Quote:Vice President Kamala Harris used a meeting Thursday to argue climate change is a root cause of migration from Central American countries.
“We are looking at extensive storm damage because of extreme climate, we’re looking at drought,” Harris said.
Harris met with foundation leaders on the ongoing migrant crisis as people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala flood the Southern border through Mexico.
Because of the changing climate, Harris argued, people in the region faced a struggling agriculture industry, food scarcity, food insecurity, and extreme poverty.
“Again, we’re looking at the issue of climate resiliency, and then the concern about the lack of economic opportunity,” she said.
The Biden administration posits damage from Hurricanes Eta and Iota in 2020 devastated the region, a climate event that continues pushing climate migrants to the United States. In February, Biden signed an executive order for the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to draft a report on the impact of climate change on mass migration.
Harris repeated the challenges in the region were daunting, but she expressed her intention of offering people hope.
“We have to give people a sense of hope, a sense of hope that help is on the way, a sense of hope that if they stay, things will get better,” she said.
Harris cautioned the problem was “not going to be accomplished overnight.”
“If it was easy, it would have been solved a long time ago,” she said.
Quote:Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas parroted Joe Biden’s handlers’ position on “the climate crisis” during the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate on Thursday, reaffirming DHS’s commitment to adapting a response to the “climate emergency” to include steps to battle the “national security threat” of the “existential threat of our time.”
For those of you keeping score at home, Mayorkas also deemed the “climate crisis” a threat to “global security,” as well. Special Climate Envoy to the President [rolling-eyes emoji], John Heinz-Kerry was seen furiously nodding his whacked-out head in approval. [sarc]
Here’s part of what Mayorkas said, via the Homeland Security Today website:
“The impacts of the climate emergency on both our national and collective global security are vast. At the Department, we must — and we will — do more to address the climate crisis.
“DHS will implement a new approach to climate change adaptation and resilience, and we will do so with the sense of urgency this problem demands.”
Incidentally, I wonder what the secretary’s “national security threat” opinion is on illegal aliens — including COVID-positive “migrants” and two men on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist — streaming across the southern border? You ‘spose he sees the same “sense of urgency this problem demands”?
“SaggPondCapital” summed it up, perfectly.
“Home Land Security wants to turn focus to ?…… GLOBAL WARMING ! China , Islamist terrorists , #Antifa and #BLM laugh their asses off”
As well as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and every other America-hating dictator on the planet. But, hey — “progressive” priorities are “progressive” priorities, right Joe?
Several specifics, via the DHS site (emphasis, mine):
Secretary Mayorkas announced the launch of the DHS Climate Change Action Group, a coordinating body composed of the Department’s senior leadership that will drive urgent action to address the climate crisis and will report directly to the Secretary. […]
DHS also recently published a public Request for Information on how the Department’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) can ensure that its programs advance equity and increase resilience for all – especially among those who are disproportionately at risk from the impacts of climate change. [Uh-huh.]
This request will enable FEMA to perform its time-honored mission of “helping people before, during, and after disasters” under modern conditions. In direct response to the reality of the climate emergency, this request will also serve as the basis to reorient FEMA’s efforts in furtherance of its longstanding goal of “building a culture of preparedness.”
Further, Secretary Mayorkas announced action to reduce emissions and promote resilience and adaptation in collaboration with the Department’s partners across every level of government and the private sector. DHS is leading the way in the adoption of electric vehicles with the goal of electrifying 50 percent of our fleet by 2030.
[Electric vehicles are in your future, as well; get used to it. And then some.]
This is a key initiative of the Biden-Harris Administration’s “Infrastructure Plan,” which if passed, would identify $174 billion in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure nationwide. By integrating EVs into the DHS fleet, the Department will support the reshaping of the transportation sector and reduce carbon emissions.
[Noted environmentalist AOC reportedly “giddy” over DHS announcement.]
Think about that last line. The Homeland Security Department under Biden believes part of its job is to “reshape” the type of car you drive. No doubt just one more example of why a growing number of Americans wish they could have a 2020 election “do-over.”
Is Biden About to Exacerbate America’s Crisis?
