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
The climate does change. Four times a year here.
Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
It’s real.
Agreed.
She stops short of claiming it caused by man (AGW) but it’s still not exactly re-assuring.
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.
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.
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.
“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!
Agree completely. If banning CO2 is imperative, then banning water vapor should have been done many moons ago. Water vapor, by far, is the leading contributor to ‘greenhousing’.
Banning it, of course, is ridiculous. What’s also NEVER said is that the ocean absorbs CO2.
Very few idiots opening their yaps about climate change understand any of the science behind it, including the rickety chain of ‘discoveries’ - From Fourier’s out of context claim that ‘all things being equal, the Earth ought to be a snowball (1821)’ to the infrared refraction experiments used to finger CO2 as the culprit for ‘warming’.
Bottom line - it’s a sham. A way to usher in global socialism ‘for the children’.
>> People who say this scare me; the Lady Palin included.
We need to stop the theft of ordinary language.
Climate change is not a phenomenon and stating the necessity to address the impact it has on specific regions is not a radical concept: We install the storm windows in the Fall, and replace them with the screens in the Spring.
Climate Change and climate change are not the same thing, and Palin’s recognition of the latter is perfectly rational.
Ahhhhh but Climate Change IS real, it’s changed and changed and changed... we have ice ages and we have warming and then more ice ages and more warming, she is exactly right... she DIDN’T state that MAN MADE Climate Change is real....
Climate change as per Sarah is real. But "climate change" is a hoax. The true meaning is in the scare quotes.
If you read her book or can find an unedited quote, you’ll know that Gov. Palin says that there’s no proof that man causes climate change. Climate change is what gives us the four seasons each year and is just the natural evolution of the earth.