Gingrich Axes Chapter on Climate Change in Forthcoming Book
**Written by Doug Powers
About three weeks ago, the LA Times reported that Newt Gingrich was involved in a book project revolving around environmental/economic issues, including a chapter addressing man-made global warming:
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.
In Iowa on Thursday, Gingrich was asked about it, and, sounding like a man pledging never to be caught on the couch with Nancy again, Newt said this about the climate change chapter: “That’s not going to be in the book. We didn’t know that they were doing that, and we told them to kill it.”
This came as a surprise to author of the apparently scrapped chapter:
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”
If things don’t work out for Gingrich in this primary season the chapter may stage a miraculous comeback and wind up in the book after all. Newt might not be on the global warming loveseat at the moment but there’s some change under the cushions he may someday go back for.
On a related but separate note, at 7 p.m. EST the Des Moines Register will publish the results of their final poll before Tuesday night’s caucuses.
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No way I’d keep the last name ayhoe.
Well at least newt decided to ax this chapter in his book before published unlike that old coot paul who is knee deep with all kinds of krap in his old newsletter!
L
Get ready for four more years of BHO …
In an election year where the GOP would have to run Mickey Mouse in order to lose in the general, they are about to do exactly that … AGAIN!
This clown has NO chance of overtaking the GOP love-child McRomney in the primaries, and there is no longer a conservative alternative with a chance.
Of course, the nose-holders will blame the conservatives, but that is to be expected. Just remember:
A vote for a liberal Republican in the primaries is two votes for Obama in the general.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Unlike MM, I will not vote for a person I can not believe in. I do not limit myself to two parties. We have two parties who have tilted the playing field for decades to prevent any third party from competing with them. I will not vote for Romney or a Huntsman period. I have heard the argument for “electability” since the GOP nominated Nixon in 1968. It was a disaster then and it will be a disaster in 2012. Just as Nixon pushed along the Progressive agenda a Romney will do likewise. He will just manage a big government better, so it can grow even bigger.
You can’t hide from an inquisitive press that digs and gets the facts and reports them accurately. The journalists out there are dedicated to vetting all Presidential candidates so we don’t elect someone who could do irreparable harm to this country. They are totally unbiased, treating all Republican candidates the same and outing their faults equally. As soon as one candidate is destroyed, it is on to the next, until the candidate of THEIR choice is victorious. Then, on to the general election, where they start their relentless digging again. The journalists of today are amazing! Nothing gets past them. Obama better watch out, because if it is out there, they will find it. Do I need a sarc tag?
As for Newt, I think he has peaked too soon and is now done. The media wants Romney, for some reason.
By the way, Christie endorses Romney. That is great. But Christie disturbs me…a lot!! I am sick to death of mafia-thug talk and tactics and with Christie, it is more of that, ad nauseum. I don’t want threats, I want action. Maybe New Jersey citizens need to be skillet-bonked a few times, but most of us “get it” and would just like some clean, honest government again. Is that too much to ask?????
happy, I am with you on christie. I do not like that man one bit. I guess he thinks it is funny to act like some thug from chicago to make his point to vote for mitt, but that pig doesn’t fly with me on his threats!
L
Well, all you poeple who “won’t vote for someone you don’t believe in…”
Say hello to your Master Obama for another 4 years! What is wrong with you people? If Obamacare is allowed to take hold, none of us will be American citizens anymore, we will be SUBJECTS, our lives pending on the demands of soulless bureacrats with a death quota to fill!
Oh, you’re just SO PURE and PRISTINE, you won’t vote for Romney because he isn’t conservative enough. Well, thanks for 4 more years of Obama!!
It is important to note that Hayhoe regularly publishes mis-information and falsehoods to bolster her position. For example:http://www.climatedepot.com/
In other words she is fraud.
All Hail Mister P, the most pristine and pure Human Being on Earth! No, scratch that! He must be an ANGEL, sent from God in Heaven above to provide us with an example of how PURE and PRISTINE one can be!
He won’t vote for Romney, so we will all get more of Obama! Two more Supreme Court Justices chosen by Obama! The permanent cementing of Obamacare to ruin our lives!
But Nevermind all that! Mister P is PURE AND PRISTINE AND WILL NOT VOTE FOR ROMNEY!
