Climate change: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledges global warming is affecting her state

[sabra]

Source: Chicago Trib

But the former GOP vice presidential candidate contends gas drilling will help curb rising temperatures


ANCHORAGE — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledged Tuesday that global warming is harming her state but said stepped-up natural-gas production could mitigate its effects.

Palin spoke at a hearing before Interior Secretary Ken Salazar — the third of a series he is holding across the country to consider renewed oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf.

The 2008 Republican nominee for vice president said relatively clean-burning natural gas can supplant dirtier fuels and slow the discharge of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

"We Alaskans are living with the changes that you are observing in Washington," she said. "The dramatic decreases in the extent of summer sea ice, increased coastal erosion, melting of permafrost, decrease in alpine glaciers and overall ecosystem changes are very real to us."


Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/green/chi-palin_15apr15,0,2755192.story

[Happyhippychick]

1. Freeper heads collectively explode, story at 10.

[tanyev]

7. Yep. You betcha!

Nooooooo!!!

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Huh? Say it aint so Sarah!

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Its so sad how the GOP has let rhetoric and pseudo science take a hypothesis and make it political reality..

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So.

She’s joined Newt on the Global Warming Band Wagon.

NEXT!

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Beam me to Planet Gore !

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I guess I’ll have to lust after another woman from now on....

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Is she turning into a loon?

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I've seen some folks try to spin this as Gov Palin recognizing Global Warming, but not necessarily subscribing a human cause for it.
I'm a big Palin fan, but it pains me to point out that she's talking about "greenhouse gases" and "carbon footprints" and "green energy".

She seems to have swallowed to kool-aid.

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Sarah’s True Color has a little bit of chameleon in it, hayna? When I saw her trying to campaign-finesse her brat’s forthcoming brat, I expected more of the same, and I’m getting just about what I expected. This really isn’t news, it’s just a politician being a politician.

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The final nail. Palin - go away.

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Well see you Sarah... If you believe this nonsense, then I have to let you go.

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If she promotes human changing activities to help the problems, then it is claiming human activities as at least part of the problem.
That's exactly how I see it. Makes me sad.

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Oh my gawd - I just can’t believe it.

Back to the hunt for true conservative candidates.



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[Dappleganger]

8. They'll claim she was brainwashed...

and that she should have dropped out of college and burned her books.

[NV Whino]

2. Okay, I'm trying to see the logic here...

"contends gas drilling will help curb rising temperatures"

Oh wait, Palin? Logic? What was I thinking?

[LynnTheDem]

3. "Gas drilling" cures anything, as far as the failin' Palin' is concerned.

Anything that puts more $ into her handbag.

[Winterblues]

4. Natural gas burns much cleaner than coal or gasoline or diesel.

Pickens had a plan to change over most cars in the USA to burn natural gas instead of gasoline. That would cut the carbon footprint by almost fifty percent. The way we get natural gas is by drilling for it and then transport it either by fuel burning trucks and ships or else by a clean pipeline. Palin is correct on this issue but the irony is that she is saying the exact opposite of what she said when she was running for Vice President.

[RalphieD]

5. Palin kills wolves

Palin would probably spray the oil on the wolves from her
helicopter and light them on fire.

[Tempest]

6. So why is Palin doing everything in her power to prevent the gas pipeline from being built?

Palin's Pipeline of Contradictions:
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/a_pipeline_full_of_contradictions

[Thor_MN]

9. She can see the melting glaciers from there!!