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The Gingrich-Pelosi Climate Change Ad: Why I Took Part

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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.

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Newt

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By Anonymous @ Monday, May 19, 2008 7:26 AM
Okay.. here it comes. The Climate Security Act... and YOU are being used in support of it. Read this article in the San Jose Mercury ( http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_9308526 ). Here's a quote: "For those trying to put the nation on a low-carbon diet, the timing is right. In odd-couple-style TV spots, Nancy Pelosi joins Newt Gingrich, and Pat Robertson sides with Al Sharpton, in urging Congress to take action. Time magazine has struck up the drumbeat, trading its red border for green with a recent cover story called "How to Win the War on Global Warming."

Newt... you've joined the ranks of the useful idiots. You're being used to destroy the American economy and impoverish the American people. And for no good reason except to satisy your need for approval.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:54 AM
There is NO excuse, no matter how thoughtful, for taking part in the greatest global hoax ever perpetuated by man.

You sitting down with Pelosi was not unlike Carter sitting down with Hamas. I've lost all respect for you.

You've completely validated them. That snake oil salesman Al Gore is raking in MILLIONS selling carbon offsets and now you're his poster boy!! That commercial does nothing to further your thoughtful "green conservatism." It makes you look like two kids sitting on a couch that just got caught making out at your parent's house.

Thanks, Newt, for setting back real conservatives' efforts to stop this new communism, global warming hysteria. I hope you make tons of money selling your contract with the earth (whatever that's supposed to mean, who's signing for the earth, Gaia?).
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:06 PM
Newt,
I do agree with you that we can't just "shout no". I think it would be more appropriate to shout "HELL NO!"
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:43 PM
I have lost all respect for you. Global warming is nothing more than a bunch of crap being shoved down the throats of american citizens by people who hate this country. Since you refuse to join the fight to present the truth about what creeps like Gore are saying, I can only conclude that you have crossed over to the dark side.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:29 AM
If you are truly concerned about the environment you will challenge your San Francisco values buddy on the couch with doing something about the illegal aliens. They are adding millions of additional carbon footprints to this country.

The liberal position on this is contradictory to what is good for the environment and you are not calling them on it. You sitting on the couch with that liberal is the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed out of you. I have cancelled my email newsletter from you as you have totally lost my respect as as conservative. You are playing the McCain card pretending to be a conservative.

This country need a 3rd party and you and McCain are forcing me to vote 3rd party this year
By Anonymous @ Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:33 PM
Newt, I am so disappointed in you and your poor judgement. You embraced a hoax, you endorsed a really stupid premise; you signed on to a fashionable way to advance socialist theology;
your words will be used in the future to defend this idiotic theory of man-made "climate change."
By Anonymous @ Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:30 PM
Newt Greengrich?

HA!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahhah!!!
By Anonymous @ Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:43 AM
I agree that we should be concerned about the envirement. However, there is at least one thing that is way more important
I am a true, born again Christian and therefore spiritual things are the most important to me. I have been studying the endtime prophecy scriptures (Bible) for many years and any one who knows the Bible and the current events in the world can only come to one conclusion: We are living in the very, very, very last days. The endtime prophecies are too numerious to address here. But one of the most important things is to know that the rapture of the Church is the next thing to take place. The rapture is that all true born again Christians will just suddenly disapear without a trace. The is covered very well in the series of books called "Left Behind" by Tim LaHaye. I would love to continue this dialogue with you.

Forest Evans
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:37 PM
I was quite disappointed to see the PSA you did with Nancy Pelosi not because you paired with her but your seeming agreement with what I consider to be the global warming hoax passed off as settled science. With the first Earth Day in the early 70’s came the warning of a new ice age that was soon coming. When that faltered it was man made global warming that would doom the planet. Now that this dogma is beginning to undergo scrutiny the new catch phrase is “climate change”. Well the climate changes every day, every month, every season. Words have meaning and climate change has attached to it all of the enviro-babble that the political left can muster.

I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock where I believe I first heard of the concept of ‘carbon credit’. What a great idea if you are a globalist! First you convince the public that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and then you turn carbon into a global currency in the form of carbon credits that can be bought and sold. This is classic redistribution of wealth from producer nations to non-producers. Wasn’t Toffler very prominently seated at the Democratic Convention back in 2000?

This is not to say I am against protecting the planet, the air and the water. Being politically conservative I prefer to be referred to as conservationist. This philosophy is what our grandparents instilled in us. Do not waste, save and re-use where possible, take what you need but use all that you take.

I did see your interview with Bill O’Reilly and I agree that we must come to agreements where possible. But by accepting the premise of the enviro-left means you have already lost the argument. The liberals/progressives are very clever, they demand compromise and each time we compromise with them it means a slight tilt to the left.

The extreme environmentalists seem not to be interested in any compromise. No drilling for domestic oil, no new refineries, no nuclear, no coal, no hydroelectric. They seem to think that exotic new energy sources (tax-payer funded of course) will save us at no cost. Bio-fuels take more energy than it returns then there is the unintended consequence of higher food prices. Windmills are now killing migratory birds so there is pressure to shut them down during migration seasons and the esteemed Senator from Massachusetts does not what them in is sailing area. Geo thermal has very limited usage. Solar farms require vast tracks of land. Hybrid cars have the problem of disposal of large batteries.