Biden, who in three months has put his pen where his mouth was throughout his pandering presidential campaign, has committed to “study” — Democrats conduct “studies” after first determining exactly what they plan to do — offering “asylum” or other legal protections to “people displaced specifically because of climate change.” AKA: “climate refugees.”
If (when) Biden pulls the trigger (pun intended) on America this politically-expedient insanity, the U.S. would (will) become the first country on the planet to do so.
Let’s pretend your assertions are correct, Ed. For the hell of it.
Why, then, is it America’s job to accept every “refugee” on the planet with open arms? Biden has all but installed northbound-only people movers along the southern border. When will enough be enough? Never mind; rhetorical question.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Edward Markey. Three peas in a left-wing pod.
Yet the lapdog liberal media wants you to believe the first two are “pragmatic moderates.” Do they think you’re stupid? No. Do they think there are plenty of Americans who are? Absolutely. Therefore, you don’t matter.
Anyway, in summary, the DHS said:
The climate crisis poses a significant threat to both DHS operations and the American people.
It is vital for the Department to provide leadership and take proactive measures to minimize its environmental impact across the United States and globally.
The actions announced today – on Earth Day – demonstrate DHS’s commitment to bold action on climate change.
Back to Biden’s “climate refugee” silliness, for a sec. I wonder if any sane countries (assuming a few still exist), will welcome “climate refugees” from America who seek refuge from Planet Looney Tunes leftist policies?
Almost four months into 2021, 2020 ain’t got nothin’ on this crazy year.
Quote:World leaders joined President Joe Biden Friday to close his virtual climate summit with stories of their own national drives to break free of climate-wrecking fossil fuels — Kenyans leapfrogging from kerosene stoves to geothermal power and Israeli start-ups scrambling to improve battery storage.
“We’re gonna do this together,” Biden exhorted, speaking live to a Zoom-style screen of leaders of national governments, unions, and business executives around the world.
Biden's closing message echoed the sentiments of Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, who told the summit: “We cannot win this fight against climate change unless we go globally to fight it together.”
The second and final day of Biden's summit of 40 world leaders made the case for massive investment now — in the U.S. and around the world — for prosperous as well as cleaner economies in the long run.
Compared with the United States and other wealthy but carbon-dependent nations, Kenya stands out as a poorer nation closing the technology gap despite limited financial resources. It has moved in decades from dirty-burning coal, kerosene and wood fires to become a leading user and producer of geothermal energy, wind and solar power, all aided by mobile-phone banking.
The summit's opening on Thursday saw a half-dozen nations, including the United States, pledge specific, significant new efforts to cut emissions. Other summit speakers, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country is the world's top climate polluter, held out the possibility of deepening their commitments, in China's case by easing back on building of coal-fired plants.
Biden's own pledge, nearly doubling the U.S. target for cutting emissions from coal and petroleum this decade, depends on his keeping political support from voters and securing more than $2 trillion for a nationwide infrastructure overhaul.
“The commitments we've made must become real,” Biden said Friday, speaking to the home audience as much as the international one. “Commitment without doing anything is a lot of hot air, no pun intended."
He wondered aloud if there was “anything else you can think of that could create as many good jobs going into the 21st century.”
The coronavirus pandemic forced the summit into its virtual format, with a TV talk show-style set created in the White House East Room. Cabinet secretaries stepped in as emcees to keep the livestreamed action moving.
It was all in service of an argument officials say will make or break Biden’s climate vision: Pouring trillions of dollars into clean-energy technology, research, and infrastructure will speed a competitive U.S. economy into the future and create jobs while saving the planet.
While technological development and wider use has helped make wind and solar power strongly competitive against coal and natural gas in the U.S., Biden said investment also would bring forward thriving, clean-energy fields “in things we haven’t even thought of so far.”
Republicans are sticking to the arguments that then-President Donald Trump made in pulling the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris climate accord. They point to China as the world’s worst climate polluter — the U.S. is No. 2 — and say any transition to clean energy hurts American oil, natural gas and coal workers.
It means “putting good-paying American jobs into the shredder,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Thursday in a speech in which he dismissed the administration’s plans as costly and ineffective.
Much of the proposed spending to address climate change is included in Biden’s infrastructure bill, which would pay for new roads, safe bridges and reliable public transit, while boosting electric vehicles, clean drinking water, and investments in clean energy such as solar and wind power.
