 | Sarah Palin Denies Global Warming Science |
Sarah Palin, the inexperienced small town Alaska politician who has been awkwardly thrust into the place of the vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party, has already unsettled many people through her assertion that biological evolution does not take place, and her attempt to push Creationism in public schools. Now it seems that Palin’s attitudes against science are much broader than just a belief in religion would support.
Sarah Palin is among those who have spent years denying that global warming exists. Even now that the proof for climate change is overwhelming, Palin still asserts that human activity has nothing to do with it. She says,
“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.”
Why would Sarah Palin deny that global warming is a result of human industrial activity, in spite of the strong science that finds a connection? As much as it is about right wing ideology, it is also about economic convenience. Sarah Palin’s husband works for the oil industry. Sarah Palin has been employed by Big Oil herself.
The politicians of Alaska, Sarah Palin among them, depend upon money from oil companies to prop them up. Big oil opposes action to confront global warming, and so, on their behalf, Sarah Palin opposes action on global warming. Alaska is the Texas of the north, and we all know what it’s been like to have a Texan in the White House. Sarah Palin is in the pocket of Big Oil, and she would keep the White House a House of Oil.
Thanks to A Change in the Wind for bringing this disturbing news about Sarah Palin’s anti-science agenda to our attention.
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No….Palin is the 2 year Governor of Alaska…Obama is the 6 month senator from Illinois…sory to fix your broken fact….
And she is right…man is not the solo cause of global warming. Period. Not even the major cause…and you do NOT have strong science to prove that. You have threory and conjecture on loose research. We have not have been around long enough as a speices to see what Earth cycles are to undestand what happen naturally…It’s getting debunked everyday. The only reason it’s getting noticed is beacuse fools like you will spend money trying to “be green”…hell I’ll sell you some carbon offsets…got PayPal?
Palin has the right idea…
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 1:00 pm
Hey, careful, there — there are plenty of Texans you’re insulting by implying W. represents all of us. In my county, he got only 50.3% (346,246) of the vote in 2004, to his opponents’ 49.6% (341,194). Eighteen counties, in all, gave him a minority of the votes, and in some of those, he had less than one-third of the total. The largest counties were among the most divided, and Travis County — home to Austin, where the governor lived and where they will have known him best — gave Kerry 56% to Bush’s 42%.
There are a helluva lot of us who think that the only thing wrong with Natalie Mains’ famous quote is the fact that she later retracted it.
Comment by ProudTexasWoman — 8/30/2008 @ 1:06 pm
Sam, your misinformed talking points are simply not true (just look at the melting glaciers in Greenland and 2nd lowest level of Arctic ice; and international scientists are proving it more and more each day through measurable research, not as you claim). Since we only have one shot at this (or the planet will become uninhabitable despite your “proof” or belief to the contrary) we should err on the side of caution and start developing renewable sources of energy which get us away from the massive buildup of carbon dioxide that is now causing the problem (with methane and others also having deleterious effects). Pick up a copy of New Scientist magazine and read a little, don’t just parrot what Rush or Sean say.
Comment by Tom — 8/30/2008 @ 1:15 pm
Tom…you are alarmist and extremeist…the world has been around far longer than we and it will survive us far beyond we are gone…to think that we alone are destroying the planet is thinking that man is the greatest thing this world has ever had….until an asteroid hits and you are vaporized…Ah…I remember the New Ice Age call to arms well….
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 1:22 pm
Why does Sam keep claiming that Barack Obama has been a U.S. Senator for six months?
Comment by Jim — 8/30/2008 @ 1:31 pm
Oh..I see…yes…he has “been” in the senate for longer. But when it comes to “political experience”…it’s 6 months…can’t change that…Palin has been Governor for 2 years…”Political experience” of 2 years. As a State Governor…not a legislator…Governor…BIG difference…..
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 1:37 pm
No, it isn’t. If you want to stop embarrassing yourself you need to go back and check facts. Right now, you’re just embarrassing yourself.
Comment by Jim — 8/30/2008 @ 1:51 pm
Sam, you really don’t know what you’re talking about here. Barack Obama has been working, getting national political experience in the United States Senate for years. Are you still living back in 2005?
Comment by Fruktata — 8/30/2008 @ 1:59 pm
You all can believe what you like…check the amount of days he actually spent in the senate working…not even close to the days palin worked on her job…come on…don’t be stupid…
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 2:18 pm
Oh, don’t YOU treat us like we’re stupid, Sam. You mean Barack Obama was only working on Senate business when he was actually in the Senate building??? So, when Barack Obama went to Iraq, or when he met with constituents in his home state, or was meeting with international leaders visiting the United States, he wasn’t working?
Give us a break, Sam. You insult our intelligence.
Comment by Fruktata — 8/30/2008 @ 2:25 pm
No, no, Fruk. See, I’m 18 years old, because, like, I sleep nights.
Comment by Jim — 8/30/2008 @ 2:41 pm
Ya know you spend more time attacking conservatives than promoting people you think would best match your needs. The closest you got was ku-SIN-ich and the populus resoundingly said no thanks. Why don’t you just stop pissing and moaning about those you you hate and just work towards those you like. All six or seven of you should start a write in campaign for some lunatic that has your screwed up view of America…somebody has to be out there on the ballot somewhere….