Before this entire nation becomes a third world country as Los Angeles already seems to be, I suggest that Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged be required reading. It is a glimpse into the world we are headed for.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 4:00 PM
The reason for Newt to go along with this hoax is what really ticks me off. He says we have to be on the stage of debate and convince others (democrats) that with technological advances we can be enviromentally friendly and have all the energy we need. With all the advances we have made in the past 30 plus years and still no refineries, nuke plants and always a big NO on drilling on our own shores, I hope everyone realizes the ultimate goal of the left is not to make this country better but to drag it down and suffocate it. Even if we found a way to use carbon dioxide as a fuel in our cars they would find a reason not to use it, like taking away the plants and trees food source.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:25 PM
The U.S. needs to be energy independent. Leaders in our land develop Nuclear generating plants with the technology we already have for inexpensive power that is safe. Drill for oil on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of America. Build refineries now for oil and gas. Lets not allow our economy to be stilted by a few gloom and doom people. Be bold do what is good for America.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:14 AM
WeCanSolveIt as long as we buy into what Albert Gore Jr. is selling, and last time I checked Bull S***, wasn't in demand, unless you're a liberal democrat trying to buy carbon credits so you can feeeeel better. I miss the good old days when man made global warming and the idea of two grown men getting married was a joke everyone laughed at, look no one is laughing anymore, oh I hope this is only a bad dream, please wake up.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:58 AM
Newt, what a tool you are. Nancy's fat little sock puppet.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:31 AM
Hey Newt, I just exercised some climate change, I was so cold I turned up the thermostat! Blizzards and record snowfall in May, yeah sounds like evil white men are at it once again destroying mother earth.
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:10 AM
Michael Savage was right on about you. You are the Georgia GOPAC tick aka Spinelus cavinien for going along with this global warming with the liberals. No wonder everyone is so cynical about politicians, most of you sell your souls for some reason our other. Sorry Savage that I thought you were nuts for so long! You're the only voice of sanity in an insane world!
By Anonymous @ Saturday, May 03, 2008 12:54 AM
You are really disappointing Newt. Why would you sell out and side with the Democrats on the global warming hysteria? Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore are correct then? Why are Republicans always on the defense on this stupid issue? Who doesn't want clean air and water??? Why do we need to sell out our national sovereignty and hand the controls of our free market over to a bunch of left wing activists!? Get with it Newt, you're a let down.
By Anonymous @ Friday, May 02, 2008 8:45 AM
Mr. Speaker,
I've seen Al Gore's movie and his follow-up slide show which he is sharing via environmental deputies around the country. The awful irony is that most of these deputies are ignorant in the methods of science, and it is slap-dash propaganda efforts like this that make the conservative movement (and the American people) most vulnerable to the random winds of news cycles on the "science" of global warming, or what is now called "climate change."

A man came to Georgia Tech recently from Emory to talk about the "old" term, global warming. He WAS a candidate for phD., in the THEOLOGY department. While he was having difficulty setting up his slide show, he said he would be using the same version for us that he used to a fourth grade class earlier that same morning. Wanting to speak to his knowledge, rather than his ignorance of science, I asked him why the film was meaningful for him. He ignored the question mostly; by rote he barked the TO-DO list nearly identical to the animated presentation. This is of course, the reaction that Gore intended. Show a film or slideshow, make believe that you are going to talk about it and then pretend to solve the problems using answers from the film.

I urge you to see the slideshow if you haven't already and to view it with a scientific eye--if you can. It's only real and unimpeachable scientific claim is that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The alarmist implications about it being the ONLY cause for warming, the projected figures of earth's average temp rising ten degrees (or so), and it's images of all life dying in a massive fireball are all unscientific and fluff. I asked him whether Earth was a closed system and how he could know for sure that CO2 was the only significant. He had no answer, except to shake his head. His great scientific claim at that point was the nearly 1000 UN and world "scientists" with no names who signed on to this theory. But which theory, I asked him. Did they sign onto the movie or did they postulate a theory? I asked him to let me know. I also asked him the names of the scientists and why few or none appeared in the slideshow making any kind of claims. He merely became indignant and uncomfortable.

He did alienate me, "what are you doing here?" he bellowed, "do you have a purpose for being here?"

This is the purpose of efficient propaganda--to alienate and marginalize political enemies. It works. The climate change movement is clearly growing at an enviable pace, and its detractors are unorganized and inept.

Part of the problem is the scientific credo itself: that something is theory until it is proven--a standard that Gore and the climate goons have completely ignored. 99.999% of the time the only true honest scientific answer about new research is, "we don't yet know."

And because Gore's defenders are holding his critics to the standard which they themselves have ignored, the only perfunctory and scientifically honest thing we can say about Gore is that it's probably not true or that he hasn't taken nearly any of the known variables into account, much less discovered any unknown ones. What's also true scientifically is "it's not science," and, by extension therefore "Gore is a goddam liar."

The environmental agit-prop works well in grade school, high school and is absurdly well-absorbed by today's college students--more so by the non-scientific majors, I believe. Even then, most students at a school like Georgia Tech, where we have over 10,000 budding engineering and science students, I find that most students maintain the mildly strong default position to be environmentally apologetic. In short, Mr. Speaker, this green wave of propaganda is a political war that conservatives and scientifically correct people are losing fast.

