Gingrich has said he's not convinced climate science warrants action on the issue. | POLITICO Screengrab Gingrich regrets 2008 ad with Pelosi

Newt Gingrich regrets his co-starring role with Nancy Pelosi in a three-year-old commercial touting compromise on global warming legislation.

"Oh sure, look, I was trying to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment," Gingrich said Tuesday on New Hampshire's WGIR radio. "But obviously it was misconstrued, and it's one of the things I probably wouldn't do again."


Gingrich has been getting grief from his right ever since he appeared in the nationally televised ad alongside Pelosi on a love seat outside the Capitol. The commercial, cut for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, extolled the need for finding common ground on climate change policy.

The former House speaker has said he's not convinced climate science warrants action on the issue, but this is the closest he's come to apologizing for the ad, as some have urged him to. "I don't know what we'd apologize for," then-Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler told POLITICO in May.

This article first appeared on POLITICO Pro at 10:54 a.m. on July 26, 2011.