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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Climate Change: The US versus the Rest of the World

    "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.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    "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."

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      Producer, 'One year Later'

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