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Climate scientist disowned by Newt Gingrich speaks out over book spat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/06/climate-scientist-newt-gingrich-book-chapter?newsfeed=true[font face=Times, Serif][font size=5]Climate scientist disowned by Newt Gingrich speaks out over book spat[/font]
[font size=4]Katharine Hayhoe says the dumping of her chapter from Gingrich's book following rightwing pressure came as a surprise[/font]
Suzanne Goldenberg
guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 January 2012 06.14 EST
[font size=3]A US climate scientist at the centre of a row over Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's stance on climate change has spoken out for the first time, condemning the polarisation of the issue.
Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, had written a chapter for Gingrich's upcoming book of essays on the environment. The chapter was aimed at climate sceptics, and those who fear it will cost too much to deal with climate change, but it was ditched by the presidential candidate after the book came under attack by rightwing talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Gingrich, desperate to shore up his conservative credentials, said of the chapter at a recent campaign event: "That's not going to be in the book. We didn't know that they were doing that and we told them to kill it."
In her first extensive comment on the matter, Hayhoe told the Guardian she condemned the polarisation of a crucial global concern. "I really, really deplore the politicisation and polarisation of this issue. There are these increasingly unprincipled attempts to polarise the science when the science is fact – like the sky is blue, the grass is green and the temperature of our planet is increasing."
The decision to drop her contribution arrived as a complete shock to Hayhoe, who was told in a 7 December that email her chapter had been accepted without major changes. Days later, the chapter was on the scrap heap.
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[font size=4]Katharine Hayhoe says the dumping of her chapter from Gingrich's book following rightwing pressure came as a surprise[/font]
Suzanne Goldenberg
guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 January 2012 06.14 EST
[font size=3]A US climate scientist at the centre of a row over Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's stance on climate change has spoken out for the first time, condemning the polarisation of the issue.
Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, had written a chapter for Gingrich's upcoming book of essays on the environment. The chapter was aimed at climate sceptics, and those who fear it will cost too much to deal with climate change, but it was ditched by the presidential candidate after the book came under attack by rightwing talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Gingrich, desperate to shore up his conservative credentials, said of the chapter at a recent campaign event: "That's not going to be in the book. We didn't know that they were doing that and we told them to kill it."
In her first extensive comment on the matter, Hayhoe told the Guardian she condemned the polarisation of a crucial global concern. "I really, really deplore the politicisation and polarisation of this issue. There are these increasingly unprincipled attempts to polarise the science when the science is fact – like the sky is blue, the grass is green and the temperature of our planet is increasing."
The decision to drop her contribution arrived as a complete shock to Hayhoe, who was told in a 7 December that email her chapter had been accepted without major changes. Days later, the chapter was on the scrap heap.
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