In my opinion, your appearance with speaker Pelosi where you mouth the words "climate change" will be used for many years as a club with which liberals and the awful Greens will hit conservatives and "global warming deniers", as some have come to call us.

I believe that there is a small but nascent conservative movement building to answer the false science. I urge you to find out about it and lend your support and influence to it. I believe people like us will be critical in "yelling stop," to the politically expedient false conclusions arrived at from false or meaningless scientific data.

Mr. Speaker, I am a student of science, but I do not wish to be governed by its raw data. Acquiescence to scientific truths as naked policy is bad enough, and it is truly awful when whatever the policy is based upon is entirely false.

At best, the green movement is a lie based on rushed & tortured science; at worst, a lie based on another lie. I'm concerned about my country, its education, its economy, our freedom and our misuse of science a partisan political bludgeon. We need to push back against this and expose the movement and Gore, its titular head for what they are---charlatans and liars who will do and say anything for political power.
By Anonymous @ Friday, May 02, 2008 3:51 AM
While I agree that we need to be good stewards of the Earth, I just can't understand why the words "Climate Change" had to come out of your mouth instead of hers. Climate Change previously known as Global Warming is THEIR slogan/issue. Yours, as you say in your explanation of why you did the ad, is "Green Conservatism" focusing on "science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurs, and prizes to find a way to creatively invent the kind of environmental future we all want to live in." If this is true, why didn't you stick with YOUR/OUR terminology and ideas instead of lending credibility to their nutty jargon and thereby confusing people who look to you as a conservative compass. You are right in saying we have to be on the stage and engage in the debate and communicate our position clearly. But, and this is a BIG BUT, you picked the wrong stage to be on and you did anything BUT communicate your position clearly! It came across as if you are in agreement with the farse called "Climate Change". Please respond soon to tell us that you have something lined up to correct this major blunder.
By Anonymous @ Friday, May 02, 2008 1:59 AM
I was wondering what better set of circumstances there could be for beginning the national discussion on completely re-thinking our means of private transportation, than the one we have now. We went to war over 3,500 Americans being killed for just going to work, and yet every year in this conuntry, tens of thousands are killed by the transportation system we use. The energy source we use to drive this system is becoming prohibitively expensive, in both direct and indirect costs (not least of which is our economic tether to oil rich despots), and can only become more so in the coming decades. And what do those "crash dummy" test ads really tell you, if not that you should buy that particular car because if you use this system, sooner or later you're going to be in a collision, with all the property damage and injury that normally entails.

So when do we start talking about a private transportation system in which no one is ever killed or injured seriously, and that uses any of a variety of energy sources? If the current system were turned on it's head, making the vehicles dumb, and the infrastructure smart, couldn't this be accomplished eventually? Haven't we had the computer technology for quite a while now to control such an infrastructure? Wouldn't some variation on a monorail track to replace "roads" we have now make it nearly impossible (in combination with the computer control) for vehicles to collide? And couldn't the "fuel" for the vehicles be electricity (generated in any way that is most economical) delivered by that same monorail?

I know there must be a thousand obstacles that need to be overcome for such a system to ever be implimented, but when are we going to begin talking about them at least? When are we going to wise up to the fact that a car that gets 60 mpg is a *bandaid* on something that needs stitches. A new system from bottom to top is what we're eventually going to need, and it's going to take *decades* to impliment, and probably decades of research and development before it ready to begin being implimented. And it's probably going to take five years just to decide on what particular research and development to pursue. That's what I'd like to see begin tomorrow. I'd like to see a national leader like you begin to bring this out, and push for a national discussion.

We *need* a means of private transportation that is affordable, powered by any of various sources of energy, helps take away our dependence upon foreign dictators, and that doesn't kill us in ever increasing numbers. And maybe, just maybe if our courts weren't so clogged with tort cases and criminal cases involving cars crashing into other cars, people, and personal property, others would stand a better chance of getting their day in court in a much more timely manner.
By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:55 PM
Newt, I’m a big time conservative and I was with you on just about everything you say except for the global warming hoax. This hoax that you are trying to sell with the left could & would (if implemented) have the worst possible effect on our economy (more than any of the democrat policies). This is a hoax, as proven by so many scientists and can be identified by person with a level thinking head.
Advocating for global warming policies is tied for the worst possible thing you could do, so I have to say see you later; I am de-subscribing to your news letter today (as I am sure many others are too)!
By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:26 AM
National Day of Prayer. GO here: http://www.interviewwithgod.com/patriotic/highband.htm
By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:07 AM
I want to thank you Newt for being brave and having the courage to stand up for what you believe in. You knew it was risky to make this ad, but you also knew it was Right. Thank you for showing that Conservatives conserve, and that Christians are the stewards of this God-given Earth, as the Bible intends. Let's all give Newt a break on this one, as I think his reasoning for doing the ad is fine. Bipartisanship, although hard to swallow sometimes, is what it takes to get things done.
By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:38 AM
Newt! If you dance with the enemy, they will backstab you their first chance. Your reason is lame for this ad, since the ad leaves the impression that you believe these global warming lies. Help! where are the conservatives when we need them.
By Anonymous @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:28 AM
Newt,
"If you sleep with dogs you get up with fleas."
What hubris to think that man can affect climate change, and our leaders, such as the current Speaker, are anything but clueless. They are causing food stocks to be burned up in ethanol and causing people to starve in the name of global climate change.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:45 PM
Newt,
Bad decision man. I, too, saw this ad without having any forewarning and almost broke my hip when I fell out of the chair. So, based on the ad, one can conclude that you do concede that "climate change" can be changed by human behavior. I have lost a lot of respect for you.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:19 PM
Ouch!! Can hardly stand to watch the ad with you and Nancy! Anyone viewing that ad would leave with the understanding that you were on board with the global warming issue....also referred to as "climate change" just in case you're all wrong on the global warming piece. I didn't hear you say anything in that ad about "not supporting man made global warming"! When do we get to hear that? I have no problem conserving our natural resources and taking reasonable care of our planet. I've been doing that for years, and will continue to live that way. However, it has nothing to do with man made global warming!! So, I hope that in your next buddy/buddy ad with Nancy, you are a bit clearer on what it is the two of you agree on! It certainly wasn't clear with the current ad that is showing.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:22 PM
This one is where you lost me on the entire "Platform of the American People". I agree with Richard Fernandez ("Wretchard" of "The Belmont Club):

