Posted on 08/21/2023 9:45:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Democrats have had trouble advancing the whole of their radical Green New Deal by democratic means, so they're now calling upon President Joe Biden to invoke abstract threats and exploit real tragedies to get their way.
Proponents of the climate alarmist legislation that would see the state's power grow further at the expense of the populace were not placated in the least by the green handouts resultant of last year's "Inflation Reduction Act," which authorized well over $600 billion in spending on so-called renewable energy and climate change initiatives.
In July 2022, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other leftist senators in the Democratic caucus penned a letter to Biden, stating, "For too long, we have been waiting for a single piece of legislation, and a single Senate vote, to take bold action on our climate crisis. ... As a result, we urge you to put us on an emergency footing and aggressively use your executive powers to address the climate crisis."
Having not yet gotten their way in full, leftists in Washington, D.C., now seek to cite the wildfires in Hawaii — which appear to have been largely resultant of negligence and the vain pursuit of Democrats' green agenda — as reason enough for Biden to declare a national climate emergency.
Markey, one of the authors of the original Green New Deal resolution, said in a statement to Politico, "The devastation in Maui is a clear sign that the president must declare a climate emergency — now."
"While FEMA is providing resources to the local heroes on the ground fighting for the lives and livelihoods of Hawaiians, the underlying climate-driven conditions of drought, extreme heat, environmental injustice, and non-resilient infrastructure will remain," added Markey.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) similarly called for a statist solution to the specter of anthopogenic climate change, stating, "This is a crisis and we need to treat it that way. That starts with President Biden declaring a national climate emergency to unlock vast federal resources and emergency powers to help our communities prepare for and recover from these deadly climate disasters."
When asked earlier this month by the Weather Network whether he intended to make such a declaration, the 80-year-old president claimed he had done so, "practically speaking."
Biden, who spent the most recent stretch of the over 365 vacation days he has so far taken as president at a billionaire climate alarmist's home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, claimed, "We've already done that. ... We've conserved more land, we've moved into rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. We've got a $60 billion climate control facility."
Mark Nevitt, a professor at Emory University’s School of Law, characterized the national climate emergency declaration as a "skeleton key" that "unlocks the door" to other powers, reported The Hill.
The Center for Biological Diversity pushed a report last year entitled, "Legal Guide to Bold Climate Action from President Biden," which stated that by declaring a climate emergency, Biden could take various drastic actions, such as: halt crude oil exports; stop oil and gas drilling in the outer continental shelf; and restrict international trade and private investment in fossil fuels.
Tim Steward, president of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, told Just the News, "If you grant the president's emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it's just like COVID."
Accordingly, Biden would end up with "vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure," said Steward.
Even some left-leaning analysts worry that such an emergency declaration would leave Biden with new dictatorial powers that would be ripe for abuse.
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, wrote, "Overbroad emergency powers provide a ready mechanism for undermining democracy and entrenching political power."
Politico reported that any such executive action to this end would face legal challenges, "including going up against a conservative Supreme Court that has already ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the broad authority to rein in carbon pollution."
Extra to the likely illegality of such a usurpation and exercise of power to combat the weather, a Green New Deal by decree could harm Biden's chances of re-election, given that gas prices would likely skyrocket once again.
Nevertheless, some reportedly suspect he may ultimately make the declaration and soon.
The problem is that in order to pull off a national emergency people need to believe there’s an actual emergency. It’s a lot easier to do for a real virus versus something as nebulous as the climate with no imminent security risks, no clearly understood goals and logically believed to be beyond human control to 70% or so of sentient Americans.
Guess what is in the new farm bill...increased funding for the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)” and “provisions to support more active management of our national forests and funding and tools to eradicate invasive species.”
I looked into the Nature Conservancy and their presence on the island after I read about the island’s Department of Natural Resources. They have a massive area under their control on the island west of Lahaina. They are all about not clearing land and leaving it untouched. They are very much a part of the 30x30 plan and brag about it. The fire looks like it may very well have started in the western part of this huge area.
This is not my first rodeo with this bunch. They have reported assets of 7 billion dollars. They are in bed with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The scenic river designation allows them to control 1000 feet on each side of any tributary in that particular area. I hunted one wildlife area for many years that had some 15 fields leased to farming. The ODNR put a stop to that. Now that area is impenetrable brush. Guess who the ODNR wanted to make stewards. There is one meadow I walked through for 20 years. it is gone now, completely taken over by brush.
They are going to be using the farm bill to implement this tyranny. The rino trash in congress need to get their act together. Impeach someone, anyone or live with a nation of gray men with resolve.
How does one survive this crap? One might think he/she is prepared and they start some new way of ultimate control.
I was talking with the spouse a few days ago about getting estate ducks in a row since we are in our sixties. He said there really isn’t a point because they will just “disappear” all the old, white people and take their stuff. Now I AM depressed. Sure made my week. /sarc
Yes. What do you think those illegals are for?
The political rot and corruption within the US government stinks up the entire planet.
This is the only climate emergency happening today.
We need a world-wide extensive global forum on global warming/climate change/AGW (Man-caused warming).
Because of the popularity of AGW and the availability of government grants for AGW “scientists”, real scientist’s opinions and research are buried.
Because of the billions being diverted from actual needs, to the extent that AGW is nothing but garbage or worst case a normal variation in global climate just spending money may be just wasted resources and actually a danger to free governments to the extent our military focuses on carbon vs. actual defense.
We need explanations how our ice ages came and went before SUVs and power plants. In the 70’s a new ice age threatened.
Al Gore decides its warming instead and makes millions.
In my opinion because we could be dropping into a new ice age or a warmer planet we should go nuclear in a big way so we and our crops can be warm or cool as needed without relying on the variabilities of solar, wind, water or even coal and gas.
Appointment coming up so I’ll close saying the world needs a forum to prove weather (;-) its the sun, normal climate, AGW or whatever but to allow all to provide data-based input to prove their point or to disprove another so we actually have a real science-based view of our problems and economic solutions.
IMHO. TH54.
The Regime gauging the push back. There won’t be any.
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