Newt and Nancy film an Ad on Climate Change

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Newt recently filmed a commercial with current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The ad focuses on how we can come together to find solutions for problems caused by climate change.

For Newt's explanation of why he filmed this ad for the Alliance for Climate Protection, founded by Al Gore, please visit ContractWithTheEarth.com. Click play on the Audio box to the right.

After listening to his explanation, let us know your thoughts below so we can share them with Newt.

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By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:34 PM

Are "Green Jobs" where taxpayers pay for a billion dollar bigger-better windmill design which produces energy at twice the cost of coal-hydro-nuclear, and then windmill production is outsourced to China?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, May 04, 2008 4:42 AM

Maybe you should crack open a book yourself cause the Gaia Hypothesis states that the biosphere is self-regulating.

An increase in temperature would increase the cloud cover which would reflect more sunlight back into space through increased albedo.

An increase in carbon dioxide would increase plant growth which would return the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen.

If the biosphere weren't self regulating then the Earth would have cooked or froze a long time ago. But thats not your real agenda. The real agenda is carbon taxes and unconstitutional international control over the United States.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:40 PM

Many of the comments below exhibit appalling scientific ignorance. When did conservatives take over from liberals as science deniers?

Newt is not the first conservative to realize that anthropogenic climate change is real. It's a fact, and hard-nosed, reality-facing conservatives are acknowledging it. You ex-hero worshippers who have your little feelings hurt need to stop listening to so much talk radio and crack a book.

By Anonymous @ Friday, May 02, 2008 1:41 PM

You have hobbled every future alternative energy prospect that would have been profitable, like coal gassification. Democrats will oppose it because it isn't carbon neutral.

Democrats oppose nuclear power even though it is carbon neutral.

Just say NO.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:40 PM

Newt, you used to hold my highest respect. In fact I had been hoping you were planning a run for President in 2008. But this ad is just unbelievable. Whether it's what you intended or not, legitimizing human caused global warming with Pelosi is just beyond explanation. Sitting on the bench with an America hater, I just don't know what to say.
To say the least my opinion of you as a true conservative has been tarnished.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:42 PM

Newt, you’ve blown it. You were the one political figure who always stood firm on their convictions, but you have compromised your principles by ‘walking across the isle’. You explain that you want to be ‘on the stage’, ‘engaged in the debate’ but the problem is that you have given credence to the false premise that man can and has affected climate change.

I know what you are tying to do. You have deployed a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ strategy of sorts. It’s the only explanation that makes sense. The thing is, you from now on, you will always have a hint if doubt shadowing you from your devoted believers and supporters. How now can we really believe anything you say or do?

Even if your tactics do works and you save us from the potential disaster that the man made global warming spoof has the potential to create, you will never again be able to use this ploy again. It’s a highly risky calculated move on your part and the odds of even a smidgeon of success are largely against you. You risk vs. reward factor is just way too high.

Newt, you have really, really blown it.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 8:26 PM

Just watched you on Bill O'Rielly. When you talk about doing things for the enviornment like clean coal or other worth while things, Hybrid cars ect. with out punishing the Economy that's great. But sitting on that bench and talking as if CLIMATE CHANGE is a really issue is crazy, that just give Algore's GLOBAL WARMING crowd credabliity. THERE IS NOTHING HUMANBEINGS CAN DO TO CHANGE THE CLIMATE. Especially if you think something that is less than 1% of the Air we breath.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 5:21 PM

Unfortunately Newt, your explanation (on this website) of why you did this ad is extremely lacking and none of your words were spoken by you in the actual ad. This ad will be played over and over giving it creadibility/legitimacy...wrongly so and you can do nothing about. I believe this is a major strategic blunder which will only hurt your efforts in the long. I suggest you get out there and try to completely explain yourself on every show you can because this has absolutely no benefit to you or the direction you want to push this debate...the so-called science is by no means settled and is more hype & political than anything else. BTW, as this debate seems to be taking shape the first to be devasted will be poor, econmically vulnerable countries.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 2:15 PM

Newt, as one of my "formerly" most-admired individuals, you just revealed your feet of clay. You have succumbed to the pseudo-scientists clarion of 'global-warming'... next you'll be telling us that the sky is falling! This is what happens when politicians make technical decisions.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 12:18 PM

As a historian, Newt, you know the Earth was warmer a thousand years ago than now. Attributed to mankind? Warming was very beneficial to humans then! It also cooled dramatically 700 years ago and mankind was then devastated.

How come warming is bad now?

We've survived the ozone hole, mad cow, bird flu, global cooling (1970's). We will survive this latest 'climate change' nonsense.

You are way off base.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 11:47 AM

1. Bush and most of Congress did the ethanol deals to satisfy the farm lobby -- both corporate & rural, not to satisfy Stalinists.
2. Global warming is only important to those who are trying to make political hay out of unusual weather experiences. The gullible moderates are the targets of this, but the Rush approach of pooh-poohing everything will not prevent the gullible from being swayed.

The only hope to keep those folks from being swept up in a tidal wave of chicken little mandates & taxes, is to set aside the arguments over GW - yes or no & GW - man-made or natural, and move forward with common-sense, economically-sound policies & activities.

Build more nuclear plants, conserve whatever energy we can, develop new sources, be good stewards of the environment, etc. -- none of you who are ripping Newt can say that there's anything WRONG with doing any of those things. If you'd read a little bit more & stop blindly listening to Limbaugh, who has his head in the sand on this topic, you'd see that Newt's approach is one that can actually provide leadership on climate, and will give its supporters a lot more political capital to spend when it comes time to defeat outlandish climate proposals from the left, the U.N. & George Soros.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 12:51 AM

Newt, I don't know what to think of you anymore... I thought I could trust you... you have betrayed me and my family. I wish you would come to your senses.

Also "Real Change Requires Real Change"... what in the world does that mean. You are sounding more and more like Obama and like a liberal.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 25, 2008 12:31 AM

I do not accept your "explanation" for appearing with Nancy Polosi appearing to go along with Global Warming. As someone else said, it is also called Spring. I think that you have made yourself look foolish.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:17 PM

I join with the majority of people who are disappointed and disillusioned. Our once reliable and sensible conservatives are dropping like flies. As someone so rightly put it, we thought you were a statesman, but all along you have been a politician, just using us. No more!!!!!!

By Gatorwest @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:28 PM

anonymous: You appear to read about as well as you think!

