Interesting that this seemingly moderate and well spoken guy, self described friend of Amory Loving, could have been elected in Wyoming, but maybe that’s something to build on.
He’s gotten in a little trouble with fellow Republicans, as one does, for acknowledging reality.
Watch this space.
Republican Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon is facing criticism for his recent comments pledging to reduce his state’s carbon emissions and saying there was urgency to addressing the “warming climate.”
Gordon made the comments during a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics in Massachusetts Monday, promoting the “Decarbonizing the West” initiative he established in his role as chairman of the Western Governors’ Association. In 2018, Gordon ran for governor on an all-of-the-above-energy platform and has since promoted green energy development.
“It is clear that we have a warming climate,” Gordon remarked Monday, according to The Harvard Crimson. “It is clear that carbon dioxide is a major contributor to that challenge. There is an urgency to addressing this issue.
“Wyoming is the first that has said that we will be carbon negative.”
he Wyoming Republican Party passed a vote of “no confidence” on Saturday against Gov. Mark Gordon for his recent comments at Harvard University that Wyoming is committed to becoming “carbon negative” and that the climate is warming.
The motion for a “no confidence” vote originated from the Park County Republican Party, which passed it at its county meeting Thursday and says Gordon “boldly turned” his back on Wyoming Republicans.
A vote of no confidence isn’t as strong a censure, but is an official statement about how the party views what Gordon said during his Harvard visit.
Republican Wyoming state Rep. John Bear, who chairs the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, blasted the governor, saying the state couldn’t afford to “give an inch” to anti-fossil fuel interests. Bear noted that Wyoming is highly dependent on its fossil fuel industry, which is among the largest in the nation.
“Frankly, I was embarrassed,” Bear told Fox News Digital in an interview. “I was embarrassed that our chief executive would go to a pro-Hamas, pro-China school and appease an anti-fossil fuel crowd. I was embarrassed that someone who campaigned as a conservative is ready to close the coffin on coal, oil and gas in his state. He has given in to the AOC and Al Gore hysteria that is, in fact, disputed science.
Is it “disputed science” when the only ones disputing it are ignoramuses?
Further down in the same article, Gordon’s spokesperson massively backpedaled:
“To be clear, the governor was not advocating shutting off fossil fuels, and the urgency he speaks about is because of the raft of regulations targeting the fossil fuel industry,”
Pretending he can have it both ways: “Governor Gordon has been committed to protecting Wyoming’s core fossil fuel industries and tackling climate change since the beginning of his administration. He believes strongly that the United States can do both.”
And did you know that the above firehose of hooey is the sensible middle? “Unlike the majority of people on both sides of the energy debate, Governor Gordon is bringing honesty to this conversation….”
“[O]ur chief executive would go to a pro-Hamas, pro-China school and appease an anti-fossil fuel crowd.”
He left out the puppy-kicking and grandma-stabbing so clearly linked to the anti-fossil fuel crowd.
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