‘Energy Expert’ Palin Can’t Name Any Man-Made Causes Of Global Warming
‘Energy Expert’ Palin Can’t Name Any Man-Made Causes Of Global Warming
Shortly after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) chose Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, Palin said she is not one to attribute global warming to being man-made. Since then, she has walked that statement back slightly, saying that indeed, man’s activities have contributed to climate change but adding the caveat that “weather patterns are cyclical.”
When asked to name some specific man-made causes of global warming yesterday during an interview with a local NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, Palin couldn’t name one, and instead reverted back to her new talking point that it doesn’t really matter:
Q: I’ve also heard you hint that you do think there might be some man-made causes that are contributing to this. Can you describe what those are?
PALIN: Right, well what I have said about this is really the debate at some point, had better shift to, no matter the cause, whether it all be attributed to man’s activities or just the natural cycle of climate changes in our earth’s history. We have seen this before.
Watch it:
Seeing that conservatives are touting Palin as an “energy expert,” and McCain has said that she “knows more about energy than probably anyone else” in the country, Palin could have — at the very least — cited increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Of course, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is made-made and that the main contributing factor is the burning of fossil fuels.
In fact, not only has Palin encouraged energy policies that focus on increased fossil fuel consumption, but the AP reported this week that “[f]aced with choosing between development and the environment” as governor of Alaska, she “has sided more often than not with business interests”:
She started a committee to address global warming. But with oil companies contributing the largest percentage of the state’s greenhouse gases, her committee set no goal for reducing emissions. Unlike other states, Alaska’s climate change priority is focused on ways to adapt to warmer temperatures.
Regardless, Palin’s cluelessness on global warming is perhaps what led Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) to observe that “[i]f you don’t understand what the cause is, it’s virtually impossible to come up with a solution.”
Transcript:
Q: On the topic of climate change. I believe that based on what I’ve heard from your campaign that it’s your opinion that we’re in a natural cycle of global warming but I’ve also heard you hint that you do think there might be some man-made causes that are contributing to this. Can you describe what those are?
PALIN: Right well what I have said about this is really the debate at some point, had better shift to, no matter the cause, whether it all be attributed to man’s activities or just the natural cycle of climate changes in our earth’s [6,000 year] history. We have seen this before. No matter the cause we had better do something about it and we’re all better off if we make sure that our air our water our lands are made cleaner via the developments that are underway right now.
Thankfully, America has strict standards. We can make sure that there is even more stringent oversight too. But we’ve got to be working with the other developing countries like India and China – these burgeoning countries that are growing and using so many energy sources and they are not as concerned, it seems based on past policy as we are, to make sure that our environment is clean and that man’s activities is not adversely affecting the environment. We’ve got to start working with alliances and start forming new alliances to make sure that everybody is in this together and trying to create a cleaner planet
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pmANOTHER PALIN NON ANSWER ANSWER
ONE OF THESE DAYS A REPORTER IS GOING TO KEEP ASKING THE SAME QUESTION OVER AND OVER UNTIL SHE ACTUALLY ANSWERS THE QUESTION
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:06 pmEditing needed on line five below video - third word in please.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pmThe way I read that transcript,
Without knowing it, she just admitted Global Warming is caused by Man.
Jeebus, this women is vacuous to the Nth level!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pmI see Joe Biden beat me to it, but... if Sarah Palin notices a puddle of water on her kitchen floor, but doesn't know what caused it, how in the hell would she go about "doing something about it"?
Oh, wait -- never mind. I figured it out. She'd just call Todd.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 pmSooooo, she's an energy "expert" because McCrazyF ucker says she is?
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm.
Do anyone think Sarah's read a book on climate change?
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pmUmmmm, her hot air?
