Gingrich's Laughable Climate Change Denial

Newt Gingrich, 2012 Republican Presidential candidate, claimed he was qualified to deny climate chance science because he is an "amateur paleontologist". The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/12/31/396180/gingrich-explains-why-hes-no...

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[FirePlaceBear]

When it comes to "Climate Change", listen to the scientists not politicians.

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Climate Change is a human rights issue because it is those in developing countries suffering the hardest even though the developed world pumps out the highest CO2 ratio

[OZcheckm8]

Don't know why global warming is even an issue! There's an ice age due now, which could potentially destroy most of the human race.. And some people complain global warming is stopping this! Are people getting dumber? I doubt we could stop and ice age, and if we can we"re so dumb we"re about to let our governments tax us, to help introduce an ice age... Look up "when is the next ice age"

[OZcheckm8]

In Australia our govt used low dam levels as an example of the need to tax carbon, and even said some dams will never refill. Now the same dam that would never refill is overflowing... It's all BS.

[AIexDGreat]

"To be fair, he is an amateur paleontologist" I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

[thenexthalen]

I'm a liberal and this guy (Cenk) annoys the shit out of me. Yes climate change is real. There is no question of that. The issue at hand is if it accelerated by the burning of fossil fuels. I say yes.

[rhspolo6]

@pougate what a very compelling argument you present. Total rubbish, obvs.

[pougate]

I'm in Australia but I'd certainly vote for Gingrich if given the chance. He seems measured and intelligent, which is something the current administration lacks. As for the global warming business, it's a no-brainer - just rubbish.

[FlameFriend]

the guy narrating this is a massive twit

[JonThm]

Climate change is it is biologically impossible PR on behalf of nuclear power!

[JonThm]

Harvard University has noted her 15% increase in crop yields. Mankind's husbandry of agriculture has increased the number of plants doing photosynthesis on earth. And they are metabolise carbon dioxide! Which has been static in the air for last two centuries.

[space4099]

@JonThm Fewer plants around? Were you around taking inventory then, are you kidding me. Millions of acres of forest land have been ravaged over the last two centuries world wide to the extent that many tree species no longer exist. Very little original contiguous tracts of healthy forest still remain today. Everything in your statement is rubbish where did you get you education in a cave get real.