Gov. Palin needs to jump on this immediately to clarify these very confusing and troubling remarks. I had to read her comments several times and got a different interpretation of them each time I read them. Usually that means someone(read reporter) has done a “cut and paste” job on a news story.
If these comments are as the headline suggests, I would find it very difficult if not impossible to be supportive of Ms Palin in the future.
Eh Tu, Sarah?
She wants more oil and gas exploration and exploitation, so she is playing Salazar since she knows that he is a global warming goon. It’s not too hard to understand. If you listen to her testimony, she doesn’t say anything about man made global warming.
Funny, we had a record snowfall this year (I work in the weather station)- King Salmon Alaska
Locals are saying spring is running late.
She may be trying to score points for NG infrastructure spending. She’s a smart one without doubt.
And I have seen the claim by some reputable global warming skeptics that
the Artic
is indeed showing some signs of warming
whereas the
Antartic
is showing the opposite, more cooling.
There is still no true consensus and there is if anything more opposition to using the global warming/climate change argument in fear tactics to prepare for a global tax system.
And I think Governor Palin understands all of that.
There is a scientific paradigm about earth warming. The direction of the dependent variable, global tempreture, can be disputed as can the influence of human activity as an independent variable. A true scientist will regard this paradigm as falsifiable; the low confidence level for the influence of human activity is not encouraging. Yet it is wise to take a precautionary views of the possibilities.
The Al Gores and the James Lovelocks, on the other hand have turned this issue into a fanatical Gnostic cult, against which no one must be allowed to disagree.
They sound like made demented sectaries. Sarah Palin sounds like a true scientist, as befits the daughter of a science teacher. In addition, in the current deranged political environment she has used language that is shrewd and pragmatic.
Gov Palin was making a pitch to Interior Secretary Salazar, who is a member of the Obama administration that believes in man-made warming climate change (aka global warming). She was using their arguments and beliefs to do what she really wants, drill baby drill for oil and gas in the OCS. She may not have explicitly said it, but imagine each of those statements was prefaced by “I (Palin) don’t believe this crap, but I know you believe it, so I’ll cite it (blah, blah) and that will show you (Salazar) it makes sense to drill for oil and gas in the OCS (which is what I really want for Alaska prosperity)”. Her use of these “facts” fit the Obama administration’s concerns. Whether they are enough to overcome the aversion to any oil, gas, and nuclear energy development is another topic.
Liking her less and less.
Surprised? This is a woman who enjoys hunting. Emphasis on “enjoys”.