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pmWhen will those foolish reporters learn to read her answer before asking question? After all, the teleprompter works most of the time.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pmI sincerely wish there was some way I could help this woman get her message out to the world. The more she speaks the more she pushes undecideds, firmly and forcefully, into the Obama camp. She's living proof of the 2 unarguable facts that You Can't Fix Stupid and Stupid Is Forever!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
PS,
for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, the story of her $150k shopping spree seems to have struck a nerve for the MSM. People are Not Amused At All. Speak Sara, Speak on and on!
"Uh...well, yanno, that's a hard question! And uh, well, that answer wasn't in any of my briefings...golly, lemme find it, and I'll bring it to ya!" *wink*
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 pmStupid Sarah just can't be bothered to actually read our Constitution to learn the duties of the Vice President. She'd rather just invent the VP duties as she goes along. She is the Lady Despot-in-Waiting.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 pmQ: I’ve also heard you hint that you do think there might be some man-made causes that are contributing to this. Can you describe what those are?
Palin: You betcha! I've done extensive research on this and I've deduced that it's all Clinton's fault!(wink)
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pmNettles Says: #6
So, where does all that carbon dioxide and other toxic gases go? All that exhaust from all the millions of cars, millions of trucks, thousands of ships, thousands of planes, factories, energy plants on top of the natural emissions goes into the atmosphere each and every day. Does it all just magically disappear?
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:22 pmA long time advisor to palin," stated palin was only interested in talking points, not substance of the issue."
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pmSarah don't do science. In her mind its un-American.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm" We have seen this before. "
we who? her and jesus? her and her witch doctor?
she's a climate scientist?, or she (and someone else) have been alive since the last ice age?
what have we seen before?
ice-free arctic? when?
Ice sheets the size of states breaking up? when?
somebody gong the crazy lady!!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pmNettles = decent Yankee thirdbaseman, noxious troll.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmSarah's Super
ficial
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pmHere is a sign that may signal Failin' Palin has already resigned herself to defeat on November 4 --> http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/21/in-which-sarah-palin-displays-the-latest-in-donkey-fashion.aspx
It does raise two questions:
1) does this "intellectully curious" VP candidate realize that the donkey is the symbol of the Democratic Party?
2) did the RNC pay for this latest Palin "fashion accessory"?
p.s. -- there is actually some speculation that an Obama supporter snuck into the event and handed the scarf to her; then she promptly put in on and got "punked"
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:29 pmOT, but a fifty eight year old woman attempted to arrest Karl Rove as he spoke at a mortgage banker's meeting today in San Franciso.
Good for her!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmsaw this on MSNBC, from FauxSchmooz...
SAN FRANCISCO — An anti-war protester confronted former Bush administration aide Karl Rove while he spoke at a San Francisco mortgage bankers' meeting.
A statement by the group Code Pink identified the woman as 58-year-old Janine Boneparth, who tried to handcuff Rove in what she called a citizen's arrest for "treason."
Rove, who was speaking Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association's annual convention, elbowed Boneparth away as she was escorted off the stage.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pmI know the wheels are off the Straight-talk express, but Palin can't even find the keys.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pmI cannot make sense out of anything she says.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pmIt's like a disjointed run-on sentence sprinkled with tourettes syndrome.
She is a neurotransmitter short of a synapse.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 pmAnd this very stoopid woman does not even know what the office of VP does.... I am still appalled over her comments yesterday concerning the VP over sees the senate. You would think by now she would at least look up the job description she is running for.... has been running for for a month.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pmI still can't believe that there are 42% of the voters that support this team of Dumb and Dumber. That's a scary thought that there are 42% of Americans willing to believe that McCain/Palin is best for the future of this country. It does tell you one thing though. That if this is the best that the republicans have to offer and that at least 42% of voters believe that they are then we as a country have a long way to go.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pmHas anyone seen this article? Talk about caricature of what he thinks is a good running mate.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:42 pmSarah Palin is not, I repeat, not smarter than a 3rd grader.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pmWhere did my link go. Anyhoo, look at yahoo news.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:43 pmOctober 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I'd recommend a magical plunger to take care of manmade global warming. Then use a GIANT hatchet. If time permits, a scalpel (yawn).
