US Presidential Debates’ Great Unmentionable: Climate Change

Guardian: The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the US economy billions of dollars every year – and yet it has proved the great unmentionable of this election campaign. Amid unprecedented melting of the Arctic summer sea ice, new temperature records in the US and a historic drought, the last of three presidential debates wound up on Monday night without Barack Obama or Mitt Romney ever uttering the words climate change. It was the...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/23/us-president-debates-climate-change?newsfeed=true
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