Expect Biden’s Coming “Climate Emergency” to Obliterate Your Remaining Freedoms

If you liked COVID lockdowns and mandates on freedom of movement and commerce, you’re going to love Biden’s looming Climate Emergency.

Once again, the Biden administration has considered declaring a “climate emergency,” according to recent reports. This flirtation with dedicating the federal government and its endless supply of taxpayer-funded resources to fixing the climate has endured for Biden’s entire term in the White House. A declaration of climate “emergency” would have wide-ranging effects on our very way of life across American society. It would also unconstitutionally expand the executive branch’s ability to sidestep congressional authority.

Never mind the effects it would have on Biden’s reelection chances. He faces continual schisms in his voting base. The radicals wish him to take extreme action on a variety of subjects. Yet suburban soccer moms want gas and food prices to go back to their levels when he first took office. All this, despite the marked lack of emergent characteristics of the changing climate, or the utter lack of efficacy of the proposed public policies in mitigating the weather.

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What Constitutes an Emergency?

The use of emergency powers by the president has a fascinating history. Few Americans likely have any conception that, under the National Emergencies Act (NEA), the United States has at least thirty declared emergencies still going on, many of them lasting decades. Congress passed the NEA in 1976 to attempt to rein in presidential powers, while allowing the president to act expediently instead of waiting for Congress to deliberate over new laws to respond to an immediate need. The NEA puts as many as 135 statutory powers available to the president when he declares a national emergency.

The NEA has faced bipartisan criticism, with both conservatives and liberals noting the abuse of power that resulted. The Brennan Center for Justice, a left-wing think tank, wrote an op-ed in The Atlantic when President Trump declared a national emergency in order to build the border wall, which Congress had previously refused to fund. (In retrospect, the border crisis sure looks like a national emergency now.)

In 2020, Sen. Mike Lee (R–UT) sponsored the ARTICLE ONE Act. That bill would “provide for congressional approval of national emergency declarations.” The need for the ARTICLE ONE Act was underscored by a report from the Task Force on the Rule of Law, regarding the state of emergency that existed during the Covid pandemic. The report stated, “the U.S. President can exercise extensive emergency powers that Congress has proven unable to limit once an emergency has been declared.” That bill failed to advance.

The original intent of the NEA was to allow presidents to act to protect the nation in times of terrorist attacks, national disasters, and other exigent circumstances. Some presidents, both before and after the NEA, have used emergency declarations to exceed their constitutional powers while bypassing Congress and its lawmaking and budget authority.

Now, radical environmental groups have exerted increasing pressure on Biden to use the NEA to declare a climate emergency.

Is Climate an Emergency?

The Sunrise Movement—a Green New Deal group that’s also demanded an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza—demands this on its website:

The climate crisis is wreaking havoc in communities around the world with record-breaking temperatures, deadly floods, and wildfires. We’re hurtling closer and closer to climate catastrophe. Working class people and communities of color are facing the worst of the crisis. To stop it, we have to cut our emissions in half in the next 7 years. That’s why we urgently need an all-out mobilization of our government to create green union jobs and end the fossil fuel era.

President Biden must declare a climate emergency and use every tool at his disposal to mobilize the U.S. government to stop the climate crisis and save lives.

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This follows other irrational efforts on the international stage, such as this one in the Philippines:

The Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) said the sweltering heat called by the United Nations (UN) “global boiling” poses a risk not only to health but also to water supply and food security. 

We call for the declaration of a national climate emergency. It is important that it has corresponding funding because subsidies won’t work in this situation.

But is climate change an actual emergency? Dr. Roy Spencer doesn’t believe so. Spencer, a Ph.D. meteorologist who created the global temperature satellite monitoring program for NASA, has written extensively for decades about the exaggeration of claims of doom by climate extremists. He published a preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) academic paper in April 2024 questioning the necessity of Net Zero governmental policies. He writes, in part:

Global Carbon Project (GCP) data shows that natural processes have been sequestering atmospheric CO2 on a yearly basis in proportion to how much the atmospheric CO2 concentration has risen above pre-Industrial levels, the so-called CO2 “sink rate”. Here it is argued that the future trajectory of the sink rate has not been adequately addressed, which has led to overestimation of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and thus of global warming. 

