Aha.
So I was out walking about and I figured out that Sarah Palin’s views on humanity’s contributions to global warming are about the same as the oil companies’ views - that as long as a scientist claims or can be paid to claim that human contributions might not be a significant factor and that there’s a sliver of a possibility that the rise in temperatures is due to natural fluctuations she won’t support taking the action that most scientists argue we need to take. Throw this in with the category of economists who for the past couple of decades have been arguing that the national debt is in fact a good thing and we see the road to ruin clearly.