inflating claims about the role that humans play in it.
Bingo! Climate changes, period. It is never stable for eons, there constant shifts. We are not the cause, we may make a small contribution to the factors effecting climate, but nature is the ultimate, unstoppable, unchangeable power in climate change.
Oh... give me a break. She is not subscribing to “man made global warming”. Climate change(s) are real. They are caused by cyclical factors and such as the sun. There is no denial. When do folks realize there is a friggin difference between man made global warming and climate change per se.
She is a avowed skeptic of “man made” global warming.
Before turning hysterical read the comments here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229427/posts
Sarah’s True Color has a little bit of chameleon in it, hayna? When I saw her trying to campaign-finesse her brat’s forthcoming brat, I expected more of the same, and I’m getting just about what I expected. This really isn’t news, it’s just a politician being a politician.
In her testimony to Salazar she makes the case for oil and gas energy, saying that even for those who believe in man made climate change, oil and gas now would make more sense than waiting for “green energy”. (What enviro loon supports more petro-energy!?)
She never rejected the notion that there are cyclical and periodical changes (which are real and happen since beginning of time), but have to be attributed to the sun, cyclical changes etc. Anyone surprised hasn’t paid attention to the campaign.
Her statement makes abundantly clear that she is pursuing oil and gas energy regardless of “enviromental concerns”.
She is trying to show the enviros that even they should be supporting petro-energy.
If she doesn't believe it is man-made, why would she believe switching to a low carbon fuel would make a difference?
If she promotes human changing activities to help the problems, then it is claiming human activities as at least part of the problem.
The final nail. Palin - go away.
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