VP Debate - Climate Change: What is true and what is fals...

GOV. PALIN: Yeah, well, as the nation's only Arctic state and

being the governor of that state, Alaska feels and sees impacts of

climate change more so than any other state, and we know that it's

real. I'm not one to attribute every man -- 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. But there are real changes going on in our climate, and I

don't want to argue about the causes.

What I want to argue about is how are we going to get there to

positively affect the impacts? We have got to clean up this planet.

We have got to encourage other nations also to come along with us.

With the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that, as

governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change sub-

cabinet to start dealing with the impacts. We've got to reduce

emissions. John McCain is right there with an all-of-the-above

approach to deal with climate change impacts.

We've got to become energy independent for that reason also. As

we rely more and more on other countries that don't care as much about

the climate as we do, we're allowing them to produce and to emit and

even pollute more than America would ever stand for. So even in

dealing with climate change, it's all the more reason that we have an

all-of-the-above approach, tapping into alternative sources of energy

and conserving fuel, conserving our petroleum products and our

hydrocarbons so that we can clean up this planet and deal with climate

change.

MS. IFILL: Senator, what is true and what