Mister P – do angels fly out of your butt when you walk down the street? Do gold medallions fly out perhaps? Please explain to us how we can be as pure and pristine as you.
OBAMA 2012 must be your slogan.
The Pelousi love seat was beyond stupid, Newt. It was batsh!t bizarre and stunningly clueless . Something along the lines of Gary Hart having a snapshot taken sailing off with his bimbo on the good ship “Monkey Business” – or Mark Sanford’s hike to Argentina on the Appalacian Trail.
Aside from looking like a fat toad next to the wicked witch, there is no “consensus” on AGW. It’s a monumental scam, but the only reason he’s back-peddling now is not principal – it’s political. If Newt is this mind-bogglingly oblivious to this, you have to wonder what other screws are loose in that noggin. Add to that severe ethical and character failure and I just can’t see how I could vote for him. God, I hope he’s not nominated.
I’m in a very gloomy mood this December 31, 2011. Here’s my nightmare, one that’s been building all year. Election day 2012, the republicans win. They take the presidency, the senate, the house. Hooray!
A) The first thing the republicans do come January 20 2013 is rush to find any democrat to make a deal with. Since you cannot make a deal with a democrats, Democrats regain the upper hand and are effectively in control once more. Obamacare is not repealed. In fact, the new president appoints Newt to co-chair a committee to make it work. Newt has lots of ideas. as does his co-chair Barney Frank (called out from retirement).
B) Now all the chickens come home to roost. To save the country we must slash entitlement spending (can’t do that), repeal regulations (can’t do that), kill whole Departments (are you kidding?), have a government that explains to the American people why this must be done in terms they understand (never happen), The military is gutted, soon we are at war and losing badly. The democrats insist the military be slashed even more for there to be peace. Republicans agree.
C) The result is the great economic collapse we have all been fearing. All deals are off. The democrats laugh as they dictate terms. Come election day 2014, they sweep to victory. The republican president agrees with everything they demand but it doesn’t change anything. The republican party dissolves. “Independents” cheer.
D) 2017, the new democrat super-obama is sworn in to the One-Party State and submits the enabling act to “end the suffering of the American people.” A disarmed nation surrenders to whoever wants it. It’s impoverished American people are enslaved, mass executions and internments begin. America is now a protectorate of China. An army is formed to fulfill Obama’s vision. There is talk of genocide.
Couldn’t resist: National Review ceases publication, so at least something good comes from the end of America. Starving NR writers are on the streets, begging for book contracts before being hauled off to re-education camps. Almost all swear allegiance to the democrat party.
Mark Steyn (who prophesied/implied much of the above in After America) flees with his family to Canada (now a protectorate of Russia) just before the border is sealed. He never writes again.
ThunderHawkk 10:
+ 1.
Hey, you people who want us to vote for a liberal just so Obama doesn’t stay in the White House… why are you so mad at real conservatives? Why don’t you get mad at all the people out there, Republicans included, who will flat-out vote for Obama as their first choice?
Oh, boo hoo hoo. I already *had* 4 years of Obama in the White House. If it weren’t for all you noseholders, our candidate wouldn’t have been McCain, who LOST to Obama.
Maybe it’s we conservatives who should be mad at you noseholders for costing us the 2008 election? If y’all had supported conservative candidates THEN, we wouldn’t be worrying about beating Obama NOW. Unless y’all don’t think conservatives can win, which means you don’t believe in conservatism, which begs the question, what makes you think your chastisement will whip us into line behind your leftist candidate? Especially after you’ve demonstrated that you care more about getting Obama out than you care about fixing the problem. Hillary 2012!
No YOU ALL change YOUR support! YOU come around and start supporting Bachmann and/or Santorum. Don’t gripe at us for being too pure when you’re the ones prostituting yourselves out of fear of 4 more years of… the past 4 years. Either the republic will survive another 4 years, or another 4 years will result in a civil war, or YOU will have condemned us to a future of socialist oppression. Not us; we’re trying to pull the gov’t back where it belongs; you’re trying to win an election for the Democrats-lite.
You complain about 4 more years of Obama… I didn’t want the last 4 years, but I also didn’t want the 12 years of Bush we had, or the 8 years of Clinton. YOU noseholders are the ones who’ve let the left pull the government to the left as far as it’s gone in the past 20 years, not us conservatives.
