Posted on 11/10/2009 6:41:06 PM PST by FromLori
Both the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy approved earlier this year and the version just okayed by Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (Republicans boycotted the vote) contains an obscure but nasty bureaucratic provision that requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez.
Here’s how: The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency” if world greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million. Guess what? The Pacific Northwest National Lab says it is a virtual certainty that level will be reached within a few months. The bill then requires the president to “direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions...to address shortfalls" in achieving needed greenhouse gas reductions.
When Vitter asked EPA Administrator what would be done in such a situation, she refused to say. So it must be asked: Would the president be empowered to do things like nationalize whole sectors of industry, ban coal use, restrict private automobile use, or anything else the “emergency” requires?
The Examiner's David Freddoso reports that Sen. David Vitter, R-LA, is holding a news conference later today concerning this provision. Vitter wonders if companies that support cap-and-trade in the hope they will profit from going green realize what could happen to them soon after enactment. More to the point, we wonder what the American people will do when they realize what is actually going on here.
UPDATED: CEI's Horner says it's about power, not climate
In a detailed post on BigGovernment.com, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar and environmental expert Chris Horner warns that this provision is clearly intended to concentrate power in an unprecedented manner:
"But as we have been warning you in detail, this agenda transparently is not about GHG concentrations, or the climate. It’s about what this provision would bring: Almost limitless power over private economic activity and individual liberty for the activist president and, for the reluctant leader, litigious greens and courts that in this case would only have two choices. Those are follow the law, or declare it unconstitutional knowing the predilections of the appellate courts and what will very soon be Obama’s Supreme Court."
Related
One World Government The Real Aim of Environmentalism
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16694
It’s Not Just That Global Warming Is Fake. What Matters Is Why This Fakery Is Being Promoted.
http://www.garynorth.com/public/5156.cfm
There are plenty of GW skeptics at PNNL. I worked for a short time at the Atmospheric Sciences Department there.
Let them try and that`ll probably do it.What “it” is, you can fill in.
Reds turned Green.
This man will soon have so much power, we will all be calling him Dear Leader and not be in jest. Gumby America, nice knowing you.
“The bills require a FEDERAL declaration of a “climate emergency” if WORLD greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million...”
I guess this happens after we build the dome.
“The bills require a federal declaration of a “climate emergency” if world greenhouse gas levels reach 450 parts per million.”
Let the ghetto pig declare all he wants, then let him try to enforce it. I can smell a coward from a hundred miles away. king obuma has no army. And his fat pig ACORN supporters will never die on a hilltop for the glory of king obuma.
I drove past a guy burning a huge pile of leaves in rural Orleans Co today - haven’t seen that in 30+ yrs.
Should we fear Obama?
In just a little less than a year:
He has taken control of most of Americas largest industries
He has taken control of Wall Street
By virtue of his office, he has full control of the Military
He will soon have control of all communications (Radio, TV and the Internet) via the fairness doctrine
What more do you need to accept this person as our soon to be dictator?
Power is a funny thing. When obama is gone, those same powers will be available to all who come after and to their agendas.
If he's President, he does. If he's an ineligible Usurper, not so much.
The reporter was a bit sloppy. CO2 is at 385 PPM now, is going up at about 2 PPM, so 450 PPM is *many* years off, and by then, this bill will seem like the least of our problems.
Also, where goes “climate emergency” appear in the bill (H.R. 2454)? I searched this ungodly monster for that text, and it does not exist.
Sheesh, there is enough real news to report, we don’t need to make it up.
research needed
Thank you for those links, which are both excellent (and frightening).
I am getting more and more disheartened. It seems to me that everyone knows the truth but continues to push the lies. We are truly “Through the Looking Glass”.
Yes I guess Vitter shouldn’t do that...
Your welcome don’t get disheartened turn your disgust into action and every chance you get let them hear your voice by calling, e-mailing, tea parties or even at your state level. at least you will know you did what you could to change things :).
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