Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer : Press Releases : Luetkemeyer Bill Would Save Taxpayers $12.5 Million, Denies Funding for UN's Junk Science

WASHINGTON, D.C. _ U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today introduced legislation that would save taxpayers $12.5 million this year and millions more in the future by prohibiting the United States from contributing to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is fraught with waste and is engaged in dubious science.
“We all know that the UN is incompetent when it comes to spending money, and that is why American taxpayers should not be forking over millions more to one of its organizations that not only is in need of significant reform but is engaged in dubious scientific quests,” Luetkemeyer said. “Folks in Missouri and across the country are tired of this never ending government spending spree, and my goal is to deliver some of our people’s hard-earned money back into their pocketbooks instead of spending it on international junk science.”
Luetkemeyer’s legislation would prohibit U.S. contributions to the IPCC, which is nothing more than a group of U.N. bureaucrats that supports man-made claims on global warming that many scientists disagree with.

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Given the strength of those accusations, we contacted Stephen Schneider, a biology professor at Stanford University and one of the authors of the reports in question.

Schneider said that every chapter of the reports had hundreds of reviewers, many of them cutting-edge scientists. He argued that many who have challenged the results have little expertise in matters related to climate.

“To characterize what we did as junk science is, frankly, a joke,” he said.

Referring to Luetkemeyer and others in Congress who have attacked the conclusions, he added: “That’s coming from people who wouldn’t know quality science if it sat on their laps and spoke to them.”