Go back and read it again. I didn’t say 40,000 Chinese, I said 40,000 people! Responding to the ludicrous ideas you have about the tailpipe. I don’t actually know how many people die of anything in China. And yes I know Newt is an American politician!

See: “About 40,000 people die every year as a result of automobile emissions or particulate matter”

Try this: Lock yourself in a garage with the door closed and the engine running. You won’t see the CO2, but you will see the smog!

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:25 PM

Newt has a tin ear when it comes to conservative ideas. He was spanked by the 'Rat Party after '94, and now they're his new best friends.

The incessant harping about the globaloney passed off as 'climate change' is a scam, pure and simple.

No one running the globaloney scam will ever debate it, because people would realize it's not science, it's science fiction. That's why the Gorebot absolutely RUNS from any debate.

And now Gingrich plays kissy-face with the climate deceivers -- who pat him on the head and tell him how swell he is.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 3:21 PM

40,000 die to automobile particulate matter pollution in China huh.

You do realize Newt.org is an American politician not a Chinese politician. Let the Communist Chinese government take care of the Communist Chinese people, it is what Communists are best at, taking care of their own people. Let them do their thing, we do our thing, everyone is happy.

If you are really really concerned about 40,000 Chinese dying to smog every year the best thing we as Americans can do is stop trading with them so their standard of living can drop back to walking and bicycling so they won't die to so much smog. Problem solved.

By Gatorwest @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:58 AM

Annomous: CO2 alone does not come out of the tail pipe!

Particulate matter is the fine airborne particles forming smog. PM materialize directly in the atmosphere, through the oxidation of other polluting agents, such as sulphur dioxide. nitrogen oxides and volatile organic composites. The main source of such polluting agents is the combustion of fossil fuel in automobiles, and in heavy industries.

About 40,000 people die every year as a result of automobile emissions or particulate matter .

And then there is the CO2.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:34 AM

In spirit, McCain is sitting right next to Newt in this TV ad.

"I will clean up the planet," McCain said. "I will make global warming a priority."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/mccain_vows_to.html

Don't blame me, I voted for Duncan Hunter.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:27 AM

"Even if there is “no absolute proof” of global warming, the environment does need our attention. You can see the air where I live, and a friend of mine who works in Beijing says the air is unbelievably polluted there! "

Attention uneducated folk: Carbon Dioxide doesn't cause smog. Carbon Dioxide doesn't cause health problems unless you are trying to strangle someone with your bare hands like Republicans giving into Socialist propaganda.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:20 PM

This is what I think of the video. http://mark24609.blogspot.com/2008/04/newt-nancy-and-global-warming.html You say you dont believe there is conclusive proof about global warming. Then why participate in a lie. Al Gore's movie was full of untruths and just last week they discovered that he took a clip directly from A day after Tomorrow. This is no different than Barack Obama participating in The Million Man March by a radical anti-semite. You both come away with the conclusion the cause is good even though the progenitor is nuts. When conservatives cross ailes why does that mean cave. This is the most absurd thing you have ever done. You say you want to participate in the debate, what conservatives need to do is to steer the debate in a different direction that is not a scam, and then you do it with Nancy Pelosi, the person who puts our lives in danger by not putting up the FISA bill for a vote, shutting down the Columbia free trade deal. Why do you have to choose such a corrupt politician instead of someone like Joseph Lieberman, at least some Democrat who has integrity. But the point is you shouldn't do it at all.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:27 PM

your joining with the Pelosi national disgrace on the world's greatest scam since the ice age scare convinces me that all politicians, including you, are pathetic slime.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:23 PM

Mr. Speaker you have now caved in to the Global Warming Hoax. I have lost any respect I had for you and I will never again buy any books you publish.

By Gatorwest @ Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:37 AM

Anonymous,

Even if there is “no absolute proof” of global warming, the environment does need our attention. You can see the air where I live, and a friend of mine who works in Beijing says the air is unbelievably polluted there!

We don’t need proof, we didn’t for WMD's. There are holes in the ozone, and we can’t expect to endlessly pollute the atmosphere and get away with it. I applaud Newt for not boycotting the issue because the liberals are championing it! I do admit though, it took guts to sit on that couch with Pelosi!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:07 PM

If you don't believe we have conclusive proof of global warming. And you don't believe we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it, then your suppose to say, "HELL NO!"

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:49 PM

I have had it. Look at

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2008/mar/Reg110Dv00Elem02_03032008_pg.gif

and look at

http://www.daviesand.com/Choices/Precautionary_Planning/New_Data/

When you look at the 100 year US temp graph (instead of only 10 years), it is basically flat. When you look back 400,000 years using the Vostok ice core data, you see a sequence of peaks (with the previous 3 peaks higher than ours). This is not manmade. There is no evidence that it is manmade. The current push for green this and green that is so that governments can push through their tax increases before people realize it is a fraud. (Fortunately, for the big government folks, the population's science abilities are not the best.)

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:40 PM

Newt,
I understand your reasoning. But I strongly disagree with it. I just watch the commercal again. When you unter the words"Climate Change" it gives credabilty to the argument that man is in fact changing the climate or could change the climate. I think this is the wrong strategy. If we want to bring about change and inovation it must be done with an honest argument. Not some flawed theory that is basicly trying to scare everyone. Only 34% of the people believe it in the first place. You have just lent your crediablity to their argument. Just like telegraphing the government shut down, you have stubbed your toe again. As conservative's we must have a better argument than agreeing with the other side and working from there. Oil prices are through the roof and we are unable to drill for it where we need to in this country because we have sided with the opposition in our compromise. 76% of the people in this country think oil supplies are running out, why because of the oppositions arguments say it is so when it is not. We just need arguments that make sense are and are base on fact not scare tatic's. I know you are other's can come up with better arguments that this. We must for the sake of our country. What if the argument was we must bring about "change in the economy" and you where sitting next to Pelosi what would we think of then? Think about it.

By 55kjsmith @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:39 PM

To Gatorwest @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:00 PM

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head. We need a visionary leader to inspire the American people to action. WHAT WE DON"T NEED is to build on a foundation of faulty "science" for the sake of entering the debate (no matter how good it sounds). How do we inspire that action? With real solutions in opposition to the liberal elite, global warming, government control wackos. Newt CAN BE that leader! He has the intelligence and ability to communicate above all the media garbage. PLEASE NEWT!!! Get some credible climatologists on your team and start a real conservative ad campaign with real science to back it up.

