Palin Changes Tune: Man Is "Potentially Causing Some Of The Changes"

Grist:

In her first substantial interview with a news journalist since being picked as John McCain's vice presidential candidate two weeks ago, Sarah Palin muted her skepticism about the causes of global warming, grudgingly "attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now." While this is a step back from her position two weeks ago (she told Newsmax, "I'm not one, though, who would attribute [climate change] to being man-made"), it still falls short of John McCain's position and the position of the scientific community, that human emissions are very likely the primary cause of recent warming.

Despite her doubts about anthropogenic climate change, Palin assured ABC's Charles Gibson, she and McCain agree "we gotta do something about it and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution." There were no further details on climate policy.

Read the whole story: Grist

Comments

[EnviroLitigator]

Potentially? Well, if you think in terms of 100,000-year cycles, yes humankind has little impact. If you think in terms of centuries, we have a lot.

[kotipup]

Wow! She's actually about two years slower than George W Bush. And I didn't think it was possible!

I guess she also didn't get the memo about the link between tanning beds and skin cancer
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/09/sarah-palins-pi.html

[dadw5boys]

All Republicans need to buy Pitbulls !!!!!!!!!

Get 3 or 4.

lol enjoy yourself .

Relax you got an Pitbull in the house while you and the kids are sleeping.

[hoopesaz]

So, we're now more worried about her changing positions than we are the correctness of her position? The title should be, "Hooray! Palin agrees that man is at least partly responsible."

[FatherWolf]

We're having fun watching her get mentally dragged into the larger world outside Alaska. Dunno how far the McCain campaign will be able to drag her before she has to go back to being a simple governor of a tiny (pop.) state on Nov. 5.

[TotoToo]

Republicans, in general, prefer to lie about and/or completely ignore climate change.

There is no reason to believe McCain/Palin will address the issue in any substantial matter.

Remember what GW Bush said at the G8 Summit in Japan in July: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

[hoopesaz]

Perhaps true about republican leadership and the talking heads on the right, but certainly NOT true about conservatives in general.

[WolfLarsen]

I wonder if she will admit to the world being "potentially" round?

[Diogenis]

To make it appear that Palin is some kind of an authority is to be living in an illusion.

[rextrek]

a few things...the land leased to oil comapnies already has YET to be used....and IF they drill in ANWAR...whats to guarentee they won't sell that OIL they get on the world market??????

[Smirk]

My guess is that there would be _no_guarantee that the oil drilled in the US wouldn't be sold on the world market and that, if there were, it would be derided as an act of anti-capitalist market interference. Those against such a guarantee would argue that the additional supply of US oil to the world market would drive down prices, and it probably would, but then, OPEC would just cut its supply to stop or reverse the price decrease.

[mergina]

WHAT do you think changed her mind, it it is really changed at all? The WEEKLY SEVERE HURRICANES we are having? How can anyone from Alaska not be TOTALLY IN TUNE to climate change, and the SIMPLE FACT THAT MAN IS ESCALATING IT at an alarming rate?

[marymansour]

Ya think, I diot?

[SwingingFromCenter]

And yet the public will (for the most part) never hear the charge of flip flopping on this.

[toochie50]

The John McCain campaign is sending out
FAULTY ABSENTEE VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS.

So far voters in Ohio, Virginia, and New Mexico have received them.

They may be trying to have you dropped from the voter registration list (i.e. "caging"),
but they are definitely trying to cause confusion with Democratic voters.

There is no evidence that the McCain campaign is sending absentee ballots to Republican voters.

If you get one...
DON'T USE IT!

YOU SHOULD HANG ON TO IT,
IT MAY BE USABLE AS EVIDENCE of ELECTION FRAUD

[rivrgrrl]

Someone needs to inform Paleney that solutions are found by first identifying the root causes of a problem. If she is in denial about the cause, there isn't much hope she will fund or support solutions that don't fit with her version of what is causing the problem, just more stalling, denying and wasting time and energy. We've had enough of that the last eight years.

Another point about these two and the campaign they are running on: they both claim to be above and apart from the party they are running under and promise to 'clean up' Washington. So if they were elected, how much would they actually be able to do working against both parties in Congress. The Dems certainly won't be supporting any of their policies trying to get prayer into public schools, outlawing abortion and contraceptives, endless years of more wars and wasteful spending on a bloated military. The Repubs won't want to support them as they don't even agree with many of the points on the Republican platform and they have alienated many of their own party. Many were never on board to begin with.

An Old Codger and His Eye Candy - we deserve better.

[marymansour]

Palin has half a brain and no heart. How do you inform that kind of freak?

[marleysghost]

Flip flop, flip flop. And the RNC hammers Democratic candidates for switching positions and responding to pollsters to give the public what they think they want to hear. Palin doesn't have a position so she doesn't know which way to respond. Just another republican weathervane switching as the wind blows - no moral compass. Well, she likes shooting wolves from helicopters - that is savagery. But Cheney likes her - he shoots other hunters and then they apologize for his stupidity. There is a word for this kind of self conviction of never being wrong yet switching positions when caught in the unpopular spotlight. Palin, et.al. are not nice people, they are hungry for abusing power to enrich themselves and belittle others for disagreeing with them.

[GiovanniWorld]

I just don't get it. A woman comes along that feminists have been praying for, and what do they do.. they act like men and treat her badly. Anyway, Sarah did a good job with the interview. Charlie Gibson not so much. You folks should go back to Gibsons interview with Obama back in 07' and see how differently he handled Obama. He asked almost zero hard questions, just threw softballs. But with Sarah, he tried over and over to get her with a GOTCHA type of question. Sad interview for Charlie. Good interview for Sarah.
Hating Sarah Palin - Hollywood Style
http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/

[Exusian]

There's Giovanni World, and then there's reality.

The two mix like oil and water.

[rksu747]

Wow! You seriously have created your own cosmos!!! Charlie Gibson was actually nice in questioning! If he wanted to embarrass her, he would have left after she showed that she had no idea of what the Bush Doctrine is! After he defined it for her, I am surprised that she didn't ask him to use it in a sentence!

I can see how you would think that he was trying to get her but you fail to see that she doesn't know anything so questioning about the economy, foreign relations, environment and national security will of course appear to be cruel! It's like having a pop quiz on the first day of class! The person you should be upset with is John McBush! He is the one who chose to politicize all of the problems we are facing in this country and need solutions for in order to increase his chances of winning the election!

http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/mclobbyist/index.html

[jkminwa]

The question about the Bush Doctrine was hard? For someone who wants to be vice president and who could be president? I very much want to know what she thinks about the Bush Doctrine...I'm tired of waging wars against countries because those countries someday might think about attacking us. What's wrong with knowledge, Giovanni? Don't you want your national leaders to know things? How can leaders make good decisions if they are ill-informed?