Biden’s plan faces a steep road in the closely divided Senate, where Republicans led by McConnell have objected strongly to the idea of paying for much of it with tax increases on corporations.
The White House says administration officials will continue to reach out to Republicans and will remind them that the proposal’s ideas are widely popular with Americans of all political persuasions.
Friday also featured billionaires Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg, steelworker and electrical union leaders, and executives for solar and other renewable energy.
“We can’t beat climate change without a historic amount of new investment,” said Bloomberg, who has spent heavily to promote replacing dirty-burning coal-fired power plants with increasingly cheaper renewable energy.
Biden envoy John Kerry stressed the political selling point that the president’s call for retrofitting creaky U.S. infrastructure to run more cleanly would put the U.S. on a better economic footing long-term. “No one is being asked for a sacrifice,” Kerry said. “This is an opportunity.”
Global leaders described their own investments and commitments to break away from reliance on climate-damaging petroleum and coal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described scientists at hundreds of Israeli start-ups working to improve crucial battery storage for solar, wind and other renewable energy. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark renewed her country's pledge to end oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, switching from offshore oil and gas rigs to wind farms.
On the summit's opening day Thursday, Biden pledged the U.S. will cut fossil fuel emissions as much as 52% by 2030. South Korea, Japan, Canada and South Africa also joined in specific new emissions efforts timed to the summit.
Biden's new goal puts the United States among the most ambitious nations in curbing climate change, the Rhodium Group, an independent research organization, announced overnight.
Different nations use different base years for their emission cuts so comparisons are difficult and can look different based on baseline years. The Rhodium Group said using the U.S.-preferred 2005 baseline, America is behind the United Kingdom but right with the European Union. It’s ahead of a second tier of countries including Canada, Japan, Iceland, and Norway.
Yep, that's the so-called leader of the free world who supposedly got more votes than any other president in history. He's a drooling soy-filled vegetable who probably didn't even know who he was talking to. Dumb@ss probably saw the screen and thought he was a guest on Hollywood Squares.
(04-23-2021 02:12 PM)No2rdame Wrote: Yep, that's the so-called leader of the free world who supposedly got more votes than any other president in history. He's a drooling soy-filled vegetable who probably didn't even know who he was talking to. Dumb@ss probably saw the screen and thought he was a guest on Hollywood Squares.
Quote:During a town hall on CNN on Friday, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry discussed giving people fleeing climate change refugee protection and stated that we want to try to attack the root causes of migration, but if people “can no longer grow food or there is no ability to live, then you’re very much a refugee.”
Moderator Dana Bash asked, “Two hurricanes and a drought hit Central America recently, thousands fled. So, should these migrants fleeing climate change be given refugee protection? That’s what your successor in the Senate, Ed Markey, has proposed.”
Kerry responded, “I think that the first line of prevention for this crisis of people who are migrating already is to do what we did a number of years ago in the Obama/Biden administration when we had migration coming from Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, we got involved with the presidents of those countries and we helped to deal with the underlying causes in those countries. And I think that’s the first line of what we ought to do. We did that years ago in Latin America writ large. So, President Biden very much thinks that you want to deal with the root causes of these things moving. Now, if they can no longer grow food or there is no ability to live, then you’re very much a refugee. And what we face today, Dana, is not just in Latin America or in Central America, but globally. I mean, it was 130 degrees last summer in Pakistan. It was 130 degrees in parts of the Middle East. 130 degrees in California. Hottest day in human history measured last year, hottest week, hottest month, hottest year, hottest decade. And so, all of us have got to recognize we’re going to have tens of millions of refugees in some parts of the world if we don’t start to do what Gina was just talking about in terms of resilience, adaptation, which are essential part[s] of dealing with the climate crisis, not just mitigation, not just lowering the emissions, but building people’s capacity to be where they are, to not have to move. And I think there’s a lot we can do before we start tying it into an already very complicated issue, which is immigration.”
Quote:Joe Biden joined an online world climate change summit this past week and the image he projected was quite reminiscent of Obama’s tan suit. While dozens of others of world leaders appeared alone on their screens and maskless, Mr. Biden was the only statesman actually wearing a mask. If it was meant to signal some kind of virtue, it backfired. As every other leader in the world projected an air of confidence – not mention a measure of common sense – Biden just ended up looking ridiculous.
