Posted on 12/27/2020 7:52:32 PM PST by aimhigh
Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley is urging the incoming Biden administration to declare a national climate emergency, he said would unlock powerful tools to address the climate crisis. Merkley outlined his recommendations in an op-ed published Dec. 21 by The Washington Post.
“Too many Americans are experiencing the wrath of climate-related disasters firsthand," Merkley wrote. "These disasters are killing our citizens, bankrupting businesses, endangering our national security and threatening to leave our children a world of growing scarcity and conflict. . . . "
According to Merkley, declaring climate chaos a national emergency under the National Emergency Act (NEA) would unlock powers that would allow the United States to take significant, concrete actions, regardless of congressional gridlock. Specifically, the declaration would allow the president to redirect spending to build out renewable energy systems, help put large-scale clean transportation solutions in place, and finance distributed energy projects to boost climate resiliency. Each of these steps would help safeguard communities across America and slash the harmful pollution that continues to drive the climate crisis.
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Merk the jerk. Fookin’ idjit!
A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.”
-St. Anthony the Great
The mental hospitals, which the Leftists managed to get closed up during the ‘80s and ‘90s for “humanitarian reasons” need to be reopened STAT. Particularly for our politicians.
I for one think that Wyoming and Montana should form a military expeditionary force and to force Washington and Oregon to open the ports for coal exports.
The only climate emergency in Oregon is in his ass!
F’ing idiot deep state creep is full of nothing but gas!
He fouls the air every time he opens his mouth!
Fewer people are dying of climate related incidents than anytime in history....but its an existential threat that demands immediate transfers of wealth and access to energy to save man kind.
Same with Brown and Wyden!
They will all be recalled or shipped to Gitmo!
NO MORE MAIL IN VOTING IN OREGON.
Twenty years of this fraudulent voting is ENOUGH:
He’s a wannabe Trotsky.
the incoming Biden administration
Father Gudio says oh really?
try the coming-and-a-going Biden administration.
The Beeg guy is a felon and a traitor
Whenever a Democrat tells you he’s for something, what he’s really saying is that he’s found a way to make easy money off it.
Crisis? What f’n crisis? What is this moron bloviating about?
What can anybody conclusively put their finger on to support the brain that notion that there is a “climate emergency”?
Fires? Pffft! Natural causes, and failed forest management schemes.
Hurricanes? All how many of them? Like, fewer in recent years than in the decades before? Like less severe on the average?
From what one-off well of statistical improbability are these bozos drawing fuel for this ridiculous notion of some kind of emergency?
What climate disasters? Does he mean the forest fires caused by mismanaging the forests?
I've said this for a long time: Since John Roberts let them get away with it, there will be one "emergency" after another so they can keep their totalitarian government.
Hmm, declare a national emergency, take dictatorial control of the federal government, do things that wouldn’t pass Congress. We could call China Joe “Fuhrer” or something catchy like that.
senatrix Meff Jerkley weighs in...
> ...regardless of congressional gridlock. <
Well, there you go. It’s a classic fascist move. Bypass the legislature. And that’s okay. It’s an “emergency” after all.
Hey they are getting away with it in electing the President, where did everyone expect it to lead.
Well, this hyped up COVID crisis shows how people will brainlessly believe and follow the MSM narrative.
Just substitute in Climate Change. The brainless part of the population is ready to follow it just as they have for COVID.
Wear masks morphs to no more gas cars, for example.
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