By Newt @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:13 PM

Many of you have written to me to ask why I recently taped an advertisement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for The Alliance for Climate Protection, a group founded by former Vice President Al Gore.

I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don't think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don't think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.

But here's what we do know. There is an important debate going on right now over the right energy policy, the right environmental policy, and making sure we do the right things for our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Conservatives are missing from this debate, and I think that's a mistake. When it comes to preserving our environment for future generations, we can't have a slogan of "Just yell no!"

I have a different view. I think it's important to be on the stage, to engage in the debate, and to communicate our position clearly. There is a big difference between left-wing environmentalism that wants higher taxes, bigger government., more bureaucracy, more regulation, more red tape, and more litigation and a Green Conservatism that wants to use science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurs, and prizes to find a way to creatively invent the kind of environmental future we all want to live in. Unless we start making the case for the latter, we're going to get the former.
That's why I took part in the ad.

By Gatorwest @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:00 PM

Commercials increase awareness, LEADERSHIP SOLVES PROBLEMS!

John Kennedy didn’t run commercials trying to convince us to go to the moon! He said “we are going to the moon in 10 years”, that was leadership. And when he threw down his landmark historical gauntlet, we didn’t exactly know how to get to the moon. We do know how to get rid of Oil & Gas emissions which is a huge step in cleaning up the Earth! Unlike Kennedy, we already have everything we need to get off oil – EXCEPT THE LEADERSHIP!

But Americans, both political leaders and us ordinary citizens, just don’t have the “will” to act! Don’t believe me! Start by going to http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/ and looking at all the hydrogen and Hydrogen fuel cell cars that use zero gasoline and produce zero emissions. These cars are already built.

Go to the websites and look at them, you won’t believe it. There are cars from Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, Cadillac, Chevy, GM, Hummer, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Sukuki, Toyota, and VW. Plus others. And I’m not talking prototypes, I’m talking real production cars, with driving reports, performance stats, etc! You can also go to the Chevy site http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/ and see what they say about their Hydrogen fuel cell car. There are also many electric cars that are starting to perform like “cars”. Such as the Chevy fully electric car that you can see at http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/. Completely workable, but America obviously doesn’t want to drive them because they are not as “nice” as a gas car.

The technology we already have that is ready and waiting to “get us off oil” is overwhelming. What is underwhelming is the will of the American people and the American leadership to get us to these cars! California has already passed a law that there will be 20 Hydrogen filling stations in 10 years. Is that it? How weak is that?

What America needs now is a leader like JFK who says: In 10 years we are off oil for personal vehicles! You can buy whatever you like, but you can’t buy gas for it 10 years from now. Sure there will be those who say we can’t do it for this reason or that reason. That it cost too much or some part of society will be hurt. But American ingenuity would step up to the challenge as it always does. And the government could help close the infrastructure gaps. We did after all build all of the railroads and highways. What’s changing the fuel supply compared to that? Aren’t we that same America?

China & India are catching on to autos. Globalization is industrializing the great masses of the world. New wealth is looking for better life styles. China and India represent one third of the world’s population but currently consumes only 1 barrel of oil per capita per year. The USA with 5% of the world population now consumes 25% of the world’s oil, or 17 barrels per person each year. If China and India like Japan, go from 1 barrel per capita to 15 as they industrialized, the oil holes are going to be “sucked dry” the residue sent up to the sky! The Arab finger stuck in our eye as the economy runs dry! Americans MUST have the will to deal with this problem. Where is our leader?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:36 PM

Your ad with Pelosi is most disappointing. To add your credentials to the fraud of climate change is unbelievable! These people and their global agenda need to be exposed and defeated not coddled to. You apparently have accepted their premise and mistakenly think they want your input on supposed fixes. What a dupe!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:26 PM

Oh, Newt. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid. When are we going to challenge the left on these ridiculous assumptions? We can't win over the left if we continue to treat their global warming garbage as if it were true!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:29 PM

I have to laugh at the responses from the sheep here. It's typically mindless jabbing. Completely expected of politically mindful people. The real culprits of green house gases are the very people sitting on that freakin park bench in that joke of a commerical.
Folks lets get down to the heart of the matter. You can drive down the road in anytown, USA and see $3.64 for a gallon of gas. Do you think the politicians in bed with the oil companies want it any other way? Their interests are plain and simple and you should be talking about them, not this ridiculous partnership between parties.
#1 - The oil companies are not going to give up the multi trillion dollar top line without a fight, you can bet it doesn't take much to stop on the little guy. #2 - if you subsitute an energy source such as gasoline, how are the governments gonna collect taxes? There's a source of energy that's free and they know it, and all of this is part of the big joke on us. If you're confused about my response then I'll clear it up in one word. Hydrogen. Why do you think GM pulled their vehicle off the shelf? Think about it too hard and your head will explode. Peace out sheep.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:31 PM

Newt.org posted:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/04/17/DI2008041703486.html

"Therefore, I am willing to look for methods of lowering carbon that do not destroy the economy or give the government increased power."

Newt, Newt, Newt <shakes head>, you have fallen for the LIE that this is ALL about CO2 emmissions. IT IS NOT. To say so would be to say that it is man made when you REALLY DON'T KNOW! Are you saying it is CO2 emissions just because AL GORE says it is <shakes head again>. Have you PROVEN it is NOT because of change of the earth core or that it isn't due to sun spot activity. NO YOU HAVE NOT AND NEITHER HAS GORE AND NEITHER WILL HE TRY TO FIND OUT IF IT IS OR NOT!! Algore is making too much money off of this. Newt has clearly bought into bad science at best and a lie at worst.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:54 PM

Newt, I am so disappointed to discover that you have fallen for the fraud that is global warming or climate change. I thought you had more intelligence than that. If your new movement is really serious about changing things, then joining the liberals is the wrong kind of change.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:48 PM

I have such great respect for you, but I am very disappointed that you have joined the Global Warming Alarmists. Please check out the other side at http://www.globalwarming.org/ These experts have much better credentials than Al Gore, whom I don't believe and don't trust.

By zlegatoz @ Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:47 PM

I'm going to say this again (and I'm sorry this may offend some of you . . . but it has to be said).

The majority of responses here illustrate a "throwing the baby out with the bath water" method of thinking.

Even though the negative reaction to this is understandable, can you imagine abandoning an ENTIRE movement of positive change because of ONE thing you don't like?