Now we have to fight harder than ever, in an election that should be a cakewalk, because you all browbeat people into supporting progressives in Republican clothing in the past.
If you are looking for a candidate who is, and always has been, 100% “conservative”, good luck with that. There is no such animal. Bachmann probably comes the closest, but she isn’t polling well right now.
Santorum not only backed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004, he cut a commercial for him. Specter later switched parties and became the 60th vote in the Senate for Obamacare.
Newt supported RomneyCare and Global Warming. Now, at the last minute, he is trying to reinvent himself again. Is his return to conservatism real? Or is it just expedient until the primaries are over? I like that Newt has proven in the past that he can get things done when he is focused on achieving clearly defined goals. The rest of the time, however, he is all over the map.
Paul is either lying now or lied in 1996 about his role and knowledge concerning his newsletters. Can you trust someone who wrote such nonsense or sold his name to someone else to write it? Was the money more important than his reputation that he would allow newsletters to be published in his name and not even read them? Plus, my spidey sense starts tingling when I remember the praise Dennis Kucinich heaps on Paul.
Perry thinks you are heartless if you don’t want to give illegals special benefits. Although, now he is trying to reinvent himself as 100% against abortion and illegal immigration. He also wants to make this election about religion rather than conservatism.
I could vote for any of these candidates over Obama. But I don’t think any of them can pass a conservative purity test. At this point, I’m ready to vote for any candidate who can beat Obama, turn the economy around, stop out-of-control spending, protect our borders and protect us from our enemies (sorry Paulbots).
Given the candidates we are stuck with, we will have to rely on a new Congress to keep the president on the conservative straight and narrow no matter who wins the Presidency.
If this actually gets out to the “mainstream media”, Gingrich is toast.
This reveals his progressive (I’d forgotten to use the word; I’m going to have to employ it more) tendencies. Progressives place themselves in the throne of God, thinking that they can manipulate and control everything from the economy, to the climate, to the hearts of men. Progressives don’t believe in free-will; to Gingrich, people are just cyphers in the great book of history. What we do, think, feel and say can and should be manipulated and controlled by wiser heads, such as Gingrich. That’s the progressive thought pattern. It’s not important that we believe in climate change or not; it won’t matter so long as Gingrich can get in office in order to do What Must Be Done. For Our Own Good, of course. Because he’s so much smarter than the rest of us.
So, today he can repaint his position on climate change, because if he gets into office he’ll have the power to impose his actual position, and if he doesn’t get into office, his position won’t matter anyway.
Hiraghm:
Here we go again. I’ll support Bachmann or Santorum. But if they don’t win, then what? Will you sit on your ass and allow another 4 years of Obowtome? Will you let him select 2 or 3 more SCOTUS members? Or will you fight to kick him out?
Those of you how deride the rest of us as “noseholders” should think real hard about the choice you’ll make next year. If enough of you “I’m pure, I walk on water, my crap doesn’t stink, I’m a real conservative” people screws up and either doesn’t vote for the GOP candidate or votes third party, it’ll be your fault when the country finally implodes. Just so you can stroke your fragile egos.
Captain Spock, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
This is the part too many people don’t get… THEY WON’T DO IT. A candidate who will turn the economy around, stop out of control spending, protect our borders and defend the republic would be… A CONSERVATIVE.
A progressive can’t, nor will s/he want to do it, whether Republican or Democrat.
That is the objection I and others have to the progressive Republican candidates like Romney and Gingrich. Instead of the change you hope for (remember that phrase?), if you elect one of these progressives, you’ll merely get a slowing down of the progressive march to socialism and bigger government, while you continue, each “election” in the future to hope for a candidate who will do all of the above, and reverse the march to the left, in spite of your voting for the Republican progressive you think can beat the Democrat progressive.
Same fallacious thinking… a “new” Congress? Any new Congress? A Congress full of new progressive faces? Or a Congress made up of conservatives? And how are you going to get a Congress made up of conservatives when the election strategy is to vote for anyone who’s not a Democrat? Remember, most people vote party line.
Do you or do you not believe in We, the People determining our own destinity? Do you or do you not believe in “one man, one vote”? Do you believe people should be told how to vote, should have the form and nature of their country dictated to them by political pragmatists (such as the noseholders here)?
