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Will the GOP Agree to a Truce with Climate Change?
Republican majorities will try to reverse the President’s war on greenhouse emissions- and increase domestic production of fossil fuels.How will the President and other Democrats respond?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenRepublican majorities will try to reverse the President’s war on greenhouse emissions- and increase domestic production of fossil fuels.How will the President and other Democrats respond?
Also, Obama touts the US-China relationship at the APEC Summit, and awards for science worth more than twice as much as the Nobel Prize.
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3 storiesObama Touts China Relationship at APEC Summit
Just a week after being rebuffed by American voters in the midterm elections, President Obama’s in China today for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit . In Beijing, he announced visa expansions and stronger trade relation with China. Jonathan Pollack is Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution.
Read the story7 minWhen It Comes to Climate Change, Elections Matter
Climate scientists say the danger is greater than ever, but Republicans call last week’s election a mandate to roll back EPA rules against greenhouse emissions. That’s the top priority of the incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And the likely Environment Committee chair says climate change is a “hoax.”
Read the story36 minSilicon Valley Rolls Out Red Carpet, Big Bucks for Science
At a lavish ceremony last night near San Francisco, 60 biologists, physicists and mathematicians shared a total of $36 million in prizes. Eleven got $3 million each — twice the cash value of the Nobel Prize.
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