“We want the American people to know help is here, and we’re gonna make it available to anyone who needs it,” Biden said at a press event on Thursday.
For the farm workers, who have to harvest crop in the dead of night to avoid the high temperatures, or farmers who risk losing everything they planted for the year, or the construction workers, who literally risk their lives working all day in blazing heat, and in some places don’t even have the right to take a water break. That’s outrageous.
Even those places that are used to extreme heat have never seen as hot as it is now for as long as it’s been. Even those who deny that we’re in the midst of a climate crisis can’t deny the impact of extreme heat is having on Americans.
The same day the United Nations a slew of new scathing warnings about climate change and the heat, with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declaring that the “era of global boiling has arrived.”
SEE: United Nations Chief Guterres Decries ‘Era Of Global Boiling Has Arrived’
The White House provides more details into this latest executive order by the President:
President Biden Asks the Department of Labor to Issue First-Ever Hazard Alert for Heat and Announces New Investments to Protect Communities
Millions of Americans are currently experiencing the effects of extreme heat, which is growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to the climate crisis.
Today, President Biden will convene Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix, Arizona, and Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio, Texas, to hear from them directly about how their communities are being impacted by extreme heat and to discuss the steps the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to protect communities like theirs. The President will also announce new measures to protect workers and communities across the country from the impacts of extreme heat.
- President Biden has asked the Department of Labor (DOL) to issue the first-ever Hazard Alert for heat, and DOL will also ramp up enforcement to protect workers from extreme heat. For years, heat has been the number one cause of weather-related deaths in America. And workers, including farmworkers, farmers, firefighters, and construction workers, are disproportionately impacted by extreme heat. Since 2011, more than 400 workers have died due to environmental heat exposure, and thousands more are hospitalized every year. The Hazard Alert will reaffirm that workers have heat-related protections under federal law. As part of the alert, the Department of Labor will provide information on what employers can and should be doing now to protect their workers, help ensure employees are aware of their rights, including protections against retaliation, and highlight the steps the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is currently taking to protect workers.
Additionally, the Department of Labor will ramp up enforcement of heat-safety violations, increasing inspections in high-risk industries like construction and agriculture, while OSHA continues to develop a national standard for workplace heat-safety rules.
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is investing up to $7 million from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act to improve our nation’s weather forecasts. In partnership with universities and other institutions, NOAA will establish a new Data Assimilation Consortium focused on developing better weather-prediction capabilities and maximizing the value provided by NOAA’s global observing system. These improved forecasts will allow communities to better prepare for extreme weather events, including long periods of extreme heat. As the climate crisis contributes to worsening extreme weather events affecting Americans nationwide, this investment will give Americans the information and tools they need to stay safe.
- The Department of the Interior is investing $152 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand water storage and enhance climate resilience in California, Colorado, and Washington. This investment will help increase water storage capacity and lay conveyance pipeline to deliver reliable and safe drinking water and build resiliency for communities most impacted by drought. In the wake of severe drought conditions throughout the West, the Administration is making coordinated investments through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to modernize essential water infrastructure, invest in new water recycling and desalination projects and expand access to clean drinking water for communities that have long-dealt with contaminated water supplies.
Today’s announcements build on numerous actions that the Biden-Harris Administration has taken to bolster heat response and resilience nationwide, including providing billions of dollars through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to communities to make buildings more energy efficient and to open cooling centers to keep residents safe.
Since day one, President Biden has taken historic action to address the climate crisis, which includes securing more than $50 billion through his Investing in America agenda to help Americans in every single state become more resilient to climate impacts like heat waves. The Biden-Harris Administration has continued to deliver on the most ambitious climate agenda in American history—an agenda that is lowering energy costs for hardworking families, bolstering America’s energy security, creating thousands of good-paying jobs, and strengthening community-driven climate resilience across the country.
Meanwhile, many Republicans in Congress continue to deny the very existence of climate change, peddle conspiracy theories, and remain committed to repealing the President’s Inflation Reduction Act – the biggest climate protection bill ever – which would undermine the health and safety of their own constituents.
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Quite literally one year ago almost to date Biden announced similar climate rhetoric, throwing more money towards the climate crisis his rich criminal friends, but stopping short of declaring a national emergency.
These Baal worshippers who worship and sacrifice to their sun gods will never stop in making a mountain out of a molehill.
[16] And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. [17] Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Ezekiel 8:16-17
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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As others have pointed out, what effect does the radar systems, the satellites, the EMFs, the radiowaves and the 5g microwaves being used in the open air are having?
Funny, I remember more years than one seeing 90- 100+ degrees with nasty humidity many summers. Back in the ’70’s when we were kids, we used to bike five miles by 7 a.m. to pick strawberries at a nearby farm every summer. My brother worked sweet corn, too. Then Dad would hustle everyone through lunch & out to the hay field, the temperature had nothing to do with it except for how much more water we’d need: the sun was shining & the hay had to come in, or the cows wouldn’t eat through the winter. Cows meant milk, butter & eating meat, plus a couple to sell to cover the overhead. Then he’d leave driving truck, hauling steel between manufacturers, usually getting in two to three rounds through the week. Oh, all those bad lazy Americans!
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Now we realize that ‘recession’ was the nicolaitains moving us further from sound money to the petrodollar for the globalists. And they’ve destroyed every hedge & margin so soon as they observe & find any trace of freedom indeed & influence remaining. With the pulpits effeminized & humanized w/ their ecumenism & fake ‘bibles’….and the influence of the ‘arts’ (what a joke) & ‘sciences’ falsely so-called: it was a ticking time bomb of sin & consequence, & tangled web that only the Lord can truly sort out. I can’t read Jude now without seeing the application & how these things came about, & with immense gratitude toward the Lord & those who were yet letting, allowing the Lord to use them & taking the ‘guff’ of the world in those days. The uncool. The barking dogs. The humble, faceless people that used to just walk up, smile, or just soberly hand you a tract in store parking lots & such.
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Jude 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jude 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
The climate hasn’t changed since God created it(world), temp goes up in the summer and down in the winter… duh. Some years hotter some years colder and vis-a verse-a. Wait until Daniel’s 70th week shows up… glad I won’t be here for that, eh brothers and sisters Amen
Climate change: Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Yes , that’s what I was trying to say, I know that it changes, like Gen8:22 says. I meant that by the unsaved folks, what they think of by saying “climate change”, “global warming”, etc. How God runs the climate: it hasn’t changed in how He runs it. I know that this is a mouthful, sorry, but there maybe lost folks reading this and that might get them to think about it. I’m not that quick at finding verses as you are, but I get it, I should find the verses before I comment to prove my point, Thanks
You’re good, I was just trying to reaffirm your point.
This reminds me of 2 Peter 3:10.