Posted on 10/26/2023 2:51:28 PM PDT by Libloather
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."
Gordon further pointed to carbon capture and sequestration, forest management, nuclear energy and geothermal technology as solutions to addressing carbon emissions.
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.
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Gordon has evolved.
Vote him out.
From what? An earth worm?
Are you embarrassed enough to make sure he’s not the next governor.
Don’t give earthworms a bad name.
Hey Wyoming, lose this jagoff.
Hey Wyoming, lose this jagoff.
It’s ‘Republicans’ like this clown that forced us to elect Trump, and is forcing us to RE-ELECT Trump, just to clear them out and send them back to the Sierra Club, or wherever the hell they came from.
Harvard is not a “pro-Hamas school”—it’s an American school with a loud pro-Hamas contingent, and a feckless, unqualified new president who is incapable of dealing with it.
The Kennedy School, which is not up to Harvard standards, is at least apparently pro-China.
A Wyoming governor has no business giving in to the greenies. Really!!
It’s clear the climate is warming to whom? Real scientists say there’s no problem. The climate cult is pushing the green narrative because it creates wealth for them.
You can't fix clowns like that.
No, it isn't clear at all. In fact it is doubtful.
I was about to join the any reasonable candidate except Trump club and then discovered to my astonishment that the contenders all blowed themselves up.
“I was about to join the any reasonable candidate except Trump club and then discovered to my astonishment that the contenders all blowed themselves up. “
You’re not alone. In 2015, when Trump first announced some GOP Operative, who I never got his name, but think Frank Luntz, said on talk radio that all 12 candidates (at the time) had agreed to NEVER DISCUSS immigration in at least the Primary, as the money-men would simply not fund them.
But then the bull in the china shop, Trump, showed up and ruined everything...
Exactly, I have almost gotten off the Trump Train several times, but each time I come to realize that there just simply is no other alternative.
And now today we learn that Meadows was wearing a wire and ratting him out for the FBI. That will tank Trump's standing, surely - whoops Meadows in now seen to be a treasonous jackass who can't save himself and Trump's standing goes up as the depth of deepster depravity sinks another league or two.
Tried, but the democrat got through. Calls himself a Republican, but in truth, he is a democrat.
I’m heading up to Cheyenne Saturday, should I pack my shorts?
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