Biden – Aug 9, 2023: I’ve Declared a Climate Emergency ‘Practically Speaking’
‘Listen to science’: Activist Bill McKibben echoes calls for Biden to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’
NASA Scientist Peter Kalmus: ‘Biden must declare a climate emergency’
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Climate Depot’s Morano: “The Biden administration believes that when democracy fails to achieve its climate goals, it’s time to bypass democracy and Congress and follow the COVID model. Climate activists have lusted after the COVID lockdowns as the model for climate lockdowns. The plan is to declare a ‘climate emergency,’ toss out elected representatives and follow China’s one-party rule model by implementing energy restrictions through the bureaucracy. They don’t need no stinkin’ democracy. Throughout history, emergency declarations have been used and abused to crush freedom. For those who loved how unelected officials ruled our lives under COVID lockdowns, prepare for the attempts to make climate lockdowns permanent. For an idea of what the world would look like under a climate lockdown.” See: 2021 International Energy Agency’s ‘Net-Zero’ report urges ‘behavioral changes’ to fight climate: ‘A shift away from private car use…. upper speed limits’ & thermostat controls; limits on hot water & more!
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Biden: I’ve Declared a Climate Emergency ‘Practically Speaking’
CNN: ‘Biden incorrectly claims he has declared a national emergency on climate’– CNN: While Biden has taken a series of significant legislative and executive steps to combat climate change, he has stopped short of declaring a national emergency, which would unlock sweeping new federal authorities and funds to combat the climate crisis. Climate activists have called on Biden since the earliest days of his presidency to declare a national emergency. … The president seemed close to declaring a climate emergency in the summer of 2022 after it appeared Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, had tanked the Inflation Reduction Act – Biden’s signature climate and health care bill. In a July 20, 2022, speech in Massachusetts, Biden strongly hinted that he could declare an emergency.
Politico: Biden says he has ‘practically’ declared a climate emergency. But he actually hasn’t…YET – ‘Would give him a host of new powers to combat climate change’– “We’ve already done that,” Biden said Wednesday when asked whether he was prepared to declare a national climate emergency during an interview on The Weather Channel. “We’ve conserved more land, we’ve moved into rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. We’ve got a $60 billion climate control facility.” When pressed about whether he has actually declared an emergency, Biden responded, “Practically speaking, yes.”
However, no such declaration has come from the White House. Experts say Biden could invoke the 1976 National Emergencies Act to give himself the power to order the manufacture of clean energy technology, deploy renewables on military bases, block crude oil exports or even suspend offshore drilling — though that would require compensation to the owners. Though the law limits emergency declarations to one year, it could be renewed annually to address the increasingly troubling impacts of climate change.
What it would mean for Biden to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ – ‘Triggers ability for him to deploy around 130 different powers’– U.S. presidents have declared 60 national emergencies since 1976, according to the think tank Demos. Historically, those have typically been for acute crises, such as specific natural disasters, rather than a long-term predicament like climate change. …
“If he declares a national emergency, it triggers the ability for him to deploy around 130 different powers,” Jean Su, energy justice program director and senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said.
Biden could stop “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.”
‘Listen to science’: Activist Bill McKibben echoes calls for Biden to declare a ‘Climate Emergency’
What a ‘Climate Emergency’ declaration means for oil & gas production in the U.S.
Update July 19, 2022: AP source: Biden holds off on climate emergency declaration – Biden “will stop short of issuing an emergency declaration that would unlock federal resources to deal with the issue, according to a person familiar with the president’s plans.”
