Global Warming? Sure! If That Means I Can “Drill Baby, Drill!”
In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.
“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,” Palin said.
Faced with a trickle of reality by the effects of Global Warming, Governor Palin has done a pivot on those heels and developed a new perspective…
“The former Republican vice presidential nominee has at long last admitted that global warming is a problem, but sticks to ‘Drill, baby drill’, contending that an increase in drilling for natural gas can help curb its effects.” Posted by Samuel R. Avro on Friday, April 17, 2009
Now, she wants to increase the use of natural gas in order to replace currently used dirtier fuels to meet the goals of stemming the effects of global warming.
“Many believe that in order to mitigate these long term and systematic changes it will require a national and global effort to decrease the release of human produced greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” she said. “However, simply waiting for low carbon emitting renewable capacity to be large enough will mean that it will be too late to meet the mitigation goals for reducing CO2 that will be required under most credible climate change models.
“There is no way to achieve these goals in the next few decades without a dramatic increase in domestic natural gas and a strong effort to modestly increase domestic oil production,” Palin said. “Keeping Alaska’s OCS [outer continental shelf] lease sales, exploration, and development programs on schedule, especially in the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea, is critically important to this effort.”
“Many believe that in order to mitigate these long term and systematic changes it will require a national and global effort to decrease the release of human produced greenhouse gases into the atmosphere,” she said. “However, simply waiting for low carbon emitting renewable capacity to be large enough will mean that it will be too late to meet the mitigation goals for reducing CO2 that will be required under most credible climate change models.
“There is no way to achieve these goals in the next few decades without a dramatic increase in domestic natural gas and a strong effort to modestly increase domestic oil production,” Palin said. “Keeping Alaska’s OCS [outer continental shelf] lease sales, exploration, and development programs on schedule, especially in the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea, is critically important to this effort.”
Oooohhhh…I get it! If the gas line fits, change the policy!
First of all, there was such an obvious omission of “alsos”, “theres” and “therealsos” that I cannot swallow this as a true thought from Palin…but nonetheless…this does make me ponder how this is going to fly within her nepentecostal base and its leaders…such as this current statement in USA Today on the discussion of Global Warming by one of the big cheese leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)…
“Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said one of the hurdles in getting evangelicals on board is “dominionism — the idea that God gave this to us and we can do what we darn well please,” as well as the idea that environmentalism is “liberal-leftist” or “witchy-pagan.” –By Anne Godlasky, USA TODAY
The ends truly do justify whatever the means are for this administration in Alaska! But man! I am getting whiplash!
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