FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Contact: Chris Horner
Chris.Horner@ATI.org
Texas Tech ignores request for Gingrich book records
Controversial activist professor claims to have spent 100+ hours on chapter suddenly dropped from upcoming book
WASHINGTON — American Tradition Institute, a non-profit research institute dedicated to restoring science, liberty and accountability to the environmental debate, filed on Dec. 10 a Public Information Act request with Texas Tech University relating to collaboration on a book, using public time and resources, between “climate” activist Professor Katharine Hayhoe and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
Texas Tech was to produce responsive records by early last week. To date, ATI has not received a response.
“This is a matter of significant public interest, as Mr. Gingrich’s views and past activism on the ‘climate’ issue receive scrutiny by voters seeking to assess his judgment and compatibility with their views,” said Chris Horner, ATI’s Senior Director of Litigation.
Hayhoe, who preaches that human activity is destroying the climate and that Christian stewardship compels acceptance of the ‘climate’ agenda, had been publicly identified as a contributor to Gingrich’s forthcoming book “Environmental Entrepreneurs.” Hayhoe had gained notoriety for urging evangelical Christians into supporting the controversial, costly and according to all computer models, climatically meaningless ‘climate’ agenda. News outlets now report that Gingrich, under fire for his left-of-center views on the environment from presidential competitors and Tea Party activists, quickly deep-sixed Hayhoe’s chapter last week.
“Nice to hear that Gingrich is tossing my #climate chapter in the trash. 100+ unpaid hrs I cd’ve spent playing w my baby,” Hayhoe posted on her Twitter account Dec. 30.
ATI requested all emails to or from any Texas Tech email account used by Hayhoe (including as “cc”,) and either or both Gingrich and his co-author Terry Maple.
ATI also requested all emails sent or received by Hayhoe citing or referring to one or more of the following: Newt Gingrich (or “Newt” or “Gingrich”), Terry Maple (or “Terry”, or “Maple”), American Solutions (including in the email address/domain), and/or “Environmental Entrepreneurs”.
With time of the essence and the law very clear, ATI questions any further delays by Texas Tech in coming into compliance with its obligations, and calls on the university to promptly produce these records the public paid for and have a right to see.
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American Tradition Institute
Tom Tanton, Acting Executive Director
Until I saw one of David Archibald’s presentations, I was unaware that there was any credible scientific objection to the ‘Global Warming’ theory as presented in the pages of the Scientific American. The huge arctic ice-melt reported in 2007 seemed to be an unmistakable confirmation. But after seeing David Archibald’s video and a few others like it, I realized the effect of carbon dioxide was being overstated, as if it were not subject to any law of diminishing effect. Also, some leading climate scientists appeared to be using dubious methods to revise climate history to emphasize the danger of continued carbon dioxide emission–a political agenda.
I would recommend that politicians, unless they are climate scientists, be given a free pass for being on the wrong side of this issue at one time in their life, but not twice. Many otherwise intelligent people still believe that promoting carbon dioxide emission reduction is a moral imperative and think all CAGW skeptics are thoughtless cranks. Others may have their doubts, but do not want to offend this latter group.
The candidates that don’t have a history of scandals and flip flops can’t even be a flavor of a week, much less a month?
When the interest payments on the debt reach one trillion in 2020. We will slowly become a libertarian paradise anyway?
I have never been so discouraged.
Ed Mertin says:
January 1, 2012 at 10:04 pm
The candidates that don’t have a history of scandals and flip flops can’t even be a flavor of a week, much less a month?
When the interest payments on the debt reach one trillion in 2020. We will slowly become a libertarian paradise anyway?
I have never been so discouraged.
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Take heart! Be strong and of good courage.
And I can not believe I am saying this butt I have to admit about the viable candidate: I AM AGREEING WITH R GATES.
Ron Paul is the only intellectually honest presidential candidate….by a wide margin.
But it is true. At least where the American Republic is concerned, Ron Paul is our only hope.
Newt is a monster. Obama is the status quo same ole same ole.
