{"id":26923,"date":"2011-12-05T17:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=26923"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:43:46","slug":"romney-gingrich-two-climate-change-flip-floppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/romney-gingrich-two-climate-change-flip-floppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney &amp; Gingrich: Two Climate Change Flip-Floppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/romney-gingrich-flip-floppers.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26924\" title=\"romney gingrich flip floppers\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2011\/12\/romney-gingrich-flip-floppers-e1323124825234.png\" alt=\"romney gingrich\" width=\"450\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What causes a politician to accept the science of a given topic (for example, climate change) and then change their mind abuot it years later, after the science and the scientific consensus gets even stronger?<\/p>\n<p>Is it as simple as agreeing with everything that comes out of the mouth of the people who fund you? Is it a fear of not getting elected by your base constituency (illogically, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2011\/12\/04\/tea-party-more-more-fringe-on-global-warming\/\">polls<\/a>\u00a0on the issue)? Is it a genuine misunderstanding of the state of the science?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich must.<\/p>\n<h1>Mitt Romney &amp; Climate Change<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIDESZWAlz8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmfoQZMzsh8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKqhFJUmgXM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As\u00a0governor of Massachusetts, and later as a 2008 GOP presidential candidate, the Republican said he believed that man-made pollution was contributing to a planetary warming trend,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/mitt-romney-become-climate-change-skeptic-122400882.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, sometime in October or a little earlier, Romney seems to have changed his mind, saying,\u00a0&#8220;My view is that we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s causing climate change on this planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Romney&#8217;s 2010 book,\u00a0<em>No Apology<\/em>, he wrote, &#8220;I believe that climate change is occurring. &#8230; I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.&#8221; On June 3, he said, &#8220;I believe the world\u2019s getting warmer. I can\u2019t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What changed since then?<\/p>\n<p>The science has only gotten stronger, as it&#8217;s been tested and retested in multiple ways. The scientific consensus has only gotten stronger, even pulling in <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2011\/05\/17\/climate-skeptics-turn-into-climate-realists-video-audio\/\">notable skeptics<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2011\/10\/22\/best-study-climate-science-skeptic-study-finds-global-warming-is-real-whats-new\/\">Dr. Richard Muller<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Romney has always been a bit &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/_ylt=Ah12bWWnoeWk1Yfudob6nMEwsa8F;_ylu=X3oDMTFqY2dxYjVxBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzYEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTNkZ20yOHNlBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDMTI5NWJjNjUtNDNjYi0zN2ZlLTg5MTItZjBkOWUyN2VmMDRiBHBzdGNhdANzY2llbmNlfHdlYXRoZXIgbmV3cwRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2UEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=0\/SIG=12i5e71kg\/EXP=1324331404\/**http%3A\/\/motherjones.com\/mojo\/2011\/10\/mitt-romney-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">squishy<\/a>&#8221; on climate change, as Kate Shepherd of Mother Jones writes. Following the quote above from <em>No Apology<\/em> is this quote: &#8220;I am uncertain how much of the warming, however, is attributable to man and how much is attributable to factors out of our control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I think flip-floppy is actually a better description. In June of 2011, Romney said that we in the U.S. should &#8220;reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In October, that changed to: &#8220;My view with regards to energy policy is pretty straightforward. I want us to become energy secure and independent of the oil cartels. And that means let&#8217;s aggressively develop our oil, our gas, our coal, our nuclear power.&#8221; No sign of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions there.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, he has been squishy, but he has also flopped big time. But, then again, that&#8217;s what Romney is known for. Presidential primary contender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/national-affairs\/mitt-romney-flip-flops-on-climate-change-20111028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Huntsman labeled him<\/a> a &#8220;perfectly lubricated weathervane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My verdict: Romney will say (and do) whatever to succeed in politics, even if that means ignoring the scientific consensus on an important issue.