U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today reintroduced legislation that would save taxpayers millions of dollars by prohibiting the United States from contributing to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization fraught with waste and engaged in dubious science.  

“The IPCC advises governments around the world on climate change, and supporters of cap-and-tax legislation have used questionable findings by the IPCC as reason to support onerous legislation and regulations for small businesses and farmers,” Luetkemeyer said. “Criticism of this science intensified over the last two years when emails publicly released from a university in England showed that leading global scientists intentionally manipulated climate data and suppressed legitimate arguments in peer-reviewed journals. Researchers were asked to delete and destroy emails so that a small number of climate alarmists could continue to advance their environmental agenda.”

More than 700 international scientists have challenged the claims on man-made global warming promoted by the IPCC. The dissenting scientists come from nations all over the world, including Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United States, and are affiliated with some of the world’s premier scientific institutions including the U.S. Navy, U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Energy Department, U.S. Air Force, NASA, and the EPA.  

This bill, first introduced in the 111th Congress, would have saved taxpayers $12.5 million in FY10 and millions more in the years to come by permanently ending the United States financial contributions to the IPCC. When re-filing the legislation, Luetkemeyer cited Article I, Section 8, Clause I of the Constitution, from which Congress derives its authority to control taxation and spending, as the constitutional basis for this legislation.

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