Here’s what VP candidate Palin had to say on climate change during the VP debate:
Yes. Well, as the nation’s only Arctic state and being the
governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of climate change
more so than any other state. And we know that it’s real.I’m not one to attribute every man — activity of man to the changes in
the climate. There is something to be said also for man’s activities,
but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.But there are real changes going on in our climate. And I don’t want to
argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going
to get there to positively affect the impacts?We have got to clean up this planet. We have got to encourage other
nations also to come along with us with the impacts of climate change,
what we can do about that.
Someone in the McCain campaign must’ve told her to tone down her opinions on climate change from outright denial to mere incoherence. Earlier, she was more forceful with her denial.
“I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”
One question I’d have for Palin is this: If you don’t believe that human activity has anything to do with climate change, then what do you expect humans to do about climate change?
If human activity isn’t responsible for climate change, what will she ask other nations to “come along with us” and do?
And as an aside, it seems that we have already had a chance to team up with other nations on the environment. We didn’t do so well. (I don’t recall Palin supporting that initiative, either.)