<\/p>\n<h1>Newt Gingrich &amp; Climate Change<\/h1>\n<p>I think everyone who follows politics and many who don&#8217;t have seen this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RQKNH_nwM4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Global warming and climate change leader? Not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>I actually just noticed, while sitting paused on this line to search for some quotes on how Gingrich has changed, a wonderful post on this matter over on Think Progress. Brad Johnson lays out exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2011\/12\/05\/382136\/climate-flip-flopper-newt-gingrich-i-never-favored-cap-and-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how Gingrich has flipped and flopped<\/a>. I love this line: &#8220;Gingrich\u2019s positions on global warming and federal climate policy have twisted in the wind over more than two decades, with his positions <strong>mostly coinciding with whether the party holding the presidency is a Republican or a Democrat<\/strong>.&#8221; Anyway, no need to go dig up each quote anymore &#8212; here&#8217;s the bulk of Johnson&#8217;s piece:<\/p>\n<h2>FLIP<\/h2>\n<p>1989: Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) co-sponsors the ambitious\u00a0<strong>Global Warming Prevention Act<\/strong>\u00a0(H.R. 1078), which finds that \u201cthe Earth\u2019s atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful\u00a0<strong>fossil fuel use<\/strong>, and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions,\u201d that \u201c<strong>global warming imperils human health and well-being<\/strong>\u201d and calls for policies \u201cto\u00a0<strong>reduce world emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 20 percent<\/strong>\u00a0from 1988 levels by 2000.\u201d The legislation recognizes that global warming is a \u201cmajor threat to political stability, international security, and economic prosperity.\u201d [H.R. 1078,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d101:H.R.1078:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2\/22\/1989<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h2>FLOP<\/h2>\n<p>1992: Gingrich calls the environmental proposals in Al Gore\u2019s book\u00a0<em>Earth in Balance<\/em>\u00a0\u201c<strong>devastatingly threatening<\/strong>\u00a0to most American pocketbooks and jobs.\u201d [National Journal, 9\/5\/92]<\/p>\n<p>1995: Gingrich\u2019s\u00a0<strong>budget shuts down climate action<\/strong>, killing the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, NASA\u2019s Mission to Planet Earth program, and NOAA global warming research. Carl Sagan asks, \u201cIs it wise to close our eyes to a possibly serious danger to the planetary environment so as not to offend such companies and those members of Congress whose reelection campaigns they support?\u201d [Los Angeles Times, 7\/16\/95]<\/p>\n<p>1996: At a speech for the Detroit Economic Club, Gingrich mocks \u201c<strong>Al Gore\u2019s global warming<\/strong>,\u201d citing \u201cthe largest snowstorm in New York City\u2019s history\u201d: \u201cWe were in the middle of budget negotiations; the football games were coming up and we noticed on the weather channel that an early symptom of Al Gore\u2019s global warming was coming to the East Coast. And it does make you wonder sometimes, doesn\u2019t it, how theoretical statisticians in the middle of the largest snowstorm in New York City\u2019s history could stand there and say, \u2018I don\u2019t care what it\u2019s doing. It\u2019s going to get very hot soon.\u2019\u201d [FDCH Political Transcripts, 1\/16\/96]<\/p>\n<h2>FLIP<\/h2>\n<p>1997: As Speaker of the House, Gingrich co-sponsors H. Con. Res. 151, which notes carbon dioxide is a \u201c<strong>major greenhouse gas<\/strong>\u201d that comes from \u201cproducts whose manufacture consumes\u00a0<strong>fossil fuels<\/strong>\u201d and calls on the United States to \u201cmanage its public domain national forests to\u00a0<strong>maximize the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere<\/strong>.\u201d [H. Con. Res. 151,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d105:H.CON.RES.151:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9\/10\/1997<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>2007: Gingrich calls for a cap-and-trade system with tax incentives for clean energy. \u201cI think if you have\u00a0<strong>mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system<\/strong>, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there\u2019s a package there that\u2019s very, very good. And frankly,\u00a0<strong>it\u2019s something I would strongly support<\/strong>.\u201d [Frontline,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/hotpolitics\/interviews\/gingrich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2\/15\/07<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In a debate on climate policy with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Gingrich says \u201c<strong>the evidence is sufficient<\/strong>\u00a0that we should move towards the\u00a0<strong>most effective possible steps to reduce carbon-loading of the atmosphere<\/strong>,\u201d and that we should \u201cdo it urgently.\u201d [ThinkProgress,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/04\/10\/gingrich-kerry-inhofe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4\/10\/07<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dxfIq_CqTCM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"230\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2008: In an advertisement made for Al Gore\u2019s Alliance for Climate Protection, Gingrich sat with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and said that \u201cwe do agree\u00a0<strong>our country must take action to address climate change<\/strong>.\u201d [We Campaign,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=25803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4\/18\/08<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qi6n_-wB154\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"230\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>FLOP<\/h2>\n<p>2008: Defending himself to his conservative base, Gingrich then rejects climate science: \u201c<strong>I don\u2019t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming<\/strong>. And I don\u2019t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.