There are no legitimate candidates to lead this country out of its current dark ages….except one.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
@ur momisugly GE Smith – “Think of the pickle we’d be in if it was left up to the people…” We’re in a pickle. Aristotle wrote in his Politics 2400 years ago, “the appointment of magistrates by lot is thought to be democratical, and the election of them oligarchical; democratical again when there is no property qualification, oligarchical when there is.” Athenian democracy was not elective.
Our freedom was never protected by representative government, but by the Constitution. The oligarchs are destroying the dollar through the Fed. They have destroyed the Constitution using their puppets in Congress. And NDAA 2012 puts the last nail in that coffin with martial law. The US today is an oligarchy; not a democracy; not a republic. And certainly no longer constitutional and no rule of law; just the rule that might makes right.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who can restore the Constitution before there is a total eclipse of liberty in the US. Once SOPA goes into effect and the oligarchs gain control of the Internet, say bye-bye to what freedom you still have.
I hadn’t heard about this so-called “book.” Even assuming the Texas Tech professor is writing a book, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Gingrich has cooperated with her and that this could merely be a misleading rumor. Has anyone checked on whether or not Texas Tech has requested an extension of the deadline with the Attorney General? That is also a possibility Texas Tech is entitled to under the Texas Public Information Act.
If there are records to give, I am sure Texas Tech will ultimately give them up. There may not even be any such “records” of collaboration. Just wait and see.
I have not given up on Gingrich; he can be talked out of any stupidity in potential policy even if he has views on AGW that are not desirable.
At a time when I despair at the prospect of finding the right candidate to vote for I find solace in the sage words of Milton Friedman:
“Electing the right person is nice, but that is not how you change things. You change things by making it politically profitable for the wrong person to do the right thing.”
The US needs another Ike Eisenhower. What we’re being offered is an array of William E. Millers. I’ll vote for whoever says Global Warming is a hoax. Who says that, anybody?
jorgekafkazar says:
January 2, 2012 at 12:28 am
The US needs another Ike Eisenhower. What we’re being offered is an array of William E. Millers. I’ll vote for whoever says Global Warming is a hoax. Who says that, anybody?
Take your pick:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-suggests-global-warming-is-a-hoax/2011/08/17/gIQAuoZoLJ_video.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-suggests-global-warming-is-a-hoax/2011/08/17/gIQAuoZoLJ_video.html
This is the other one:
Think about the converse. As preface let’s remember that a very short while ago over 70% of Americans viewed global warming as a pressing issue. We were deceived, taken in by shysters and con artists.
Hayhoe is one of the more unscrupulous practitioners, and it’s a trivial matter to insinuate yourself, disguised as an “expert”, into a chapter of a book collaboration. The example I’m most familiar with is the guest blogger or the group blog. Think of Protein Wisdom and how that fell apart. The blog proprietor welcomes in the guest blogger, and everything is fine at first, but at some point the new comer decides to set policies that the original blogger doesn’t agree with.
It’s not Hayhoe’s place to set policy for the Gingrich campaign, but being who she is you know that’s what she was doing.
And now we have Horner trying to affirm Hayhoe as Gingrich’s spokesperson on the environmental concerns. Chris do you really want to back Newt into a corner?
I’m not voting for a personality> I’m voting for a policy. If that policy comes from a guy who woke up to facts after climategate, well hallelujah, that makes Gingrich just like the most of us.
I don’t care what his position on global warming used to be two years ago.
I care about what he thinks and does today.
Today, Gingrich says sitting on the couch with Nancy was not just a mistake in policy, but
HIS BIGGEST MISTAKE. Today Gingrich is firing frauds like Kathrine Hayhoe.
To me this is a healthy augury for behaviors he could carry with him into the White House.
Who’s more likely to fire Jimmy Hansen? Romney or Gingrich? Who do you think based on recent history?
So lets say NEWT gets a big push back based on Chris’ FOIA.
Isn’t the end result of that that our politicians shy away from taking a stand, letting the thorny issue of global warming fall to the way side, and whichever milktoast ascends to the nomination, won’t they have got there not because they held the correct policy, but because they were the least offensive to the Hayhoe’s of the world?
This FOI request will make us all blind. Drop it now. We want Gingrich and his eleventh hour epiphany out there on the campaign trail, because it forces all the rest of them to take a position and communicate it, no matter what the CNN and PBS talking heads would rather cover.