No one else is making the case for the level of transformation we need. And no one else is going to. If what you want is an establishment that increasingly governs beyond the consent of the governed . . . you can have it.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 11:21 PM

Newt, it was disheartening to see conservatives and republicans lay down the fight and be stomped as a result in the 2006 elections. Seeing your ad with Nancy Pelosi and realizing I will have to vote for a liberal on the republican presidential ticket tells me those 2006 elections were a major pivotal point for the conservative movement in the wrong direction. The liberal agenda is bankrupt when it comes to ideas. They have nothing but failures on a world wide scale. In my opinion, for conservative leadership to climb into bed with liberals in a ruse to "come to the table" indicates our ideas have become as impotent or rather that our leadership has come to that conclusion. If this wave of capitulation continues what little we have left of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" will soon disappear completely. Then Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev will have had his way with the United States of America.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 11:15 PM

Newt, I voted for you while living in Roswell and just told my now 18 year old son about the time he met the man who was 2nd in line to be president. Now I have to tell him the difference between a politician and a statesman. I once considered you a leading statesman......Now you're just a "resigned" politician....

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 11:06 PM

I had so much respect for you to be a true conservative voice---to feed the Al Gore far left liberal Global CRAP ---I have lost all respect ---Why do conservatives feel they have to compromise---NOT one lib will ever do what you just did---SHAME on YOU

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 10:56 PM

I read the washington post article? WHAT? I said I read the questions asked by the drive by media. WHAT? I read that libtard crap and got no answers from you Mr. Newt WHAT? Where was the mention of drilling in ANWR? WHAT? what about no refinery built since 1976 WHAT? no mention of Nasty Pelosi in her 2006 victory speech becoming speaker of the house of a democrat controlled congress where with the rest of the politcal B.S. WHAT? PROMISED LOWER GAS PRICES AT THE PUMPS WHAT? Oil closed at $117.00 a barrel WHAT? AND IS HEADING HIGHER IN PRICE WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? STILL WAITING FOR SOME ANSWERS MR. NEWT!! LIBTARD DEMS WANT TO INSTITUTE EUROPEAN SOCIALISM. WHAT? WHAT PART OF EUROPEAN SOCIALISM ISN'T REGISTERING ? THIS IS WHO YOU SAT DOWN WITH ON A COUCH AND MADE A COMMERCIAL WITH MR. NEWT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 10:06 PM

Remember, Newt, trust is fragile. We are shocked to see that you would consent to sit for an ad on global warming, no matter how well paid you were. I woke up yesterday morning to 4 more inches of "global warming" on my lawn, for the third day in a row. Unless you have figured out how to control the sun, there is little we can do about it. Ask us to recycle, to conserve, to protect our air and water, but please, respect our intelligence.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 9:56 PM

Debate??? The ad plainly states that you have bought into this dribble.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 9:06 PM

I'm very disappointed in you Newt. Are there no conservatives left? I am very surprised to see you paired with Pelosi on Global Warming then claiming there is still a debate. Gore says the debate is over.. BS!! Even Bush is caving.
Very disappointing.... very disappointing... I shake my head in disgust...

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 8:49 PM

Dear Newt,
very disappointing! Find someone else to partner with. I would never support anything Ms Pelosi is connected with. She is a liar and always attack the President. Further, I don't believe in Global warming. I thought you were brighter than to fall for this extremely poor "science."
Bob Wherry

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 8:10 PM

My wife and I are so shocked that we can- not come up with words to express our disappointment in you making a commercial with Nancy Pelosi.
Why would you lend credence to an unproven theory. I'll bet Al Gore just laughed and laughed at you. That commercial will probably make him another million or so.

By newt.org @ Monday, April 21, 2008 6:02 PM

I would encourage you all to visit and read the transcript of Newt's chat, available here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/04/17/DI2008041703486.html

Some lines which are pertinent to your disagreements:

"I think the tragedy has been that conservatives have been unwilling to spend the time and energy to debate the left on which will produce the better outcome."

"So a great deal of the "current science" is in fact politics. However, the word "conservative" includes "conservation" as its root. And conservatives should be cautious. Therefore, I am willing to look for methods of lowering carbon that do not destroy the economy or give the government increased power."

"(A) successful environmental movement has to use science and technology and entrepreneurship to develop dramatically better solutions at much lower cost."

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 5:36 PM

Whoda thunk it. Joining with Pelosi--disgraceful.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 4:31 PM

Newt,

I have to agree with most of what I've read above. I was immensely disappointed that you bought into the global warning hysteria. As a catholic, I can accept the concept of global stewardship simply on the grounds that it makes sense to preserve our God given resources. But there is NO credible scientific evidence of man made global warming. By acknowledging as much, you gave the extremists a prime propaganda opportunity. I was STUNNED to see your ad. Not only because it helps the left to extend their control over every aspect of our lives, but because it will devastate your chances at ever claiming the title of POTUS.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 4:07 PM

Mr.Speaker you are always big on debate.I would be a little more opened minded maybe if the left and Gore would have the nerve to debate this issue.But they are to scared.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 4:05 PM

As a licenced Mechanical Engineer, I have spent my career trying to make systems more efficient and getting the maixumum use from materials. This is the right thing to do for a whole host of reasons and has been the goal of nearly every manufacturing company and the design and construction companies that build our infrastructure. But, I see this "climate crisis" hysteria as nothing more than a power grab by environmental extremists and the politicians that feel they can capitalize on this trumped up scare campaign. There have numerous "crises" in the past and mankind has always worked there way out of them by clear and analytical thinking - not by knee jerk and poorly thought out reactions.

I appreciate Newt's stated desire to create a dialog, but in this "commercial" I think he comes across as buying into the "fact" of man-made climate change. Very few people who see this ad are going to go to Newt's web page to investigate further. It doesn't look like you and Nancy are looking for middle ground. It looks like Newt is agreeing there is a "crisis".

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 1:58 PM

My respect for you, Newt, is plummeting. How can someone I once considered very intelligent be so duped by this hoax.

Newt, you've always been willing and able to cite proof an logic for your positions. I'd love to see you attempt to cite scientific evidence for this bit of stupidity.

By Anonymous @ Monday, April 21, 2008 11:46 AM

My family and I have always had a great deal of respect for Newt and were excited when he talked about running for President. I almost fainted when I saw the ad on television. I had just walked into the room and at first thought it was some kind of Saturday Night Live joke. I am completely disappointed in Newt. How could he be taken in by this hoax, or is it that for some reason he just wants all of us to be taken in by it? I am terribly, terribly disappointed.

