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Climate Change: Politics versus Science of Global Warming
After last week's elections, Karl Rove told a conference of shale-gas developers not to worry about efforts to limit greenhouse pollution. Fifty-percent of new Republicans in the Congress are climate-change skeptics. We look into what that could mean. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pushes new settlements, threatening peace talks. On Reporter's Notebook, will Charlie Crist make rock ‘n roll history?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenAfter last week's elections, Karl Rove told a conference of shale-gas developers not to worry about efforts to limit greenhouse pollution. Fifty-percent of new Republicans in the Congress are climate-change skeptics. We look into what that could mean. Also, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pushes new settlements, threatening peace talks with the Palestinians. On Reporter's Notebook, will outgoing Florida Governor Charlie Crist issue a posthumous pardon for Jim Morrison, the late lead singer for The Doors? Crist says "anything is possible."
Banner image: Heads of cattle are dying from lack of food and water like this bull on May 29, 2010, in the northern part of Niger. Photo: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images
