Posted on 04/15/2009 7:47:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate change: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledges global warming is affecting her state But the former GOP vice presidential candidate contends gas drilling will help curb rising temperatures
By Kim Murphy | Tribune Newspapers April 15, 2009
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."
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Read her complete and unaltered words from the Alaska Governor's web site.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - Comments
Alaska’s OCS – Secretary Salazar’s April 14, 2009 visit to Alaska
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/GovPalinRemarks-SectSalazar_Apr14-2009.pdf
Eh Tu, Sarah?
She wants more oil and gas exploration and exploitation, so she is playing Salazar since she knows that he is a global warming goon. It’s not too hard to understand. If you listen to her testimony, she doesn’t say anything about man made global warming.
She is introducing the statement with “Many believe” and continues to point to “most credible models”. It is pretty apparent that in this statement she is making the case that also those who believe in reducing man made emissions should have an interest in petro-energy, using their models to support her argument. She is not saying that man is the cause of climate changes and clearly rejects the “green alternatives”.
I find you are twisting her words to find an answer you want to find.
Apply the same logic to the other points she address other peoples point of view. The replies are from her stances and beliefs, just like in this topic.
She doesn't reject them. She states that they won't come in time and Natural Gas should be used as a transition to those green fuels.
These available fuels are required to supply the nation’s energy needs during the transition to green energy alternatives.
In the meantime, our nation cannot afford to wait for the capacity of renewable fuel sources to be large enough to meet our growing energy demands. So in a very real way delaying production in the Alaskan OCS will lead to less available natural gas for our nation meaning higher greenhouse gas concentrations.
Those are her words, not mine.
Funny, we had a record snowfall this year (I work in the weather station)- King Salmon Alaska
Locals are saying spring is running late.
Huge amounts of Natural Gas sitting under Alaska.
IOW: Cha-ching!
Go Sarah Go!
She may be trying to score points for NG infrastructure spending. She’s a smart one without doubt.
And I have seen the claim by some reputable global warming skeptics that
the Artic
is indeed showing some signs of warming
whereas the
Antartic
is showing the opposite, more cooling.
There is still no true consensus and there is if anything more opposition to using the global warming/climate change argument in fear tactics to prepare for a global tax system.
And I think Governor Palin understands all of that.
I’m surprised that people haven’t noticed before how Palin tries to sound politically correct. When a person doesn’t come right out with the point they are trying to make, it usually means they are B.Sers who are trying to make some politically correct statement. Palin does this all the time. It’s why she has a reputation for not expressing herself well. I sure wish people would pay more attention. She isn’t the savior that people try to make her out to be. Real leaders never engage in politically correct speech. Ambitious political leaders do this all the time, especially when they are the big fish in a small pond. They can get away with it because there is no one else to compete with. In other words, they get power by sounding important. I steer clear of giving those types of people my support. Palin is a prime example of one of those bureaucratic types.
Re: Post 31: Excellent.
There is a scientific paradigm about earth warming. The direction of the dependent variable, global tempreture, can be disputed as can the influence of human activity as an independent variable. A true scientist will regard this paradigm as falsifiable; the low confidence level for the influence of human activity is not encouraging. Yet it is wise to take a precautionary views of the possibilities.
The Al Gores and the James Lovelocks, on the other hand have turned this issue into a fanatical Gnostic cult, against which no one must be allowed to disagree.
They sound like made demented sectaries. Sarah Palin sounds like a true scientist, as befits the daughter of a science teacher. In addition, in the current deranged political environment she has used language that is shrewd and pragmatic.
Gov Palin was making a pitch to Interior Secretary Salazar, who is a member of the Obama administration that believes in man-made warming climate change (aka global warming). She was using their arguments and beliefs to do what she really wants, drill baby drill for oil and gas in the OCS. She may not have explicitly said it, but imagine each of those statements was prefaced by “I (Palin) don’t believe this crap, but I know you believe it, so I’ll cite it (blah, blah) and that will show you (Salazar) it makes sense to drill for oil and gas in the OCS (which is what I really want for Alaska prosperity)”. Her use of these “facts” fit the Obama administration’s concerns. Whether they are enough to overcome the aversion to any oil, gas, and nuclear energy development is another topic.
The difference between Palin and the “loons” is that she differs on her reasons of just what is causing these changes that are so striking that she cannot deny them. Does she say humans have anything to do with it?
She obviously is living with the effects of global warming, and she is saying that. Do you think she isn’t telling the truth/ Maybe you should consider whether your own political opinions come before your recognition of what is happening. If you won’t accept the truth from Sarah, who WOULD you accept it from?
She was wrong, and I think she would admit that today. Certainly the people of Nome, AK, who had to be rescued this winter by a Russian icebreaker, wouldn’t “acknowledge” global warming.
You cherry-picked this story from the high-water period of global warming advocacy. Since then, we’ve had 3 more years of no measurable temperature increase, no sea level rise, plus two huge Climategate document dumps and high-level defectors from the official AGW camp. It’s a different world.
2009? You are kidding me.
I guess she changed her mind.
I didn’t post this story.
LOL, that's all you got? You had to bump a three-year-old story because today nearly everyone on the Republican side knows better, including Palin.
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