House Republicans Seek to Remove U.S. Funding for UN Climate Efforts

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://solveclimatenews.com/news/20110825/ipcc-unfccc-climate-change-house-republicans-budget-appropriations-state-department?page=show

House Republicans Seek to Remove U.S. Funding for UN Climate Efforts

Their primary targets are the IPCC and UNFCCC, key programs designed to educate policymakers about climate science and slow warming worldwide

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News | Aug 26, 2011

WASHINGTON—House Republicans are applying a search and destroy tactic to international funding for global warming this budget season. It goes like this: Ax any line items with the words "climate change."

Their primary targets are a pair of crucial United Nations initiatives designed to slow warming worldwide and educate policymakers about the evolving science of climate change.

On the chopping block for 2012 are millions in funding for the http://www.ipcc.ch/">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's leading scientific advisory body on global warming. The IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore in 2007, and governments often use its periodic reviews of climate risks to set targets for reducing carbon emissions.

The GOP-led effort would also cut all U.S. funding for the 19-year-old U.N. http://unfccc.int/">Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the main forum for the global effort to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases. UNFCCC climate treaty talks are mired in longstanding rich-poor rifts and mistrust of the United States for its refusal to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and accept binding emissions limits.

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[Liberty Belle]

1. I guess they want the Rapture to come sooner.

They are completely crazy and dangerous for the survival of every living thing on this earth!

[KT2000]

3. That is it exactly

I was told this by a local politican who has to work with these nuts - they WANT disasters to happen!
I guess this is what would prove the right and they are all sure they will be saved. They do not want dangerous pollution stopped, theywant the worst to come out of every disaster.
Why in the hell are we even negotiating with insane people like this?

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. Why…are we even negotiating with…people like this?

Because we have to.

Seriously, if they had no political power, we wouldn't have to… but they do have political power, and so, we have to negotiate with them. (Killing them all is not an option.)

[KT2000]

5. It seems to me

that they are forcing their religion on this country. They should be held to account for the results they desire, state them clearly, and if they are based upon a religious preference - their actions relative to public policy should all be declared unconstitutional.
I know that will not happen but how did we end up in a situation where a certain religious persuasion is allowed to negotiate the demise of the earth's population?
Fail on a massive scale.

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. I don’t think they’re motivated by religion

I think they merely justify their views by spouting religious clichés.

For example, US slave holders justified themselves by quoting select Biblical verses out of context, while others (like the Quakers, Baptists & Methodists) felt compelled by their religious beliefs to abolish slavery.

[KT2000]

7. what I am talking about

are the Christians who truly believe in the end times and want it to arrive ASAP. There sre some of those in elected positions, locals and such as Bachmann.

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. These are some scary folk out there

Particularly scary groups:

• http://www.google.com/search?q=Christian+Identity">Christian Identity
• http://www.google.com/search?q=Christian+Zionism">Christian Zionists
• http://www.google.com/search?q=christian+dominionism">Christian Dominionism — Bachmann and Perry may be http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/21/posner_nar_dominionism">associated with this crowd.

The important thing to understand (in my estimation) is that all of these people distort Christianity to suit their own purposes (just as al Qaeda, for example, distorts Islam.)

[Turbineguy]

2. Well, why not?

If you want to kill people you must use all the tools at your disposal.