Hello, is anyone paying attention? I've said all along this climate cahnge/g;oba; warming hysteria is nothing but a scam designed to transfer money from rich countries to the Third World despots our president so deeply admires. ******************************* Transcript of Remarks While all of the attention today in Washington is on the looming fiscal cliff, President Obamaâs administration is quietly handing over billions of dollars to the United Nations in the name of global warming. Hello, I am Senator Jim Inhofe, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and chief critic of President Obamaâs far left green agenda Over the past decade, I have been leading the charge in Washington to make sure the global warming hoax is exposed. A big part of that effort has been putting the spotlight on what takes place at the UNâs annual global warming conferences. While I have been unable to travel to the last few conferences, I have counted on groups like CFACT to provide âon the groundâ reports. This yearâs UN conference is in Doha, Qatar and Iâm pleased that Lord Christopher Monckton is there working with his partners, including CFACT Executive Director Craig Rucker and Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com. Iâm certainly looking forward to the release of Climate Depotâs new report that debunks the alarmistsâ extreme weather claims. The last time I attended a global warming conference was in 2009, when I spent only three hours at their gathering in Copenhagen. I arrived just after President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Senator Kerry promised world leaders that the United States would act on cap-and-trade. I was in Copenhagen as a one-man truth squad: I said that the United States Senate would never ratify the Kyoto treaty or pass cap-and-trade. I was right, and now even the liberal media is admitting that these conferences are pointless. As Der Spiegel put it, the conference in Doha is âturning into a farce.â The UK Guardian said that âDoha is a byword for stalemate and failureâ and the New York Times reported that after the failure of the Rio+20 conference held in June, âmore and more people may be ignoring these global confabs.â Itâs not surprising that this yearâs conference has been ignored. Remember EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admitted to me that EPAâs global warming regulations are based primarily on the now exposed Climategate science of the completely discredited UN IPCC. The Atlantic Monthly said of Climategate "the stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering." And the UK Telegraph wrote that âThis is the worst scientific scandal of our generation." Of course, the focus of this yearâs global warming conference â like all the conferences before â is not the environment. Itâs about one thing: spreading the wealth around. As the Associated Press reported, âone of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil.â Three years ago, President Obama helped create a United Nations Green Slush Fund that would redistribute over $100 billion from developed countries to developing countries. While he has been racking up huge deficits and talking up tax increases, the President has already sent billions of American taxpayer dollars to the United Nations â and heâs managed to do it quietly so that no one will notice. How many billions have already been handed over in the last three years? Itâs hard to tell. There appears to be little in the way of transparency. Bloomberg reports that the European Union, the United States, Japan and other developed nations paid out in the range of $23 to $34 billion. Of course, this is just the beginning. United Nations Climate Chief Christiana Figueres explained her job this way: âIt is the most inspiring job in the world because what we are doing here is we are inspiring government, private sector, and civil society to [make] the biggest transformation that they have ever undertaken. The Industrial Revolution was also a transformation, but it wasn't a guided transformation from a centralized policy perspective. This is a centralized transformation that is taking place because governments have decided that they need to listen to science. So it's a very, very different transformation and one that is going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different.â This is the top UN Climate chief: she sees herself as the overseer of âtransformingâ the lives of everyone on the planet. At the global warming conference in Milan, I asked an African delegate who I knew why he had attended and he said, âIt has nothing to do with the science; itâs because itâs the biggest party of the year.â Itâs time to put an end to these lavish, absurd global warming parties and focus on the real problems that we face. In the meantime, I am thankful that groups like CFACT are willing and able to expose this farce for what it is. Your work is critical. But as long as you are there, make sure you enjoy some of the party. Remember, the worst crisis that happened in Copenhagen was that they ran out of caviar, so get some before itâs gone!