By zlegatoz @ Monday, April 21, 2008 12:26 AM

Oh, and by the way . . . (this is for "Anonymous @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:02 AM"). . .

I think this is a strategy AND I think Newt means exactly what he is saying. Those are not mutually exclusive.

:)

By zlegatoz @ Monday, April 21, 2008 12:22 AM

Hi Newt,

Well, I'm that one guy who sees this as a mixed bag. I personally see this as a strategy to disarm the cooky left. I also think you are building up a cache of items to use in a 2012 run (thinking about the John Kerry debate, the Hillary event, and the Cuomo/Cooper Union deal).

Everyone else here is pretty upset with you. I think you should post some audio or video to further address this ad. As citizens who have gone to the trouble to check out what you are doing, they deserve to hear you address their views.

Thanks.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:58 AM

I was really shocked to see you in that add about climate change. I am extremely disappointed with you. I have respected your opinions for some time now, but this is making me wonder about that. Climate change which is caused by man and CO2 is the biggest hoax ever and it will down in history as that along with those who support it. It is a propaganda campaign to gain more government control and domination over mankind. Proposed so called solutions will cost trillions of dollars and hurt the poor countries with little or no effect. Modern civilization is possible because of electricity and without it poor countries will remain poor. There is currently no source of energy that will replace fossil fuel to provide the current and future energy needs for mankind. I can't believe you believe this junk.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:16 AM

Newt . . .

If you have the slightest hope of regaining the huge support of conservatives --- which you enjoyed up till the last week (your ad with Pelosi on the liberals' stupid, non-scientific global warming issue) you'd better come out VERY publicly and SOON apologizing-renouncing-admitting it was a mistake.

If you don't, your once respected political knowledge and integrity are history.

Trying to be a centrist is a worse mistake.

Centrists have never elected anyone to any office. On the other hand, conservatives, regardless of party, have decided most of the presidential elections in the past half century --- usually by voting, but sometimes by not voting.

Hap Corbett, Editor and Publisher, PO Box 125, Staples, MN 56479

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:02 AM

I've read all the comments.

Looks like some of you are thinking Newt is implementing some sort of ingenious strategy to hobble the green movement, reading between the lines, or you think Newt is pulling a Margaret Thatcher pro-nuclear stance.

Well you are wrong, Newt means what he says and says what he means. Newt simply believes in Global Warming. He is now a believer in a cult, and all you can do is pray for him.

"Oh dear God, help Newt come back from the darkness of heresy..."

By Anonymous @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:46 AM

Dear Newt Gingrich,

Your actions don't surprise me as others are surprised. Along with Algore and Clinton you sold America out with NAFTA in the 1990's. Those that ate your globalist free-trade propaganda are now re-examining their belief in free-trade.

Thank you.

By sailormc38 @ Sunday, April 20, 2008 12:57 AM

Dear Mr. Speaker
My wife and I were so very disappointed this evening to see you in the Global Warming ad on tv. I find it difficult to understand how a man of your intelligence can join with the Left Wing liberals in the Global Warming Scam of the century. Surly you don't believe the G W is caused by Man?
Mr. Speaker I believe that what you have done by identifying with the liberal Democrats is to diminish your leadership position in the eyes of Conservatives. I am sorry that you have given credence to the liberal Democrat party.
What you have done Mr. Speaker was Wrong.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:43 PM

I can't believe I saw and heard that. "Responsible stewardship" does not start with public collaboration with insanity. Your appearance, in agreement with Pelosi on ANYTHING can only be seen as a betrayal to all the people who depended on you to act in a more responsible and honorable manner.

You have lost my respect and trust.

What's next? Are you planning an ad on foreign policy with Jimmy Carter?

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:06 PM

Is this some kind of joke?? I find it hard to believe that the man who fashioned the "Contract with America" has abandoned ship. Say it aint so, Newt!!!!

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:59 PM

Newt,

I almost fell off my chair when I saw this lie-commercial you did. I have lost all respect for you. This climate change movement is an absolute hood-wink that will cripple our economy... It is the biggets scam ever that has made that walrus Algore wealthy.

You are an absolute disgrace!! I can't even look at you anymore. You are a sellout for sleeping with the enemy. You make me sick!!

Especially since the world just experienced the longest,coldest and most bountiful snowfall ever.

I consider you a trader and an unequivocal disgrace to all conservatives!!

I won't be suprised now if you come out against the 2nd Amend. soon after this disgusting commercial-lie!!!!!

GO TO HELL SELLOUT!!!!!

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:54 PM

I always felt you were let down by Trent Lott when he caved to Clinton but this confirms my worst fears; that all politicians just want money and power. Global warming is something we should welcome to keep the glaciers at bay. The Global Warming crowd you have joined can do nothing about climate but simply tax americans and hope they feel good about it. Yes avoid waste, but explore for more oil and do what the Germans and South African's did; build plants to convert coal to liquid fuel and DONT JOIN THE ENEMY!

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:34 PM

Newt I always had the deepest respect for you and always looked up to you in till my friend called me up and told me about this commercial you were in with Nancy Pelosi about global warming. He told me about it and I didn’t really believe him. But then I saw it and I was shocked. I cant believe a conservative like you would sell out on something like this. Global warming is a myth just like global cooling was in the 70’s I am sure you already know that. Maybe you haven’t done enough research on it. I cant believe you would believe Al gores B,S please come back on this one Newt. former Fans, Calkins Family

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:46 AM

Newt . . .

My plan was --- and still is --- to vote for McCain and the moment after he is sworn in as president, begin a campaign for find an honest, conservative Republican to run against him four years later. That person was you. Now we have to look for another.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:20 AM

I have always had the highest respect for you as one who has the right positions and knows why he has them.

You know better than to support the global warming hogwash, but it appears so,meone "owns" you for whatwever reasonand that's dangerous.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:41 AM

Dear Newt,

I was disappointed when conservatives were faced with John McCain as the Republican nominee knowing he was selling us out for the human-induced global warming hoax (among other things).

But when I saw your ad with Nancy Pelosi, I was heartbroken and devastated. I believed in you. I thought you were a conservative. I never thought you would buy into the junk science of human-induced climate change.

Why? Are you, like McCain, trying to earn the respect of the MainStream Media? Their respect is not real...as WAS the respect of conservative people like me.

Steve

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:42 AM

I have always had the utmost respect for Newt. This commercial is highly disappointing.

