Letter To The Editor: I’d like to thank Eugene Robinson for highlighting Alaska’s achievements on climate change [“Palin’s own ‘Climate- gate,’” op-ed, Dec. 15] and for noting that I’ve “treated the issue as serious, complex, and worthy of urgent attention,” while making “any number of pragmatic, reasonable, smart decisions as governor.” But he’s wrong to suggest that my views have somehow changed or that now I’ll have to “renounce” my past efforts.
Once again: I don’t deny that climate change is real. In creating a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with the issue, I said that “Alaska’s climate change strategy must be built on sound science and the best available facts and must recognize Alaska’s interest in economic growth and the development of its resources.” That goal made sense to me then, and it makes sense to me now.
Mr. Robinson tries to make hay out of the fact that I asked the group to advise me regarding opportunities to participate in “carbon-trading markets.” But considering voluntary participation in carbon-trading programs is much different from endorsing the economically disastrous cap-and-tax proposals put forward by Democrats in Washington. Those proposals will burden our job creators and raise energy prices for all of us, and that’s why I oppose them.
As governor of Alaska, I sought common-sense solutions that took real-world costs and benefits into account. That’s what I’m looking for now. But that’s not what’s on the table in Washington or in Copenhagen.
Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Alaska
The writer, governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009, was the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president.
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Max Dige Said,
I love listening to liberals. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND YOU VOTED FOR THE DISASTER OBAMA.
Your amazing ability to judge a persons character and/or incredible insight brought you to a slow witted stuttering embarrassment Obama. You and millions of fools fell for the "savior of the world" or the next messiah!!!!! Funny but look at the results of you being a weak minded simpleton and having the mind the size of a pea.
So when "Einstein types" such as yourself speak of GOVERNOR Palin it is not only welcome but simply apply the opposite of what ever garbage that comes out of your mouth and that is the truth.
Posted on December 17, 2009 at 11:50 PM