The Conservation Report

When asked about global warming and its affects on the United States, Sarah Palin gave this illogical answer (from Newsmax.com):

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Sarah Palin’s answer doesn’t make sense because to argue that global warming isn’t anthropogenic in origin is a conclusion made without recognizing the science behind global warming. As a result, she ignores science. Our leaders should readily utilize science, and not ignore it. I question the judgment of politicians like Sarah Palin who purposely turn a blind eye to science, since she fails to recognize the basic scientific principles, which illustrate that the anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide is a dominating factor that warms the earth.

Republicans have been slow to recognize the existence of global warming, and only recently have some of them recognized the phenomenon. I believe that failing to recognize global warming as anthropogenic is purely political and ignorant. If Republican senator John McCain is elected as the forty-fourth president of the United States, then there is a possibility that Sarah Palin could be president of the United States as well. She was a horrible pick for vice president and she would be a disastrous president, because I believe the president of the United States should represent America’s diversity and believe in the progress that science brings.

Sarah Palin’s minute experience is from Alaska, and Alaska does not represent the diverse needs of the American people. Furthermore, her support for drilling in ANWR and offshore in addition to the teaching of a purely made up way of thinking – creationism – next to evolution is utterly ridiculous. Her beliefs are outdated.

Additionally, for those Creationists that argue evolution is merely a theory and not factual are wrong, because evolution is both a fact and theory. For example, gravity is explained as theory, fact, and law. A scientific fact is observable, and a theory is how we attempt to explain an observation. As scientific law, what we observe is described mathematically. Evolution is readily observable and we employ theories in an attempt to explain those observations. Here are more truths about Sarah Palin from the BaltimoreChronicle.com:

She’s an evangelical Christian who believes in creationism and thinks this fantasy belongs in the school science curriculum alongside evolution. She’s opposed to the right to abortion. She thinks global warming is not a proven phenomenon. She favors drilling for oil in the Arctic Refuge and damn the environmental consequences. This supposedly family-centered “hocky mom” is happy about sending her 18-year-old son off to war in Iraq, even as Iraq is trying to shoo us out of the country and even as the president is tacitly admitting that the whole thing is a bust by agreeing to a timetable for withdrawal.

Furthermore, Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in the progress that stem cell research will bring. From the BostonHerald.com:

The two candidates differ on global warming, drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stem cell research.

Palin and McCain also differ in their views on whether human behavior is responsible for global warming. Palin has said that she does not believe that climate change is “man-made.” McCain has long believed that humans contribute to global warming.

On oil drilling, Palin supports drilling in ANWR. McCain is an opponent.

The running mates also are on different sides of the stem cell research debate. In 2006, the Anchorage Daily News reported that Palin opposes stem cell research. McCain supports federal funding for stem cell research, but voted to ban researchers from using cells or fetal tissue from an embryo created for research purposes.

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