U.S. Funds Nearly 50% — $31 Million — of U.N.’s Global Warming Panel

January 4, 2012 07:59


The report also found federal funding for global warming had increased by 116 percent between 1993 and 2004, to $5.1 billion.

 

By Elizabeth Harrington at CNSNews.com


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The GAO also found that this funding information “was not available in budget documents or on the websites of the relevant federal agencies, and the agencies are generally not required to report this information to Congress.”

 

The report said documents on U.S. financing for the IPCC were “not available in budget documents or on the websites of the relevant federal agencies, and the agencies are generally not required to report this information to Congress.”

Conflicting State Department numbers also made it more difficult for the GAO to assemble the data.  The GAO “reviewed documents and interviewed officials from federal agencies and IPCC” to reach its findings.

A 2005 GAO report entitled “Federal Reports on Climate Change Funding Should Be Clearer and More Complete” found that federal funding for climate change was not adequately accountable.  “Congress and the public cannot consistently track federal climate change funding or spending over time,” the report concluded.

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