There has been a lot of talk about how Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is an 'energy expert'. A lot of ridiculous talk. First of all, she's got a degree from the University of Idaho in Communications and Journalism.

Secondly while you could argue that, as the Governor of state that produces a lot of oil and natural gas, she's got some expertise in those areas, isn't energy more than oil and gas? What about clean energy - wind, solar, or biodiesel, for instance?

The funny, and slightly scary aspect as well is that when asked about global warming in the now-classic Katie Couric interview, Gov. Palin said it didn't matter what caused global warming, and anyway she had set up a sub-cabinet to address the needs of climate change. Basically, don't worry about it.

This cabinet, it appears, is focused on finding ways to deal with the effects of climate change rather than stopping it.

The irony is that the second document the cabinet reviewed at their first meeting and put into the public record, after organizing the roles of each person in the cabinet, was the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Summary for Policymakers" report that says on the very first page :

"Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values
determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years. The global increases in carbon dioxide concentration are due primarily to fossil fuel use and land-use change, while those of
methane and nitrous oxide are primarily due to agriculture."

So, what exactly makes her an expert? She was good at getting some more royalty money from the oil companies, but she didn't study energy in school, worked most of her adult life as either a sportscaster or a politician, and couldn't even be bothered to absorb the documents pertaining to her cabinet on global warming? Crazy