Get this: Gov. Sarah Palin, former global warming skeptic, has changed her tune:
“We Alaskans are living with the changes that you are observing in Washington,” she said. “The dramatic decreases in the extent of summer sea ice, increased coastal erosion, melting of permafrost, decrease in alpine glaciers and overall ecosystem changes are very real to us.”
Why this 180? Palin says we need more gas drilling. In Alaska. In the same Alaska that recently saw its projected 9 billion dollar budget surplus turn into a 1.65 billion dollar shortfall. There is, of course, no correlation between falling oil prices and Palin’s newfound belief in the necessity of global warming-induced natural gas production.