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Old 03-01-2011, 02:43 PM
 
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FoxNews.com - House Will Pursue Efforts to Eliminate US Funding for UN Climate Group

"Wrapped into the many amendments recently passed by the House of Representatives -- a total of $60 billion in spending cuts that the president called a "nonstarter" -- was one by Republican Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer that would prohibit $13 million in taxpayer dollars from going to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group whose occasional missteps have been the source of countless confrontations among climate scientists over the past year."

"More than 700 acclaimed international scientists have challenged the claims made by the IPCC, Luetkemeyer argued. These 700-plus dissenting scientists are affiliated with institutions like the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, the U.S. Air Force and Navy, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency."

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I know its not a ton of money saved. But it makes a statement that we are not going to be bullied and bamboozled into highly questionable, unscientific green waste!
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Old 03-01-2011, 02:49 PM
 
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I agree with doing this. We should only be supporting solid science with no agenda.
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