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Gov Palin Responds to WAPO's Robinson Re Climate Change
Washington Post ^ | 17 Dec 2009 | Sarah Palin

Posted on 12/17/2009 9:57:20 AM PST by sarah fan UK

I'd like to thank Eugene Robinson for highlighting Alaska's achievements on climate change ["Palin's own 'Climate- gate,' " op-ed, Dec. 15] and for noting that I've "treated the issue as serious, complex, and worthy of urgent attention," while making "any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor." But he's wrong to suggest that my views have somehow changed or that now I'll have to "renounce" my past efforts.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; algore; climatechange; climategate; climaters; globalwarming; golobalwarming; military; obama; palin; politics; sarahpalin; teaparties; wapo; warmers
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Despite POLITICO's best efforts Gov Palin stays focussed on the big issues.
1 posted on 12/17/2009 9:57:21 AM PST by sarah fan UK
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To: sarah fan UK; IrishCatholic; Darnright; Entrepreneur; livius; DollyCali; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 12/17/2009 9:58:55 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: steelyourfaith

I’ll put Alaska’s enviroment against any of her critics. I been to most of their places and her’s and for clean air and water I chose Alaska. It it were not so cold I would move there.


3 posted on 12/17/2009 10:03:02 AM PST by scooby321
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To: sarah fan UK
"I don't deny that climate change is real."

People who say this scare me; the Lady Palin included.

It's not like one cannot make a case that something called "climate change" is a real phenomenon. The problem is that what the populace at large associates with "climate change" is very definitely not real.

ML/NJ

4 posted on 12/17/2009 10:10:15 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

The climate does change. Four times a year here.

Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

It’s real.


5 posted on 12/17/2009 10:13:09 AM PST by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: ml/nj

Agreed.

She stops short of claiming it caused by man (AGW) but it’s still not exactly re-assuring.


6 posted on 12/17/2009 10:15:05 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
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To: ml/nj

Climate change is real, always has been, always will be on Earth. The question has always been - what, if any, is the effect of human activity? Because of climategate, no one is now able to say with any credibilty that human activity is causing anything.


7 posted on 12/17/2009 10:16:51 AM PST by Lou Budvis (She never bankrupted Alaska nor bowed to royalty.)
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To: scooby321

Sarah Palin’s achievements in office outshine just about every other elected official in any state at all.


8 posted on 12/17/2009 10:17:38 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Freddd

it changes every day as well


9 posted on 12/17/2009 10:18:51 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: 4rcane

THe AGW believers see things in black and white. They view, that if you don’t agree with this policy solution then you must not be a believer of climate change


10 posted on 12/17/2009 10:20:50 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: ml/nj
Better to back the Lady Palin that to allow the Marxist Rats their standard trickery and deception of redefinition.
11 posted on 12/17/2009 10:21:21 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: ml/nj
IMO, there's not much choice. To deny that Climate Change is "real" is to really fall into the Flat Earth category. We know there have been Ice Ages. We know the world was much warmer 1000 years ago. Climate Change happens, and Gov. Palin would be making a mistake to use language implying that it doesn't happen.

But I've never heard her suggest that we're responsible for the change.

In the long term, it's a useful tool to get people accept that "change happens" and "it's not our fault". Once more people get to that understanding, the Left loses a major battle for hearts and minds.

12 posted on 12/17/2009 10:21:56 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Macbeth is ripe for shaking, and the powers above put on their instruments.)
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To: ml/nj
"I don't deny that climate change is real." People who say this scare me; the Lady Palin included.

It's not like one cannot make a case that something called "climate change" is a real phenomenon. The problem is that what the populace at large associates with "climate change" is very definitely not real.

Climate change is real -- at least due to longer term Milankovitch cycles. It is a question whether humans can pump out enough greenhouse gases to slow or prevent the next glacial advance (due in a few thousand years). We need better and more honest data to know what humanity is facing so that humans can better adapt.

13 posted on 12/17/2009 10:24:12 AM PST by Aroostook25
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To: sarah fan UK

Sarah Palin is winning all the battles when it comes to the issues because her opponents would rather focus on personal attacks and smearing everything she says.

Keep up the good work Sarah. Everyone with common sense sees this.


14 posted on 12/17/2009 10:26:45 AM PST by Wee-Weed Up
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To: sarah fan UK
When asked to respond, the Pulitzer Prize winning Robinson replied:

Uh...umm...uh....ummm....(repeat for several minutes, with forced smiles and grimaces).

15 posted on 12/17/2009 10:28:47 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Lou Budvis; All
Climate change is real, always has been, always will be on Earth.

Yes! Your post is excellent. The climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years (so the astrophysicists say). The Climate has NEVER been stable. Stasis is not the norm for Climate. The LEFT has perverted the language in such a way as to insinuate that there was NO climate change before we (we/mankind/western civilization/United States) changed it. The knuckle draggers believe this madness. We have so many stupid and ignorant people. This is the problem. AGW/Climate Change is the greatest scam in the history of the World. Bernie Madoff is trivial by comparison.
16 posted on 12/17/2009 10:32:47 AM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
When the warmers realized that global warming at this time wasn't a threat, they changed the problem to “climate change”

Just like homosexuals using a happy funloving innocuous word like gay to describe their perverse lifestyle as a diversion tactic so the warmers chose climate change.

It actually means global warming to them.

Therefore and unfortunately, like gay, climate change is misunderstood to be a “negative” occurrence while to the warmers it is just their old standby global warming, fraud that it is.

17 posted on 12/17/2009 10:34:20 AM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming this Spring! March 27th to April 15th 2010, GIANT Rally in DC!)
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To: ml/nj

“I don’t deny that climate change is real.”
People who say this scare me; the Lady Palin included.

It’s not like one cannot make a case that something called “climate change” is a real phenomenon. The problem is that what the populace at large associates with “climate change” is very definitely not real.

ML/NJ


As you agree, I think, climate change occurs. It is a fact, and not something one even needs to make a case about any longer.

Are you suggesting that a better strategy is to deny ANY climate change, so the population won’t get stupid ideas in their head about possible contributions by man?

I’d like Romney to take that position and express that view - we would never need to worry about him getting reelected to any political office again!


18 posted on 12/17/2009 10:58:15 AM PST by militanttoby
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To: sarah fan UK

I’ll bet this is the most read Letter to the Editor the WaPo has ever published. Last I heard Palin’s climategate op/ed was the 20th most read op/ed at the WaPo for the entire year, and I’ll bet it has gone up since then.


19 posted on 12/17/2009 11:16:01 AM PST by euram
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To: euram

I wouldn’t be at all surprised! As an aside that global warming is ravagaing the UK tonight - 8 inches of snow forecast in the south and a light coating everywhere else (LOL)


20 posted on 12/17/2009 11:31:08 AM PST by sarah fan UK
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