For the past few months of the presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich has bemoaned the infamous climate change ad that he filmed with Nancy Pelosi as one of the dumbest things he’s done in his political career. He continues to do so, despite the many attack ads against him specifically targeting it. But on CNN’s State of the Union today, Pelosi hinted from her time working with her former Republican colleague that it might have some competition with other things Newt has done over the course of his career.

One of the issues Newt Gingrich is most vigorously defending on the campaign trail is his position on climate change, following the advertisement he filmed several years ago for Al Gore‘s nonprofit organization alongside Nancy Pelosi. Gingrich has said repeatedly over the course of this campaign that he considers the ad the biggest mistake of his political career, but his opponents are still using the video in their attack ads.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is taking the momentum of his endorsement by Christine O’Donnell and running with it, following it up with the release of a stale attack ad that highlights one of Newt Gingrich‘s momentary brushes with sane policy, in this case his support for legislation to fight global climate change. Never mind that Gingrich has since refudiated his Pelosi playdate, doesn’t Mitt realize that Ron Paul already made this ad, and made it about 11 times better?

On this morning’s Fox and Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. spoke with co-host Steve Doocy about the deal reached in Durban at the conclusion of the UN climate talks, which puts “world leaders on a path to a negotiating a legal agreement beginning in 2015″ and kvetched that there were too many uncertainties about the science to do anything about it.

Republican bubble candidate Jon Huntsman nullified two of the things that set him apart from frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney yesterday when he told a group at the Heritage Foundation that “the scientific community owes us more” on climate change, and that “there’s not enough information right now to be able to formulate policies.”

He staked out the “sane candidate” territory in August, and as a tracking video shot by American Bridge PAC in late October shows, Huntsman has no wiggle room on this flip.

While speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Mitt Romney said he questioned the science behind global warming and opposed climate legislation. “‘My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet,” Romney said. “And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”

President Obama spoke at a fundraiser in Silicon Valley on Sunday night, calling out Rick Perry for his skeptical stance on climate change and criticizing the behavior of audiences at the Republican presidential debates as not being representative of America as a whole. “Some of you here may be folks who actually used to be [...]

Former President Bill Clinton was not sympathetic in regarding the current crop of Republican presidential hopeful’s opposition to acknowledging climate change. Speaking on the opening day of the Clinton Global Initiatives’ seventh annual meeting in New York, he cautioned that the top contenders aversion to science is “patently absurd” and becoming a liability.

Former Vice President Al Gore went on The Colbert Report Tuesday to promote his global warming solutions program, The Climate Reality Project, but in the process, accidentally outed Stephen Colbert as “your character.” Colbert incredulously shot back, “My character? What the hell are you talking about, sir?” Earlier in the interview, Colbert brought up Rick [...]

In a couple days, Al Gore is initiating “24 Hours of Reality,” an event in which he will give a special presentation once an hour every hour for a full day about man-made climate change. These presentations hope to finally convince skeptics of the direct connection between human influence and global warming. All in all, it sounds like a great plan because, as we all know, the biggest issue the skeptics have is that they haven’t heard enough from Al Gore.

Al Gore pushed the rhetorical envelope yesterday when he compared skeptics of climate change to racists during the Civil Rights Movement. Gore was sitting down for an interview with Alex Bogusky of the Climate Reality Project, and suggested that young people today whose parents do not believe in climate change are asking the same questions now that race-conscious young people in the 60s asked their parents.

Al Gore’s recent angry rant against critics of global warming caught many by surprise as the former Vice President employed some uncharacteristically harsh language. Jimmy Kimmel, however, thought capitalizing on Gore’s new persona would be a great way to promote a sequel to Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and Kimmel released an expletive-filled trailer on his ABC show last night.

Former Vice President Al Gore‘s crusade to stop man-made climate change hit the road last week as Gore attended the Aspen Institute’s “Networks and Citizenship” media panel to discuss those who do not believe in his cause. In a rage-fueled rant against his detractors, Gore told the audience that much of the anti-global warming rhetoric came from a small group of people “washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again” who had made it unacceptable “to use the goddamn word ‘climate.’”

Former Vice President Al Gore is back on the scene and is not pleased that the “truth” is under attack. In a new video promoting his event called “24 Hours of Reality,” Gore claims that “big oil and big coal are spending big money to spread doubt about climate change” and basically that now is the time to fight back.

Chris Matthews was somewhat surprised with Al Gore’s harsh critique of President Obama in Rolling Stone regarding his inaction on climate policy. Instead Matthews argued that even if Obama has not been perfect, Gore should really be angry at the “corrupt media on the right” who refuse to believe in climate change, not because they are stupid, but because in Matthews’ opinion they are “evil.”

Could this be the official end of the honeymoon period New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was enjoying with conservatives? Or as Glenn Beck describes it, Christie’s recent statements on climate change should serve as a “cold shower for Chris Christie lovers” everywhere.

For a candidate already having trouble rallying the Republican base, Mitt Romney seems to have no fear of being labeled a RINO. Speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire, the 2012 candidate came clean with the fact that he believes in man-made global warming, and that he believes “it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants.” Between this and “Romneycare,” these are shaping out to be some rather rough primaries for the former Massachusetts governor.

Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards is drawing attention to climate change by jumping into the icy-cold Potomac River in this year’s “Polar Bear Plunge.” We’re not entirely sure how this inspires people to change their habits or focus on environmental issues more than a PSA featuring a real-life flailing polar bear might (narrated by Sarah McLachlan, natch), but it does seem kind of fun in a masochistic way.

If you’re familiar with Bill Maher, you’ll know he’s always up for a debate on any topic involving religion. In fact, as he showed on tonight’s Real Time, he’s even up for such a debate when the original topic has nothing to do with religion – what started as a debate over climate change turned into a referendum of sorts on evolution, thanks to Maher bringing the topic up out of nowhere.

A passionate environmentalist went head-to-head with Tucker Carlson and conservative author Chris Horner on Hannity tonight and, given the copious cult and spaceship references, Betsy Rosenberg handled the debate with relative aplomb, considering she was treated not unlike what one would imagine a creationist would be treated like on an all-liberal panel.

In an article dramatically titled “As the World Burns,” Ryan Lizza gives readers of The New Yorker a lengthy account of Washington’s inept handling of climate change issues. Lizza also paints an unflattering portrait of Sen. Lindsey Graham, revealing that the Republican tried to expedite a climate change bill “before Fox News got wind of the fact that this was serious process.”

Last week, a British eco-interest group called 10:10 UK released a video advertising a new initiative that calls for participants to lower their carbon emissions by 10%. The video, called “No Pressure,” shows a series of clips in which various people tell groups about the initiative, then blow those who don’t want to participate to smithereens. Its imagery is so graphic that after receiving numerous complaints, 10:10 took the video off of its website and issued a vaguely apologetic mea culpa.

In the debate on global climate change, Global Warming proponents may have just gotten their favorite closing argument back. The Associated Press is reporting that a British panel, made up of the House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee, has completed an investigation today that clears the Climategate scientists of nearly all wrongdoing and validated their initial findings.

There’s just something about climate debates that seems to convince long-forgotten 90s icons they deserve a political platform upon which to preach their ideas. Last week, we saw the unfortunate politicization of Bill Nye the Science Guy– yes, the one who taught you what cells were before you got yelled at by The Chief on Carmen Sandiego– prompt an inevitably feud between Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow. Next up to bat is rapper Biz Markie.

Ok. Well this should clear things up somewhat for those folks out there who are confused as to what side of the climate change debate Glenn Beck falls on. He apparently thinks it’s merely another conspiracy theory. Move over Birthers and Truthers!