Surrounded by fire, California politicians question links to climate change

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At a public meeting not far from the California town of Redding last year, the US congressman Doug LaMalfa said that he "didn't buy" human-made climate change.

"I think there's a lot of bad science behind what people are calling global warming," he said on another occasion.