Letter to the Editor: Gordon Needs To Quit With The Climate Change BS

Dear editor: "Environmentalists themselves changed the name of their “crisis” some years ago from 'global warming' to 'climate change' when it became clear that the planet is not warming."

November 16, 20233 min read

Gov. Mark Gordon speaks at Tuesday's 40th annual Governor's Business Forum in Laramie.
Gov. Mark Gordon speaks at Tuesday's 40th annual Governor's Business Forum in Laramie.

Dear Editor:

Mr. Gordon – the governor of the most conservative sate in the Union, with whose constituents he has fallen far out of step – got the attention of a Federalist writer:  Governor To Debate Critics Of Plan To Turn WY 'Carbon Negative' 

“It is clear that we have a warming climate,” Gordon said at an event with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. “It is clear that carbon dioxide is a major contributor to that change. There is an urgency to addressing this issue and it isn’t only going to be solved by turning off fossil fuels.”

 Contrary to being “clear,” Governor, both points are clearly false.  1) Data show that the earth is cooling and may be at the beginning of another long, cyclical cooling (glacial) period.  2) Therefore, CO2 cannot be causing warming that is not happening (and, in any case, there is substantial uncertainty and legitimate scientific disagreement about the impact of CO2 on climate dynamics & trends).

Recall that environmentalists themselves changed the name of their “crisis” some years ago from “global warming” to “climate change” when it became clear that the planet is not warming.

The consciously-contrived, carefully-orchestrated “crisis” of Global Warming Climate Change is based upon false premises - demonstrably weak and too-frequently falsified or fabricated data and manipulated & corrupted models - and is popularized by the perpetual, ubiquitous drumbeat of propaganda and lockstep, self-ratifying acceptance. 

It constitutes, not a plausible hypothesis, but a malicious political movement proselytizing the greatest fraud of our lifetime (though there certainly is serious competition for the title “Greatest Fraud”).  The foundational upheaval of society claimed to be the immutable “solution” to the Global Warming Climate Change “crisis” is – beyond being utterly unnecessary – incontrovertibly absurd, unworkable & uneconomic, and, more importantly, is enormously destructive to mankind, indeed is culturally, existentially suicidal.

We must stop meekly accepting that Global Warming Climate Change is an actual problem which mankind must address by self-immolating our successful social, political & economic institutions & framework. 

We must stop politely gifting credibility to the shrieks & wails of “Crisis!”, must stop treating the debate as if proponents of the quasi-religious climate change movement have valid cause for concern. 

Politicians, news media, thinkers, writers, teachers, business leaders, bureaucrats, scientists, high-profile public figures, men & women of commonsense & courage and voters must openly, publicly, unequivocally reject the hysterical nonsense of the unsupportable hypothesis that the climate is changing disastrously due to human activity, and that we must destroy and “reimagine” society and relinquish our freedoms & control of our government to an elite, enlightened authoritarian oligarchy or perish.

Global Warming Climate Change is a disastrous, gravely dangerous fraud.

Sincerely,

John Hoak

Big Horn