On a party line vote, the House passed an amendment to prevent funds from going to the Defense Department to address how climate change affects national security.
House Votes To Deny Climate Science
Credit: National Geographic
May 31, 2014

Via Liberaland:

The Republican Party is signaling to the world that it denies science. On a party line vote, the House passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia to prevent funds from going to the Defense Department to address how climate change affects national security. McKinley’s amendment reads:

None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 s...

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