Gingrich Kills Chapter on Climate Change in Upcoming Book (video)

National Journal ^ | December 30, 2011 | Sarah Huisenga

[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.

[anton]

The newt is a tird trying to reinvent himself. Its over newt, there are too many conservatives who know you who became. Get lost!

[bwc2221]

Paul is hardly my guy. I like Santorum, but I am not totally thrilled with him.

I know I don't want Romney, Gingrich (the two big government progressives) or Paul.

I thought the Perry Fan Girls were fanatics until you Newt-Nuts came along.

[TigersEye]

Wowee zoweee! he made an ad. LOL Which he has since stated was “the dumbest thing I have ever done.” My hope is that the people who get to vote in the primaries are better informed and have more common sense than to give something like that any credence.

[mas cerveza por favor]

Was he drunk at a party? How could he make such an ad unless he is in with the wrong crowd? This was just a few years ago.

[Cobra64]

I thought the Perry Fan Girls were fanatics until you Newt-Nuts came along.

So anyone who disagrees with you is a fanatic or nuts? That's a real adult attitude, isn't it?

"They're all nutty fanatics!"

Quite frankly I was a strong Bachmann supporter until she sunk her own campaign. Santorum is another favorite but cannot win.

As for Gingrich, you should have watched the debates and done your homework and watched the speech Gingrich made last April to the Wake County GOP in North Carolina.

Total running time is about 50 minutes if you have the interest or attention span to watch the entire (four segments) speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpa4aCiP1Cw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y42oQgOb7OE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFV5h-wi7k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BBxe24DwPI&feature=related

By the way, based upon some of JimRob's post, he appears to be a Gingrich supporter. If he's a nutty fanatic, perhaps you might want to hang out somewhere else to insult others.

[TigersEye]

If you really wanted to know the answer to that you would find Gingrich's statements on it instead of asking me. Your agenda is showing and it isn't about finding truth.

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[achilles2000]

True. No one disputes climate change because it is impossible to do so, which makes the phrase ever so much more convenient than “anthropogenic global warming”.

[achilles2000]

True. No one disputes climate change because it is impossible to do so, which makes the phrase ever so much more convenient than “anthropogenic global warming”.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Good way to put it. He’s sure no conservative. Mr. Establishment all the way and not much of a step up form Romney.

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[wolfcreek]

Perhaps it's time to give Gov. Perry a second look?

Obama’s EPA is currently attempting to destroy the Texas energy sector. Perry is fighting back against the unscrupulous FedGov at every turn.

He'll do the same in DC.

[Rocky]

I just don’t understand what Newt really believes about the Global Warming issue anymore.

I don't understand what he really believes about anything. To paraphrase the Star Trek movies, "The force of narcissism is strong in this one."