text: That gave a handy excuse to environmental groups and climate change deniers to dredge up the video ad (above) that Gingrich recorded for Al Gore's climate action campaign in 2008. As if the Gore connection were not damaging enough, in Tea Party eyes, Gingrich shares a sofa with the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.. . .Now Climate Depot, the website run by a former aide to the arch-denier, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, is trying to force Gingrich to issue a public apology.