
Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice-president nominee, governs an oil-rich area that has seen some of the most dramatic effects of climate change.
The media have given her family the
full soap opera treatment, but perhaps they should focus instead on her
environmental record which is truly alarming. 'We need to drill, drill,
drill,' she told the Wall Street Journal recently, and she is in the
forefront of moves to exploit the long-protected Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).