"Environmentalism has become the political lifeboat into which the survivors of the socialist shipwreck have crammed themselves. The need to “manage the climate” became the new foundation on which to base regulatory structures, impositions, and taxes which were formerly justified by the imperative to manage the “commanding heights of the economy.” Kyoto was the highest expression of the program to “manage the climate” and provided the same new basis for socialistic policies that Marxism once did. "

Embracing the false premise underlying their scheme is not going to deflect them from their goal. Only exposing the fraud will do that.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:15 PM
I agree with you. The green movement is something we as conservatives (and republicans are invited to join along) need to get in front of. I don't agree with the assertions of man-made global warming, however the environment is a precious thing and I am taught in my bible that we are to be good stewards of the earth.
If we don't get in front of this issue, then polticos such as Pelosi will pervert the process and add taxes that will cripple an already struggling economy. After all, that is what they do- throw money at the problem. The solutions here lie in private-sector entrepenuerism. Build the better mousetrap, and offer incentives for the ingenuity and the risks to do so.
We need to dictate the terms of going green. After all, it can make good business sense as well.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:00 PM
Brother Newt!
I am in my 60's, so if My comments seem rather naive, pardon I beg! I grew up in the Great Smoky Mountain in North Carolina in the 40’s. I have a natural affinity for nature and the beauty of our home! The mountains in spring and summer are spectacular with flowers and plants that cannot be found anywhere else, animals and fowl, fish! All of which induce a boy to go to the lakes and streams. Barefoot in the ponds and creeks, the sounds of nature go deep into the soul. So I do have a good deal of love for God’s garden! I have lived through many presidents and other politicians that want to get on the ‘current bandwagon’ about the earth and how to make it better! All of the ideas put forth seem, on the surface, to be beneficial to the planet. However, the real problem is NOT what people do to the earth for, as perspectives go, mankind is an insignificant part of the whole! The real problem this planet faces is from the planet itself, and other uncontrollable outside influences. You do realize that one volcanic eruption such as from Mt. Saint Helens put more fluorocarbons and CO2 into the atmosphere than those devices mankind has ever used? The larger problem that people have been made to think they have caused, global warming, is not from anything we have done or are doing, but rather from an alien source-that being the sun! Our source of heat and energy up in the sky is not, and cannot be affected by us—period! Yet it goes through cycles of heating up and cooling off, which in turn, makes planets heat up and cool off. If you’ll check the specs, there is another planet that also is going through global warming. Mars!! The scientists have evidence that Mars is heating up, just like earth, and that info is out there for the analyzing, but those scientists that are funded by the Al Gore tactics of ‘the sky is falling’ want to ignore that fact, in favor of trying to make us feel that WE have caused this phenomenon. They suggest that we all do our part to combat something that we have very little control over, and the result is to make more and more goods and services a lot more expensive, which hurts people who need to buy products, and use the services! While everything that we as a nation and the whole population of the earth talk about doing to help, may be all good, it will accomplish nothing other than to make people feel good about their selves, and spend an upwardly spiraling amount of money that could, and should be used for other things! The cash that is spent on projects to combat global warming by making us ‘greener’ would go a long way to help poor people that are hungry for something to eat. They’ve induced us to try CFL lighting product to save energy, yet fail to warn us that these bulbs, which MAY pay for the extra expense of purchasing if they burn long enough, are filled with mercury and can poison our personal environment. If a bulb needs to be disposed of you have to do it properly, which adds even more expense! The fact that you and Nancy get on the tube together to lend support to this ‘fear of what might be’ only helps to line the pockets of the unscrupulous that take advantage of the lies that people like Al Gore put forth as fact! I say that you should have made better use of the funds spent on the TV spots to help victims of crime, or Katrina, or the next natural disaster! But if you want to go down the road to Kyoto....
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:07 PM
Newt, I like you and I wish you were running for the Presidency. But, your use of the term "climate change" is logically an impossibility with mankind. God established the seasons (Gen. 1:14) and He and only He changeth the times and the seasons. (Dan. 2:21) He and only He sends the lightening (Job 28:26 and 38:25). He and only He sends the rain on the just and the unjust. Man needs to be careful how he uses words and protrayed thoughts. Control the pollutions of the air, water and lands? YES! Climate control by man? NO!
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:34 AM
As a conservationist as well as a capitalist, I am apalled at the momentun that the global warming fraud/hysteria/religion has generated. You participation in the debate is wlcome and needed but, your apparent abdication to the left in the debate is more than disturbing. I hope that you will enquire into the voluminous EVIDENCE that global warming is natural and has occured approximately every 1500 years for the past 135,000, as opposed to the THEORY of man-made greenhouse gases contributing and significant warming
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:58 AM
Dear Sir, the ad was unsettling and did not look good. Please use your voice to give voice to the leading scientists who have recently published the NIPCC (N=NONGOVERNMENTAL). We need leadership that will educate the public about the nonexistence of "global warming", about the true nature of the oil industry, about the decades and billions already spent only to prove that solar and wind are not the utopian answer to our energy problems, nor to our spiritual problems.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:24 AM
I saw the ad last night and almost fell off my couch.

