Climate change is a critical issue. Here is what Sarah Palin told Charlie Gibson in her first interview:

PALIN: I think you are a cynic because show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any affect, or no affect, on climate change.

Here is what she said last year:

"I'm not a doom and gloom environmentalist like Al Gore blaming the changes in our climate on human activity."

For the record.

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