Climate's absence from political debate

Presidential debate stage

By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0

Adam Wernick writes about an Ira Flatow interview with author Shawn Otto on the missing issue: "In 2008, Otto says, candidates were asked nearly 3,000 questions during the campaign. Only six of those questions were about climate change. Flash forward eight years to Democratic and Republican debates that were each held within a week of 195 countries signing the Paris climate accords: Not a single journalist in either debate asked the candidates about climate change."

September 7, 2016

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