GOP VP Pick Sarah Palin is a Global Warming Denier
September 4, 2008 · Print This Article
Sarah Palin questions global warming science and favors drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She also opposed a state initiative that would have banned metal mines in her state from discharging pollution into salmon streams, and dropped a lawsuit intended to prevent polar bears from being listed as a threatened species. Not that any of these things are surprising considering that she’s a Republican, but the party’s questionable pick for VP is governor of Alaska, where the ANWR is located, and the state that has already seen the most dramatic effects of global warming.
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
The Alaska Governor has said that she has tried to persuade McCain to agree with her on drilling in the wildlife refuge. She also has said that she was happy that he changed his position over the summer and now supports offshore oil drilling.
Palin’s environmental views could get more of an airing now that she has landed on the national stage.
Last month, the state of Alaska under Palin’s guidance sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne in an attempt to reverse his decision to list polar bears as a threatened species. Palin said that scientists’ predictions that global warming would eliminate the ice where the bears live in summer were unreliable.
As we noted in an article posted yesterday, ‘7 Places Global Warming is Smacking the Crap Out of the Earth Right Now’, Alaska is the only U.S. state currently experiencing global warming effects on par with other areas of the world. In some areas of the remote state, villages are being relocated because global warming has battered them with severe storms and melting ice has caused erosion and floods.
Besides, how does McCain aim to protect the environment when his #2 would be fighting him all the way?
Link [Sydney Morning Herald]
Photo credit: AP/Sydney Morning Herald
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Well said, her environmental policies should come to light now that she’s arrived on the National Stage. Although she is a Republican you would think that living in Alaska she would be particularly sensitive to the effects of Global Warming on her home state…I guess it’s just “G-D’s will
God help us all! When you thought Republicans couldn’t sink any lower…
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Good.
Palin knows the earth gets warm in the summer, hardly a denier.
Earth first, we mine and drill on the other planets later.
The fact that she doesn’t believe in the Phantom Climate Goddess is a resume enhancement not a negative. She puts people first, not Gaia.
I quite agree with the first commenter that, “her environmental policies should come to light now that she’s arrived on the National Stage.”
The only problem for enviro’s is, it will help her, not hurt.
She’s a denier just as thousands of scientists are also (just as thousands of scientists say man does cause it). The science is hardly settled so her opinion is right in line on that subject.
Global warming is mostly junk science theory and the new religion of propaganda from the left to steal money and power from citizens around the world. Anything the left is so obsessed with is dangerous to anyones freedom. Socialism/communism has failed everywhere it was tried but the left keeps trying new versions with new names. Socialists in America are now using Progressive. That means they progressively seize more taxpayer money and freedom as they turn America in another Soviet style country. Global Warming is just another avenue to do that..
Uhhh…(shrugs)….the Earth hasn’t had any measurable increase in temperature since 1998…despite the increase in carbon emissions. How’s that work?
Next you’ll be telling us that it gets warmer when the sun shines during the day….Oh…wait.
Denier! You are the denier: denying that the earth is in fact cooling. That the earth has been cooling for ten years and will certainly cool for the next twenty years.
Denier my ass! You are the only one around making denials. The earth is cooling. Not heating. Hansen is a liar
Awesome! The Rightwing Moron Denial Squad is in full effect!
We operate in a reality based paradigm here on EarthFirst.com. It must be nice in your world.
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Publishers Note: What’s that Andy? You dropped your vowels.
whoa- alot of people commented here focusing on global warming being not real. How about this: when you take something toxic, say motor oil, and dump it on the ground or in some water it kills living organisms and ruins the soil- so that no food can be grown there. Global warming is just one of many aspects that explains pollution on a larger scale- and focusing on denying global warming is turning a blind eye to logic. It’s not opinion, it’s not even science - it’s something you can watch happen right in front your face.
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