Redstate writer “Bonchie” reported on the ridiculousness, calling it a “clown show” and pointing out the terrible image it projected in the face of participating in a call that included despots like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.
Biden appeared in a Zoom call with other international leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. This was a moment to show American power and greatness. Instead, Biden stumbled his way through wearing a mask, the only person on the call to do so.
There are 17 people on that call. Only Biden chose to wear a mask, while sitting alone on a remote video call, after being vaccinated. Does he not realize how stupid this makes us look? You can imagine how much Putin was laughing inside after staring across at our president making an absolute clown of himself.
I whole-heartedly share my colleague’s perplexed outrage. Although I find it helpful for historical purposes to depict the Biden administration as masked and weak, for the present moment on the world stage it is an utter abomination.
Seeing Biden in a mask, alone, on a computer screen reminds our enemies that the American will is rotting from the inside. They’ll never defeat us militarily, but they may not need to. Images of our own president tell guys like Putin all they need to know about the future of America as it stands for now – we will defeat ourselves with our own feebleness and the proof is in the feebleness of the man we send to represent us on the worlds stage.
Surely other hostile leaders around the world are well aware of Biden’s failing mental energies, probably more so than the average American. They likely have a lot of intelligence that we don’t have access to as mere citizens of our own country. One can almost see it in the way Putin sneers when he is talking about or addressing the current President. Biden is unwell, most likely not really in charge, and he’s such a pansy he wears a mask that obscures his face when sitting alone on a Zoom call.
The fragile left wing would like to paint Biden and his insistence on wearing masks (even though he is vaccinated as is everyone at the White House by this time) as “responsibility” but that is the kind of assessment one makes when they have never actually had to bear responsibility for much in their own lives in the way of leadership. You don’t have to be a genius to know that as a leader projecting an air of strength and confidence is as much a part of effective leadership as is setting a good example.
Humility is certainly a part of intelligent leadership, but humility is a private endeavor. True humility projects strength, because it allows one to understand their small place in the in the world and the in the story of time and that knowledge brings an innate understanding of human nature. And humans respond to strength and confidence. Thus, the humble leader casts an air of unwavering confidence when dealing with other leaders. I hate to sound cliche, but the best of the best in this respect was The Gipper himself.
There is no area of life where the idea of “humble weakness” is a successful one. Not one place can you find an example of weakness being rewarded with respect.
Parents who cannot withstand the wrathful tantrums of their children and constantly acquiesce to their demands will end up with grown children who are selfish, indecisive and unproductive. It takes no energy at all to raise a naughty child. It takes a concerted effort to teach a child to respect your parental authority. Weakness ends up being a losing proposition for both parent and child.
Dog owners know well that strength and respect are vital to a well-behaved animal. Many of us have anxious dogs, and if we’ve been their sole caretaker, ten times out of ten that dog is anxious because the owner is anxious or the owner is treating the dog like a person. Dogs don’t want to be treated like equals. They want a pack leader. In our home, our dog has a healthy respect (and love) for everyone but my 13-year-old daughter, who is convinced that speaking sternly to the dog or scolding the dog or being aggressive with the dog in any way is hurtful to the dog. She loves that dog to death. But she’s the only person the dog shows a disrespect for and that’s because she hasn’t yet figured out how to project an air of confident leadership.
At work, you may view your constant willingness to defer to others as humility, but it will be perceived as weakness and you’ll soon find yourself wondering why everyone else gets all the accolades while you stay stationary. Again, humility is a private endeavor that informs a public confidence. In the workplace, public “humility” sends out an energy that screams “I am too weak to defend my position.”
Pick a corner of life – work, the playground, the gym, prison, spending the summer with your rambunctious cousins…whatever the area in life, the principle is the same. Establish respect by projecting confidence – the kind of confidence that comes from the lessons of private humility.
Joe Biden is a weak leader who can’t even bring himself to show his face on a call with the leaders of other cultures for which face-to-face communications are a vital part of the culture of respect.
And that will be Biden’s legacy…a frail, masked man alone on a computer screen, cutting deals to lower America’s beef consumption so that other nations who hate the very existence of freedom will like us more.
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