DROP IT NOW CHRIS.
@richard G (1/2/12 12:20am)
I second that thought, Friedman also said a lot of other brilliant things.
Maybe we can make Milton Friedman our President posthumously. Couldn’t be worse than the way we are doing it now.
More seriously, we have centralized power in Washington and the White House to the extent that no human is competent to handle the Presidency. The Constitution provided for distributed and limited, defined, power. Maybe we aught to try that idea again.
Doug Proctor wrote, “Bush/Blair got the West into Iraq with out-and-out lies about Saddam and his non-existent WMD.”
Doug, you’ve been misled by one of the Left’s Big Lies. Read what the Democrats were saying about Saddam’s WMDs, before Bush even took office:
http://www.mooregop.org/WMDs_the_rest_of_the_story.html
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
– President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
– Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
– Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
“Hussein has … chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.”
– Madeline Albright, Clinton’s Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
– Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.”
– Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
(and many more)
But now these folks say President Bush lied, that there never were any weapons of mass destruction, and that he took us to war for his oil buddies???
“Assertions that the Bush administration strong-armed intelligence analysts in 2002 and 2003, or misled the nation in making its nuclear case for war, challenge logic. During and after Clinton’s presidency, the intelligence community repeatedly warned the White House that Iraq was one cache of fissile material and one year short of wielding a nuclear bomb. If the White House manipulated or exaggerated that intelligence before the war in order to paint a more-menacing portrait of Saddam Hussein, it’s difficult to imagine why. For five years, the official and oft-delivered alarms from the U.S. intelligence community had been menacing enough.”
– Chicago Tribune, Nov. 30, 2005
George E. Smith obviously has never heard of the 17th Amendment, passed in 1913, which allows for direct election of US Senators. Oprah still has a shot.
I’m afraid that everyone is missing the most important point. Politicians follow the money. (If anyone doubts that, think of what BO ran on vs. who he represented once in office. He, like every one of the current candidates except Ron Paul, it seems, is bought and paid for by Wall Street and the military industrial complex.) Again, follow the money.
IMHO, what we need to be afraid of is a joining of politicians, no matter which side they are on, and businesses that would benefit greatly from a new stream of tax money. We have seen how a stream of tax money can corrupt even scientists. It is easy to contemplate how corrupting a big stream of new tax money could be for businesses (like GE?). The possibility of this does not seem unlikely to me.
To TRM, SamG, LexingtonGreen, and anyone else out there who thinks that Ron Paul is honest and would make a good President:
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who told his supporters to vote against the Republican ticket in 2008, and thereby helped turn Obama’s victory into an even bigger landslide, with coattails long enough to ram through ObamaCare. If you like ObamaCare, then thank Ron Paul.
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who, during the Reagan, Bush 41 & Clinton Administrations, published race-baiting newsletters marketed to white supremacists & survivalists, one of which even accused Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr of seducing “underage girls and boys.”
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who later flagrantly lied by claiming that he hadn’t known what was in his own newsletters, all of which were entitled with his own name: The “Ron Paul Political Report,” the “Ron Paul Survival Report,” etc.
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who wants to abolish the independent Federal Reserve and thereby take monetary policy away from the Fed — and so presumably return it to the Treasury Department, under the thumb of the President, as it was until 97 years ago. (Imagine President Obama in charge of monetary policy! )
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who wants let tyrants run amok throughout the world, and doesn’t even mind if Ahmadinejad gets nuclear weapons.
Ron Paul — the only Republican who’s okay with genocide in Darfur. Hear him say it, himself, in the 0/27/2007 Republican Presidential debate in Baltimore, MD:
http://www.taudiobook.com/closed_caption/republican_debate_maryland/ (Part 9)
Skip to 8:05 to hear the question & the candidates’ answers. Ron Paul spoke 2nd, and opposed even sending food aid:
“…we should direct our attention only to national security, and not get involved for these feel-good reasons of going overseas for the various reasons, and this is the main reason why I think we ought to just come home from every place in the coun-, from every place in the world…”
Be sure to listen to the rest of the video, to hear the excellent rebuttals from other Republicans. I especially loved Alan Keyes’ eloquent reply (at 11:26):
“I have to say I’m appalled by the suggestion that we retreat into some kind of Fortress America, and forget who we are. We are a nation of nations, a people of many peoples. We are in touch with every people on the face of the earth. If somebody’s is being hurt somewhere in the world, somebody in America grieves for them. And I don’t believe we can turn our backs on that universal significance, that universal mission. I think a lot of the suggestions made here [by other candidates] in terms of how we get involved are good ones. We don’t have to send troops, but we need to support and reinforce the sense of local regional responsibility for both humanitarian and military order in that region.”
