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To: grusum who wrote (9894)10/11/2011 10:21:04 PM
From: FJB  Read Replies (1) of 23934
 
Newt is a true believer in "climate change".

Excerpt:

The 2008 ad was cut for Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. It showed Pelosi and Gingrich sitting very close on a couch outside the U.S. Capitol.

"We don't always see eye to eye, do we Newt?" Pelosi says in the ad.

"No, but we do agree our country must take action to address climate change," Gingrich responds.

The ad didn't occur in a vacuum. Gingrich for the past several years has trumpeted what he describes as "green conservatism." He co-authored the book "A Contract With the Earth" in 2007, and at the time he talked about the importance of a balanced approach to environmental issues.

In a 2007 PBS interview, Gingrich accused liberals of taking an "anti-market" approach to reducing climate change, leaning too heavily on taxes and other proposals that hurt business.

However, he said the U.S. should still "accelerate the incentive" to reduce carbon emissions and seemed to express support for what's known as a "cap-and-trade" program -- something congressional Republicans and some Democrats have since rejected. Gingrich said at the time that "mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system" would be "very, very good," in response to a question about an old campaign pledge from then-President George W. Bush.

Read more: foxnews.com
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