Sarah Palin on Climate Change: Causes Just Don’t Matter

Posted on 18. Oct, 2008 by Timothy B. Hurst in climate change

When asked about climate change at the vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin said, “I don’t want to argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we going to get there to positively affect the impacts?”

Generally speaking, if we don’t know what the cause of a given problem is, but we know there is indeed a problem, how do we devise a strategy capable of adequately addressing it? Or, in the words of Gov. Palin, “…how are we going to get there to positively affect the impact” (whatever that means).

>>More on the vice-presidential debate at Red, Green, and Blue

In The much-ballyhooed vice-presidential debate, the issue of climate change received a bit of attention, but neither candidate was really pushed to develop their statements much beyond their original answers (Biden on his recent comment in a rope-line that the Obama-Biden ticket didn’t support clean coal and Palin on her waffling position on the causes of climate change). But the format didn’t really allow for deeper exploration either. >>Read the rest of this story at Red, Green, and Blue

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Tags: 2008 presdential election, climate change, global warming, sarah palin, vice-presidential debate