SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: One Simple Graph Shows Why Biden’s ‘Climate Emergency’ Would Be Worse Than Useless. The president is considering drastic action that would actually accomplish almost nothing.

What does a president do when Congress won’t pass the legislation he wants? Grab a pen and try to cram it through via executive order, apparently—at least if that president’s name is Joe Biden.

Congress just shut down Biden’s hopes of passing major legislation intended to address climate change through massive taxpayer spending, subsidies, and regulations. But the president isn’t giving up.

Rather, the White House is planning on issuing several executive orders taking unilateral action to supposedly halt climate change. And the president is even reportedly considering declaring a “climate emergency” to unlock more emergency powers Biden could use to impose climate policies without actually going through the democratic process of legislation.

These efforts are constitutionally suspect, economically unsound, and politically unwise. But more than that, if he does go through with it, President Biden’s “climate emergency” would be worse than useless, accomplishing next-to-nothing despite its many downsides.

With the Covid panic now in many Americans’ rear-view mirrors, Team Biden needs a “new” crisis (see our headline above) to justify the left’s century-old organizing principle, the moral equivalent of war. Not to mention they don’t know what else to do: