Jon Huntsman, sensing an opening and trying to show some Republican bona fides, suddenly becomes a climate change skeptic

Michael Stickings (@mjwstickings) has shared a Tweet with you:

"joshtpm: Huntsman gets wobbly on climate change -- now says scientists need to provide more evidence" (link)

Et tu, Jon? But of course.

And why is he doing this, why is he destroying whatever shred of integrity and credibility he had left (after saying nice things about Cain reduced him to basically zero on both counts anyway)?

Because he thinks it may be his turn for a surge, because Romney appears to be on the decline and because Newt is, well, Newt (with the party "establishment" against him and with his history of self-destructive buffoonery), and because he actually has a shot, however remote, to do surprisingly well in New Hampshire.

And because this -- being a climate change denialist (or at least skeptic) and otherwise embracing the right-wing denial of reality -- is what you have to do to get anywhere in the Republican Party.

Just ask Mitt.