Some Excerpts from Gibson's Second Interview With Palin - Tries to Flip Flop on Global Warming

[TeamJordan23]

The following excerpts are from ABC News' second of three exclusive interviews with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, conducted by "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson on September 11, 2008, along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, outside of Fairbanks. Click here to read excerpts of the first interview.

Watch Gibson's second of three interviews with Palin tonight on "Nightline" at 11:35 p.m. and much more on Friday on "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. ET, "World News" and on "20/20," which will broadcast a one-hour special edition at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.

Sarah Palin on Climate Change:

GIBSON: Let me talk a little bit about environmental policy, because this interfaces with energy policy and you have some significant differences with John McCain. Do you still believe that global warming is not man-made?

PALIN: I believe that man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change. Here in Alaska, the only arctic state in our union, of course, we see the effects of climate change more so than any other area with ice pack melting. Regardless, though, of the reason for climate change, whether it's entirely, wholly caused by man's activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet -- the warming and the cooling trends -- regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution.

GIBSON: But it's a critical point as to whether or not this is man-made. He says it is. You have said in the past it's not.

PALIN: The debate on that even, really has evolved into, OK, here's where we are now: scientists do show us that there are changes in climate. Things are getting warmer. Now what do we do about it. And John McCain and I are gonna be working on what we do about it.

GIBSON: Yes, but isn't it critical as to whether or not it's man-made, because what you do about it depends on whether its man-made.

PALIN: That is why I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now.

GIBSON: But I, color me a cynic, but I hear a little bit of change in your policy there. When you say, yes, now you're beginning to say it is man-made. It sounds to me like you're adapting your position to Sen. McCain's.

PALIN: I think you are a cynic because show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any affect, or no affect, on climate change.

Sarah Palin on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:

GIBSON: ANWR. You favor drilling in the Arctic National Refuge. He does not.

PALIN: I sure do.

GIBSON: You changed him on that? He changing you?

PALIN: I'm going to keep working on that one with him. ANWR, of course, is a 2,000-acre swath of land in the middle of about a 20 million-acre swath of land. Two-thousand acres that we're asking the feds to unlock so that there can be exploration and development.

GIBSON: So, you'll agree to disagree on ANWR?

PALIN: That's exactly right. We'll agree to disagree, but I'm gonna keep pushing that, and I think, eventually, we're all gonna come together on that one.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5781460&page=1

Here is what Palin said before about Global Warming:

In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.

“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,” Palin said in the interview, which was posted online Friday.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/palin-global-wa.html

[ErinBerin84]

1. I wonder if , afterwards,

Gibson indicated the article that would have "caused perceptions" (snerk) about her views on global warming, to have her then respond. If not, I could see people (and freepers) going "wow, she really schooled him! She called him a cynic!" Again, this makes me miss Tim Russert, believe it or not.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. ANWR is 20 million (20,000,000) acres, not 2,000.

[ComplimentarySwine]

3. I'm pretty sure that she was referring to the part in which they want to drill n/t

[Quixote1818]

5. Thats just a little more than 3 sq miles??? And they expect to bring gas prices down

from the tiny amount of oil in an area of 3 sq miles? That makes no sense.

[Parker CA]

8. I read that the 2000 acres only relates to the ground directly beneath the well structures

and does not include even remotely the amount of land that will be impacted by all of the other equipment and pipes etc.

[ContinentalOp]

4. So their VP is going to convince their presidential candidate to change his mind.

Their VP is driving the issues. Gotcha.

[truthisfreedom]

6. Loonie Palin is completely rudderless. She HAS NO POLICY. She's at the mercy of the wind.

[gatorboy]

7. Oooooooo... She said "swath"... Twice!

Someone call Mensa!

[Eurobabe]

9. Did she really say gonna?

She's a goner. :eyes:

Sounds to me like another W in heels.

[ComplimentarySwine]

10. Maybe it's the Alaskan accent, but...

I was listening to an excerpt on the radio, and it sounds to me like she routinely doesn't pronounce the "g" in words ending with "ing". It sounded like she was constantly saying things like, "workin'", "drillin'", "drivin'", etc.