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Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made
August 29, 2008 8:21 PM
ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: Among the issues Sen. John McCain will have to smooth over with his new running mate: global warming.
In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.
“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made,” Palin said in the interview, which was posted online Friday.
McCain, R-Ariz., by contrast, has broken with his party’s dogma by supporting a mandatory program to cap carbon emissions -- a point of pride for McCain as he burnishes his independent reputation.
Palin’s quote about global warming not being manmade is also at odds with the freshly approved GOP platform for 2008. That language -- adopted by the party this week -- marks the first time the Republican Party’s policy document addresses climate change.
"The same human activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere," the document reads. "Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the earth."
A McCain campaign spokeswoman, Maria Comella, disputed suggestions that Palin does not recognize the reality of global warming. As governor, she created a new “sub-cabinet” agency last September, to advise her office “on the preparation and implementation of an Alaska climate change strategy.”
She has also endorsed efforts to learn more about human impacts on climate change.
“Governor Palin not only stands with John McCain in his belief that global warming is a critical issue that must be addressed, but she has been a leader in addressing climate change,” Comella said.
Palin and McCain disagree on another key environmental issue: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Palin’s home state of Alaska. Palin is for it, while McCain wants to keep the refuge off-limits.
"It's nonsense not to tap a safe domestic source of oil. I think Americans need to hold Congress accountable on this one," Palin told Newsmax about drilling in ANWR.
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SARAH PALIN, WHO IS SHE?
Well folks hang on to your hats because the research is already coming in!!!!
Former Beauty Queen, just like Cindy McCain!
Former Sports Caster, who's dream was to work for ESPN.
Former PTA member and "hockey mom."
Former City counsel member (4 years) and small town Mayor (2 years)
Governor of the most backwards and least populous state in the nation for a whole 20 months. The Alaskan state government meets 90 days a year!
In 2006, get this... SHE WAS FOR THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE!!! But today she said in her acceptance speech she was against it!
Against polar bears on the endangered species list...
Believes there is NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING!!
Is firmly anti-abortion and want to repeal Roe v Wade!
And last but not least she called Hillary a "Whinner" during the primaries!!!!!!!
She now wants all the Hillary PUMA fans to support her and McBush!!
So how about it PUMA gals? Hillary is a WHINER right? Sarah Palin says so!!!
Stay tuned, the research is going 100 mph on Palin right now - certainly there will be a lot more details coming in the next few days!
Obama/Biden '08!!!!!!!
Posted by: Davis | Aug 29, 2008 8:28:30 PM
Drill drill drill here drill now.
Go go go go McCain/Palin
Posted by: Moe | Aug 29, 2008 8:39:35 PM
She also does not think evolution should be taught in schools. I wonder if McCain is about to ask for a muligan.
Posted by: jim | Aug 29, 2008 8:41:23 PM
This VP choice is such an epic fail it's not even funny. Actually it is pretty funny.
Posted by: Jeremy | Aug 29, 2008 8:48:03 PM
MCACAIN HAS NO RESPECT FOR WOMEN. HE'S USING A WOMAN FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL GAIN.
I am so tired of the political reality in America.
Sarah Palin has absolutely no right to be anybody's VP. She has done nothing. She hasn't even been in office for a full-term, which isn't my main concern. We had an entire primary to get to know Obama and Clinton. We have 60 some days to get to know Palin.
She is a threat to America.
Hillary I miss you and love you... I am now voting for Obama. McCain is a jerk and has no respect for women.
Posted by: hillarynow | Aug 29, 2008 8:57:34 PM
10 years of global cooling. The data suggests she's right.
Posted by: p0s3r | Aug 29, 2008 8:58:22 PM
Davis, I thought your support of Obama, the great community organizer, meant experience didn't matter?
Posted by: biscuits | Aug 29, 2008 9:00:56 PM
McCain, I see through your antics.
I am a women and guess what you are, A JERK.
Women unite... tired of letting men use us.
Posted by: hmmmm | Aug 29, 2008 9:01:22 PM
Obama supporters of Obama Town..IS DAVIS THE VILLAGE IDIOT OR TOWN DRUNK?? JUST GLAD HE BELONGS TO THE DEMS!!
Posted by: CuriousIndep | Aug 29, 2008 9:03:36 PM
Palin rocks!