\u201d [Newt.org,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20090420043531\/http:\/\/newt.org\/tabid\/193\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/3351\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4\/22\/08<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In a Washington Post chat, Gingrich\u00a0<strong>rejects a cap-and-trade system<\/strong>, saying it \u201cwould lead to corruption, political favoritism, and would have a huge impact on the economy.\u201d He says he supports \u201ctax credits for dramatically reducing carbon emissions.\u201d [Washington Post,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2008\/04\/17\/DI2008041703486.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4\/17\/08<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In a later post, Gingrich says, \u201c<strong>I do not know if the climate is warming<\/strong>\u00a0or not.\u201d He also\u00a0<strong>rejects Warner-Lieberman<\/strong>, a cap-and-trade system with tax incentives for clean energy, as \u201cleftwing\u201d: \u201cI disagree with leftwing solutions like Warner-Lieberman, which ignore the economic and national security implications of their attempts to protect the environment.\u201d [Newt.org,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20090421101652\/http:\/\/newt.org\/EditNewt\/FeaturedBloggersDB\/tabid\/193\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/3392\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5\/5\/08<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, liberals in Congress voted for the equivalent of a $150 billion tax increase,\u201d Gingrich wrote, of a decision to block oil shale development in Colorado. \u201cThe answer to high energy prices,\u201d he said, is \u201cso simple it could fit on a bumper sticker:\u00a0<strong>Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less<\/strong>.\u201d [Human Events,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=26608\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5\/20\/08<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>2009: In his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Gingrich attacks President Obama\u2019s cap-and-trade proposal, claiming the president \u201cmentioned in passing, using code words, so nobody would recognize it, he is for an\u00a0<strong>energy tax<\/strong>.\u201d [C-SPAN,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/ActionConfere\/start\/15212\/stop\/15450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2\/27\/09<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In a Newsweek column, Gingrich calls Obama\u2019s cap-and-trade proposal \u201can<strong>across-the-board energy tax<\/strong>\u00a0on every American.\u201d [Newsweek,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2009\/04\/03\/our-tanks-are-on-full.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4\/4\/09<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich\u2019s 527 organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF), launches an anti-cap-and-trade campaign. \u201cI hereby petition Congress to\u00a0<strong>reject any and all legislation<\/strong>\u00a0(or regulatory action by the EPA) that would enact new energy taxes and\/or\u00a0<strong>establish a national cap and trade system for carbon dioxide<\/strong>\u00a0that would, as President Obama has said, cause electricity and other energy prices to \u2018necessarily skyrocket.\u2019\u201d [ASWF,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansolutions.com\/energytax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5\/28\/09<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>2011: Gingrich proposes\u00a0<strong>abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency<\/strong>because of its \u201cattempts to regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and thereby the entire American economy.\u201d [ThinkProgress,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/01\/25\/newt-epa-abolish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1\/25\/11<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>On Fox News, Gingrich says: \u201c<strong>I actually don\u2019t know whether global warming is occurring<\/strong>.\u201d [Fox News,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2011\/11\/09\/365248\/gingrich-i-actually-dont-know-if-global-warming-is-occurring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11\/9\/11<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDBadIoS-u4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"452\" height=\"230\"><\/iframe><\/center>Verdict? Well, I think this is an obvious one &#8212; either Gingrich has a secret twin who has opposite views on climate change or he flips and flops on the issue just to ride the waves of political power and dive in his hidden vault of gold coins.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=gingrich&amp;search_group=&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1#id=79412761&amp;src=e6e02ce807b0ff0f46aeb1d6cf3f1745-1-35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=romney&amp;search_group=&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1#id=54544351&amp;src=e312a0782b427836942ea4cefca3e942-1-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitt Romney<\/a> photos via shutterstock<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What causes a politician to accept the science of a given topic (for example, climate change) and then change their mind abuot it years later, after the science and the scientific consensus gets even stronger? 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