The day is cold and damp. Black and white. No leaving on the trees. Misery. Perfect doom and gloom.

I wish you would have expressed some of your real reasons for appearing in the ad instead of sitting there with Pelosi grinning as if they were fishing buddies. For anyone that may be on the fence about this notion of global warming, the ad could have been enough to sway them.

Shame on Newt for buddying up to Pelosi.
Shame on Newt for giving credence to Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection (the ads sponsor).
Shame on Newt for not learning from previous experience that he can not trust Liberal Democrats.

Mark
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:00 AM
Nothing your ad partner has ever said in public has been truthful. So why would you waste time with this idiot?
By rmw @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:21 AM
First off, you do not win any fight by conceding the monster issue, you have lost all control at that point.

Global climates have *never* been stable ... this is a delusion we have created for ourselves by ignoring just about everything about reality. There are cycles that have been clearly documented for decades, and yet these psuedo scientists still cannot tell you with any degree of certainty what is going to happen in the next 72 hours.

The CONSERVATIVE view should NOT be based upon *any* premise that man is causing a global disaster, because the ONLY reasonable conclusion that many will draw from that is that BIG GOVERNMENT has to regulate the "big bad guys" to "FIX" the problem.

You can INSTANTLY destroy any liberal's asinine perspective ... IF global warming is real, and IF we are going to die as a result, then doesn't it make sense to go to all out WAR with the Chinese and India since they are cranking out obscene amounts of pollution and will soon surpass anything we can? NO? Then who the hell are they kidding?

I would propose that a CONSERVATIVE view should be based upon these premises:

a) it is insane to live in your own swill. Allowing anybody to fill the air, water or land with anything that makes us all sick or kills us quicker is just stupid.

b) purest capitalism means that we must know the REAL cost of an item to make an intelligent decision about whether to use it or not. Allowing industry to dump poisons that we have to pay to cleanup later hides the TRUE cost of the item they were making. If I had to pay the cost of mercury cleanup when I bought the sheet of paper, I would be a helluva lot more reasonable with my use of paper.

c) every dollar spent has the secondary effect of empowering the seller. If you spend money with companies owned by liberals, you empower liberals. If you purchase products from terrorist sponsors, you get more terrorism.

I am sure there are more, but I have a real job so I cannot spend all my time discussin g this here!
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:07 AM
Newt,

By appearing with the self-serving, power mad Mrs. Pelosi, you have denigrated any message you were trying to deliver. I switch the channel as soon as the ad comes on. Surely you know better than to try to deliver a serious message by associating it with the most disingenuous hack in Congess. Oops, I,m sorry, the second most disingenuous person in Congress. Harry Reid is number one.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:22 AM
In this era or bitter partisan demagoguery it's refreshing to see someone who understands the concept of the loyal opposition. While I believe that Gore's convictions are badly flawed and that the radical environmentalist crowd is motivated by ulterior motives of eviscerating the economic and military power of the US in favor of a pre-industrial agrarian society, we must remember that we are stewards of God's creation and as such must cooperate with others where possible. However, as Reagan used to say, trust, but verify. So, please watch your six.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:12 AM
Newt, Newt, Newt:

I'm not too happy about your ad with Nancy Pecrapy. You, of all people should know better and your explanation is plain silly. Once you accept their premise, you've lost.

Why can't you just simply publicize what a hoax climate change is and provide statistics to show it. I know there are plenty of scientists to support your case.

Remember, Real Change Requires Real Change, not Obama's form of change.
By Anonymous @ Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:27 AM
Shame on you, Mr. Newt, for even being seen on the same screen as that miscreant, and for caving to that junk science (which is bogus, bovine scatology);
when Mt. St. Helens erupted it produced more CO2 than mankind has in its entire history!

Please, Cease and Desist...

