There are so many reasons to dislike the running mate of McCain, but her narrow-mindedness is so overbearing, it glaringly outweighs anything else. She's been photgraphed with a shotgun, with a bearskin rug, she's pro-airial wolf hunting, boasts about bagging a few dozen caribou, claiming the bou are plentiful and she was doing us a favor. In addition to these interesting notes, she also believes global warming isn't important, and apparently, that polar bears aren't endangered.
Now, I'm not one of those freaks, taking things to an extreme, but I like to think of myself as open minded, and morally centered.
Exerpt from NY times-
Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor, sought the e-mail messages of state scientists who had examined the effect of global warming on polar bears. (Ms. Palin said the scientists had found no ill effects,
and she has sued the federal government to block the listing of the bears as endangered.) An administration official told Mr. Steiner that it would cost $468,784 to process his request.
When Mr. Steiner finally obtained the e-mail messages — through a federal records request — he discovered that state scientists had in fact agreed that the bears were in danger, records show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?bl&ex=1221624000&en=afcd714ae3b553ae&ei=5087%0AReading this, along with many articles about her, I am baffled she has survived in the spotlight this long. I feel as if I am living in a country that enjoys have the blinds pulled down, that prefers to not see what is going on outside the comfortable shell.Just a little note about the bears......
-Exerpt from National Geographic_
Polar bears live only in the Arctic, the northernmost region of Earth (
see Arctic photos).
The bears, which can grow to about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long, depend on sea ice for their survival. They hunt their primary prey, the ringed seal, from the ice. They also travel, mate, and sometimes give birth on the ice.
But the ice is melting.
If the melting trend continues, the Arctic could see ice-free summers by 2040, according to a Canadian climate model. Other models suggest open Arctic waters by the end of the century. (
See "Arctic Ice Levels at Record Low, May Keep Melting, Study Warns.")
Bears in some areas spend the summer months on land. They fast until the ice forms in the fall, when they can use the ice as a vast platform from which to hunt the seas.
Studies of the polar bear populations around the western coast of Canada's Hudson Bay (
map) show that this wait, and the bears' period of fasting, has increased by three weeks since the 1970s.
The population there is noticeably skinnier now, scientists say, and has declined by 15 percent in the last decade.
In northern Alaska the U.S. Minerals Management Service has concluded that some polar bears are drowning as they try to swim increasingly long distances between the ice and land.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0210_060210_polar_bears.htmlAnd here's some climate info.....
From- Seattle PI
Climate change. Although Alaska is ground zero in the crisis of global warming, Palin has done virtually nothing to address the problem except hold meetings and appoint a "climate sub-cabinet" that likewise has done little. Lots of talk, no action. Although in the past two years the Arctic summer sea ice shrunk to the lowest levels ever recorded, Palin apparently does not believe it is human-induced or cause for alarm. She was asked to establish an Alaska Office on Climate Change, an Alaska Climate Response Fund (based on a tax on Alaska oil production) and emissions reduction targets for Alaska, but has taken no action on those requests.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/377955_palinenvir07.htmlI am really just suprised that more people aren't talking about this. People, this person is scary, scary in a way even Bush can't touch.
