The hot air emitted by Palin takes off from two unflattering assumptions:
Americans have the attention span of hummingbirds, and can be counted on to
forget even recent history.
A few weeks before she mounted the national stage, in July of last year,
then-Gov. Palin told her state:
"Alaska's climate is warming. While there have been warming and cooling trends
before, climatologists tell us that the current rate of warming is unprecedented
within the time of human civilization. Many experts predict that Alaska, along
with our northern latitude neighbors, will warm at a faster pace than any other
areas, and the warming will continue for decades."
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