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<h1 class="title">Karl Rove Tells Energy Groups "Climate is Dead"</h1>
<div class="submitted">By <a title="View user profile." href="http://www.energyboom.com/users/farron-cousins">Farron Cousins</a> on November 5, 2010</div>
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<p>After the Republican Party swept the U.S. midterm elections this week, Republican strategist Karl Rove told a crowd of oil producers that “climate is gone.” </p>
<p>Rove made the comments at a oil-shale gas conference being hosted by Hart Energy Publishing, L.L.C., where he was the keynote speaker on opening day. <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/05/karl-rove-climate-is-gone/" target="_blank">According to a report by Climate Progress</a>, Rove told the assembled crowd: </p>
<p><em>“Climate is gone. I don’t think you need to worry the new Congress will consider proposed legislation to put the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing under federal rather than state regulation.</em>"</p>
<p>As Climate Progress points out, Rove might actually be correct with his statement, as <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8102821/Earth-will-take-100000-years-to-recover-from-global-warming-say-geologists.html" target="_blank">The Geological Society of London predicts</a> that it will take 100,000 years for our climate to recover from the effects of manmade climate change. </p>
<p>Hart Energy is a leader in the production of shale oil as an alternative to conventional oil drilling, but the environmental effects of shale are considered by many to be just as devastating as crude oil.</p>
<p>Hart has <a href="http://www.hartenergyconferences.com/" target="_blank">at least two more shale oil conventions </a>scheduled before the end of this year, and as we’ve reported, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are <a href="http://energyboom.com/policy/senators-pushing-remove-oil-sand-legislation">working to end environmental restrictions </a>that are prohibiting corporations from expanding their efforts to produce shale oil. While these efforts have currently fallen short in Congress, the large numbers of Republicans who will be taking office in January could make this repeal a reality. </p>
<p>The CEO of Hart Energy, Frederick Potter, has been a <a href="http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/frederick-potter.asp?cycle=02" target="_blank">staunch ally of the Republican Party</a> for a long time, donating more than $60,000 of his own money to their campaigns over the last decade, while giving only $1,500 to Democratic politicians and causes.</p>
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