Newt's Triangle Offense

If you haven’t seen it, here is the ad for Al Gore’s group that has Newt Gingrich sitting down with Nancy Pelosi making nice over Global Warming/Climate Change (which from here on out will be referred to as “GW/CC”).



But at Newt’s website he appears to be singing a different tune:
“I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don't think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don't think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.”

So what gives? As far as we can surmise, this is just Newt’s way of a well-intended and good faith effort to alter the course of a run-a-way freight train. Yeah, exactly. But at least he’ll always be able to claim he made an honest effort to get the true believers to at least acknowledge market-based green technological solutions and “way-aheads”.

We remain suspect, though. If he is truly skeptical of the GW/CC conventional wisdom then his stunt with the ad is disingenuous… and for a man for which we have a tremendous amount of respect, we wish he wouldn’t triangulate in this manner and simply, as WFB exhorted, stand athwart history and yell “stop”.

So why does it seem that GW/CC seems to attract the greatest amount of grandstanding? Why the headlong rush to get out in front of the GW/CC PR wave. It is because of this: GW/CC is the single largest issue out there where an abundance of activity can be hustled and bustled about without having any actual measurable consequences and which is completely risk-free AND which comes with it, free of charge, the advantage of the self-stroking that is part and parcel for “doing something” about GW/CC.

Well, there ARE measurables and there ARE consequences but those are highly deflectable. High food and fuel prices? Don’t blame ethanol – blame India and China’s huge and growing populations. Global Warming continues to rise and/or Climate Change becomes more volatile? Obviously, you are not doing enough or not pulling your share. Global warming subsides? See… we knew what we were doing all along.

After all, if you think coupling human activity to GW/CC is a dubious enterprise, then attempting to measure the positive benefits to GW/CC from “going green” becomes a mathematical impossibility.

What is there not too like about all that? How is this not a powerful elixir for politicians and celebrity activists alike?

Its too bad that one of the sharpest minds out there has apparently decided to start slugging back the pink liquid.

H/T: American Thinker