Flashback: ‘Climate lockdowns’ touted by Gates & Soros funded professors, Govts, media, & academia
Watch: COVID lockdowns morphing into climate lockdowns – Morano on Tucker Carlson in 2021
Climate Depot’s Morano July 19, 2022 comments on reports Biden is set to declare a national “climate emergency”: “The Biden administration believes that when democracy fails to achieve its climate goals, it’s time to bypass democracy and Congress and follow the COVID model. Climate activists have lusted after the COVID lockdowns as the model for climate lockdowns. The plan is to declare a ‘climate emergency,’ toss out elected representatives and follow China’s one-party rule model by implementing energy restrictions through the bureaucracy. They don’t need no stinkin’ democracy. Throughout history, emergency declarations have been used and abused to crush freedom. For those who loved how unelected officials ruled our lives under COVID lockdowns, prepare for the attempts to make climate lockdowns permanent. For an idea of what the world would look like under a climate lockdown.” See: 2021 International Energy Agency’s ‘Net-Zero’ report urges ‘behavioral changes’ to fight climate: ‘A shift away from private car use…. upper speed limits’ & thermostat controls; limits on hot water & more!
MARK E. JEFTOVIC: Health Canada demands collectivism and an end to capitalism to fight climate change: excerpts from “Perspectives on Climate Change and Public Health in Canada” –
- Brazilian Gov’t eyes declaring ‘permanent climate emergency’ for over 1,000 cities
- Watch: Morano on Tucker Carlson: Ukraine war, ’emergency declarations’ & crises are being used to bypass democracy to implement Green New DealYou were warned! Climate Lockdowns looming – Wash Post: Biden set to issue ‘climate emergency’ declaration – ‘Unchains the president’ from Congress
- Jane Fonda returning to DC to ‘demand’ Biden declare a ‘climate emergency’ – ‘When he does that, all kinds of mechanisms become available to him’
How Nonsense Masquerades As Science: Climate ‘Code Red’ Example
‘World Scientists’ Issue A ‘Warning of a Climate Emergency’
Statistician William Matt Briggs responds: “Emergency, as a word, has no place in scientific discourse. And neither does code red, a term used in the article’s opening sentences…But this paper will be taken as science, especially by those rulers who have ‘solutions’ to sell.”
‘Climate Emergency’ Not Supported by Data, Say Four Leading Italian Scientists
COVID lockdowns were “a great demonstration that it is possible to reduce our emissions…We need a planned transition across society to implement the changes that are needed…we would need to see this type of reduction in emissions compounded each consecutive year as we drive towards net zero.”
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To be hidden as one of those 130 new powers: a 10% cut for the Small Fry. 😉
Biden’s inflation has already done that.
I guess I have to explain my play on words was a paraphrasing of “a 10% cut for the Big Guy”, as reported thusly:
“James Gilliar, a business associate summarizing the allocation of the equity in Oneida Holdings LLC., in the email, wrote how four partners would get 20 percent each, except for Jim Biden, who would get 10 percent. He added a question: ’10 held by H for the big guy?’ One of the recipients of the mail, Anthony Bobulinski, has said that the ‘big guy’ referred to Joe Biden and that ‘H’ referred to Hunter.”
— https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/dissecting-gop-claims-about-hunter-biden-deals-allegedly-involving-his-father/
Yes, I did intend “Small Fry” to specifically refer to H.
I am really burned out from trying to wake people up ( ironic the term- capture the language up is down, left is right etc etc!) that the modern democratic party is a corrupt lie and no small number of republicans are also completely captured, weak afraid and happy to maintain the status quo’s graft ridden system for their own gain.
How about this: let’s defend the US constitution legally and in the spirit of the genesis of the concept that is self evident truths. Don’t let them give away our civil liberties. Please
And, for the love of God, please don’t let the UK follow the US over the cliff.
Say what you want about Trump but I think what he will be best remembered for is is selecting 3 good constitutional judges to the Supreme court. At the moment they are protecting us from a good deal of damage. Maybe in the next election we can get congress under control but don’t hold your breath because Rinos exist.
absolutely, you see at the heart of a lot of this is the the dems never thought Trump would win the first time. That they could go on forever slowly but surely destroying the Republic with their incremental corrupt Deep State BS
Trump got 63 million votes when he won in 2016, and he got 75 million votes when he lost in 2020.
