Stacy Summary: We look at the year of records, from the record collapse in US house sales to new record temperatures, to a record year for payouts and to zombies. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Kate Sheppard, an environmental journalist at Mother Jones, about the ongoing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico and about the proliferation of corporate front groups.
**UPDATE**: In related news, this climate change debate between Sir David King and Lord Lawson and hosted by the CBI (the main UK business lobby) ought to be fantastic. This is what is needed, a real scientist, who also has an understanding of economics; and the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, not a clown like Lord Monckton.
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