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VP Debate - Climate Change: What is true and what is fals...

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Channel: C-SPAN · 2008 · News & Politics

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GOV. PALIN: Yeah, well, as the nation's only Arctic state and
being the governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of
climate change more so than any other state, and we know that it's
real. I'm not one to attribute every man -- activity of man to the
changes in the climate. There is something to be said, also, for
man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our
planet. But there are real changes going on in our climate, and 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? We have got to clean up this planet.
We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us.
With the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that, as
governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-
cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We've got to reduce
emissions. John McCain is right there with an all-of-the-above
approach to deal with climate change impacts.
We've got to become energy independent for that reason also. As
we rely more and more on other countries that don't care as much about
the climate as we do, we're allowing them to produce and to emit and
even pollute more than America would ever stand for. So even in
dealing with climate change, it's all the more reason that we have an
all-of-the-above approach, tapping into alternative sources of energy
and conserving fuel, conserving our petroleum products and our
hydrocarbons so that we can clean up this planet and deal with climate
change.





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