I wonder how many votes Trump will get this time? I’m guessing north of 75 million.
If he does this hopefully even the brain dead Dems will wake up ( not woke up). Maybe then they will be ready to toss Biden in 2024.
If Joe’s run for president is stopped by evidence of corruption and bribery, then this would be the opportunity for the Democrats to get rid of Kamala Harris, who is obviously not up to the job, even to Democrats.
If Joe were to retire from the presidency early for health reasons, this would open the door for a number of Democrat candidates to throw their hat in the ring, and any one of them, as bad as they are, would beat Kamala Harris for the nomination.
Will Joe retire to escape prosecution? That is the question. Of course, if he retires, the Republicans will let him off the hook, so there is an incentive for him to bow out if they have him nailed, dead to rights, on bribery charges. And it looks like they already do have him nailed. The Moscow mayor’s wife gave the Biden’s $3.5 million, and she stayed off the list of Russians who the U.S. sanctioned and restricted. She even had dinner with Joe and Hunter. There are pictures.
And I saw a report yesterday that the Moscow mayor’s wife gave something like $200 million to things associated with the Biden’s. So that’s new.
Raking in the cash!
Seems folks are going crazy – including Biden and all those that are sure there is a climate emergency.
But, there are other sorts of crazy. Consider the recently deceased fellow that was going to wear a “ghille suit”, use a rifle, and shoot the president. I searched-up images of ghille suit. [Raise your hand if you knew.}
Such a thing makes a person look like Sasquatch in a humid sub-tropical forest. Joe was headed to a southwestern desert.
Still, that guy deserves a Darwin Award.
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This guy that was supposedly going to shoot Biden was in a wheelchair. And he was about 73 years old and was in bad health. His neighbors said he wasn’t the type to go try to assasinate the president.
The leftwing media is trying to make the guy out as a rabid Republican. I don’t know what his affiliation is, but there was at least one report that said he not only threatened Biden, but Trump also.
The FBI went to his house and shot him dead. I haven’t heard if the man did anything to cause the FBI to fire. And the FBI is not giving out any information on the raid.
Do you notice how the federal government is getting more and more secretive? They won’t say anything, about anything, and they won’t release any information even when it is required by law that they do so.
They obviously have a lot to hide.
When a regime wants to stop dissidents and opponents from having a platform to speak out against the regime, they stop bringing them in to stand trial and start issuing ‘shoot to kill’ orders. Russia has done it, the UK did it with IRA terrorists, perhaps the Biden regime has decided to do the same.
“When you are prosecuted for trying to expose a crime, you are ruled by criminals. ” ….Snowden
I heard something a little different yesterday. It was reported that Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, notified the FBI about this man. Apparently, he was posting alarming stuff on Truth Social, and that’s how he came to the attention of the FBI.
The report that he was threatening Trump, too, is probably not true.
I’ve been trying to keep up with this case. One thing I have noticed is that absolutely nothing has been released as to what actually happened when the FBI went to this guys house.
You may be willing to assume that the guy drew on the agents and forced them to shoot him, and that may well be what happened. But I’m not ready to make that assumption yet.
The guy said that he was going to take out his ghille suit and M24.
While it’s possible the army may have let him keep his ghille suit, but I would be surprised if they let him keep his M24 when he retired.
He could’ve bought a Remington 700 after retirement and most military style Ghillie suits can also be purchased commercially. I also don’t think this was the case either – his being in a wheelchair really doesn’t fit with the idea that he was a credible threat. Didn’t the FBI do a thorough background check before they killed him?
I knew, but don’t know how to raise my hand.
They don’t make you look like a Sasquatch, they make you blend into the scenery better than normal camo.
Socialists have always been convinced that they know better than the common man.
That’s why socialists have always chafed at any restrictions on their desires to create a perfect world, in their own image.
Notice how they aren’t interested in good paying jobs. They must be union jobs.