Painfully yours,
William Windsor Barrett
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:52 PM
Newter... WHY does G.W. wait until he is nearly out of office to talk tough with the dems about drilling for oil or looking for fuel in our own territories? And WHERE have the republicans been on the issue? And WHAT are conservatives doing to advance our agenda on the fuel issues? We are so friggin frosted out here when we HAVE TO listen to that blowhard ChuckieSchumer talk about how long it will take to get oil out of Anwar and how little it will matter. We should have oil rigs dotting this country and ringing our shores sucking OUR oil and OUR natural gas out of what GOD GAVE US.... all the while developing hydrogen and nuclear power. You have engaged the grassroots with your real change platform, when will you or someone else engage the grassroots on the fuel issues - our oil, our gas, our nuclear. We should make getting to our natural resources - oil, nat.gas - a matter of national security, which it really is. We NEED A LEADER to spearhead this charge and keep it front and center. You? C'mon, Newter, you recognize, I think, that the results of this could be a legacy that could put you on a par with the greats... It ain't gonna happen with old Mickey. He hasn't a clue. You know it, we know it. And if the socialists get in office, we are screwed unless we have a reagan conservative just off stage pushing the agenda. FIGHT the GOOD fight. We need you NOW! Email me for lunch so we can talk about this stuff, if you are ever in the S.Ohio area.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:16 PM
Newter...is her plastic surgery as scary in person as it looks on TV? I am surprised she can still blink. You should have had your fingers up behind her head to make fun of her and her message. "climate change" is the new "global warming" which was the SOCIALIST grab for control of man's sources of power. I need a shower after watching your ad; can't imagine what it would be like sitting next to that b.s.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:52 PM
For 25 years I have worked in the environmental field- for government, giant oil corporations, giant waste management corporations, oil recycling, and oil exploration companies. I have an environmental science degree. Global warming's main cause is precession or the wobbling of the earth on its axis. Man contributes only a small percentage to this natural phenomenon, and the rate of warming is very small on a 26,000 year cycle. We are stewards of our land and culture, and should "conserve" both, and it fits our conservative ideology. Thanks for reaching across the isle.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:48 PM
Newt, I really looked up to you and thought you were one of the greatest men in America until you signed on to this Lie about Global Warming. I agree with you on almost everything you say until now. I'm looking elsewhere for leadership. Please show us different.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:40 PM
Newt, Please look at the facts, not the garbage put out by the left about "Global Warming". You were there in the late 60's and early 70's, Walter Cronkite and these same kooky people crying "Global Cooling". Please see the movie "Expelled" and also look at what other real scientists are saying !! It's all a power grab by the left. Let's get FACTS. There have been no FACTS given to support global warming, they tell the same lie enough that even you believe it. HOGWASH !!
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:39 PM
First off ... the Speaker's offense was not simple participation, conservatives have been the *REAL* preservationists in recent history ... it was the use of the term 'global climate change' and the insane notion that somehow we can alter it. This is socialist jargon for massive government control ... and we are seeing (by the *real* crisis, food shortages) ... what a disaster that is.

The earth's climate has *always* been changing, far more dramatically in most times than in recent history. Giving in to this notion just to 'play the game' is granting victory to the enemy, then simply negotiating the conditions of the surrender.

Algore is going to go down in history as the posterboy for the great famine of the 21st century that may very well kill millions of people AND DESTROY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SQ MILES OF LAND (rainforest converted to farms to produce ethanol).

Conservatives should NEVER be associated with anything these kooks establish, ever. Mr. Gingrich is correct that we need to be in the fight, but we need to utterly destroy our enemies to save this earth from their mindless crap.
By Gatorwest @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:38 PM
What do we hear from the Republicans? Dig more oil, "get" ExxonMobil, Kick OPEC in the butt (Trump)! What America needs now is a leader like JFK who says: In 10 years we are off oil for personal vehicles! Here are the cars:

Chevy has launched a test fleet of hydrogen-powered fuel cell Equinox SUVs. http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/ This fleet has already hit the streets of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Southern California.

Ford has ALREADY delivered Hydrogen buses to the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Greater Orlando Airport Authority (GOAA), Orlando Convention Central District, SeaWorld Orlando, University of Missouri Raleigh, city of Las Vegas, the San Mateo (Ca.) County Transportation Authority, and 10 buses to Canada for use in Prince Edward Island, Ottawa and Vancouver. To date, 23 buses of the 30 built have been delivered to customers for commercial use.http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=27904

Plus there are the great new electric cars coming from Chevy that are starting to seem like cars http://www.chevrolet.com/fuelcell/

Here is the fuel:
http://www.fuelcells.org/thomasstudy.pdf

GM now estimates that an initial nationwide hydrogen infrastructure to support 1 million FCVs and to place a hydrogen fueling pump within 2 miles of the homes of 70% of the US population as well as every 25 miles on the interstates connecting the 100 largest cities would cost between $10 billion and $15 billion. Less than what ExxonMobil paid in income taxes last year.

Newt, it's kind of like when the Japanese attacked Pearl harbor. America mobilized its Science industry & government, and put about 15 brand new aircraft carriers in the Pacific in no time! Let's get these cars built, out of the plants and into America garages. It's not like we have to go out and invent something, like the atomic bomb. The solution is driving around on our streets right now.

What's needed is a call to action.

