How Palin Will Snooker Biden on Global Warming

Katie Couric: Is it [global warming] man-made, though in your view? Sarah Palin: "You know there are - there are man's activities that can be contributed to the issues that we're dealing with now, these impacts. I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate. ... The point is: it's real; we need to do something about it." Palin says she doesn't "blame all of man's activities on changes in climate." She meant to say what she said before: she doesn't blame climate change on man's activities. That's what Bush said back in 2000—Warming's not our fault. Actually he was more moderate—he just said there was no scientific proof, but now he admits there is. Saying global warming is not caused by coal, gasoline, fossil fuel and other man-made greenhouse gases would upset most people, and Biden would win this round. But Palin has Joker up her sleeve. She says: "We need to do so something about it." This will confuse many moderates who do want to do something about global warming. What's the trick? Palin's conservatives will understand this: If fossil fuel is not causing global warming, then cutting back on oil, coal and gasoline will not help stop global warming. So we don't need to do that. This is exactly what Palin and the conservatives want. She is a huge supporter of the oil industry, but a clever one. She wants them to make tons of profit so she can take a cut for government. That makes a little sense. We all like to get some of the profits, and Alaska takes so much oil profits that every Alaskan get $1000 in the mail every June (actually more in most years). (But Alaska is small and they tax all the oil coming to the lower 48 states.) But boosting the oil industry, ignoring fossil fuel, and then "doing something [else] about" global warming will mean doing nothing useful. Since she says people don't cause the problem, she is against reducing greenhouse gases and fossil fuel. That means she won't fix the one thing that really matters. But you watch. She will snooker Biden on this point and win over honest folks who really do want to curb our oil addiction and stop global warming. -from zFacts.com