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:45 pmvinylspear Says:
I cannot make sense out of anything she says.
It’s like a disjointed run-on sentence sprinkled with tourettes syndrome.
She is an idiot put out there by the powers that be for the rapture ready and those that put greed before country. And she may win with our corrupt electronic voting system.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:46 pmI find it ironic that the less she understands the question, the more apt she is to regress to a rambling, run on sentence, akin to that of a 3 year old, that makes no use of any sort of proper grammer.
Unfortunately for her, this makes up most of her interviews. I guess that her 'handlers' were avoiding all contact.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:51 pmGive her a break. She's from Alaska. They're in FAVOR of global warming up there!
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pmPalin is a bad joke put upon us...
Pathetic Palin CAN NOT EVEN give one example of a man made cause for global warming while most students in elementary school could.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pmThis is just one of those rare events in which the majority of human beings don't know what they don't know, or don't understand what they do or do not know.
Palin is an energy expert, she probably knows more about it than anyone in the country - yes, even more than scientists and people who work in energy industry.
Like McCain who 'knows how to win, he does!' Palin knows energy. If we could just all come to our senses and vote for the mavericky duo, we could all benefit from the expertise they bring.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pmFrom the link:
'Sarah Palin received even more applause when she slammed Barack Obama for allegedly not giving his own female employees in the Senate the same pay rate as the men.'
1. they clapped? does that mean they think it's GOOD when women do not receive the same pay rate as men?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm2. is this latest charge true? hard for me to believe!
A minor point, Mr. Evil. Polls suggest that 42% support Chippy and Flippy but, I'm not convinced that 42% of the people who will actually vote support them. Lots of bad things can happen but, I have a feeling that there will be too high a turnout to steal the election and it won't even be close.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 pmBeing an energy expert, do you think she knows what Suck-Squeeze-Bang-Blow means?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:06 pmOT
As I predicted, MSM polls now show the race tied just before the election, thus making it possible for McCain to win by a Diebold.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_el_pr/ap_poll_presidential_race
AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I look at this woman and all I can thin about is where will it be:
Mexico
Canada
Belize
that is, if these countries will STILL welcome Americans.
Can not imagine another 8 years of this madness.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pmNettles Says:
Nice spot. Change the second “made to “up”.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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Is that really the best you can do?
Better trolls, please. This current batch is weak and pathetic.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pmAnyone else notice a similarity in the approach of McCain, Palin and Dubya ?
Asked a question, they say they have strong views on it. Then when asked for details, they shuffle all over the place to avoid the question.
I can think of 3 sources of carbon dioxide that also generate a lot of hot air.,
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm“...you don’t understand what the cause is, it’s virtually impossible to come up with a solution.”
Biden just explained the entire Bush administration.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pmrastaman,
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pmThat was the exactly what I was thinking. She is one of the most evasive people I have ever had to listen to pretend to answer questions.
In Palinworld, "energy" only means "oil" (and possibly natural gas). Drilling it as much as possible, and building pipelines to transport it. Energy has nothing to do with non-fossil fuels, and it certainly has nothing to do with climate or environment.
In Palinworld, complex situations are reduced to the simplest form and then spouted ad nauseum.
We already know that Palin has a simple mind. What is amazing to me is the number of simple minds who love eating up what she's serving.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pmSarah, what do you know about energy?
"Oil burn. Fire hot. Make engine go."
SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND GO BACK TO ALASKA.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 pmSarah Palin is the GOPukes shoving the gratuitous plunger handle up the ass of democracy. Like certain cops when they learn they can't hold some despised minority, they fock 'em up anyway they can before they release 'em...
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
In Palinworld, complex situations are reduced to the simplest form and then spouted ad nauseum.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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That's not just Palinworld. You've just perfectly described the entire conservative mindset.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 pmBriseadh na Faire Says:
OT
As I predicted, MSM polls now show the race tied just before the election, thus making it possible for McCain to win by a Diebold.
