Of coarse climate change is real. And insulting me like that doesn’t make your case in supporting Palin or voluntary carbon trading.
1.) Why would Palin want voluntary carbon trading if as you say, she doesn’t believe carbon is changing the climate? She’s just a con artist at that point... because carbon trading is only needed if you believe carbon is harming the environment.
2.) Voluntary trading isn’t voluntary if the city or state you live in decides to join an exchange. Those exchanges are voluntary to join, but once in the city or state joins a legally binding agreement concerning carbon emissions. I can give you a trillion reasons why conservatives should never support “voluntary” carbon trading.
How exactly did I insult you? You were lambasting Palin for saying climate change is real and I simply agreed with her that it IS real. She never said it was man-made and neither did I. (and it isn't!!!)
Allowing people to voluntarily do stupid thing is a conservative position. If your city or state government starts trading in baseball cards or carbon credits on thier own they deserve to face the wrath of the people.
The fraud that is AGW will be soon exposed. The carbon credit charade will follow quickly behind it. Once the average Joe realizes it's a scam then no one will invest in it voluntarily.
As a conservative I'm not big on banning things...
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 coming closer to pronouncing it as the hoax (manmade GW) that it is.