GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said Thursday he’s axing a chapter on climate change from his forthcoming book — though the intended author of the section said that was news to her, according to National Journal.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month the book will more or less be a sequel to the former House Speaker’s 2007 book, “A Contract with the Earth,“ describing it as a ”collection of essays by various businesspeople and scientists.” The Times said it would include a chapter on climate change by Katharine Hayhoe, anatmospheric scientist at Texas Tech who has said there is “no debate” about the reality of climate change and “the fact that humans are the primary cause.”
A woman expressed concern to Gingrich about the chapter during an Iowa campaign stop Thursday, saying she’d heard Rush Limbaugh talking about it on his radio program.
“That’s not going to be in the book,” Gingrich said to her in a video of the exchange. “We didn’t know that they were doing that — we told them to kill it.”