Where is our LEADER?
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:34 PM
Highly disappointed that you, of all people, finally caved in to the political left. There is so much evidence against so called global warming, now called climate change. I'm sure you viewed the BBC's retort to Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. After viewing the BBC program, how were you able to change to Pelosi's viewpoint?
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:22 PM
FIRST OF ALL I AGREE WITH NEWT ON THE NEED TO ADDRESS GLOBAL WARMING..7 BILLION PEOPLE CREATE ALOT OF AMBIANT HEAT!!
ANY SO CALLED CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE ALWAYS ON THE "RIGHT" SIDE OF EVERY ISSUE ARE NOT FREE THINKERS..JUST RIGHT WING PUPPETS...AS TO WHAT WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND THE QAULITY OF LIFE IN AMERICA..ANY COUNTRY THAT LEGALLY ADMITS 750,000 PEOPLE A YEAR IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT ITS OWN SECURITY OR THE ENVIRONMENT...325 MILLION PEOPLE IS MORE THAN ENUFF..TIME TO PUT OUT THE "TORCH" AND SUPPORT A LATIN AMERICAN UNION...PEOPLE COME HERE OUT OF DESPERATION AND LACK OF OPPORTUNITY...WHAT WOULD BE THE COST OF ENERGY IN NEW YORK OR CONNECTICUT IF THEY WERE INDEPENDENT NATIONS!!! WE SHOULD SUPPORT A "CONTINENTAL SOLUTION" FOR LATIN AMERICA THE QUALITY OF LIFE WOULD GO UP FOR THE ENTIRE HEMISPHERE!!!..WAKE UP AMERICA
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:55 PM
Today's Demorats are not interested in building bridges with conservatives. They want to build bridges over us. The issue should be energy independene from our enemies and phony allies.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:51 PM
Newt, you are one of my favorite political leaders in America today which makes it so painful to see you sign on with the global warming crowd at just the moment when science is starting to show more and more that it's all a hoax. This year's bitter cold winter world wide is demonstrating that the earth's climate is more under the control of sunspot activity than man's production of CO2. Even the global warmists have acknowledged this by changing its name to the all encompassing "climate change." But like the prodigal son, all will be forgiven if you just come home to true conservatism and abandon this nonsense with Pelosi.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:22 PM
Newt- There is zero benefit to a "conservative solution" to a problem that DOES NOT EXIST. Nancy Pelosi is our political enemy and must be DEFEATED, not joined. Conservatives could wipe these people out in a debate of facts and principles, but you choose to give in. Real change requires real leadership! Instead we get this Mickey Mouse approach of capitulating because we feel "left out." Give me a break!
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:12 PM
We do have a responsibility to protect the enviroment, but we need to do it with widsom. Nancy may have some knowledge, but her wisdom is sorely lacking. Lets use our resources with wisdom not with fear and trembling. I enjoy the remarks you make in your column.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:10 PM
Mr. Gingrich:
No one cares, I'm just a Bozo, but here's my two cents cast into the millieu:
1.) Contract with America was brilliant. God bless you! You delivered, sir, which was even more important! We've coasted on the resulting economic tsunami through all these years, despite everything Congress and the Executive fumbled.
2.) Republicans will never be as good at, or as ruthless, as unprincipled Dem's who vote the polls - their god being power and money. When Repub's get away from principle, they lose - as rascals should.
2. Mr. McCain is a martinet who must be reined in by manipulating his own instincts for self-preservation. If he's not, we're better off with Republicans and a few Democrat statesmen voting as a block against a runamok Democrat administration, who (if we survive,) would NEVER repeat. That would usher in the end of this godless liberal madness. Worth four years of suffering. Again, IF we survive.
3. God bless Ronald Reagan but PLEASE articulate the principles, don't bore everybody with continuous references to a fallible icon from another era. The principles will ALWAYS apply, in any era. Conservative economics trumps everything - "No bucks, no Buck Rogers" (from Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff"). Arrogant though he may have been, Milton Friedman was absolutely inspired. EXPLAIN SIMPLE ECONOMICS, PEOPLE! IT'S JUST PSYCH 101 AND ARITHMETIC!
3. Google the name of a brilliant man: Iben Browning. He was a long-range climatologist who dieD in the '80's, but who was embarrassingly accurate. (The media shamefully skewered him for his misquoted PROJECTION regarding the New Madrid Fault - but that is an aside). He contended in the 1970's that three cyclical things (certainly NOT man) influenced climate: a.) sunspot activity; b.) crustal "tides" (volcanoes, etc.); and c.) radiation belt fluctuations - influenced climate. Man influences only locally, despite our arrogant pretentions. He contended taht the "global warming" hysteria even then was a bunch of academics justifying their phony baloney jobs. His daughter Evelyn Gariss Browning continues his climatological work, I believe.
4. ) The global warming panic has morphed into a lever to twist America into surrendering its sovereignty to others. Beware. While God commanded us to be stewards, He did not expect us to make the Earth into a god or environmentalism into a religion.
5.) We are the last best hope of a post-Christian world. We are the last hope of Israel. Forget these these we may - at or own peril. God help us all.

QED
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:58 PM
Newt,
You've been had! I read your explanation on why you did the ad and it sounds reasonable.
BUT, I watch the ad and the and it comes across that you agree with Pelosi that "climate change" is happening and can be controlled (ergo manmade). It's sad to see a hero falter, but we're all human.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:37 PM
I do not think the global warming has been proved. There has been too many records broken for cold weather in the last couple of years for global warming. Now I hear scientist saying global cooling is coming. I think we need to prove one or the other before we get crazy. Algore is already over the hill and I hope we the people can get some good answers from people of science and not the nuts.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:28 PM
Neut, -There a few Conservatives that I respect more than you. If, by protecting the enviroment you mean that I should not through my coffeee cup out the window. I totally agree.