Considering how much the unions have invested in the DNC over the last 70 years or so, they are finally getting their payback. And of course much of the increased union dues will find it’s way into Democrat coffers, and Biden family pockets.
Yes, and Joe gave the unions $36 billion out of all the funds that have been allocated since he took office. The union pension funds in Big Blue States like New York were about to go bankrupt, but not any more. Ole Joe came to the rescue with Big Bucks. Your Bucks. The Republicans never said a word about it.
Even so, some unions, like the auto workers, are chaffing over Bidens climate change policies.
I find the premise here unlikely.
I went and read summaries of the National Emergencies Act (NEA) of 1976 (50USC1601-1651). The core is what comprises a National Emergency. Both the House and Senate summaries of the NEA at time of passage say it has to be an ‘unexpected crisis’.
For example Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border after images of thousand of illegal aliens surging through Mexico with The Mexican police overwhelmed. Unexpected and crisis. He used it to get funding for the wall.
Climate change is neither unexpected (IPCC 40 years) nor a crisis. Biden saying so would not withstand court challenge. Which is why he hasn’t officially done so despite all the requests Morano cites.
Everybody calm down.
One more thing. The COVID emergency analogy is false. The COVID Emergency was declared under the Public Health Services Act, which also grants the presidency enumerated emergency powers if there is a public health emergency.
Bit of a stretch to call climate change a public health emergency.
Oh but the Dimbulbcrats are masters of the “stretch.”
You obviously overlooked how the Biden administration, via the government-run National Institute of Health (NIH), most definitely floated the meme that climate change can lead directly to a public health emergency such as COVID-19:
Did Climate Change Influence the Emergence, Transmission, and Expression of the COVID-19 Pandemic?, Saloni Gupta, et. al., frontiers in Medicine, 8 Dec 2021
(full document available on line at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694059/ )
Never underestimate what politicians are capable of doing to carry out their (oft hidden) agendas.
“Never underestimate what politicians are capable of doing to carry out their (oft hidden) agendas.”
Especially this bunch of radical Democrats that are currently running/ruining the country. They are not there for our benefit.
There are already climate activists who have been making that claim.
What you say would be true if everyone were honest and rational. Unfortunately, we have plenty of evidence that the alarmists are neither.
It’s a “bit of a stretch” to call climate change any kind of emergency.
A few tenths of a degree over several decades is not any kind of emergency.
Yet the alarmists keep going on and on about how there are only a few years left to save life as we know it.
“Bit of a stretch to call climate change a public health emergency.”
The Biden administration is not above stretching the law to get what they want. Look at all the bogus charges they have filed against Trump, for example. Talk about stretching the law!
The New York DA even used something that isn’t even a crime as a predicate act in order to elevate a claim that would be a stretch to call a misdemeanor, into a felony so that he can avoid the statute of limitations.
Yeah, the Supreme Court is going to throw it out. Along with all the other bogus charges against Trump.
Rud,
Your first mistake is in thinking that Joe Biden and his Administration are bound to follow the rule of law.
Your second mistake is in thinking that Joe Biden worries about court challenges to his EOs . . . look at how DOJ gave him a slap-down on his original EO “pausing” drilling on Federal lands, only for him to come right back and try to do the same thing again.
References:
“Judge Terry A. Doughty of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday against the administration, saying that the power to pause offshore oil and gas leases ‘lies solely with Congress’ because it was the legislative branch that originally made federal lands and waters available for leasing.”
— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/climate/biden-drilling-federal-land.html
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/06/no-more-drilling-climate-crusader-joe-biden-announces-the-end-of-oil-and-gas/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/26/biden-violates-inflation-reduction-act-less-than-one-year-after-signing-it/
Both your points are valid in the short run. IMO Not in the long run with the current SCOTUS. Which is why Schumer and AOC want to pack it. FDR tried and failed for his New Deal excesses. I think if Biden tried, it would fail in the House. That said, 2024 is a very BIG election year.
