Sarah, baby, of course man can't overcome nature. That's the problem. We're dumping junk into nature and nature is swatting back. Nature is going to be here long after it has killed us off.

This may be arrogant & naïve of me, but if we don't & can't impact nature, why does Palin think it matters if we pollute? There was always clean air & water, so by birdbrain Palin's "logic" we always will. We don't impact nature, that means we don't impact nature. At all.

Your post made me realize, I haven't been reading about her, mercifully, for a little while now. There's been too much real news -- health care, Afghanistan, Copenhagen, even the Christmas shopping season. I won't say her 15 minutes are over. But, for now, I think it's kind of peaked.

By the way does her PR group really think this kind of pseudo-sincere stuff about "arrogance" and "responsibly developing resources for mankind" will appeal to her devotees? They completely misunderstand the appeal of "Drill, Baby, Drill" which was crafted by far more clever if even more cynical wordsmiths to evoke a certain kind of masculine aggression and even sexual aggression, and the fantasy that women like it.

"Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese." -Mr. Burns

At least Burns wasn't a quitter.

the moral of the story is that for republicans, facts are stupid things that humans can alter at their whim, and that republican's purpose of the moment overpowers truth anytime its convenient.

George Carlin might be waiting for you sara , just to have a little chat maybe . If you work your moment properly you may find a sliver of solace , before you descend into the eternal nightmare that is your mind .

In all seriousness, she had to be drunke/drugged when writing these. Yeah, tweeting involves a lot of typing shortcuts, but "chnge4 ions" -- is that supposed to mean "change for eons"?

Palin added that the climate has been changing "for ions" -- one assumes she means "eons," and wasn't actually referring to electrically charged atoms--

Hard to say, Steve. We are, after all, talking about someone, who just last year, babbled nonsensically about tagging oil molecules. But then again, I'm not "probably the country's greatest expert on energy" like she is.

We watched "Milk" last night and I told my kids that Anita Bryant was the Sarah Palin of the 70s. A flash in the pan.

CNN is arrogant and naive for evening airing this shit! -Kevo

I think this statement reveals the thinking of deniers. AGW upsets the foundation of their world view. For deniers, to believe in AGW, requires the same upending of their world view as what faced the Catholic Church confronted with Galileo's view that the earth orbits around the sun.

There are two ways of thinking about AGW, start with your beliefs and search for confirming information or evaluate the information with an open mind.

Why does everyone get so emotional about Sarah Palin? People either love her or hate her--but why? She is a standard Republican--why so emotional about her? Is it because she's attractive? I think so. I think Republican men like her because she's attractive and liberal women hate her for the same reason. It's about horny dudes and catty, jealous chicks. Neither side really focused on the policies--if they did, the base would be emotionally rallying behind Mitch McConnel and Newsweek would put him on their cover in booty shorts.

It is arrogant and naive to post every Palin twit. Shame on CNN.

I think this statement reveals the thinking of deniers. AGW upsets the foundation of their world view.

But Saint Sarah just admitted that the earth's history is measured in eons. Now unless 6,000-10,000 yrs qualifies as "for eons", she seems to be contradicting fundamentalist Christian belief. You can't have it both ways.

CNN is arrogant and naive for evening airing this shit!

Why can't America have journalists that say, "You're ridiculous." ? No, just more Palin said this, Gore and Schwarzenegger said that, bullshit.

I'm no fan of CNN, but posting this stuff can only display Palin's appalling ignorance.

Then again, she reveals her own appalling ignorance every time she opens her mouth or instructs her staff to issue a "tweet" in her name.

"It's winter, which makes it cold in my office . . . " Global Warming=FAKE

/wingnut

It's like that old joke about the guy who was shot and died. The coroner said he died of "natural causes." People said, "What?! Natural causes?? He was shot in the head!"

"Yeah," the coroner said. "He had a bullet in his brain. If you had a bullet in your brain, you'd die too. It's only natural!"

Ba-dump!

If only Sarah Palin were joking, and not herself a bad joke.

Sarah,

Preview is your friend. Believe it or not, it can help you overpower your innate stupidity.

Palins' fallacy represents a key trait of conservative "thought" - personalizing issues into ad hominem considerations. A competent thinker knows you can't support a material point by referring to the alleged motives or psychology behind it. Whether or not we can change the Earth is a scientific issue, not a reverse-psychology motivational inquiry. Loombowel has made this same mistake.

BTW she likely doesn't really believe the Earth has been around for eons (sp. issue a hint too) - as a conservative Christian, she likely (and has hinted) she thinks Earth is around 6-8k yrs. old and had to fudge to avoid ridicule.

Nature the oil in the ground, and trees in the forest, tops on the mountains of West Virgina -- and it's arrogant to say man overpowers nature?

Does Palin think Nature put Las Vegas in the middle of a desert too?

Um... Nature PUT the oil in the ground...

(Just thinking about Palin makes one stupid)

"Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," Palin tweeted."

LOL! Oops! ADIR! BFF! KTHX! BBFN!

Actually, I think when MENSA Sarah wrote "ions" she really mean "eons." Although astrologically, an eon is one billion years. Too bad the earth has only been around for 6,000,.. right, Sarah?

To paraphrase the late great George Carlin. The Earth will be fine. Human beings are screwed. And we'll probably take a good chunk of the existing biosphere down with us. But the Earth will be fine. A billion or so years from now it will recover. Maybe some new intelligent species will evolve. Who knows.

On another note, Sarah needs to get whoever has been ghostwriting her Facebook page to start working on her tweets.

Heh... I meant "astronomically" in my previous post.

The nasty fact is that this is exactly the way these people think - if you can call it "thinking." I have a conservative friend who fully believes that the sun can affect climate, volcanic eruptions can affect climate, the earth's orbit affect climate, but humanity pouring gigatons of fossil carbon into the atmosphere has no effect. The wealthy and powerful have done a damn fine job of propaganda, and our children and grandchildren are f^%#ed, frankly.

If Sarah Palin believes we have a responsibility to "not pollute and destroy" someone should ask her why.

What would polluting and destroying do, actually?

Palin is Idiocracy defined. I beg CNN and Steve Benen to restrain from quoting her twitter page and acknowledge the Health alerts. With every "tweet" of hers read, a few brain cells will die.

"Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng,"

Well, her message may indeed be debatable substance-wise, but irrespective of that, it definitely convinces me that Sarah has found the medium that suits her talents.

did she offend your religious belief in AGW steve benen? poor thing has his alter of agw insulted and can't take it

palin added that the climate has been changing "for ions" -- one assumes she means "eons," and wasn't actually referring to electrically charged particles

perhaps she meant ion television!

positively entertaining!

i'm sensing a pattern!

Sarah Palin is full of shit.

It's arrogant and naive to say that man overpowers nature. Now if you'll excuse me, my helicopter awaits. I'm going to go underpower some wolves.

"What CNN did not tell me is that Palin said the exact opposite just last year ..."

Palin could say the exact opposite again tomorrow and CNN would not tell you.

That lady is one special kind of stupid....

Sarah Palin-Fabio 2012!

This is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever heard, worse than anything even creationist come up with
If your Doctor told you that you were in early sages of Diabetes, and you had to start controlling you diet, would you say that since the Doctor cant prove that your Diabetes was caused by your diet, and might be Type I Diabetes instead, then you can eat all the Sugar you want?

sarah really is a genious ... i mean think of the creativity she displays in coming up with this stuff ...

Sarah's IQ is much less than 140 characters.