"Climate is gone." Those are the words of political strategist Karl Rove reassuring shale-gas developers there is no longer a need to worry about new laws against greenhouse pollution. That's because with Rove's help so many Republican climate-change deniers were elected to Congress last week. One observer sees the GOP "stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science."
Climate Change: The US versus the Rest of the World
Credits
Guests:
- Ron Brownstein - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; political analyst, CNN; author - @RonBrownstein
- Frank Newport - Gallup Poll - @gallup
- Andrew Dessler - Texas A&M University - @AndrewDessler
- James M. Taylor - Heartland Institute
- John Vidal - Guardian newspaper - @john_vidal