I beleive the biggest mistake that everyone on both sides of the issue makes is that they look at the earth as to what is happening today, or even within the time frames of our lives. The earth however evolves over hundreds or even thousands of years. Everyone recognizes that many years ago there was an "Ice Age". for that to disappear there had to be global warning. I don't think humans caused that and "if " the earth is in fact warming now, we arn't causing this one either.

The Liberal left has to have two things to push their aganda. 1.) A villian and 2.) A victim. Their villians today are big corporations (oil, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, etc) i.e. Capitolism. The victims are any minority that they can keep dependent on them. If all African Americans became Secretary's of State, the left would be out of business.

Jim
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:23 PM
Newt,

Under no circumstances would I ever sit down alongside Nancy Pelosi, no matter what my purpose. I wish you had not done done so. That woman needs to be 'disconfirmed,' not agreed with.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:00 PM
Newt, You say in the ad, We need to address climate change. Why do we need to address (code for spend my $ and freedom) something we don't, and can't, know is happening? I'm afraid all you did was to help legitimize a false premise.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:54 PM
Firstly, the NOAA (real scientists) have let the air out of the global warming spoof... the ice has not only returned but there is more of it.
Secondly why does no one address the fact that in spite of her improper interpretation and wrong-headedness, Madalyn Murray O'hair gave us a great weapon to use in regards to separation of Church and State. Environmentalism is the modern rebirth of a Pagan religion, in my opinion this cannot be disputed. Our government has no business under the 1st ammendment, participating in any Earth Day, environmental or green efforts. This is tantamount to 'Gaia' worship, provably an ancient Pagan practice. If they can reject the inclusion of Christian principles from government, then we can likewise reject, on the same grounds, the inclusion of their religion in our government. This is a loosely and poorly disguised effort to revive an ancient "Earth Mother / Pagan" belief system.
To join with this effort in any way sends the signal to our youth and to our God that we are willing to bring Pagan idols into our homes, and to pay homage to the new age God of "science" (idolatry at best) and to insult God's divine authority over this earth... His creation. The only solution to this planets ill's do not lie in scientific puffery but in faith in the creator and in prayer.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:32 PM
As a former Georgia resident and a 30 year retiree from the Army, I am greatly disappointed in you appearing with the heroine of the left, Nancy Pelosi. By doing so, you are giving credence to the left-wing radicalism that is based on total government involvement/corruption and mismanagement that they are so famous for. They only know to increase taxes, regulations, expand big government, and to remove of our freedoms and rights in order to increase their power and control of many aspects of our individual lives. Have you noticed that "global warming" has now been changed to "climate change?" Now why did that happen? Could it be that so many reputable people have spoken out against Gore's shamming the American public, that a new slogan was needed that distanced itself from his insane self-serving rhetoric? Newt, I am really disappointed that you would appear with someone who is so hell-bent on destroying our government, our freedoms, and our country, especially with regards to her destructive views on how to handle the massive problem of illegal aliens. Yes, I am aware of the numerous environmental problems we currently face, but allying yourself with the radical left will only drag our country in their misguided, suicidal (regarding our country)direction. This is a direction this 30 year Army vetern doesn't want our great country to travel.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:30 PM
Dear Newt,
I love ya, BUT! I cannot see how playing the hand of Al Gore in the great non-debate (cause the debate is over I hear) about Global Warming is going to advance any conservative idea or agenda. The whole GW movement is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind. If the GW advocates are able to implement their agenda, the freedoms we enjoy in this country will be severely limited or ELIMINATED! No one on the Republican side is standing up and saying STOP THIS MADNESS. Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma may be the only one, and not too many are listening to him. Even the President who has disappointed me in so many ways, has signed onto the concept.
It seems that the whole world "believes a lie". Hmm. Didn't I read that in a Scripture somewhere? Oh well.
The Republican Party no longer represents my views. The Democrats haven't since I was 18 and didn't know any better. I don't give a damn about the Party. I only care about right and wrong. I know those concepts can be defined many ways nowadays, but I believe in the old style, constant, consistent, Biblical right and wrong, not the moving target that passes for such in this day. Now our morals are defined by how "green" you are. I remember when being "green" meant you were a novice, uninitiated, unskilled, ignorant or stupid. I still think that about the "greens".
I have no political hero. Ronald Reagan is dead and now the Party men are telling us to forget him. What the hell am I supposed to do? I am left to vote for the liberal Republican, John McCain, because I sure cannot vote for Obama or Hillary. Either way I get more Global Warming bullshit, less freedom, more taxes, (McCain-Lieberman), more government and regulation, more illegal immigration, more taxes, less freedom, more taxes, less freedom. But I repeat myself.
I guess I'll just cling to my guns and my religion, cause there won't be much else left. God Bless America.
God D*** the Brave New World.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:25 PM
Great that you are fostering conservation of the planet.

The problem is that most of Al Gore's message is hysteria and wrong-headed approachees to deal with global warming -- two DISTINCT issues.

Your effort to promote conservation is lost in thye AlGore message of global warming hysteria.

You muddled your messasge, when normally you are quite clear.
By Anonymous @ Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:39 PM