Thursday, October 18, 2012

How climate change disappeared from the debates

Washington Post: Over at the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert laments the fact that neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney had anything to say about climate change during the second presidential debate Tuesday. Oh, sure, they talked about energy -- about oil leases, about coal, a few quick nods toward renewable energy. But nothing about this warming planet of ours. Nothing about the summer`s droughts or wildfires or the rapidly melting Arctic. So I was curious to look back at how Obama and John McCain talked about...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/18/how-climate-change-disappeared-from-the-debates/
Enclosure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/08/09/National-Economy/Images/na-Drought_Drought.JPEG-0d966.jpg

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