Posted by: Cory | Aug 29, 2008 9:04:49 PM
The mis-statements and unforced errors on the part of the Obama acolytes are funny. Palin hasn't been in office for a full term? Guess what. Neither has Obama. Alaska as the least populous state? Well, not actually, at least in terms of population. More than DELAWARE, for example.
Sarah Palin is a reformer, took on the establishment in her own party and won, and has had nearly 10 years of executive experience. I'll take her over Obama, with ZERO executive experience, and Biden, also with ZERO executive experience (who has also apparently learned nothing in his 36 years of flailing about in Washington), any day.
Posted by: HT | Aug 29, 2008 9:06:31 PM
HILLARY SLEPT WITH THE PRESIDENT AND TOOK HIS ABUSE TO GET WHERE SHE IS!!!! Palin is a self made woman and did not need her hubby to boost her political cache.
Liberals are constantly in denial. You always have to create a reality that allows all your whacked out beliefs exist.
Posted by: Jay | Aug 29, 2008 9:06:51 PM
McCain/Pain----perfect. I say, drill for the oil. The government has no right to change the rules about which animals go on the endangered species list.
Stop abortion. It's murder.
True scientists know that global warming is a natural cycle of the earth. Global warming is just a fad that Hollywood has taken a liking to. Am I against helping the environment? No, just don't be idiots. Get educated.
Obama will raise taxes.
Obama will let illegal aliens run more rampant than they already are.
Obama and the ACLU will ruin this country.
GET EDUCATED!!!!
Posted by: Tammy | Aug 29, 2008 9:07:18 PM
What? Another Vice Presidential choice (McCain's Palin) with ties to Big Oil (in Alaska)? As Obama mentioned in his DNC nomination acceptance speech, this just proves that the GOP does not get it: the World economies--starting with America--need to end the Oil Era and usher in the Clean Renewable Energy Era of locally obtained sources. the GOP is not Grand, but it is old, let's not invite the Republicans back to the "party" in Nov '08....
Posted by: 19341 | Aug 29, 2008 9:07:39 PM
OK, do American voters really think that a Presidential candidate who's grandfather, father, himself and his son have military background will end the Military Industrial Complex's policy of America in Endless War(s), and end the GHB/GWB Iraqi war(s) (that's McCain...)? Do voters really think that a Vice Presidential choice who's husband is in the Oil Industry and who's state citizens get governmental payouts from Oil revenues in Alaska will support the complete move to clean, renewal, homegrown energy sources such as Wind, Solar, Wave, Geothermal, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol and others (that's Palin...)? Well, I don't think McCain/Palin will. They will support the status quo. So, if you feel the country is doing well and should continue on as usual, they're your pair.
Posted by: netizen19380 | Aug 29, 2008 9:08:36 PM
Are the Republicans kidding me, with the nod to Sarah Palin as McCain's VP choice? If the GOP had qualms about the one-term Senator Obama from a well-populated State (IL) and one of the countries largest cities (Chicago area), then the RNC has got to be kidding about a one-term Governor Palin of a "remote" state (AK) from the continental U.S. with no large cities, relatively. This election is a sham, (I just lament the possibility that it could've been a Clinton/Biden ticket, alas...).
Posted by: Democrat | Aug 29, 2008 9:09:21 PM
Ok 19341, lets just all sit around and wait until a solar panel or windmill moves our cars around. It is not an either/or discussion you self righteous fool. You can be for oil and future technologies. Wow you people are so one dimensional
Posted by: Jay | Aug 29, 2008 9:11:19 PM
Apparently the Goracle doesn't believe it is man made either or else he would stop flying and driving emitting gases into the air and at his house in Nashville that uses as much electricty in one month as 230 average houses- DUDE if it is so apocalyptic turn off the pot lights. I just bet it is "greens" electricity
Posted by: Brookie | Aug 29, 2008 9:11:53 PM
Hi..I'm new here...currently I'm working on a research paper about argument for global warming..any1 have any idea?
Posted by: Jenhur | Aug 29, 2008 9:14:19 PM
This country can't afford 4 more years of the GOP. No McCain/MILF in '08.
Posted by: hamishdad | Aug 29, 2008 9:15:33 PM
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