What "new data"? All the evidence necessary to conclude this was nothing other than a giant scheme to redistribute wealth and manipulate energy markets was available in the 1990s when Gore came out claiming global warming was the world’s greatest threat. Legislation proposed in 2001 gave all the details on how this scam would be accomplished.
He appeared in the ad's, thinking the problem was a real one, to say that even though they agreed there was a problem, they disagreed on how to deal with it.
He appeared in ads in 2008 long after most thinking humans knew or suspected this was a scam. Don't you see a problem with that?
Newt wanted to take a free market approach to it.
Ah, yes. The old "market based approach" like cap and trade. There was nothing market based about it.
His appearing with Pelosi was not endorsing 'cap and trade' but rather an acknowledgement that there was a problem which had to be dealt with.
There is something in #50 that we have seen repeated over and over. He is responding to Impy who pointed out that Newt never explained his recent position change on climate change. At #50 he says “Maybe now he has.....” making up possible explanations for unexplainable actions.
So we are to believe Nancy Pelosi tricked the smartest Republican in the race on climate change? The brilliant one?
The price of gas was high in 2007 and 2008. Voters did not quite YET understand that Green solutions meant more expensive energy and were polling more popular than now. (The MSM was flooding the outlets with stories on it.) I certainly knew it did back then. The RINOs in the party like McCain couldn't wait to sell us out. Green energy is still a Democrat/progressive dream for social justice. They still talk about it.
So, Conservatives will again be told to unite behind a RINO (something we have been doing since 1988) because they won't use any common sense and unite behind a single candidate who isn't perfect on a particular issue.