Sarah Palin
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Palin’s climate skepticism is irrelevant
The Washington Post‘s Juliet Eilperin writes a piece on Sarah Palin’s climate skepticism that seems, like so many articles in this genre, to dance around something obvious. In the piece, upon finding out that Palin doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, one Alaska enviro is quoted saying "now I know why" Palin fought emission reductions. […]
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Palin: ‘renewables are not yet proven to be economic nor reliable’
The week before she was chosen as John McCain’s running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin was interviewed by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo about drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve and elsewhere. In measured, lucid tones, Palin produced a veritable tsunami of non sequiturs, misleading claims, and outright falsehoods. One would need to go […]
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Polar bears against Palin
A website to lighten your day. Don’t miss the hilarious point/counterpoint debate between Palin and a surprisingly articulate and snarky polar bear. This post was created for ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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Asked about oil’s fungibility, Palin says … um, something
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going […]
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A roundup of environmental news from the presidential race
• Obama announced a proposal for a $5 billion Great Lakes restoration program on Tuesday, with funds to be spent on wetlands restoration, sewage repairs, cleaning up mercury and other toxic pollutants, and controlling invasive species. The proposal is expected to help him in the crucial swing states of Michigan and Ohio. • McCain […]
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Lying about drilling: it works
This is what demagoguery on drilling will get you: Senate Republicans’ campaign chief said Wednesday that he’s more optimistic now than he has been at any point in the cycle, and that it’s possible they could play Democrats to a draw in November. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee […]
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GOP VP candidate says she’d be in charge of McCain’s energy policy
At a rally in Ohio on Tuesday, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told the crowd that she’d head up energy policy in a McCain administration. “John and I, we’ve discussed some new responsibilities that I’m going to have as vice president,” Palin said. “First, I’ll help to lead the mission of energy security.” […]
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None shall use the L-word
Another brutal fact check on the Palin “20 percent of domestic energy” lie knowingly repeated falsehood, from an increasingly fed-up MSM.
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Hunting moose
Paul Theroux on the populist totem of the moment: All this talk about moose hunting! It is as though, because of the animal’s enormous size and imposing antlers, bringing one down is a heroic feat of marksmanship. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Henry David Thoreau wrote in “The Maine Woods,” killing these […]
