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Gingrich, Kerry to Debate 'Climate Change'
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Sen. John Kerry will debate the issue of climate change next week, their staffs announced Thursday.
The debate, hosted by New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress, will take place on Tuesday morning, April 10, in the Russell Senate Office Building, according to the Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill.
Kerry, D-Mass., has been dubbed an "environmental champion” by the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters. He and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry recently wrote "This Moment on Earth,” which deals with climate change and preserving the environment.
Gingrich, the Georgia Republican and architect of the "Contract with America” that led to the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, recently joined conservationist Terry Maple to author "A Contract with the Earth.” Due out Nov. 1, it is based on a 10-point "contract” calling for a bipartisan approach to solving climate issues.
"America should focus its energy policy in four areas,” Gingrich writes on his Web site. "Basic research for a new energy system, incentives for conservation, more renewable resources, and environmentally sound development of fossil fuels.
"The lengthy process of environmental planning must be made more efficient and cost effective.”
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Kerry told The Hill: "Newt’s a guy who has spent a lot of time wrestling with climate change and the environment. He reads about it, he teaches about it, he writes about it. We don’t see eye to eye about everything, obviously, but that’s what makes for a good debate.”
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