Ronchetti: Fix Climate by Chopping Down More Trees
Question: How would you address climate change?
Mark Ronchetti: Chop down more trees!
Dan Boyd: “We’ve seen the effects of climate change globally, across our country, and right here in New Mexico. Nowhere is that more evident than the massive destructive wildfires this summer, that changed and destroyed the lives of so many New Mexicans. What concerns you most about climate change in New Mexico, and what would be your top priority for addressing it in the state?”
Mark Ronchetti: Look, the best think we can do to deal with the threat of wildfires is to handle it with the proper environmental policy. Far left environmentalists supported by this governor, have shut down logging all across New Mexico. So when that fire broke out over the summer, it exploded with more fuel than it knew what to do with. We have to stop as a state, allowing people who don’t even live here to go and dictate what our policies are. We need to log throughout northern and southern mountains. We need to log that dead fall out and we need to make sure we care for our forests here. But right now, we’re not doing that because the governor is beholden to a far left environmentalist group that is putting New Mexico at risk. There is no question about that. And I will out an end to that. At least their influence, no question. And we need to start logging again as well. And look, climate change we need to deal with. But as you look at where we are across the state here, we have the cleanest, most efficient oil and gas industry in the world. We can help be a bridge going forward here across the world as well. New Mexico’s going to have a huge role. But wild-eyed environmentalists that support this governor will not let her take the proper steps to allow working families to afford what they need…”
“We need to log throughout northern and southern mountains,” (Mark Ronchetti on how he would address climate change).
Ronchetti encouraged wild-eyed environmentalists in 2019
“I’m a Christian conservative who used to be a Republican until the ‘Orange One’, and then things… I’m afraid that has taken a part of my soul and that’s not coming back.”
“We did the data over the past 80 years our overnight lows are up between three and four degrees.”
“We do have another step here that’s going to be a very big deal in this state. Which is, we all live in a state that is funded by oil and gas. That’s a fact. I mean you can look at what the governor’s done over the past three months. She’s not doing any of that without huge oil and gas revenue. So we have to replace that.”
“And we need to start logging again as well,” (Mark Ronchetti on how he would address climate change).
Ronchetti on wildfires in 2019
“My biggest fear for this state is wildfires by far. We start raising that snow level and all of a sudden you’re getting rain at 10,000 feet in January, which scares the hell out of me. Because then, we’re talking about a fire season in this state that goes from April to July. And then.. the way you look at our forests and you go ‘oh my gosh’. These things are going to explode. We’re toast. Right? That’s the scariest thing to me.”
Mark Ronchetti talks to scientists, graduate students, and science majors (a.k.a. wild-eyed environmentalists) at University of New Mexico in 2019.
Mark Ronchetti’s flip flop on climate change can be seen on Youtube: 2019 wild-eyed environmentalist position, and 2022 GOP fossil fuel candidate position.