Using the assumptions of computer models in wide use by climate alarmist scientists, Spencer demonstrates natural processes will easily stabilize carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and meet the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of less than 2 degrees Celsius of global warming. That estimate takes into account the projected increase in human CO2 emissions in coming years.

Net Zero Won’t Solve a Non-existent Climate Emergency

Spencer’s conclusion? Net Zero policies, which aim to halve human CO2 emissions, are unnecessary when natural atmospheric processes are fully considered.

This should come as no surprise. Many scientists have shown computer models to spit out junk results, in direct proportion to the junk assumptions input into them. In the exhaustive report on junk climate science, Restoration News demonstrated the scientific fraud committed by scientists paid handsomely to come to the alarmist conclusion supported by grants from governments and radical non-profit organizations:

Data manipulation is a feature of climate science—not a bug. The more the general public ignores the alarm bells coming from the climate cultists, the more these cultists seem to think they need to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt their theory holds water. Let’s review a few representative examples of blatant data manipulation here in the U.S.

NOAA has maintained temperature records at over 1,200 traditional surface weather stations for over a century. A large proportion of those have been observed by volunteers over the years. Heller has demonstrated, in painstaking detail, that NOAA has replaced over 40 percent of those observation stations since 1990 with estimated data, instead of replacing the aging equipment or retired staffers who used to collect the data manually. NOAA has also changed the time of day many of the stations record their readings, which further massages the data to produce the results desired to demonstrate warming.

In other words, 40 percent of the data NOAA publishes from weather stations around the country is simply made up.

The data manipulations may result from pressure due to observations not matching the hypothesis. According the EPA’s own data, only 19 percent of all domestic climate stations show any warming since before 1950.

And yet, the alarmism continues. Now, reports have emerged that Biden has once again begun considering declaring a national emergency over climate.

What Will a Climate Emergency Declaration Do?

Bloomberg reported on the internal debate within the Biden White House. In 2023, Biden said he’d already “effectively declared” a climate emergency. This included the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Biden called the “biggest step forward on climate ever.” He also restricted tailpipe emissions, expanded “green energy” subsidies, indefinitely halted new licenses for exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), and sold off a large portion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—at a massive loss—in a vain attempt to lower gasoline prices. Essentially, as previously reported by Restoration News, he’s implemented the Green New Deal.

Declaring a national climate emergency would allow Biden to go even further, according to Bloomberg:

Emergency declarations could enable the president to halt or limit crude exports for at least a year at a time, suspend offshore drilling, and throttle the movement of oil and gas on pipelines, ships and trains. Industry experts have warned that such a measure would discourage investment in domestic oil production and stoke higher retail prices.

Further bans on “fossil fuel” extraction, exports, and movement via pipelines won’t solve any emergency. They simply ban commerce and seize the means of production for the state, while dressing it up in the “leave it in the ground” movement. Indeed, such lockdowns on the industry that fuels every stage of our supply chains would cause even higher inflation than we already have under Biden’s backwards policies. Would Biden go so far as to also ban imports, along with exports? The radical green fringe would certainly like to see it.

Never mind the fringe. Senate President Chuck Schumer (D–NY) called on Biden to declare a climate emergency as soon as he took office:

Making such an emergency declaration “would be a giant step in the right direction and it would allow President Biden to tap additional resources and pursue additional policies in the fight against climate change,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Given the current lack of congressional oversight on national emergencies, Biden would have no legal incentive to stop there. It remains to be seen if rational people can exert enough political pressure before the entire industry is destroyed. With it would go America’s economy, prosperity, and society.

Think they wouldn’t go that far? Maybe not before Election Day 2024. Given a second Biden term, however, what would stop them from going further? As the emergency stubbornly refuses to declare itself solved, more and more extreme emergency measures would become necessary. With Chuck Schumer, the Sunrise Movement, and the radical leftovers from the first two Obama administrations pushing an ever-more aging and addled President Biden—or worse, his replacement, the radical Kamala Harris—the brakes would cease to exist.

We witnessed what happened when the world panicked about Covid-19. Emergency declarations all over the globe led to a complete economic and social shutdown. The world kept its children out of school, and its citizens out of work, church, and “non-essential” businesses. Years later, we still haven’t felt the full consequences of those decisions, even after the “emergency” ended.

With an ongoing and unsolvable “climate emergency,” the potential effects could dwarf the damage done by Covid.

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