Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise to offer Congressman Luetkemeyer's amendment to ensure the United Nations climate change organizations are no longer used as an international slush fund for ineffective climate change research and projects. Unfortunately, many of the United Nations climate change organizations operate with little oversight or accountability, while being financed, in part, by the American taxpayer. Unelected bureaucrats and foreign leaders across the globe should not have greater control over U.S. policy than our citizens and elected officials, especially when we are paying for it. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCC, and the Green Climate Fund, GCF, have been surrounded in controversy since their inception. The IPCC, which is broadly represented as the top authority on climate matters, was under fire when emails were publicly released from a university in England that showed that leading global scientists-- that 95 percent, they are always quoting--intentionally manipulated climate data and suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals. Further, while the IPCC supposedly issues assessments based upon so- called independent surveys of published research, some of the most influential conclusions summarized in its report have neither been based upon truly independent research nor properly vetted through accepted peer-reviewed processes.…”