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    Climate Change: Politics and Reality

    Climate change is a big part of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic platform. Donald Trump and the GOP call it a hoax with no basis in science. Meantime, temperatures in Kuwait are rising to historic highs, and melting ice in the Arctic is changing the lives of nomadic native Alaskans.

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    By Warren Olney • Aug 2, 2016 • 32m Listen

    Climate change is a big part of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic platform. Donald Trump and the GOP call it a hoax with no basis in science. Meantime, temperatures in Kuwait are rising to historic highs, and melting ice in the Arctic is changing the lives of nomadic native Alaskans. Extreme weather apparently is becoming the norm, and climate scientists are working faster to connect the dots between heat waves and global warming. We update some facts on the ground and hear how the climate change is playing in the presidential campaign.

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    Are record heat waves a point of no return for climate change?
    1. 1:55Obama calls Trump "unfit" to serve, urges GOP to drop support
    2. 8:31Climate Change: Politics and RealityYou’re reading this
    3. 41:31Courts strike down restrictive voter laws in two states
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Randall Cerveny

      Arizona State University / UN World Meteorological Organization

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      Jimmy Stotts

      Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska

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      Gavin Schmidt

      NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Are record heat waves a point of no return for climate change?
    1. 1:55Obama calls Trump "unfit" to serve, urges GOP to drop support
    2. 8:31Climate Change: Politics and RealityYou’re reading this
    3. 41:31Courts strike down restrictive voter laws in two states
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