As Joe Biden's dumpster fire presidency continues to blaze, the miserably failed president continues to declare that "climate change" is the sole threat to humanity’s existence and that not even nuclear conflict poses a similar danger. Is he obsessed with a concocted crisis about which he knows little — or zero?
Without a doubt.
Here's Joe "Existential Threat" Biden in September 2023:
The only existential threat humanity faces, even things more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming.
Incidentally, Biden made the absurd claim during a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Biden's track record on climate edicts and congressional legislation has been far from stellar. Most recently, a U.S. judge in Texas struck down an administration climate rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the interstate highway system.
Here's more:
Texas had sued the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in December, arguing the agency lacked legal authority to enact the rule. A separate lawsuit was filed by 21 other states. In a decision issued late on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, said he agreed with Texas in its case that "the rule was unauthorized."
Translation: Another bad day for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The embattled DOT head said in November:
[The] new performance measure will provide states with a clear and consistent framework to track carbon pollution and the flexibility to set their own climate targets.
Yeah, no — if Judge Hendrix's ruling stands.
The DOT's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) said it didn't mandate specific targets for lower greenhouse gas emissions or carbon dioxide targets but instead gave state transportation departments flexibility to set their own targets as long as the targets aimed to reduce emissions over time.
It gets sillier:
The FHWA said the rule was "essential" to the Biden administration's target of net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050, yet that the final regulation didn't require states to set declining targets to align with the 2050 goal.
Just me, or do the FHWA's near-oxymoronic statements seem long on symbolism and short on substance? Like: "Hey, here's what we're going to accomplish by 2050 — but we haven't set any specific targets for how we're going to get there."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had sharply criticized the DOT's effort, saying the state would work to stop "unlawful climate mandates."
On Wednesday, Judge Hendrix did just that — again, for now at least.
Biden's Not-So-Stellar 'Climate Change' Track Record
As I suggested earlier in the article, Biden's more than three-year track record in fighting mankind's "existential threat" hasn't been all that stellar. Two examples follow.
In a June 2022 decision, the Supreme Court delivered a major setback to Biden’s ambitious "climate change" agenda, ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency lacked the broad authority to curb "planet-warming" pollution from power plants.
The 6-3 ruling was a devasting blow to Biden's plan to stop or slow "global warming" via executive action. The ruling came just six months after a Senate stalemate shut down congressional Democrats' efforts to pass their largest-ever climate bill.
In February 2022, a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s attempt to "put greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries."
U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with Republican attorneys general from energy-producing states who said the administration’s action to raise the cost estimate of carbon emissions threatened to drive up energy costs while decreasing state revenues from energy production.
The judge issued an injunction that bars the Biden administration from using the higher cost estimate, which puts a dollar value on damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, Buttigieg is again under fire, this time for refusing to give specific answers to reporters and provide the number of national defense ships stuck in the Baltimore harbor due to the Key Bridge collapse.
Breitbart News asked the Department of Transportation about the U.S. National Defense Reserve Fleet — a fleet of ships that could be used to support the military during war or emergencies, including rapid-response vessels — but the DOT hadn't responded as of this article.
Here's more:
According to another inventory list maintained by the DOT, as of January 31, 2024, there are 90 ships that are part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, with 53 of those part of the Ready Reserve Force (RRF). RRF ships are Maritime Administration vessels assigned to support U.S. military surge sealift requirements.
Six of those RRF ships — all roll-on/roll-off cargo ships — are assigned to Baltimore, according to the list. Those include the SS Antares, the MV Cape Washington, the MV Cape Wrath, the MV Charles L. Gilliland, the SS Denebola, and the MV Gary I. Gordon.
Regarding when the port might re-open, Buttigieg told reporters on Wednesday:
Too soon to venture an estimate. The vast majority of the port is inside of that bridge, you know, which means that most of it cannot operate, although there is a facility at what’s called Sparrow’s Point that can handle some amount of shipping, but nothing close to the totality of Baltimore.
A reporter asked Buttigieg to “ballpark” the timing “just a little,” He responded:
You can imagine I’m asking our teams the same question, but I don’t want to put something out just yet.
Like Biden, like Buttigieg.
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