If someone with a cigarette blew smoke in your face, would you simply acknowledge the fumes or call out the smoker and do something about it, like moving out of the way? Well Sarah Palin admits there is a problem with our over-cooked planet and says we should do something to combat global warming, but she's unwilling to point out the 800 pound gorilla that is the oil and gas industry that contributes to the problem.
From RawStory:
Palin, who is governor of the vast and remote northern state of Alaska, said communities in her state "feel the impacts more than any other state up there with the changes in the climate and certainly it is apparent."
The 44-year-old mother of five was little known nationally until she burst onto the political scene when Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose her as his shock running in late August.
In interviews prior to McCain tapping her to be on the ticket, Palin has said she does not believe global warming is a man-made problem, putting her at odds with McCain.
Her state is one of the country's largest energy producers and she supports opening a protected Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling -- a position pilloried by environmentalists and some Democratic leaders.
So this is how she changes her radical position of ignorance to one that resembles McCain's recognition of the problem. Sure, Alaska feels it more dramatically due to the proximity of the North Pole, but she has done much to ensure that the changes continue by opening up more avenues to fossil fuels and shredding her state to get it pumped out of the ground and sold off to market. To her green-energy is one that brings the state cash, not something that includes wind, solar or geothermal energy. Contrary to her belief (or today's position) that global warming exists but ignoring those that contribute to it is ok, most Americans are aware that we need to do something about the fossil fuel industry, but to Palin, that means coddling them, not criticizing.
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