(a mostly-correct transcript is here: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75913)
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who chums around with raving lunatics like Alex Jones, and quietly courts the support of “9-11 Truther” conspiracy nuts. (Alex Jones is nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake. See him in action here, abusing Michelle Malkin, who is the petite lady in the video. He “thinks” – I use the word loosely – that secret conspiracies or space aliens are in charge of everything, and that the government is intentionally poisoning you with fluoride to keep you docile. Here he tells his radio audience what he thinks of American conservatives.)
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate for President whose nomination would guarantee a 2nd term for Barrack Obama. (Maybe that’s one of the reasons that commieBob likes him?) But if that weren’t so, can you imagine Ron Paul’s appointments, if he were President? Press Secretary Alex Jones, Secretary of State John McManus, Secretary of Treasury Lew Rockwell, etc. The mind boggles.
So please rethink your support for Rep. Paul.
Please support Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Gingrich, Romney, or Huntsman — anybody but Ron Paul!
Hayhoe has serious credibility problems. This is a good place to start.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/katharine-and-the-texas-drought/
Hayhoe claimed “there has been a 50% increase in precipitation in the Northeastern United States.”
Not according to NOAA.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/where-does-katharine-get-this-tripe-from/
Hayhoe runs ATMOS Research, a climate change consultancy. One of their projects was “The Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment” in conjunction with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
It was full of exaggerated claims that do not stand up to scrutiny.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/katharines-northeast-climate-impacts-assessmentpart-ii/
NG is just a politician. No more, no less.
savethesharks.com says:
January 1, 2012 at 10:16 pm
“Ron Paul is the only intellectually honest presidential candidate….by a wide margin.”
That may be true but RP is the most ignorant candidate when it comes to world views. He is as ignorant as Obama, just on the other side of the fence.
MattN says:
January 1, 2012 at 6:46 pm
“Plan on 4 more years of Obama.”
Prediction (not from a computer model): Obama will not be the Democratic Party candidate. When the powers that run the show realize he cannot win, they will find a way for him to bow out and old Hillary will come to the “rescue” of America and sweep the election. Now, I do not like Hillary, Obama or any other Democrat, however, there are enough Hillary lovers in this Country for her to pull it off. Remember you heard it here first!
Tom in Florida says:
January 2, 2012 at 5:24 am
“Prediction (not from a computer model): Obama will not be the Democratic Party candidate. When the powers that run the show realize he cannot win, they will find a way for him to bow out and old Hillary will come to the “rescue” of America and sweep the election. ”
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That’s an interesting scenario and given the POTUS general lackadaisical attitude, you might be on to something, but who are ‘the powers that run the show’?
@Dave Burton –
You’re *way* off base with Ron Paul, the only candidate who will return the US to the Constitution. Your remarks are defamatory and total disinformation. Every voter needs to find out for themselves who Paul really is and not rely on this kind of nonsense or listen to Fox. Go to RonPaul2012.com or watch any of hundreds of YouTubes like these to discover the real Ron Paul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJeikpqfbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VKcTZsnS4
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who told his supporters to vote against the Republican ticket in 2008…” Citation please? This doesn’t sound like Paul at all, but I can say the millions of Paul supporters (like me) will not support any other GOP candidate so if you *don’t* want Obama again, support Paul.
“Ron Paul — …published race-baiting newsletters marketed to white supremacists” Nonsense. There were a few sentences out of hundreds of newsletters and Paul didn’t write them. Paul has disavowed those newsletters. I challenge you to find racist remarks from Paul over his 24 year record in Congress, many books, and hundreds of YouTube interviews and appearances spanning 30+ years. He is the *only* GOP candidate who will end the war on drugs which is really a war on minorities. The only candidate who will pardon the thousands (millions?) of nonviolent drug offenders who are mostly minority.
