Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) was once a champion of policies like cap-and-trade to combat global warming pollution, but he now calls his past climate leadership “ stupid ” and a “ disaster .” The polar explorer who worked with Pawlenty to “convince the skeptics” and find solutions to greenhouse pollution from oil and coal, Will Steger , is now “baffled” by Pawlenty’s reversal. Brad Johnson has the story . In an interview with Mother Jones , Steger says that he believed “ morally we were on the same level” when they met in 2006, and praised the governor’s acts of leadership in 2007 to build “unity in this community” around a clean energy economy. Now, however, Steger — who has conquered both the North Pole and Antarctica — feels defeated by Pawlenty’s “ reckless ” abandonment of our children’s future: “I’m baffled by that—did he actually say that?” says Steger, when asked about Pawlenty’s recent statements. “ I’m baffled by that. But I think he’s getting information from the wrong source and it’s really too bad for our children. It’s reckless .” “A lot of environmentalists think I want to dump on the governor because he changed around,” Steger told Mother Jones

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Polar explorer who worked with Pawlenty “baffled” by his “reckless” flip-flop on climate threat