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:28 AM

Am I alone, or does anyone else feel as if our politicians think we are complete idiots? I am completely disgusted by these ads.
I feel betrayed by my party once again, and quite frankly I'm so turned off by this - words cannot describe!
I imagine after seeing this ad, the amount of conservative "blood boiling" may add a few degrees to the earth's temperature. I'm anticipating a grand finale ad with Big Al sitting on the couch surrounded by new best friends, Pat and Al, Newt and Nancy, maybe even Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann singing "We Are The World".
In a nutshell, I feel as if I've been slapped in the face once again and I've run out of cheeks!

By Anonymous @ Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:01 AM

Newt,
I was surprised and saddened by the ad with Ms. Pelosi. I have spent thirty years of my life workging with science and technology, including building computer models. One inescapable conclusion I've reached is that you cannot perform real science in an open system. Extrapolation frequently leads to the worst kind of 'junk science'. Think back to the seventies, when Paul Ehrlich wrote the "Population Bomb". The book was compelling and predicted global mass starvation by the eighties. It had a huge impact on our intellectual culture. Personally, I think it was a major influence engendering 'Roe V Wade'. But, Ehrlich's extrapolations didn't pan out. Gore's won't either. The major problem is that we are deflecting from the more urgent point - developing domestic energy resources!

Oh, and if we can stop warming, can we stop cooling too? And if it's not 'Warming' but 'Climate change', can we really profess to know enough to stop climate from changing?

By dcallan @ Friday, April 18, 2008 11:56 PM

I barely believed my eyes when I saw this TV ad by WE. As a degreed chemical engineer and generally well educated indivdual, it is painfully obvious that the "green" crowd wants humankind to return the cave. That is their goal.

Human indcued climate change is a HUGE hoax. I once supported Republicans like Reagan but the party has totally lost its way. Time to go to the Libertarians.

Atlas is shrugging and the weight of the world is falling.

How can Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged still be so popular but the American public is tolerating this BS from ou politicians! Incredible.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 9:43 PM

That ad just means I have COMPLETELY lost respect for Newt. He had a very large moral bank account with me, but just saw the ad and what can I say? Newt took a jumbo withdrawal and is not overdraft. Sick

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 9:39 PM

Newt,
First the "Reagan Era is over", now this kool-aid spectacular. What in the world are you doing, you can't possibly believe in this hoax. Do you want a pdf of Newsweek's "Global Cooling" article from Earthday 1975? Or could you possibly just be in this to insist the the Chinese must follow the same exact rules with "trust but verify" as the ground rule?

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 8:44 PM

Newt, you are one of the smartest and most articulate people I have heard. I do have a BIG problem with you sitting down with Nancy Pelosi and making a commercial about 'climate change'. There is no evidence of man made climate change!

I am all for protecting the environment and I participate as much as possible in not polluting the earth, but what were you thinking when you uttered the term 'climate change'.???

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 8:34 PM

I listened to your reason for doing tha ad, and it made me a feel a LITTLE better, it still doesn't sit right with me seeing you on a couch with what I consider an internal terrorist giving credibility to the Goracle...

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 6:37 PM

I am VERY disapointed in this AD. Humans are NOT causing climate change. I thought someone as smart as you would not be fooled by this, and used by the left wing nuts. I think you need to do some reseach on this like you have on your history books. Simply put something that is less than 1% on the air we breath can not possibly change the climate point.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 4:08 PM

Hi Newt,

I simply can't believe the drivel I read here regarding the position you have taken up with Nancy Pelosi. This is exactly what is wrong with partisan politics...on both sides. I commend you, as I think you are not politically motivated, but are motivated by an issue that is clearly real and here to stay. For the far right wingers in here....what do you say to $4.00 a gallon for gas coming from foreign oil? If you don't think emissions problems are real. go to China and try to breathe. As to the remark about Al Gores "propaganda" I have a little more respect for the Nobel prize process than that. For the record, I don't support any party, as that would narrow my view too much. Keep up the good cause Newt and Nancy!

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 3:53 PM

I too, like most of the other posted commenting bloggers, am extremely disappointed that you have taken this position with Nancy Pelosi. The whole global warming issue is one of power and money. In the name of environmentalism and saving the polar bears, Al Gore has positioned himself to make "BILLIONS" of dollars if the federal government mandates a "cap-and-trade" of carbon emissions. How can this be? Good old Al has formed a company called Generation Investment Management (GIM) of which he is chairman and founder. This is a private equity firm that is quietly buying up carbon offsets. If cap-and-trade becomes mandatory, he is clearly in a position to control the outcome. Forbes Magazine says that Gore has not been forthcoming about the firm's finances, where it gets its funding and what project it supports. If this fact interest you, look up the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) or the European Climate Exchange (ECX). You will see that they all scratch each other's backs and when good old Al accuses Global Warming Deniers of being backed by big oil...it's laughable. The real manipulators are Gore and his political cronies.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 3:27 PM

Dear Newt - As probably the sharpest pencils in the Washington D.C. box, I was shocked to see you in the global warming ad with Pelosi. Despite your reasons for doing so (and I'm sure you could articulate many), it just plays into the hands of the fanatics on the left who believe in the Gore-inspired anthropogenc global warming - - which can now be said to be nonsense from a scientific standpoint. Why is it that conservatives always give in to liberals on everything? When do they EVER move to the right to embrace our principles and policies? Never. So, why do we do it? More to the point, why did you do it? This just drives me nuts!

Mr. Speaker, you are one of my heroes. I'm so disappointed you decided to make this little bit of propaganda which only suits the objectives of those on the left.

(I note only negative postings here - - there's a reason for that Newt.)

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 2:40 PM

So disappointed in seeing you with the speaker of the house and supporting Gore and his position on global warming. This is an unproven theory and how can you support such a place at this time in history.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 2:26 PM

Newt is really starting to disappoint, as is Bush. Consensus is not science. When it's politicians pushing this bunk and no "real" scientific proof other than theory we should at best be a little skeptical.

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 12:28 PM

co2 driven global warming is a myth..the troposphere isn't warming faster then the surface yet all agw ghg models require this, antarctica should be warming and getting increased precipitation: it is cooling with no precipitation increase and the amount of sea ice has had a 20 year trend of increase. the oceans are cooling. the only thing keeping the myth of agw alive if the myth of a consensus and computer models that are highly unreliable. I, like many others, are disappointed in your decision to back such an ill supported claim just at a time when scientists are backing off from it in ever increasing numbers

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Sounds Like Bull to me. You just sold out to the Libs on the biggest scam they have going and in doing so, lost credibility. Way to go. Can't ANYBODY stand up for truth ove politics.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:21 PM

As a mining engineer, I know this is all a scam. Newt in bed with the hyprocites on the climate change issue makes me sick.