FDR didn’t fail in his attempts to pack the court.
The court backed down and started ruling in favor of FDR’s programs rather than risk the loss of their independence.
The time is shortening for the PTB (Deep State) to make a response. They are ready for a 2024 election, which will be handled the same way as the 2020 election (as no one has made any changes in the way mail-in votes are certified).
So when another “landslide” victory happens for a candidate with the lowest ratings in history, the questionable results will be met with martial law enforcing your worst nightmares. Because we can and will.
Anything necessary to prevent a different outcome.
Buckle up and expect a very bumpy ride ahead.
Glad to see that you put quotes around the word landslide.
In the 2020 Presidential election, Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 electoral votes, or a ratio of 57%:43%. Not many people would define a swing of 7% of the total electoral votes available as a “landslide”.
“Climate change is neither unexpected (IPCC 40 years) nor a crisis. Biden saying so would not withstand court challenge. Which is why he hasn’t officially done so despite all the requests Morano cites.”
I think that is exactly right.
Biden declaring a Climate Emergency would open up a can of worms for the Democrats. Lots of lawsuits, and lots of “prove CO2 is causing a climate emergency” demands.
It takes a really strange person to conclude that having growing seasons extend by a few days, world wide, is a crisis that must be managed by having most of the population give up their rights and freedoms.
Democrats are bad people.
Radical Democrats are bad/delusional people.
So our esteemed leader:
And just because The Computer told it that it hasn’t had enough of its own way already.
(a bit like the fat kid in ‘Chocolate Factory’ wasn’t it)
But unlike the errant child, no-one seems able to stop it.
FAT?? No no no. Gravitationally Enhanced.
You would think electricity at a wholesale price of $4000/MWh, as it is in ERCOT right now, would wake some folks up, but I am not hopeful. This is the fourth time in 5 days that the prices have spiked over $1000/MWh, which today looks cheap.
$4000/MWh is the marginal (real-time) price, IOW, the last MWh produced that wasn’t contracted for in the day-ahead market. Someone correct me if I’m in error.
ERCOT Day-Ahead Market – https://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/dam
“The Day-Ahead Market (DAM) … matches willing buyers and sellers, subject to network security and other constraints… . It provides a platform to hedge congestion costs in the day-ahead of the Operating Day, and instruments to mitigate the risk of price volatility in Real-Time.”
Also – Market Prices – “ERCOT provides both Day-Ahead Market (DAM) prices on a daily basis and Real-Time Market (RTM) prices on an interval basis.”
https://www.ercot.com/mktinfo/prices
It is my understanding also that the $4000/MWh is a spot market price, and not a price contracted for ahead of time. But it is indeed a real price of real power. And somebody will be paying it.
I would also mention that nearly 3/4ths of the demand is being met by fossil fuels–natural gas, coal and lignite, about 5% by nuclear and under 1/4th by wind and solar. If they plan to be net-zero or anything close to it, they are not moving in the right direction. Out of a nameplate capacity of 38,000 MW of wind, they are getting less than 10,000 MW. Solar isn’t bad compared to nameplate, but is only good for 8 hours on the best of days.
re: “I would also mention that nearly 3/4ths of the demand is being met by fossil fuels”
Taken a few minutes ago from ERCOT’s full “Grid and Market Conditions” dashboard webpage (Looks like 70% is coming from coal and nat gas at the moment):
re: “It is my understanding also that the $4000/MWh is a spot market price, and not a price contracted for ahead of time.”
That’s right. In a day-ahead market, you bid and commit to a per-determined price for the next day. If you fall short of what you need on the day of use, you pay the spot market price ON the day of use. That price also varies across the system, because, you still have to ‘haul’ that energy to where its needed, and that affects price, so the map on the ERCOT website is termed “Real-Time Locational Price” map. Moving energy across already loaded transmission lines may or may not be possible and comes with that ‘locational price’. Additions, corrections welcome.
