Obama Advisor: Climate Change One of 'Top Strategic Risks' to U.S.
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Posted on 03/21/2015 5:53:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Well, there’s one way to ensure that everyone buys into the man-made global warming hoax: extortion. Starting next year the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will stop funds from going to states that refuse to believe that humans are causing climate change.
This news comes straight from the leftist eco-nuts at Inside Climate News, so you can be assured that it isn’t a “paranoid” conservative interpretation of an innocuous FEMA regulation:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard mitigation plans that address climate change.
Sounds pretty fascist to me. If you have the truth on your side, you do not need to force people to believe it. Only liars and charlatans resort to bullying tactics like this.
This may put several Republican governors who maintain the earth isn’t warming due to human activities, or prefer to do nothing about it, into a political bind. Their position may block their states’ access to hundreds of millions of dollars in FEMA funds.
Basically it works like this: state governments must accept that man-made global warming is real and commit public funds to programs designed to mitigate the effects of it, even if it isn’t real. State governments that fail to do this will loose out on millions, if not billions, in FEMA funds.
Specifically, beginning in March 2016, states seeking preparedness money will have to assess how climate change threatens their communities. Governors will have to sign off on hazard mitigation plans. While some states, including New York, have already started incorporating climate risks in their plans, most haven’t because FEMA’s old 2008 guidelines didn’t require it.
And it appears that this isn’t just about global warming, but all things that environmentalist hate:
“This could potentially become a major conflict for several Republican governors,” said Barry Rabe, an expert on the politics of climate change at the University of Michigan. “We aren’t just talking about coastal states.” Climate change affects droughts, rainfall and tornado activity. Fracking is being linked to more earthquakes, he said. “This could affect state leaders across the country.”
What the hell does fracking have to do with global warming? Does this mean that states that allow fracking are also going to have funds withheld? Probably.
Don’t go thinking this new regulation is a shakedown. According to FEMA spokeswoman Susan Hendrick forcing states to accept global warming as reality is actually just a way to “raise awareness and support for implementing the actions in the mitigation strategy and increasing statewide resilience to natural hazards.”
Raise awareness? Sounds more like a fun run than a tyrannical mandate.
Here’s the best part about all this:
The new federal rules don’t require public involvement in the creation of states’ disaster preparedness plans, eliminating the opportunity for environmental groups and concerned citizens to submit comments or concerns about the assessments.
So FEMA, an unelected body, will withhold vital funds from states if they don’t believe in man-made global warming and there is to be no public debate or scrutiny. That’s as Obama as it gets. I’m sure if this works out, he’ll try a similar scheme for gun control, gay marriage, and abortion.
The last mailing I got from FEMA wanted me to jump through more hoops... No. Absolutely not. They got their Letter of Map Ammendment and the Topographical maps from the surveyor. They officially released me from having to pay flood insurance for the life of my loan... the bank was satisfied. THAT IS THE END OF MY DEALINGS WITH FEMA.
I threw their little letter right in the trash. If they have a problem with that too bad. If they send someone to trespass on my property and they are shot, too bad.
Screw FEMA. Screw FEMA up the dirtchute with a 2x4.
We don't need any convention, we have ways if the elected would use it.
Who will miss FEMA if they’re gone? They’re just a money pit.
If the opposite happens, states will need more Federal money to build more ski resorts and transportation enhancement for building and maintaining the new highways that will access these resorts. It’s for the children!
Now we have a REVERSE PROTECTION RACKET for the bullchit “science” promulgated by the hacks and grant money whores.
Obozo’s ongoing criminal enterprise is branching out.
Figures. They ARE from Chicago!
Where is Sparafucile when we really need him?
WHAT Law of the Land??
Important essay on how obozo’s illegal immigration is destroying the rule of law here:
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/?_ga=1.10735094.373310105.1426961722
Replace “sit” with “fester” and I agree 200%.
You will do what the commissars tell you to do.
Shows why the Libpoglodytes are down with the Islamofascists and avoid critizing. “Convert or die” are mutually shared memes. At this rate, an organic nationwide grassroots ‘No Vote of Confidence in Washington seems unavoidable. People can just take so much from these fascist gangsters. A strategic trucker strike, for example, would begin to show them the power of the people.
edit.. Shows why the Libproglodytes are down with the Islamofascists and avoid criticizing then. (keyboard.)
true file all income tax returns through the state and let them divide the monies between feds and state, he who gets the money first generally keeps the money.
This is a shakedown on a national scale.
Jimmy Carter made everyone drive 55 by witholding highway funds.
It’s our money in the first place, not “FEMA’s funds.”
BKMK- PRINT
Obama ans his admin should be removed from office. Not impeached. REMOVED!
I think it's one of the few valuable federal agencies when they are used for their intended purposes that are hard to replace...
No state has the manpower or ability to address natural disasters quickly...
Having FEMA as the cavalry can save a lot of lives...
Bear in mind I'm talking about an agency that is properly utilized and properly funded...
Not the political tool it has become...
They should get in ASAP bringing the full weight and resources only the federal government can muster..and than get out as soon as the state can properly deal with the disaster ...
I lived through Hurricane Andrew...not directly affected as in my house was still in one piece, except for no power for 5 days...(That was really fun in the middle of August with five children and an infant !)
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"Eppur si non caldo"
Obama Advisor: Climate Change One of 'Top Strategic Risks' to U.S.
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