Hayhoe gets the heave-ho! Gingrich boots warmist professor from new book after Limbaugh reads Climate Depot report on radio – Newt Kills Chapter on Climate

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GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, sacked Texas Tech global warming professor Katharine Hayhoe after radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh read an exclusive Climate Depot report on December 19 about Gingrich’s collaboration with the professor. [See: Rush Limbaugh Features Climate Depot: ‘Our old buddy Marc Morano, used to be ‘Our Man in Washington’ on my TV show, & now is a global warming expert. He’s got a blog called Climate Depot’ — Limbaugh: ‘According to Morano, Newt’s book in 2013’s gonna feature a chapter by a Texas Tech climate scientist named Katharine Hayhoe…Hayhoe is one of Newt’s experts’]

A Limbaugh listener who heard Limbaugh read the Climate Depot report confronted Gingrich about the fact that his upcoming book was set to feature a global warming promoting professor who is affiliated with the UN IPCC. Gingrich immediately backed down and fired the professor on the spot. See Video of Gingrich throw Hayhoe under the bus here.

Below are excerpts from the December 30, 2011 National Journal article:

DES MOINES, Iowa — Newt Gingrich says he has killed a chapter on climate change in a post-election book of essays about the environment. But the intended author of the chapter, who supports the scientific consensus that humans contribute to climate change, says that’s news to her.

Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech, confirmed in an e-mail interview that she had been asked to write a chapter on climate change for the former House speaker’s book. She said she was approached by former Palm Beach Zoo CEO Terry Maple, Gingrich’s coeditor, at an annual meeting of Republicans for Environmental Protection. Asked to confirm her chapter was dropped, she replied, “I had not heard that.”

The climate-change issue arose on Thursday night at a Gingrich campaign stop in Carroll, when a woman expressed concern about the chapter. She said she had heard about it on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. As she began to tell Gingrich who the author of the piece would be, Gingrich interrupted. “That’s not going to be in the book,” he told her. “We didn’t know that they were doing that, and we told them to kill it.”

Hayhoe, whose husband is an evangelical pastor, recently wrote a book about climate change from an evangelical perspective. In an interview with Christian writer Jonathan Merritt, she left no doubt as to