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who later flagrantly lied by claiming that he hadn’t known what was in his own newsletters…” Wrong. Do you have proof of this?
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who wants to abolish the independent Federal Reserve and thereby take monetary policy away from the Fed…” Huh? The Fed is anything *but* independent. The Fed is destroying our country. The Fed has wrecked the economy. Every dollar the Fed prints is a dollar stolen from Middle Class savings accounts. The Fed is a monstrosity and unconstitutional. Yet Paul has said he won’t try to end the Fed but instead seek to repeal the legal tender laws to create competition in currency and sound money. Learn about the Fed here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k&feature=channel_video_title
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who wants let tyrants run amok throughout the world, and doesn’t even mind if Ahmadinejad gets nuclear weapons.” Again, completely false. It’s past administrations who have *supported* dictators. Hussein, Qaddafi, Mubarak were all puppets of US Presidents. Iran has not attacked another nation in centuries. Iran was a peaceful nation until US foreign policy radicalized Muslims beginning with 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected gov. And even the Israel Mossad is not concerned with Iran obtaining a nuke. Is Iran so stupid they would attack Israel who is believed to have hundreds of warheads? Netanyahu told Congress that Israel can take care of herself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mad9Q4TPaDk
Attacking Iran (a nation of 75 million) would very possibly start WWIII given her close ties to both China and Russia and likely destroy what’s left of the US economy not to mention that I’ll be damned if my son is going to be sent to die in some armpit of the earth to assuage your paranoia and put dollars into Halliburton’s coffers.
“Ron Paul — the only Republican who’s okay with genocide in Darfur.” Paul is not *okay* with it and that’s a despicable statement. He’s a non-interventionist. He follows the Constitution. If Americans want to *do* something, change the Constitution. But acting as policeman to the world will surely bankrupt the nation.
Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who chums around with raving lunatics like Alex Jones, and quietly courts…” Irrelevant. Chums? Really? He will give interviews to anyone. And if you aren’t concerned about the NDAA 2012… wow! is all I can say.
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate for President whose nomination would guarantee a 2nd term for Barrack Obama.” That’s factually wrong. Paul is the only candidate who *will* beat Obama. Paul has huge support among independents and many Democrats. I’m an independent and only chose GOP to vote for Paul. Any other GOP candidate will hand the election to Obama. Only support the other candidates have is establishment GOP and they’ll need independents and crossover Dems to beat Obama.
“So please rethink your support for Rep. Paul. Please support Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Gingrich, Romney, or Huntsman — anybody but Ron Paul!” No.
Paul is the *only* candidate who will cut Fed’l spending and rollback the Fed’l leviathan. The establishment candidates will continue driving the US down the road to perdition and only Ron Paul can be trusted to turn her around.
daveburton says:
January 2, 2012 at 4:45 am
“Ron Paul — the only Republican candidate who chums around with raving lunatics like Alex Jones, and quietly courts the support of “9-11 Truther” conspiracy nuts.”
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Birds of a feather…
Paul Homewood says:
January 2, 2012 at 4:59 am
Ya think? She’s an associate professor of political science. Here are her posted credentials from the TTU website:
Hayhoe, Katherine, Associate Professor of Political Science, 2007. B.Sc., U. of Toronto (Canada), 1994; M.S,., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), 1997, Ph.D., 2010.
@Tom in Florida – “That may be true but RP is the most ignorant candidate when it comes to world views. He is as ignorant as Obama, just on the other side of the fence.”
Based on what? Do you have expertise in foreign affairs? Paul sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, so I guess he knows more than you do. The former bin Laden CIA unit chief agrees with Paul on his foreign policy. Paul has forgotten more about foreign policy than the other candidates or Obama know put together.
Paul also served in the Middle East while an Air Force flight surgeon during the Vietnam War. He knows the region. His positions are well founded and anyone would be hard pressed to argue against the historical facts of US interventionist policies that have backfired. Paul is a non-interventionist. Had Paul been President in the 1990’s, 911 would *not* have happened.