If Bachmann isn’t polling well… why is that? Is the MSM not covering her campaign enough? So we’re going to let the MSM hand us a progressive candidate, as per their agenda, because she’s not polling well? Talk about self-fulfilling prophesy!
Perhaps the media is covering her campaign enough. Perhaps, We, the People don’t agree with her enough. Maybe the majority of people think she’s wrong, and don’t want the country to go where she’s offering to take it? Should we, then, impose our Republican will upon We, the People, because we know better than them? Suddenly, we would become the very progressives some of us despise.
No, the only course for men and women of principle to follow is to vote for the candidate that most closely reflects the beliefs they hold, and seems most likely to take the nation in a course we each think it should take. If that means Obama gets re-elected, then so be it. We cannot impose our will on We the People without becoming the very thing we (some of us, anyway) are fighting against.
Or, “Waa-a-a! It’s not fair!”
That is what I would expect from a liberal, not a conservative. She must be confused, politically…She chose to have her baby (thank God.)
I smell RINO…Oh, Joy…
From Texas Tech bio:
Re-he-he-he-heally!
The state of California does not HIRE conservatives to do research on anything. Is Gingrich’s partner in this book, Terry Maple, a liberal, or a conservative (there’s no such thing as a “moderate” in my opinion)?
BINGO!!! Higrahm. That is the most important FACT we primary voters have to face.
I agree. I have zero confidence that Romney or Gingrich will ever repeal Obamacare or any other issue of importance to us.
“Compassionate Conservatism” gave us TARP, the Prescription Drug Benefit, the EPA dictating our light bulbs, non-enforcement of immigration laws, runaway deficits, bowing to Pelosi and Reid, etc., etc., etc.
Romney is a self-described progressive and Newt thinks aour greatest modern President was FDR.
Trust him as far as you could throw his hulking mass.
Dierdre R. “Dede” Scozzafava
Your childish retort aside. Do you understand that I have the freedom to vote for who I choose? Do you understand that I have seen this same old story play out before? Dems go far to the left and the GOP bring in a Rockefeller Republican to just support his own batch of cronies?
Do you understand the lack of integrity to support a candidate you yourself don’t agree with?
I think not, and you are just another disgrace to free elections and honest opinions.
Hispanic Conservative. Obviously you are not.
What makes anyone think, if we don’t hold the Republicans feet to the fire, that someday, somehow, the party will support conservative candidates over their progressive anointed? Where’s the evidence that, if we compromise now and support the candidate they want us to support, that at some point in the future they will support conservatives, get them into office, and promote the conservative agenda instead of the progressive one? What makes people think this can happen, let alone will happen? What will change the character of the Republican establishment if not defeat at the polls?
Do we merely want to staunch the bleeding, or sew up the wound? The longer we wait, the more likely the patient will die before we can get it sewn up.
That’s affirmative.
+ Tea Party “social engineering”
+ GoreBull Warming couch
+ Entrenched GOP beltway good ‘ol boy
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Btw, since I had to move my new Green / Stupid poster, here’s a new link to it…
Green is as Stupid does
Hiraghm,
Well said!
Keep voting for the same thing expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
The Gutless Obsequious Pussies are playing you to help their friends across the aisle advance Gore-Bull warming, universal healthcare, ever-growing government. You may think you vote against those things. So why do they happen anyway?
Name one actual achievement of the GOP rolling back the left.
GOP-RIP
Make that a double.
The only people that win when conservatives hold their nose and vote for progressive republicans are demorats.
Virginia Patriot, I remember making this same argument while in college. The GOP just thinks its just is to manage all the welfare programs better and calls that fiscal conservatism. It is not. I am not a Republican for a reason, and a couple posters here are reminding me why I am not. You can’t trust them. What to get them going crazy, talk about a third party.
Look, the couch thing came as a result of the deluge of global warming blah, blah, blah. Yeah, a lot of folks pooh-poohed all of the global warming crap, but the hacking that PROVED it to be nothing but crap, came after the sad couch thing. Until then, a lot of Republicans were on-board the global warming train because of the LOUD deluge of crap coming fron Jackass Gore as well as MANY other Jackasses. GET OFF THE COUCH THING!?!
It shows a real lack of character when you have to hide what you believe in (if, in fact, you actually believe in it) just to get into office. Makes Gingrich look like a flip flopper. You’re not going to please all people all the time, so stand by your beliefs and get elected so you can make things better, not just for the sake of getting elected. I can’t stand politicians for that reason among many others.
