Another Republican dismisses climate change

While campaigning, Newt Gingrich says he dropped an essay on climate change from a post-election book about the environment. The essay was written by Katharine Hayhoe, an climate scientist at Texas Tech. Hayhoe recently ca-authored a book about climate change with an evangelical perspective. According to CBS News, in an interview with Christian writer Jonathan Merritt, Hayhoe said: "Among climate scientists--people who spend their lives researching our world--there is no debate regarding the reality of climate change, and the fact that humans are the primary cause," Hayhoe said in the interview. "It is primarily laypeople, such as talk-show hosts, or those with vested interests in maintaining the status quo, who are perpetuating the idea that there is no scientific consensus."

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