Remember when GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change?

That was just last August. In the three months since then, he’s apparently decided to throw in his lot with the anti-science wing of the GOP. Speaking today at the right wing propaganda tank known as the Heritage Foundation, Huntsman parroted their ridiculous claims about the “Climategate” fake outrage.

In a move that’s sure to endear him to the conservatives who are starting to warm up to the former Utah governor, Huntsman said Tuesday under questioning from TPM that he now believes there’s “more debate yet to play out” before we can be sure climate change is really happening.

…Now he’s talking about the conspiracy theories that have been a mainstay of the climate change denier community for years and backing off his previous contention that climate science is real.

“[T]here is — there are questions about the validity of the science, evidenced by one university over in Scotland recently,” Huntsman said, referring to the East Anglia University conspiracy that continues to fuel climate change skepticism. “I think the onus is on the scientific community to provide more in the way of information, to help clarify the situation.”

How sad and pathetic. Next from Jon Huntsman: “Evolution is just a theory, really. And if we came from apes, why are there still apes?”