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A Climate For Absolute Power
Issues & Insights ^ | 17 Aug, 2023 | I&I Editorial Board

Posted on 08/18/2023 5:58:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

How do we know that Joe Biden has made a verbal blunder? His lips were moving. There are so many slip-ups and absurdities coming out of his mouth that it’s hard to keep up. But one recent gaffe stands out: The president said last week during an interview with the Weather Channel that he had already “practically speaking” declared a climate emergency.

He of course hasn’t, but should he or another president do so, they would in effect also be declaring themselves to be an American kaiser who could issue tyrannical edicts with absolute power. They would be able to autocratically “deploy around 130 different powers,” says Climate Depot’s Marc Morano.

Operating under emergency climate powers, a president could halt “the export of crude oil … phase out all exports and imports of fossil fuels entirely … stop issuing permits for offshore oil and gas wells under already existing leases and halt all drilling immediately … marshaling funding under the DPA to deploy clean energy – for example, rooftop solar installations on low-income housing,” according to Morano.

He, or she, could also implement lockdowns similar to those forced on us during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s a truly frightening proposition. Worse than one-party rule, it would be one-man rule.

Which means that the green-on-the-outside, red-on-the-inside radicals are giddy over the proposition even as they feel Biden’s rhetoric is running too far ahead of his actions.

“Activists say nothing short of an emergency declaration will address deadly heat – and the fossil fuel dependency driving it,” gushes Grist, the “Pravda version of the Whole Earth Catalog.” They would be happy to see Biden “divert billions of dollars from the military toward constructing renewable energy projects.”

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus wants Biden to declare a climate emergency so “he could unleash a historic education program to counter fossil fuel industry disinformation … ban new fossil-fuel vehicle sales by 2030, prosecute violations by fossil fuel polluters, commit to veto laws granting immunity to such criminals, and more,” all done without the approval of Congress.

New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer is apparently one of many lawmakers who wouldn’t mind if Biden bypassed Congress. He began suggesting Biden declare a climate emergency almost as soon as he was sworn in as president...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: greenenergy

1 posted on 08/18/2023 5:58:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

A climate emergency lockdown just before the 2024 election would give all of the mechanisms for election fraud that were used in 2020 and 2022. I won’t be surprised if it happens.


2 posted on 08/18/2023 5:58:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Well, we have a heads-up to prevent it.


3 posted on 08/18/2023 6:19:18 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: All

The president falsely said during an interview with the Weather Channel that
he had “practically speaking” declared a climate emergency. He, of course, hasn’t.......yet.

But should he do so, he could issue tyrannical edicts with absolute power and would be able to autocratically “deploy around 130 different new powers,” says Climate Depot’s Marc Morano.

Operating under emergency climate powers, a president could:
<><> halt “the export of crude oil …
<><>phase out all exports and imports of fossil fuels entirely …
<><>stop issuing permits for offshore oil and gas wells under already existing leases
<><>halt all drilling immediately …
<><>marshal funding under the DPA
<><>be empowered to deploy clean energy –
<><> like rooftop solar installations on low-income housing.


4 posted on 08/18/2023 6:23:44 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: All

Possible crimes committed by Fani Willis and Tanya Chutkan might include:
<><>violating the Georgia RICO Act;
<><>Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer;
<><>Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer;
<><>Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;
<><>Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings;
<><>Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents;
<><>Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree;
<><>Filing False Documents;
<><>Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.


5 posted on 08/18/2023 6:30:26 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: MtnClimber

Lock down because water is wet


6 posted on 08/18/2023 6:34:48 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Rumor has it Satanists
must tell you in advance
what they plan to do to you
to give you the chance to kill them 1st,,

, survival of the fittest as darwin put it.

Kind of their 1 and only commandment

.


7 posted on 08/18/2023 6:59:47 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sure the labor shortage has nothing to do with 60+ million aborted babies over several decades.


8 posted on 08/18/2023 7:05:29 AM PDT by Publius Maximus (It was a nice Republic, while it lasted.)
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To: Publius Maximus

I was in a completely different thread and have no idea how my previous comment got posted in this one. If there was a way to do so, I would have deleted it.


9 posted on 08/18/2023 7:08:04 AM PDT by Publius Maximus (It was a nice Republic, while it lasted.)
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To: Liz

that was a trial balloon


10 posted on 08/18/2023 7:26:20 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

I wouldn’t be surprised either, but I’d be more surprised if he didn’t wait until after he stole the next election, and then declare it was a mandate.


11 posted on 08/18/2023 7:34:05 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: MtnClimber

You can kiss congress and the courts goodbye. This is shaping up like Star Wars where the emperor dissolves the government. Biden has all the power he needs to run a fascist government and declare the constitution dead. The only 2 things getting in the way are the military who swore and oath to defend the constitution, and 80 million gun owners who will see they have nothing to lose when the confiscation of guns and re-education gulags begins.


12 posted on 08/18/2023 8:05:35 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: joshua c

shows he’s got it under consideration.


13 posted on 08/18/2023 8:16:06 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: MtnClimber

Emergency viewing: 15 must-see films about the climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/30/disaster-movies-films-climate-crisis-documentaries


14 posted on 08/18/2023 8:45:16 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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