We Can Solve It, the climate change advocacy group (they’re against it, FYI) that brought us the Al Sharpton/Pat Robertson commerical, are back at it with a new spot pairing Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich.   While this Ungar/Madison idea may sound like the makings for strange bedfellows, I can assure you it’s even more awkward than it sounds.   Check out the video, after the jump.

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Wish you could ask Laurie David, producer of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” your questions about the environment? How about chatting with Newt Gingrich about bipartisan environmentalism? For those unacquainted with Slate.com’s Earth Chats, it’s a great online discussion series featuring leading environmental thinkers, leaders and advocates who answer readers’ questions about environmental issues, and what we can do to improve our earthly habitat. This week being Earth Week, Slate chatted with a slew of heavy-hitting advocates. We’ve provided this week’s schedule below, with accompanying links to chat transcripts:

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Frontline: Hot Politics examines the United States goverment’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time, Global Warming. The award winning PBS series details how for decade after decade the Federal Government has avoided real action on Climate Change through methods ranging from parliamentary tricks, false scientific reports, suppressing real science, making excuses, P.R. spin, failing to ratify its own treaties, failing to enforce its own existing regulations and adopting half measures that have no hope of solving the problem - and that’s just for starters.

There is plenty of bipartisan blame to go around and it is spread over each Presidential administration dating back to George H.W. Bush’s in 1988. Interviews with Newt Gingrich, Frank Luntz, NASA Scientist James Hansen, former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman and many others depict an institution that is broken when it comes to fixing the enormous environmental problems that confront it.

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