[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“Sarah, like Newt, believes in the Hoax.”

No she doesn't. Reread what she actually said.

If you lived somewhere where the rainfall was (from your own experience) diminishing year after year, wouldn't you find ways to adapt???

That's what Palin’s committee was about: ADAPTING (if necessary); not fixing blame and trying to stop any change that clearly is out of our control!

[Dansong]

You and Above My Pay Grade make good points. I'm simply afraid that in a lib-moderated debate they'd use the committee as evidence of Sarah having it both ways, no?

[21twelve]

FR thread with discussion of the committee: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407733/posts

Home page of committee: http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/

BEST: (Horse’s mouth): Palin’s Letter introducing the committee: http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/docs/govrpt_jul08.pdf

Lots of stuff on how to be prepared for changes. Most of it is related to melting permafrost (roadways, construction), flooding of low-level areas (already occurring), etc. It is NOT a panel on how to change climate, it is how do we respond to it.

Of course, as a politician she holds on to the possibility of some manmade influence, but uses it as an opportunity to push Alaska’s natural gas resources. Now that she is a bit more outside the “politician role” - and perhaps knows more about the whole issue like most people have learned, especially with “Climate Gate” - she is pronouncing it as the hoax (manmade GW) that it is.