Well, nope. JunkSience and Climate Skeptic and a plethora of other credible sources have been around for years. The science has never been settled. The computer projection models have never worked and the climate data has always been challenged or at least questioned by a large portion of the scientific community.
Gore, Obumble and the progs peddle it because it transfers wealth to them and their buds. Newt bought into it to get some TV time. A conservative who aspires to be POTUS should and must know better.
DO NOT GET OFF THE COUCH THING!?! It’s important.
No terrorist or foreign entity will take America down in the long run. Sure, they might get one or two attacks, but overall, America could crush any enemy that it faces.
It is highly likely though, that if things continue as they have, your government will destroy your country from within.
Therefore, you should stomach Ron Paul’s objectionable foreign policy in favour of his wonderful domestic ideologies.
Mitt Romney will give you government run healthcare. Newt believes in carbon taxes.
700 billion per year to police the world without demanding anything in return is a high price to pay for little benefit. Didn’t Russia and China get all the oil contracts in Iraq?
I think a new 3.5 billion dollar missle defense contract was just awarded to Boeing or some other company. Can you imagine the missle defense you guys could produce for 700 Billion? What did you get out of Iraq for that money?
Hiraghm:
That, right there, is the crux of the matter. But why that attitude?
I know by your postings that you don’t have a positive outlook on life. I DO.
No wonder you don’t care if Obowtome gets another 4 years and destroys the country. I DO.
No wonder that in the name of your “purity” you’re willing to see the country be set ablaze. I DON’T.
Do you have any younger relatives, nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, to whom you would like to leave a better country than the one you found? I DO.
Are you unemployed, or know someone who is? I DO. Then, how can you condemn them so cavalierly to more pain and suffering under another 4 years of Obowtome, unless you don’t give a damn about them?
Are you willing to see our freedoms destroyed, our economy ruined, our values not only openly mocked and ridiculed but banned, our cities descend into chaos, our properties and bank accounts seized and the country we know gone, just so you can say: “I’m pure!!! I didn’t compromise!! I’m better than those no good noseholders!!”? I DON’T.
You go to war with the army that you have. Good, bad or mediocre, it’s up to the general to make it a winning army. You and your fellow travelers remind me of Mussolini’s army. The army that, if it wasn’t facing Ethiopians armed with bows, arrows and spears got their fannies waxed by EVERYBODY. And I mean everybody: the Brits,the Americans, the Greeks and even the French.
HAPPY NEW YEAR Michelle and everyone here !
I`m really looking forward to better times !
Some of you think that Gingrinch is incapable of changing his mind, but I have proof that he can, and has…
I give you three wives, and a couple of mistresses.
The man IS flawed, but he does have a history of changing his mind on matters of the heart, so why not accept that he has on political matters, as well?
There is only one politician out there that I’m aware of, who doesn’t think he made bad choices or bad votes, and that’s Barrack Hustler Obama, the flim-flam clown act from Chicago.
On December 31st, 2011 at 9:07 pm, conservative hispanic said:
If you vote for one of the establishment republicans – Romney, Newt, Santorum etc., you will get the despair and failure that you suggest another 4 years of Obama will bring.
Which is why neither Newt or Romney should be President. How can someone not think that Gore is just a hustler.
I don’t care if Newt has had 10 wives, 20 mistresses, 100 escorts and 200 mail order brides. He is a big government statist and that is why is unqualified.
My first choice is Ron Paul, but if he can’t win, I hope Guiliani steps in.
123upnorth:
Please put down the bong! Giuliani has as much chance of being president as you do! And how many times I have to say: Ron Paul is nuts!!!This imbecile will let Iran get a nuclear weapon. That alone automatically disqualifies him to be Commander-In-Chief. Anybody that endangers the citizens of this country in such an unnecssary way is dangerously stupid. Or just senile.
It’s too late for anyone else to step in, ballot deadlines have passed.
The field will winnow after Iowa, NH, FL, and SC. It’ll probably come down to Paul, Newt, Romney. In VA, only Paul, Romney.
I’m hoping Santorum wins Iowa and catches fire. He’d make a good President. Frankly, none of the others would, imho.
