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Climate-change politics: The sceptic meets his match

Joe Bast and his libertarian think tank are a major force among climate sceptics — but they just can't win the battle over science.

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Jeff Tollefson is a correspondent for Nature based in Washington DC.

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Tollefson, J. Climate-change politics: The sceptic meets his match. Nature 475, 440–441 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475440a

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