Newt Gingrich, Formerly of the Conservative Movement
As most of you probably already know, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, formerly of the conservative movement, has teamed up with the current Speaker of the House to promote the global warming hoax with this clever commercial.
Our “conservative” friends at Terra Rossa alerted me to this responsive post by Whit Ayers.
I couldn’t agree more with Newt’s position here. I’m a conservative, but I’m also a passionate environmentalist. And it dismays me to see that, somewhere along the way, conservatives wrote themselves out of the environmental debate. I don’t question the motives of my liberal environmentalist friends, but I do question their methods. And I genuinely believe conservatives have something to say on this issue. As a reader recently wrote on this site, conservation is inherently conservative.
Whit, it’s like this. We do believe in a clean environment. We just don’t believe that we humans are destroying the planet. We don’t believe in man made global warming. Show us how to conserve energy, which also helps us to save money. But please stop buying into this man made global warming hoax and trying to convince us of this idiocy. You and Newt and all the rest, are nothing but tools for a bunch of radical leftists posing as environmentalists.
Right, we can’t have tools running the gov’t.
One of these days, Glen or someone brighter will explain in detail how Evil Liberals stand to profit from pulling this “elaborate hoax” on the entire world. Until then, I’ll just shake my head, and say, “Well, that’s wingnuts for ya!” It’s like the underpants gnomes — OBVIOUSLY it’s a LIBERAL PLOT, but that middle part is just a shrug… then, profit!
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Mr. Dean, I agree with you and you are right, expcept the part about Newt ever being a conservative.
You should expand on this “hoax” theory sometime and explain how you, Sen. Inhofe and Rush Limbaugh are right; while me, Bill McKibben, James Hansen and the NASA Goddard institute are wrong. Is the opening of the Northwest Passage a hoax, for example?
And what about other problems? Did you know that there is a huge dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico? Have you heard that the Salmon season in Northern California was canceled because of a massive collapse in the numbers of that fish? Massive dieoffs of honey bees? Does any of this ring a bell?
Maybe I pay too much attention to the Liberal Media, but it sounds like we have serious environmental problems even if global warming is a “hoax.”
Newt used his brain, therefore he is not a conservative.
I left a comment on Newt’s blog (one of the many ‘anonymous’ comments) last night.
From glancing at comments today, maybe only one person agrees with him.
Wow, can’t you seperate Gore derrangement syndrom from the issue? Guess not!
If I were Newt, I would have deleated the comment after reading the first words “Al Gore”
So, this global warming religion Gore started as a reaction to the bitterness of losing the presidency?
All please note. Serr8d is full of shit.
Al Gore has long been aware of Global Warming and environmental issues and held some of the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970’s
Are we surprised Gore couldn’t carry TN, a state of Dumbfuckistan? NO
Are we surprised that the Supreme Court handed Bush the Presidency? NO
Are we suprised Gore won the persidential vote for president? NO
Are we surprised Serr8d is fixated on Gore because he knows this fact as well as Gore’s success since he won the presidential vote? NO
I remember now, Gore went to Hollywood, not Cal-Tech
Hey these guys are pretty smart:
S. Fred Singer
President, Science and Environmental Policy Project
Distinguished Research Professor, George Mason University
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, University of Virginia
Princeton-trained physicist
Frederick Seitz
President Emeritus, Rockefeller University
Past President, National Academy of Sciences
Past President, American Physical Society
Chairman, Science and Environmental Policy
Project
According to the official 2001 Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 2000, George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by 543 votes.
And Newt is a CFR member.
Frederick Seitz directed the spending of over $45,000,000. of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company medical research money. No health problems associated with tobacco were ever discovered by Seitz’s research teams — he paid labs very well for their “research.”
I’m glad you mentioned Seitz and Singer, they are perfect role models for the global warming denialists as they are possibly the most corrupt scientists who’ve ever lived.
Al Gore is the face of Global Warmalism. It’s only natural to associate Al Gore with his own religion. He expects that.
Global Warmalism is Al Gore. The first is recurrent, natural, cyclic climate change; the other, a liberal doofus with not enough sense to know how to pour piss out of a boot.
But he can sure find more just like him to carry his water.
Personally, I think data is the face of global warming.
If you need a face, maybe now you can induct Newt.
Yes, Willy. Like the data you conveniently ignore.
Hypocrite.
Behold … a scientist/educator that believes in the supernatural. Careful Mikey.
That’s it? That’s your informed response on your failure to refute data on the connection between Global Warming and the El Nino/La Nina cycle? I used that data to completely blow you out of the water, so you’re now saying, “ooooh— Christian scientist boogeyman!” It’s typical of your debate style– all ad hominem and no substance.
I’ve got an idea. Since you’ve got that nice cushy job playing guitar for a living, how about you use those free credits the university offers you and pursue a chemistry or physics degree. Then you might be able to hold up in a scientific debate.
Thanks mikey, funny you should say that. I was a chemistry major til I came to my senses, boring.
Given the way you approach science, I think your move to music was more out of necessity than choice….
Oh yea, lots of jobs for classical guitarists out there …. lol
Given the way you approach science, I think you’d have done better as a White House appointed EPA administrator.
William, in case you run out of strings to pluck, there’s other jobs fitting your skillset…
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