The Green Files > Gibson Pushes Palin to Concede Global Warming 'Man-Made'

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Biashttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/09/12/gibson-pushes-palin-concede-global-warming-man-made [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] You have said in the past it's not.” To which Palin promised “John McCain and I are gonna be working on what we do about it.” Still not satisfied, Gibson argued: “Yes, but isn't it critical as to whether or not it's man-made, because what you do about it depends on whether its man-made?” Palin repeated herself (“That is why I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate”), which finally led Gibson, “color me a cynic,” to gloat “it sounds to me like you're adapting your position to Senator McCain's.”

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