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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
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3 storiesNetanyahu Pushes Settlements, Threatening Peace Talks
In Indonesia today, President Obama criticized Israel's latest announcement of settlement-building in East Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu issued a statement here in the US saying Israel "never agreed to limit its construction in any way in Jerusalem." Laura Rozen writes the On Foreign Policy blog for Politico.
Read the story8 minClimate Change: The US versus the Rest of the World
For some years, climate scientists avoided public debate on global warming, partly on the ground that skeptics didn't deserve a hearing. Now, so many Republican non-believers have been elected to Congress that the US may become almost unique among nations in dismissing the problem.
Read the story37 minLame Duck Crist May Pardon Jim Morrison Posthumously
After a concert in Miami in 1969, The Doors' lead singer Jim Morrison was convicted of two felonies: exposure and profanity. Morrison died in 1971 before ever going to prison, but fans have long demanded a posthumous pardon. Now Florida's outgoing Governor Charlie Crist says "stay tuned."
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