And as for Obama not being in the senate and still working…yea…sure…that’ll be good…he’ll be a President by proxy…Biden will do the work for him…yea…pickup right where he left off in the senate…
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 7:17 pm
Actually, Sam, we do BOTH. It’s not mutually exclusive. You’d just like us to stop offering strong criticisms of the considerable weaknesses of right wing candidates.
So, why don’t we stop criticizing right wing candidates? Gosh, I’ll leave that up to our readers to figure out.
Comment by J. Clifford — 8/30/2008 @ 7:22 pm
No…I don’t want you to stop criticizing the right wing….to ask for a more “fair and balanced” approach on this site would be stupid of me to think. You guys are progressives. Fair and balanced isn’t in your venacular. I want you to continue. People need to see what a danger progressive thinking is, like communisim…they need to be reminded every day. So when people like ku-SIN-ich pop up they will be recognized and dismissed…
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 7:30 pm
You caught us. You, you, you, you CAUGHT us! Curse you, curse you, curse you and your, your, your… FREEEEEEEEEEDOM! Come on, everybody. Let’s pack up and go back to Mother Russssssia…
Hah.
Comment by Jim — 8/30/2008 @ 7:34 pm
Come on Jim…open up your progressive platform…all those issues that you hold dear…and balance that with the Communist manifesto and rules for enaging the US and you will see the simularities…plain as day…
Comment by Sam — 8/30/2008 @ 7:38 pm
We disagree with conservatives more often because we disagree with conservatism. What a bizarre sarcastic idea of yours that we should disregard what we believe to meet some strange “fair and balanced” quota of yours in which we state opinions that fall evenly all over the ideological spectrum. It’s very, how to say, hmmm…. communist of you.
If you can’t tell the difference between what we write about (which for well over a decade has “opened up our platform”) and COMMUNISM, then you are either ignorant, blind, or both.
Comment by Jim — 8/30/2008 @ 7:52 pm
So says YOU Jim…so says you….
Comment by Sam — 8/31/2008 @ 9:30 am
Blah, blah. You’ve reached the end of your wick.
Comment by Jim — 8/31/2008 @ 9:41 am
Now, back to the issue of global warming. New Orleans is vulnerable, and it’s because of global warming. With sea levels rising, the city is going down… and Sarah Palin won’t even admit that people can do anything about the problem!
Comment by Green Man — 8/31/2008 @ 12:02 pm
It’s not because of “man made” global warming…it’s because of cyclical natural occurances…dumbass…
Comment by sam — 8/31/2008 @ 1:37 pm
You all miss the scariest part - Acidifying the oceans. C02 absorbed by the oceans is lowering the pH. That, Sam, is caused by CO2 that is produced by burning oil and coal and cutting down the trees that used to help absorb CO2 and output O2.
Comment by Clint — 9/7/2008 @ 10:39 pm
you are so right. sarah palin doesn’t know anything. she doesn’t even want to consider polar bears an endangered species!!
Comment by jane — 9/10/2008 @ 3:39 pm
Sam, you don’t have any evidence for that. You’re just saying it because you want it to be true. There is, on the other hand, a mountain of evidence that human activity is largely to blame for global warming.
The McCain-Palin ticket is the ticket for people who feel that the best path for America is to deny the reality of scientific research.
Comment by Green Man — 9/10/2008 @ 3:56 pm
Sam, I suggest you actually do some research and read some science. Extensive studies have been done taking deep ice samples from the arctic ice caps that establish, without doubt, that the amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased exponentially in the last 100 years as a result of human activity. There is incontrovertible scientific evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution has greatly accelerated any naturally occurring global warming. Rejecting the idea that global warming is the result of human activity is no different than denying that the Earth revolves around the Sun or that force = velocity x mass. These are basic scientific principles, not a political (or communist) platform.
Comment by Ricardo — 9/11/2008 @ 2:30 am
Im sorry to tell you Sam but Obama is the new president of the USA so their is no point in talking about Sarah Palin and John McCain. Plus we all know that global warming is really going on and you and the other crazy people like Palin will figure it out by the time the consequences will be huge and it will be too late. You will really realize how narrow-minded you have been. Like Ricardo said all you have to do is do some reasearch. Sam I have a question. Why are the North and South pole melting and polar bears dying? I WANT YOU TO ANSWER MY QUESTION SINCE YOU ARE SO CONVINCED THAT MEN DIDN’T DO ANYTING
Comment by alesssandro — 11/4/2008 @ 11:16 pm
Question for you Sam:
If the global warming we are currently seeing is “cyclical,” when should we start to see global temperatures fall again?
I’ve heard the word “cyclical” over and over again from global warming deniers, but they NEVER tell you ANYTHING about this supposed “cycle.” How long does a cycle last? How much variation in temperature do we see over the course of a cycle?
If global temperatures don’t fall in the future, it’s not a “cycle.” And if you can’t tell me when global temperatures are going to fall, you don’t know anything about this supposed cycle.
Tell me something about this supposed “cycle,” Sam. Make me a prediction. Otherwise, I’m going to think you don’t even know what “cyclical” means–beyond the word’s simplistic meaning for you of “don’t bum me out about driving a Hummer.”
Comment by Ralph — 11/5/2008 @ 1:51 am