New Gingrich book on climate change likely coming after the election

latimes.com ^ | Dec. 8, 2011 | Neela Banerjee

[Free ThinkerNY]

At a time when the Republican presidential candidates are swiftly backing away from past moderate environmental positions, Newt Gingrich may be the only one with a book pending on the topic.

Gingrich and Terry L. Maple have something of a sequel in the works to their 2007 book, "A Contract with The Earth," tentatively titled "Environmental Entrepreneurs."

The duo’s first book called on policymakers and businesspeople on the right to show they had better ideas for protecting the environment and creating jobs than government did. The new book is a collection of essays by various businesspeople and scientists to be edited and stitched together by Gingrich and, mostly, Maple, a former chief executive of the Palm Beach Zoo.

The author of a chapter on climate change is Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech whose work focuses on assessing the impact of climate change and communicating it to broader audiences, including those traditionally dubious of global warming, like Christian colleges.

The book “requires a good opening chapter that lays out the facts on global climate change, but I would like this chapter to be framed with optimism, not gloom and doom,” Maple said in an email to Hayhoe in October 2007. “All that is needed from you is to provide a sense of what needs to happen. What is the window of opportunity and what does the science tell us about our chances for remediation?”

Like most climatologists, Hayhoe accepts the broad scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that humanity’s combustion of fossil fuels is the main reason for it.

[fightinJAG]

People seem to forget that Newt Gingrich founded the Environmental Studies Department at West Georgia College and, of course, was a Professor of Environmental Studies himself.

[fightinJAG]

How in the world is posting the fact that Gingrich is publishing a certain book a “negative tactic”?

It is what it is.

And if one believes this book is a negative for Gingrich, that it what it is.

[cripplecreek]

"People" are still busy declaring it to be a rumor and a liberal lie despite his co author saying this.

"At this pace, Maple said, his new book with Gingrich would probably be out in 2013, after the presidential election."

It will be leaked before the election and its going to kill Gingrich but the frightened children are terrified of looking under the bed.

[fightinJAG]

I don’t like Romney but if Newt has to be the nominee then don’t try to make him something that he’s not

This is a real problem.

The expectations some are building up for Gingrich are incredible. When Bad Newt invariably shows up, some of his new best friends will be the first to abandon him. Then what?

If the next President cannot or will not *inspire* conservatives, forgetit. The country is not going to make it.

And Gingrich is already *not inspiring.* Sure, to some, he's thrilling in a "hit him again, Joey!" sort of way. But that is quite different from being able to inspire a movement. Add to that natural deficit a tendency to tell conservatives to take it on the chin at the most inopportune time -- this spells potential disaster.

[fightinJAG]

How can the publication of a book be a “lie”? And Gingrich has already published a previous book with Maple on man-made climate change.

[cripplecreek]

Note the co authors.

Katharine Hayhoe (author of "A climate for change")

Terry L. Maple

current fields of interest include applied ethology, comparative and environmental psychology, zoo and conservation biology, primate behavior and development, and non-profit zoo and aquarium leadership.