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Climate-change politics: The sceptic meets his match

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

Joe Bast considers himself an environmentalist. He and his wife Diane used to volunteer for the Sierra Club, one of the United States' largest environmental groups. The two built a geodesic dome in the Wisconsin countryside and once entertained the idea of abandoning the city to live off the land. But today Bast is on the other side of a cultural divide, fighting former colleagues, politicians and scientists on the battlefield of global warming.

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