Chuck Schumer: ‘The Climate Crisis is an Emergency’

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) sent out a tweet on Sunday—as a snow storm hit Washington, D.C.—declaring that: “The climate crisis is an emergency.”

In his tweet, Schumer called for Biden to declare a national emergency.

“President Biden should declare a national emergency on the climate crisis,” Schumer said.

“Donald Trump declared a fake emergency for his ineffective, wasteful wall,” Schumer said. “That was no emergency.

“The climate crisis is an emergency,” Schumer said. CNSNews.com

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I explained this "national emergency" gambit in my January column:

We should note that both Kerry and Haaland used the term “national security” in their comments about climate change. That, of course, plays right into the hands of the enviros who are lobbying hard for Biden to declare a national climate emergency. 

According to a report by Clearview Energy Partners a climate emergency could give Biden the authority to circumvent Congress and fund clean energy projects, shut down crude oil exports, suspend offshore drilling and curtail the movement of fossil fuels on pipelines, trains, and ships. “The president’s powers to address climate change through an emergency are very, very large,” said Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, which is lobbying Biden’s team to act. “This is No. 1 on the list of things the Biden administration should do.” “Let's call this emergency what it is,” said Siegel, “There’s so much [Biden] can do without Congress.” The Center for Biological Diversity and groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, were among 500 organizations that called for the next president to declare a national climate emergency last year. 

President Trump used the emergency provisions to move money out of the Department of Defense budget and divert it to building the border wall. Who knows what Biden could do with a national climate emergency?