Sarah PalinTier B
Governor of Alaska 2006-2009; 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee.
4archived statements, 2008–2009
Activity by year
20082009
What the statements do
Denies human cause3
Denies warming1
Source: The Climate Record, verified statements only · CC BY 4.0
2009
“But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes.”
“The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures”
2008
“I'm not one to attribute every activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet.”
“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.”