VP nominee Sarah Palin - Oil drilling and fossil fuel use not a problem for polar bears

[philb]

Governor Sarah Palin Has What It Takes to Be the Next Dick Cheney By Chris
Kelly 27 May 2008
Over the weekend, the Anchorage Daily News discovered a whole new reason Governor Palin is the perfect person to be the next Dick Cheney: She can look you in eye and tell you black is white. Especially when there's oil involved. Back in January, the secretary of the interior was considering whether or not polar bears should be on the endangered species list... The polar bears weren't drowning. They were hanging themselves in their cells... All I know is, there are lots of polar bears and no scientific reason at all to
believe they can't live happily, underwater, eating clean coal. Let's get
drilling! It's almost like Republicans say ridiculous twisted half-truths, and the New York Times publishes them as facts.
http://tinyurl.com/3rtfkq

[philb]

1. Arctic permafrost/tundra contains more carbon/methane than previously thought

Digging Up the Dirt on Arctic Carbon

Peter N. Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor: "You never know what you'll
find until you dig a little deeper. Scientists taking the measure of how much carbon the Arctic locks up beneath its tundra have done just that. Based on what they've found, they estimate that the Arctic could
harbor an average of 60 percent more carbon than previous estimates have
indicated."
http://www.truthout.org/article/digging-up-dirt-arctic-carbon

Is melting tundra and methane release a huge global warming biofeedback loop we should be concerned about?

[GliderGuider]

2. Apparently Palin is a Dominionist stalking horse. That thought fills me with dread.

If McCain were to win and subsequently drop dead, a lot of very, very, very unsavoury people get their hands on Palin's levers of power. That would put one more (potentially final) nail in our and the planet's coffin. The choice of Palin is an utterly unmistakable signal of the intentions of the power-holders. If Obama doesn't win, we're all finally and completely screwed. These folks are farther removed from the goals and values of the denizens of this board than is even possible to imagine. I was hoping their power had receded, but it looks like I was wrong.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/163234/559

[Codeine]

3. Aww, isn't she a peach?

:argh: :banghead: