How American Tea Partiers, Big Oil, and the Kochs Used Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth as Target Practice

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By Brendan MontagueJul 23, 2015, 3:01 am117 pts
DeSmog UK’s epic history series continues with a look at how Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth became target practice for Koch think tanks and the Tea Party caucus in the Republican Party. There appeared to be a new international bipartisanship on the issue of climate change when, during his 2006 campaign,…

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