Invoking a national emergency over climate change would enable President Joe Biden to unleash sweeping actions to restrain greenhouse gas production — such as banning U.S. crude oil exports, ending offshore drilling or speeding the manufacturing of electric vehicles.
Some of those steps would be politically explosive, and could even prove ruinous to his party’s fortunes by sending gasoline prices soaring even higher than he has done already. But, the consideration of such green tyranny gains him friends in high places, such as the Pope and the Holy See.
A statement released by the ‘Holy’ See last week describes the Roman Catholic Church’s accession to the Climate Convention and the Paris Agreement.
The statement reads that on 6 June, Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Permanent Observer to the UN, deposited before the Secretary-General of the United Nations "the Instrument with which the Holy See, in the name and on behalf of Vatican City State, accesses to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)."
At the earliest possible date, considering the legal requirements of the Paris Agreement, the Holy See will deposit the instrument of accession to the latter, continues the statement.
With both these instruments, to which are attached a declaration by the Holy See, "The Holy See intends to contribute and to give its moral support to the efforts of all States to cooperate, in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in an effective and appropriate response to the challenges posed by climate change to humanity and to our common home." The statement notes that such challenges do not only have environmental relevance, but also ethical, social, economic and political. "They affect, above all, the life of the poorest and most fragile", continues the statement, reiterating the Church's commitment to promoting the common good.
The statement then goes on to address a question posed by Pope Francis in his encyclical, Laudato si, in which he asks "What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us, to children who are now growing up?" (Laudato si’, n. 160).
The Holy See answers this question by expressing its desire that "the Convention and the Paris Agreement would help to promote "a remarkable convergence on the urgent need for a change of direction, a decisive resolve to pass from the 'throwaway culture' prevalent in our societies to a “culture of care” for our common home and its inhabitants, now and in the future."
These are two core values that must be at the basis of the implementation of both the Convention and the Paris Agreement, concludes the statement, adding, that they will "continue to guide the efforts of the Holy See in this process."
[Update. Biden does not plan to declare a climate emergency yet, the White House confirmed today, acknowledging he has not ruled out issuing such a declaration at another time.]
Commentary
In February 2022, Denver broke weather records to hit the coldest temperature in 109 years. At a balmy -7 degrees, the outbreak of global warming plunged the city down to a low that had not been seen since 1899.
Still not done mocking Al Gore, March temperatures at Denver International Airport broke a new low with -3°. The last time that happened was 1932. Or back before Gore Sr. had even graduated from law school to begin his family’s muculent political career. Talk about an inconvenient truth.
In April of this year, Denver recorded the coldest temperature since 1953 — only 10 degrees.
It’s almost as if God has made a point of mocking doomsday predictions by climate pagans who think the weather can be changed by raising taxes and driving Teslas and issuing statements to gin up their relevance.
Four months later, Biden and the Pope, both warmunists, are still doing all they can to whip you into climate frenzy and control every aspect of your life—for your own good of course. And I’m sure ADCOM will join them, waving their arms in the air over weather they don’t like.
The good news is that snow isn’t going anywhere. The bad news is that neither are the lies.
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