October 12, 2026

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RE: Campaign Status

 

Dear Colorado Voter:

 

During this year’s campaign season, despite being understaffed and unfunded, the Christian Komor for Governor campaign has continuously met the detailed requirements of the Colorado Secretary of State. On January 16, 2026, we signed the Article XXVII, Sec. 2(2) and I-45-110(1), C.R.S. Affidavits declaring candidacy for the office of Governor as an independent under Colorado Revised Statute Section 1-45-110. On April 5, 2026, we submitted an Affidavit of Intent for Write-In Designation. On July 13, 2026, we mailed a second Affidavit of Intent for Write-In Designation for Governor. This form was due in the Secretary of State’s Office on July 16th, and it was stamped received by the SOS on July 21, 2026, exceeding normal postal transit times.

 

One of the 23 planks in our campaign platform (deliverables), which you can view here on this website, involved upscaling Direct Atmospheric Carbon Removal. If mirror programs were developed by the other 21 state members of the Governors’ U.S. Climate Alliance, this could have been the beginning of the reversal of climate change.

 

It is with great sadness and regret that I must therefore report to our voters that the Christian Komor for Colorado Governor election campaign must withdraw, due to the failure of timely postal delivery and the stringent requirements of Colorado election law.

 

We will not, however, stand down from our core work: addressing and repairing climate change. You will see us migrating this website toward the Climate Deadline Foundation. 

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There is no other hope on the horizon, and by 2035–2045 our window of opportunity for stopping climate change will have closed. If anyone knows of another effort out there big enough and fast enough to rescue us from civilization-wide extinction from climate change, we would love to hear about it. As things stand, without our effort or another like it, the decades ahead will become increasingly intolerable for all but the wealthiest humans—who ironically are often the heads of states and corporations who allowed this to happen to the rest of us (and who continue to block efforts like our campaign to enact a solution).

 

A few retrospective observations made during our campaign run this year:

1. Campaign Finance: It is not possible to run a campaign without a minimum of $100,000. Just completing petition requirements costs around $75,000. Whatever their good ideas or potential contributions might be, under our current electoral process, those with the most money will win. This leads to federal and state governments dominated by dollars rather than principles, ideals, and a motivation to uphold the Constitution and support the welfare of individual voters, families, and communities. We present solutions to this electoral dysfunction in our 2026 Platform, which we will leave available on this website. Probably the most important of these is that all candidates who meet criteria be funded from a public election trust and allowed no additional funding. Voters need to be able to choose the best-qualified candidates, not merely the most visible ones due to financial backing and status.

2. Media Access: Often owned by Wall Street profiteers, our news media is to a significant degree no longer acting in the interests of readers and viewers, but rather for ratings and profits. We issued press releases more than once each week and approached every media outlet to share our viewpoint on relevant issues. In nine months, we received not one printed or spoken word from any form of media, despite often holding the most vital information and opinions. Our campaign was prepared to use the office of Governor to help redirect media toward fair, balanced, and community-minded reporting. We will not have that opportunity, but perhaps another candidate may make use of the innovative ideas in our Campaign Platform on this website.

3. The Climate Reality: Climate change is the only problem facing human beings that will almost certainly end our collective civilization as we know it—and within this century. As such, it has been the core of our Platform and should be the core of any rational contemporary political platform. However, the other candidates for Governor this year have given climate change the bare minimum of attention needed to pacify enough voters to get elected. To our campaign, this seems out of touch with reality and the rights of Coloradans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Also, while we understand the Secretary of State’s need to conduct elections by the rule of law, if adherence to "business as usual" has been scientifically proven to end in the deaths of roughly three-quarters of the Colorado population, "business as usual" must itself be considered a threat.

4. Looking Forward: Twice during the campaign so far, we reached out to all other candidates offering to throw our support to them in exchange for a promise to do what is needed to protect Coloradans from the ravages of climate change. Now, having been disqualified on a technicality, our campaign is again offering to lend the support we have garnered among the 52% of Coloradans who are Independents to any gubernatorial candidate who adopts the climate change remediation plank of our platform and establishes job creation and GDP growth through the upscaling of Direct Atmospheric Carbon Removal. Climate change is a global emergency. Any efforts to reduce further emissions are, at this point, a distraction from the need to remove carbon on a large scale from the atmosphere. Everyone who has the capability to assist in this crisis through one of the 15 remaining effective means listed below should be doing so.

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Once the campaign dust has settled, we will be transitioning back to our 501(c)(3) status as the Climate Deadline Foundation. We will continue our efforts to establish Direct Atmospheric Carbon Removal and related programs, corporate and governmental advocacy, weekly press releases, podcasts, publications, town halls, and social media engagement.

 

Late-Term Effective Climate Remediation Must Be Large-Scale*

1. Rapid Fossil Fuel Phase-out (Emission elimination)

2. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)

3. Fugitive Methane Abatement (Leak repair/capping)

4. Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) (Low-cloud seeding)

5. Direct Air Capture (DACCS) (Sorbent/Solvent extraction)

6. BECCS (Biomass power + CCS)

7. Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)

8. Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW)

9. Reforestation & Protection

10. Peatland Rewetting

11. Atmospheric Methane Sink

12. Glacial Geo-Engineering

13. Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF)

14. Precision Agricultural VPD

15. Coral Assisted Evolution

* These strategies are discussed in detail in our paper "Climate forcing, positive feedbacks, and planetary tipping points: A synthesis of deep-time proxies, earth system sensitivity, and interventional feasibility" which can be found on this website.

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In Conclusion: While we will not be able to serve the people of Colorado through the Governor's Office, we will continue to work tirelessly to protect Coloradans from the rapidly-gathering extinction-level disaster of climate change. We warmly invite your participation—just send us a note—or your continued support and donations.

 

Dr. Christian R. Komor

Earth Systems Science Advisor

           

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