All we will do is push business to un-regulated 3rd world countries where more unfriendly practices will go untaxed and hurt the "global environment".

Low energy light buld cause are energy negative when we include their manufacturing costs PLUS contain Hg which doesn't get disposed of properly.

Ethanol is very energy negative and is a major reason many food prices have gone up.

How is this a good idea? Conservation and environmental issues are very important to me as a steward of the land, a father, and an outdoor enthusiast. Al Gore is cashing in on this. Nancy Pelosci is politicizing it. Newt is hurt by being a part of it.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:55 PM

I think if Newt wants the conservatives to get into the global warming game then he should come up with a new conservative forum and not join Al Gore's or the far lefts, obviously we would have different ways of approaching, implementing and if applicable solving. Newts add gives the far left a form of endorsement which makes me think McNewt! But I still like Newt and think he is very intelligent in other areas.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:52 PM

Mr. Newt , couple of questions for you . WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? PELOSI? ALGORE? OIL AT $115.00 GAS CLOSE TO $4.00 A GALLON ? THIS GIVES FUEL FOR THE ENVIROMENTALIST WACKOS & LIBERALS NEWT THAT WE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AMERICA WORK WELCOME EUROPEAN SOCIALISM?SORRY MR. NEWT NOT THIS CONSERVATIVE. THIS EARTH HAS BEEN AROUND FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS AND IS STILL GOING. MR.NEWT YOU GOING TO SING KUMBAYA ON EARTH DAY THIS APRIL ?

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:05 PM

Which religion poses a greater threat to freedom in America, really? Islam, or Environmentalism? I think the people of Troy would have a thought on the subject. The horse, draped in blue, has been completed, and our "leaders" are dragging it into the city. Markets will deliver alternatives. What we can expect from government is less freedom and lower standard of living.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:48 PM

Newt, You have broken my Heart, don't know what else to say!!!!

By JDLarsen @ Saturday, April 12, 2008 5:37 PM

Not a single one of us wants to utterly destroy our environment like Pelosi and Gore want the American public to believe. I don't know if global warming exists or not. If it does exist, no crisis is so large that we must sell our soul to stave it off. Gore, Pelosi, et al are no more concerned for the environment than I am. Conservatives breathe the same air their do. They are using the environment/global warming as a way to diminsh personal liberty and exhibit greater control. At the heart of the matter they are statists...the believe that the state should proactivly make decisions for the masses. What disappoints me is that you were used as a pawn in all this. Now Newt, I know why you did it. I'm sure when you did you polls for the Platform the American People you found that a majority of the country believes in global warming. I don't care one way or another. But greater than global warming is our national interest. We need to drill in ANWR and off our coasts, invest in nuclear technology, and invest in hydrogen technology. The left is no interest in virtiually any of these points. Don't play their game.

By zlegatoz @ Saturday, April 12, 2008 4:11 PM

Some of the posts here from Newt supporters sound like this is a "dealbreaker" for them.

Please consider the following analogy:

I think most people agree that the amnesty bill of 1986 turned out to be a mistake. Reagan agreed to provide amnesty in return for better enforcement. It turned out that this well-intentioned deal was the wrong approach.

Was this a dealbreaker for Reagan's supporters? No. This was a mistake in a long line of successes.

Only time will tell if the Gingrich/Pelosi add is/was a mistake. But let's not take our eye off the ball in considering the broader set of objectives that Newt is advocating. "Throwing the baby out with the bathwater" is the colloquialism that comes to mind.

Thanks for reading.

By jameslee @ Friday, April 11, 2008 9:37 PM

Newt,
You enter into a discussion about climate change assuming the people you are dealing with will be open minded with respect to the evidence. Wrong! The people you are dealing already have made up their minds. Promoting global warming is just another issue they want to use in order to promote their elitist agenda for moving this country toward their brand of socialism. I respect you Newt, but you are making a big mistake. Jim

By Anonymous @ Friday, April 11, 2008 4:17 PM

Newt - I am one of those green conservatives. I believe we should drill in Anwar, and other places to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, and at the same time embrace solar, wind, geo thermal and other measures to help with getting more clean energy sources.
We should definitely stop cutting down the rain forest.
We should not join in KYOTO protocols. Newt, you know this is just another way for the gov't to tax us more, and take away our sovereignty, and make us join a global community that doesn't have our best interest in mind. China and India are the biggest polluters, let's deal with them.
Thanks, Mike Lyman

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:10 PM

I am VERY DISAPPOINTED in Newt! If you admit there is no proof then why give creedance to Al Gore's HOAX???

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:44 PM

10 years of evidence that the earth is not only NOT warming but may in fact be cooling and now Newt joins the "raise your taxes to fight global warming" crowd -- unbelievable

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:43 PM

I have been suspecting for a while that Newt has in fact bought this hox. OK, he may not have the technical expertize... but somehow the thue conservatives get it right anyway.
Could it be that after all these years in Washington Newt too became more of a politician than a conservative? A sad thought.
A. Kobilansky

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:50 AM

Conservatives need to prove to the World that we are more capable of protecting the environment than the liberal elite.

Filming a commercial that will help spread Al Gores propaganda is not the way to do it. Newt is one of the smartest people I have ever listened to. This was a disappointment to learn about.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:26 PM

Nancy Pelosi?

It's high time Republicans got back to the table on environmental issues, but I would rather see us stress a position with responsible leadership. Nancy Pelosi has no credibility in that regard.

I haven't seen the ad, but I hope (for the sake of all involved) that it points up perhaps a shared concern, but respectful differences.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:18 PM

Mr. Speaker,

My concern is that the Law of Unintended Consequences may apply to your ad.

In our sound-bite nation, will the average viewer conclude (a) now, "even the Right agrees with Gore's take on AGW," and (b) "it obviously requires Big Government to address such a huge problem?"

Will people wait to hear "the rest of the story" you want to tell? We can hope so.

Or instead, should we take the offensive and aggressively expose the AGW climate-change myth before more of our liberties and hard-earned dollars are lost?