I always knew you Canadians were a bit “teched”. My God, man…how screwed up are you??? Sorry, you have a right to your opinion. I’m just glad that:
1. Neither Paul or Guilini have a prayer and
2. You are Canadian so can’t vote here anyway.
Ron Paul believes in freedom, moreso than any other candidate. The others will continue to take more of your wealth, put you deeper into debt and continue to trade power for money and money for power.
Just as you think I am screwed up, I think the same of you.
One day I hope to become American.
123upnorth:
Did you even read my post? Are you that stoned that it didn’t penetrate, not even a little bit? And you want to become an American? We need more people like you like we need a case of hemorroids. Or an STD. Or cancer.
Virginia Patriot:
So do I, my friend. So do I.
ch, V.Pat,
My hope as well, along with y`all havin` a great New Year !
“O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov’d homes and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”
1814, Francis Scott Key
Happy New Year Everyone!
The $64 question: Is there a climate change proponent who is NOT a fraud?
Ha!
Yes,
her name is Trixie, and she’ll be getting her GED in a little over a year.
Now, how do I get my sixty four bucks.
There is sound scientific analysis out there that not only claims CO2′s affect on earth’s temperature is insignificant – it’s NET contribution as a GHG added to the mixture of other gases in our atmosphere comes out to be slightly NEGATIVE!
While I’ve always trashed CAGW on the former aspect, this latter one, if proven, would be a political tsunami. Every politician who believed the nonsense will deserve a tattoo on their forehead “I was duped into helping destroy the US economy on the basis of a disproven theory.”
That includes Mitt Romney along with Gingrich BTW.
123upnorth said:
I wonder what someone like you would be saying if someone close to you got hooked on methamphetamine? RP is a JA on dangerous drugs and dangerous foreign countries.
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
Ronald Reagan
Sheesh, read what the man says, not what the MSM and his competitors say he says!
Author of chapter is Pro-anthropogenic global warming: If you look up the bio, and read a few of her speeches, you find the author of the chapter business and reputation is invested in selling the global warming mantra.
In a couple of her speeches and writings, she repeats the lies of the global warming aficionados (there has been no cooling, the models are accurate – despite the evidence to the contrary, we must act before it is too late, etc.). There is no way such an author could write an objective chapter on the issue of global warming.
123upNorth – you cite Ron Paul’s wonderful domestic policies. Does that include his anti-Semitic, Neo-Nazi, and racism tolerance? His supposed ‘ignorance’ of columns supporting such thought penned under his name in the past? Either he is oblivious, and therefore unsuited for President, or he supports those despicable positions (thereby unsuitable).
So….Don Surber is reporting that an Idaho energy company is cutting off the electricity to a solar factory because of unpaid electric bills. Now if solar is so wonderful, why aren’t the companies which make the panels using the panels they manufacture to generate some of the electricity they need to manufacture the panels? What a con!
Swede #11 – It is amazing how many times you write exactly what I am thinking! I don’t know whether you should be happy about that or very worried (probably the latter). Global warming has always been about wealth redistribution, not science. The only way to make it look scientific is to “cook” the numbers! It is and always has been a scam, and any politician who has endorsed it in any way is dishonest or an idiot. Either way, they should not be trusted.
Do we need MORE proof that Newt is a Marxist?
Newt does not want to be sounded like Al Gore so he dropped that chapter on climate change.
Two mantras need to be destroyed:
Romney = electable
(Prof. Jacobson has done a decent job of collecting items under a to-date 3-part series on this. SEE: http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/what-if-everything-we-have-been-told-about-mitt-romneys-electability-is-wrong-part-3/)
Gingrich = baggage
There is not one other candidate currently in the running who would as clearly and persuasively bring forth to the American populace that it is Obama who is the candidate with the most damaging “baggage.”
Romney=FlipFlopper
Gingrich = FlipFlopper + baggage
Unfortunately, the fact the Hayhoe was selected to write the chapter on cimate change says a lot about Newt.
He is still sitting on the couch.
Personally, the pic of Newt and Nazi Peelousy all cozy on the couch has cost Newt too much.
Romney may be a flip flopper – but I think most pols are anyway.
Ron Paul is 76 years old… he doesn’t live in our world, and hasn’t for some time in the sense that he has been profiting by being a policitian in Wash, DC.
Iowans – vote for our country, not because you like/hate a particular candidate. We need an AMERICAN leader right now.