We know MSM is invested in the insurance industry, MIT and very most likely the electronic voting machines. The nightmare is about to unravel and what do we do Nov. 5th when we wake up that morning and AGAIN discover another election was stolen? Do we:
1. sit another 8 years b!tching on our computer
2. take to the streets in uncontrollable rage
3. get organized and bring this country down with massive peaceful strikes while asking for assistance from other countries for another election.
1. is unbearable
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm3. we are not organized
2. I fear
If bullshit was electrictity she'd be Hoover Dam.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pmCheck out this article in NY Times magazine.
The Making (and Remaking) of McCain
a great piece of journalism describing in detail how Palin was picked, and dissecting the republican train wreck that is the McIIIrd/BullTwinkle campaign.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 pmBNF, gotta respectfully disagree that the polls are showing a closing race.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pmLast week RCP had Obama averaging lower 5%, today he's around 7%. The electoral poll scenarios are all showing around 350/170 ish.
Let's work our asses off to get out the vote. If we tidal wave the mofos, there'll be no credible way to Diebold this election.
Give me a break...a poll conducted by the AP and written about one of McCain's biggest fans shows it "neck to neck?" And did I miss it, but where was the link to the actual poll? The latest WSJ poll shows Obama with a 10 point lead. Also, note this little gem:
A significant number of the interviews were conducted by dialing a randomly selected sample of cell phone numbers, and thus this poll had a chance to reach voters who were excluded from some other polls.
Random dialing of cell phone numbers happens to be completely ILLEGAL at this time.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:40 pmWhy say she "reverted back"? Reverted means to go back.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:43 pmOk...from the same AP article:
The new AP-GfK head-to-head result is a departure from some, but not all, recent national polls.
Obama and McCain were essentially tied among likely voters in the latest George Washington University Battleground Poll, conducted by Republican strategist Ed Goeas and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. In other surveys focusing on likely voters, a Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama up by 9 percentage points, while a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center had Obama leading by 14. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, among the broader category of people registered to vote, found Obama ahead by 10 points.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:43 pmWell it would be a moot point if man WEREN'T the cause, wouldn't it? Because then there really wouldn't be a frakking thing to be done, would there? So "the debate" wouldn't need to be shifted because we would all be victims of "nature's cycle."
OTOH, if man is a cause, then the only policies that can possibly be considered would be those that reduce man's contribution to the problem.
Has this person Palin ever held a logically consitent thought in her head? At any point? Ever?
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pmif you live next door
to russia you're a foreign
policy expert. if you fill
up your tank with gas, you're
an energy expert.
*
see how it works
in palin-land?
^
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pmMaking Elisabeth look quite the fool -- again.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:12 pmhussein toasterhead Says
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Better trolls, please. This current batch is weak and pathetic.
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Sorry, your recent order of trolls has been put on backorder. The stock is low these days because they have run out of ammunition and they are all hiding under their beds.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pmI think Sarah Palin is contributing to global warming whenever she opens her mouth to speak.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pmSomeone should tell her that some of these "natural cycles" of global warming occurred on Earth way before god created the earth 6000 yrs ago.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 pmThe reason Governor Palin can't name any is because THERE AREN'T ANY, ya dopes!
The conventional wisdom (nee religion) is that human activity is causing or plays a major role in so-called "global warming." The only problem is, that assertion is NOT SUPPORTED by the science.
Yes, you heard that right. Put down the kool aid and go get some SCIENTIFIC books. One I recommend is "Unstoppable Global Warming - Every 1,500 Years" and there are more.
The conventional wisdom is that CO2 is a CAUSE of temperature rises in the atmosphere. Not true - it is a RESULT. All the data show that rises in global CO2 levels occur AFTER periods of warming. You can even take Al Gore's famous graph and lay the two lines one on topof the other and see this phenomena.
Get a clue, folks!