Right you are. Power prices do not include transmission costs, or lots of other adjustments to the final consumer. it has been years since I worked in the utility industry, but I continue to follow the ups and downs and am a stockholder of a couple companies. But not in Texas.
Bottom line here–this is expensive.
The short-sightedness of this potential political move ( this has nothing to do with anything but political power, taking cover under “science-y ” sounding stuff) isn’t surprising but still a really disappointing step in essentially dissolving our democracy.
And when then other side comes into power & abuses executive powers similarly ( but with different excuses) … then what…. how are the leftists going to feel about that ?
So short-sighted!
“And when then other side comes into power & abuses executive powers similarly”
I don’t see that happening with the Republicans. Nixon is gone, and none of the current presidential candidates looks like a person who would abuse the U.S. Constitution, the way the radical Democrats do.
Biden et al are utterly intent on destroying the USA and its way of life.
They are using the fakery of the Climate Change agenda to do it.
It will destroy the future for at least a few generations.
Hard and desperate times ahead for everyone except the elite, if they succeed.
ANYONE that has ever supported this agenda is an enemy of America and the world.
And they will suffer the consequences, along with the rest of the world.
I hope they realise what they have done.
And I hope they feel deep-seated shame about it.
“ANYONE that has ever supported this agenda is an enemy of America and the world.”
This is true. Wittingly, or unwittingly.
If Joe crime family, traitor Biden were to do so, the governors of Texas, Florida and other states should simultaneously declare a climate policy emergency. As a first action, I suggest that those governors terminate without benefits all university researchers and faculty whose complicity has led to this policy emergency. In Texas, the first of a long list to go would be Andrew Dessler and Katherine Hayhoe. Under the governors’ emergency powers, they should declare a news blackout of all mainstream media, and publish the names and addresses of all prominent media climate hacks.
To ensure reliable power to the people during the crisis, they should require that all renewable generation assets operate continuously at 80+ percent capacity factors or face fines, elimination of all forms of subsidy and potential shutdown.
To help the governor to be prepared to act swiftly, I believe I will begin compiling “the list.”
So….let me get this right
In the blue corner, we have old Joe saying there is a climate emergency and in the red corner we have almost 40,000 academic, scientist & Engineer signatories of the Clintel WCD and Oregon Petition saying there is no climate emergency
I’ll have 50 grand on red please
Another First for the Biden administration. President Biden is the first President ever in the history of this country that believes his administration can control the weather. Since climate is defined as 30 years of weather, that is exactly what he is saying.
The man behind the curtain doesn’t really believe that weather can be controlled. It is a smoke screen to cover the theft of even more money.
It might be difficult to renew it without significant consequences if the global temperature continues to climb, which I suspect it will, as in 2020. It will then be necessary to game the measurements even more obviously than what is already being done.
You mean Obama and the other cronies who control the empty shell named Joe Biden will seize additional authority.
Joe looked bad yesterday. He was having trouble recalling what he was talking about. Standing there with a blank stare. He’s getting worse by the day, it appears.
The Founding Fathers of the Unitrd States were intelligent, common sense, reasonable, most often polite people. That is why James Madison did not introduce an article in the Constitution explicitly limiting elecction to public office to people in the perfect use of their intellectual capacities.
However, they also specified one had to be landowner to vote, based on the logical thought that if only people with skin in the game could vote, much idiocy would be avoided.
The US Constitution has been eroded for decades.
How can any President declare an “Emergency” and then claim these dictatorial powers when Congress has time to act on the claimed “Emergency”?
If Russia or China launched, OK, the nuclear football.
A repeat of The New Madrid earthquakes, the biggest earthquakes in American history. OK.
Yosemite’s volcano wakes up. OK.
But “Climate Change” which is at worst creeping along at Nature’s pace? NO!
Again, why so much repetition in these kinds of articles? The same headlines are repeated multiple times, same paragraphs, same links…