From left to right, Alden Meyer, Director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, Philip Clapp, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group, Christiana Figueres, official negotiator to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy and Myron Ebell, Director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, testifies before a House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee hearing on the UN Conference and the Impact on International Climate Change Policy in Washington on December 19, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)