> No mention on the above site about whether global warming is man-made.
It doesn't make much sense to ask for recommendations on greenhouse gas reductions, carbon sequestration etc... without her at least seeing some potential benefit in doing these things. You are right, I don't see an explicit statement that CO2 is responsible for the warming, but that the warming is bad for Alaska and that lower carbon emissions are desirable is definitely in there. > >http://www.climatechange.alaska.gov/cc-ak.htm > > This is not really her site. It's probably not easy for a governer to > impose her opinions on the whole state government when they are > contrary to scientific consensus. While it isn't her site, it was brought into existence as a result of her executive order and said order also contains a list of who's on the commission. I presume she was perfectly free not to create a sub- comission on climate change. Though I may be wrong there, maybe the legislature forced her hand? I have certainly noticed that the language used by Democrats on climate change tends to be more doom laden and anti big business, while Republicans are less keen on damning words and blaming CO2 for everything. But, when looking at policy actions in terms of the overall effect on greenhouse gas emissions, I see that there's a wide range of opinions in both parties (eg on CAFE or gasoline taxes) and that overall the nuances in emphasis largely cancel each other out. Talking about concrete action: The main climate related concrete actions Palin's been involved with so far have been to push through a nat gas pipeline plan and hit oil companies with taxes. Nancy Pelosi should be happy with that. After all, Nancy Pelosi managed to make this statement: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/08/25/fuel-for-debate-pelosi-suggests-natural-gas-isnt-a-fossil-fuel/ “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels" Which just goes to show that it's amazingly easy to appear to be saying something you don't really believe in. We'll see what kind of "clarification" Palin comes up with for the one sentence you quoted. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