Respectfully, J.T. Henry, Denver

By 55kjsmith @ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:06 AM

First of all, I completely agree with the purpose Newt is trying to accomplish here. Conservatives have been silent on environmental stewardship for too long, and as a result radical environmentalists have seized on an issue where they can define the problems and the solutions with no worry of their positions being opposed. All the while, the elite left has viewed this as a shortcut to socialism. So, Newt, I applaud your courage to take on issues that, because of our historical lack of a voice, might associate you with the liberals you're trying to argue against.

However, the Alliance for Climate Change is yet another Al Gore cover for his propaganda. Instead, we as conservatives should offer an alternative ad campaign with credible climatologists, scientists, and politicians to counter the "junk science" of those who can only get funding by attaching "man-made global warming" to their research proposals. Liberals are the original spin-doctors. If anyone questions their intentions, they can simply point to having the most credible conservative on their team (Newt) and that this is a perfect example of Democrats being "bipartisan." With liberal elites like Gore and Pelosi, there is no such thing as working together. They will fight to the death on the issue of man-made global warming because it is their best chance in decades to win the minds of the majority of Americans, starting with indoctrinating school children.

You fight bad ideas with good ideas. And great ideas result in change. But real solutions cannot come from the same camp that has been offering the wrong solutions. They need to come from a well organized, well planned campaign who stands in opposition to the lies and poisonous solutions of the liberal elite. And Newt Gingrich is can definitely do THAT!

By zlegatoz @ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:49 AM

Please consider the following:

I think the idea of "lending credibility to the opposition" isn't what an average citizen is going to see here. And as a member of the "right," I hope everyone will step back and take a look at this a little differently.

This is pretty shrewd:
Newt is simultaneously making sure the "free-market/science" argument is heard while disarming the left's contention that only THEY have the answers on environmental quality.

Think about a scenario in which the left is forced to come up with arguments which try to refute a well-reasoned "free-market/science" approach.

In the right hands (Newt's?) they can be made to look completely unreasonalbe to the swing voter. This could reveal that what this is REALLY about is the left's bigotted attitude toward capitalism.

An informed swing voter might have to conclude that the left is ONLY willing to consider environmental quality on THEIR terms . . . and they will lose credibility.

. . . In that scenario, I see Nancy Pelosi sitting their smiling while she gets played like a cheap violin . . . and I like what I see.

By no1tek @ Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:48 AM

Mr. Newt,
I have been a fan and supporter for nearly 20 years now but I believe it is a mistake to lend credibility to these people. I will happily debate anyone at any time over what I contend is, at best, junk science. But they have no interest in a debate which includes facts of any kind. Therefore, sitting on a couch with someone elected to office by the world's largest outdoor insane asylum serves no purpose but to hurt the cause of conservatism. It is time one of them said something to the effect of "You know, this might all be overblown or perhaps non-existent". Let's not let the debate be driven by irrational people simply because they control the news cycle. Thanks for all you do.
Craig Conway
Frankfort, KY

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:39 PM

Dear Mr. Gingrich,
Although I fully support the need of Americans to be environmentally responsible, it should not be at the expense of selling our souls to the devil, which is exactly what the liberal elite are. They aren't the least bit interested in change for the betterment of this nation, nor the world for that matter; rather their goal is to transform society into a socialist state with their crackpot leadership at its head. To this end, they shamelessly use tactics of fear, lies, character assassination and any other disreputable means to further their twisted ambition. Your offer of a responsible dialogue with these devils is only perceived by them as capitulation on your part and as such, they will exploit you as much as possible. They will seemingly listen to what you say, but all the while their shifty, evil little brains are plotting how they can best distort your dialog to suit their agenda. The liberal elite are the true enemies of this country. They have never supported the free market system upon which this great nation was built. Throughout our history, even in times of war, they have always worked against this nation’s freedoms. So much so, that it would seem that they would rather see this nation fall in defeat to its enemies, rather than help lead it to victory. What they fail to realize is that should this nation ever go down in defeat, their little elitist world will crumble all around them. They’re like little children who have not yet learned that their actions bring about consequences that are not in anyone’s best interests, not even theirs. We can’t allow them to throw their tantrums without exposing them for what they are. I suppose what I’m trying to say in a roundabout way is that you can’t have a responsible dialog with the liberal elitists – their minds just don’t function in that manner. At best, all you can do is expose them to the American public and allow us to vote them out of office. Thank you for allowing me to take up so much of your valuable time.

By John Ansell @ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:59 PM

Newt's first mistake, in my most humble opinion. get the ice bags folks, the thumps Newt will take on this one will need some attending to.

By GearMaven @ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:20 PM

While I cannot get the audio clip to play to hear the explanation, I can say immediately that I think sitting down to do an ad with my rep, Nancy Pelosi, will do more damage to your standing amongst Republicans than anything you could have done. I have been an ardent supporter of your stance on issues throughout various blogs, forums, etc., on the web. This, however, is a misstep. Huge.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:03 AM

Newt, I appreciate what you stated and I even agree with the majority of what you said. The problem is the Nancy Pelosi's and Al Gore's have no interest in what you think, but they will exploit what you are doing here to meet their political goals. You’re playing the game by their rules. That is what is dangerous. Every time I hear 'go green' my skin starts to crawl and I have to make sure my wallet is where I left it. Siding with them is a big mistake on your part. We must fight them and make them agree to our terms, not the other way around, that is how conservatives win. We are starting to see legislation in CA to help ‘Mother Earth’ by proposing green taxes…this will only propagate throughout the US until our economy is severely affected. Please rethink what you are doing here.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:20 AM

I wish we had any Presidential Candidate as smart and knowledgeable of the constitution and experienced with the ability to work with all parties as Newt Gingrich to save this nation of ours. Unfortunately we have none at all. I'd be so proud to vote for Newt for President. If he doesn't want to run for President, I pray to God that he runs as Vice President to help McCain save our country before it's too late. Please, Newt, we need your help more than ever.
Thanks, Jeff from California

By Wally @ Monday, April 07, 2008 10:52 PM

Newt, In my very, very humble and less educated opinion "Innovation & Technology" for the Future of Energy is the proper direction - however, Al Gore and WE are calling it a "Climate Crisis" and its NOT.

Nancy is looking for street cred and by sitting on the couch with you - gives her some credibility.

Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi are playing politics with "Climate Change". I would of course prefer your solution.

I heard Charlton Heston in 1995 read Michael Chrichton's Prologue to Jurassic Park on the radio today. And it starts with "...You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. ..."

Gore & Pelosi are very poor images to motivate American Serfs to the Cause of "Green Environmentalism through Technology & Innovation". 2 cents worth.

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