The House of Representatives has voted to defund a United Nations climate change panel after the Republican who introduced the proposal said the body had “whipped up a global frenzy” over climate change because its members were politically motivated.
“It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best,” Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) said on the House floor late Saturday night.
Luetkemeyer introduced the amendment to the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act, a bill that will fund the federal government for the balance of the year. His amendment prohibits any of the money the government plans to spend this year from supporting the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.N. body that reports on climate change science.
The amendment — which passed on a 244-179 vote, with nine Democrats joining the majority — would add a section to the end of the spending bill that says, “None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
A good start. But a really bold move would be to ask the UN to pack up its shit and get out of the country before it finds our capitalist/colonialist/imperialist/pro-Zionist/racist/jingoist boot in its ass.
Which, not likely, I realize. But a boy can dream…
Nah. Easier to keep an eye on ’em in NYC. You Know: “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
Oh. The unspoken corollary of my post was that we wouldn’t be joining them.
“But a really bold move would be to ask the UN to pack up its shit and get out of the country before it finds our capitalist/colonialist/imperialist/pro-Zionist/racist/jingoist boot in its ass.”
THAT’S the kind of sentence that’s kept me coming back these 6 of 7 years.
Nice, Jeff.
The unspoken corollary of my post was that we wouldn’t be joining them.
Sigh. Jeff, you just don’t appreciate the logistical challenges involved here. When the time comes for the Haliburton people to plant the demolition charges ahead of the terrorist attack on the U.N, is it going to be easier in Manhattan or Geneva?
I’m for evicting the UN after Halliburton takes down their building. Less furniture to move.
On a serious note, I’d rather see us work through an international organization committed to enlightenment principles of individual rights, limited government, economic liberty and all that. But we kind a need that organization at home first.
It’s hard to whip people up into a frenzy about catastrophic global warming when the crops freeze in Mexico.
Just sayin’
Damn that Dick Cheney! Is there anything he won’t do to embarrass Al Gore?
I say keep them in the U.S.– just move the headquarters to that vacant, pastoral prarie that was once downtown Detroit. Then We’ll see how many show up for a vote condemning Israel.