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pmRUCerious,
So are you going to do like the other Obama supporters and drive to Ohio to vote again?
I'm thinking of driving up there and taking advantage of their "motor voter" fraud machine as well. Except I'll be voting for McCain.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmHi Tim Vaculik.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 pmWanna talk science? I have multiple degrees in this area. Admittedly they are more life science grounded but I am sort of sensing that your expertise in these areas is sort of self taught. Wanna tell us how you came to your climate conclusions and your qualifications to be considered a cyber expert on the subject? Thanks...
Tim Vculik:
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:36 pmWhy are you dissing Ohio. IS that not part of the heartland of "real America"? Hang some stupid necklaces of buckeyes around your neck while you're out there doing your voter fraud charade...
dbadass,
I'm not dissing Ohio, just their voting system. It is despicable to leave the door wide open for potential voter fraud and then when it starts happening, simply ignore it.
Kinda like leaving your car door unlocked with the keys in the ignition, then complaining whe you come out of the store and the car is GONE.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pmdbadass,
Science? Actually, I don't expect true believers in the global warming hysteria to care anything about the science. It's not about science, it's about power. The power to control every aspect of our modern lives through the regulation of carbon emissions.
Tell me. How much of our atmosphere by volume and weight is actually carbon dioxide?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pmWell maybe the perch dinner was so good that the door of the car should be left open with the keys in it. Now as to your premise that you are a climate scientist...
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 pmDoesn't it strike you odd that the US military believes global climate disruption to be a fundamental threat to the future of the nation but some nobody posting here say maybe like you thinks they are qualified to claim it to be a non issue? Seems really odd to me. Are you dissing the US military establishment?
dbadass,
I do not claim to be a climate scientist nor do I have to in order to evaluate the different opinions of real climate scientists.
Further, I realize that our world's climate changes, but there is no reliable, scientific, repeatable method for predicting exactly what it will do in the future.
I am simply a big skeptic of claims that somehow mankinds activities are driving any fundamental climate change.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 pmSo riddle me why a blue ribbon panel of military hotshots thinks what you think is bullshit and irrelevant
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2007/2007-04-16-05.asp
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 pmI am a little confused. If you aren't a climate scientist and you are just a skeptic, why the F uck should you be telling others to "get a clue". Seems a little presumptious of someone with no expertise in the area.
http://securityandclimate.cna.org/mab/
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pmSo I suppose we are all set with this silly shit now.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pmdbadass,
Easy. I tell others to get a clue because all I hear are people REPEATING the same things over and over with no critical thought at all. Hence the remark about the global warming "religion."
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 pmSo when you continue to hear that Jesus son of god made up stuff you set those folks straight eh my man?
So would you like to continue to ignore the reality that the military, the international community, the insurance companies, many churches, and even the Bush administration all acknowledge global climate disruption but somehow you know better. Shit, I have seem exxon/mobil ads related to the topic but somehow you know more
Is it possible that you are Tracy_5's goldfish?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 pmTim Vaculik Says:
You REALLY think things become true just because you repeat the hivemind idiocy you are TOLD to believe. There are about 1,000 peer reviewed studies saying there is man made global warming and you really expect us to take seriously some book of propaganda that fooled YOU? There is a WAY to win the argument in Science you present your evidence in peer reviewed studies not try to win the propaganda war by calling the GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS a religion. What YOU are spouting is faith based stupidity funded by energy companies. You are an idiot. It MAY be contagious but we arent NEARLY as gullible as you and arent likely to catch your stupidity
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:16 amTim Vaculik Says:
dbadass,
Easy. I tell others to get a clue because all I hear are people REPEATING the same things over and over with no critical thought at all. Hence the remark about the global warming “religion.”
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HA. I have never SEEN such an obvious case of ironic projection. YOU are a hivemind idiot who virtually NEVER does anything but repeat what your Limborg MASTERS tell you to think. You are a liar and a fool.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 am