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Palin allegedly under fire after allegedly grudging alleged U-turn on alleged global warming | World news | The Guardian

Sarah Palin, who presents herself as half of a Republican team of maverick reformers, yesterday edged away from her outmoded views on climate change, conceding for the first time that the problem might be man-made.

The admission from Palin, during an interview with ABC television, brings the Republican running mate into line with the views of the party's presidential nominee, John McCain. "I'm attributing some of man's activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now," she told ABC's Charlie Gibson.

The statement contradicted Palin's assertions within the past year that she did not believe global warming is a result of human activity. The Alaska governor strenuously denied expressing such doubts in her ABC interview, but she told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper last December: "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity."