Apparently he drank Gore's Kool Aid. Hopefully he's figured out it's a scam.
Posted on 01/02/2012 6:08:12 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
He tells a concerned voter it's been dropped, but that's news to the author.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Newt Gingrich says he has killed a chapter on climate change in a post-election book of essays about the environment. But the intended author of the chapter, who supports the scientific consensus that humans contribute to climate change, says that’s news to her.
Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech, confirmed in an e-mail interview that she had been asked to write a chapter on climate change for the former House speaker’s book. She said she was approached by former Palm Beach Zoo CEO Terry Maple, Gingrich’s coeditor, at an annual meeting of Republicans for Environmental Protection. Asked to confirm her chapter was dropped, she replied, “I had not heard that.”
Hayhoe was less restrained in a couple of tweets she posted Friday night. “so much 'spare' time wasted I cd've spent w family, & 2. what an ungracious way to find out, eh?” she asked. She followed that with “Nice to hear that Gingrich is tossing my #climate chapter in the trash. 100+ unpaid hrs I cd've spent playing w my baby”
The climate-change issue arose on Thursday night at a Gingrich campaign stop in Carroll, when a woman expressed concern about the chapter. She said she had heard about it on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. As she began to tell Gingrich who the author of the piece would be, Gingrich interrupted. “That’s not going to be in the book,” he told her. “We didn’t know that they were doing that, and we told them to kill it.”
Hayhoe, whose husband is an evangelical pastor, recently wrote a book about climate change from an evangelical perspective. In an interview with Christian writer Jonathan Merritt, she left no doubt as to where she stands on the existence or the cause of the phenomenon.
“Among climate scientists—people who spend their lives researching our world—there is no debate regarding the reality of climate change and the fact that humans are the primary cause,” Hayhoe said in the interview. “It is primarily laypeople, such as talk-show hosts, or those with vested interests in maintaining the status quo, who are perpetuating the idea that there is no scientific consensus.”
Limbaugh picked up on those quotes on Dec. 19, including Hayhoe’s poke at talk-show hosts. He called her “one of Newt’s experts” and said she believes in man-made global warming. That no doubt created heartburn for Team Newt. In a recent Pew Research Center poll, only 43 percent of Republicans – and only 31 percent of conservatives – said they believe there is solid evidence of global warming. That compares to 77 percent of Democrats. So the topic is tricky for GOP presidential candidates.
That’s particularly true for Gingrich, who infamously sat down with Nancy Pelosi to film an ad calling for action on global warming (which he has since called “the dumbest single thing I’ve done in the last few years”). The former speaker has also shifted his position on cap-and-trade and has walked back previous comments that there is a “wealth of scientific data” that warming is taking place.
The Gingrich campaign did not respond to a request for comment on this article.
How about he come out and say he would knock the EPA back 20 years?
Here’s a clue.
The USA doesn’t have a pollution problem anymore.
We have a production problem, and an energy problem.
Good! Your climate change crap is destroying this country.
Apparently he drank Gore's Kool Aid. Hopefully he's figured out it's a scam.
I would say Newt probably “proof” read the chapter and did not like what was written and killed it. Unlike Ron Paul who claims to know nothing about what is in his newsletters. Sure Ron.
He sure did:
Newt Gingrich destroys MSNBC reporter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUw2Vq8UMw&feature=related
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Newt On Fire! Hammers ObamaCare and Media http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6DdrMBSI5Xk
Newt Rips Gore's 'Facts' To Pieces
On the Congressional record in the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee.
He sure did:
Newt Gingrich destroys MSNBC reporter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUw2Vq8UMw&feature=related
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Newt On Fire! Hammers ObamaCare and Media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6DdrMBSI5Xk
its almost like newt is running for office or something...
I trust Newt about as far as I can throw him.
Newt acts conservative when it suits his purposes to act conservative.
so he was against it before he was for it...ya someone else is the busted one...
Yup, in this video, Gingrich addresses the way left wing government erodes American Exceptionalism, why religious freedom is opposed by dictatorships, the work ethic, unemployment compensation, economic growth, 2+2=4, and government barriers to job creation.
Unfortunately too few folks bother to pay attention to Gingrich's past successes and philosophy and would rather focus on his "baggage."
"Newt Gingrich Speaks to Wake County (North Carolina) GOP, Part 2"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y42oQgOb7OE&feature=related
Gingrich did not dispute the Climate Change theory in this testimony, only certain facts that were cited by Gore.
You need to buy a clue. His testimony before the House was before he started his book.
Yep. How do you dispute a theory that isn’t proved one way or the other? You bring facts to the table that put it in doubt. Face it, you don’t have what it takes to even conceive of an intelligent position. lol
Well then, Ron Paul's your guy.
What about the Climate Change chapter reportedly planned for Gingrich’s book? Were Rush Limbaugh and the facts of this article wrong?
His record is solidly conservative when it comes to legislative accomplishments which seems like a better measure of what he will do than nitpicking every comment he has made out of office.
There is no scientific consensus on AGW. And Newt knows it. That's why the issue is death to his chances with a lot of conservatives.
That was a long time ago. More recently he made an ad with Nancy Pelosi as "part of the "We Can Solve It" global warming ad campaign sponsored by former Vice President Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection."
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