Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change

Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change | Grist

grist.org 22 Oct '12, 3pm

Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change

As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president’s attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the energy sector. The hurtful symbol of this attitude of insensitivity to Texans’ feelings was the administration’s choice to deny Space City’s bid to become home to one of the retired space shuttles. … There is a launching pad to reignite the national economy: It is the abundance of affordable domestic energy that has revealed itself so dramatically over the past several years. We refer primarily to the resources of natural gas and oil from shale rock that have become available through the technologies of horizontal drilling and fracturing. … President Obama’s failure to identify the economic opportunities these resources offer is mystifying. In our 2008 endorsement we caut...

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@Citizensnews » 26 Oct '12, 11pm
"Newspaper endorsements r an anachronism, a relic of a time when readers didnt have access to the internet" [link] #mepolitics
@TEPBetsy » 23 Oct '12, 2pm
Newspaper endorsements give climate change short shrift. . .as do the candidates. [link]
@Katiej0826 » 23 Oct '12, 12am
RT @gardencatlady: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change | Grist [link]
@LakerGMC » 22 Oct '12, 11pm
A hilarious complaint that the newspaper endorsements nobody cares about anymore just are not trivial enough: [link]
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@floeaise » 22 Oct '12, 6pm
RT @ForecastFacts: RT @climatesilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@ClimateSilence » 22 Oct '12, 6pm
.@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@JFitzsimmons7 » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link] #climatesilence
@leapingotter » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
RT @earthislandjrnl: A survey of presidential endorsements by 21 big newspapers around the US shows only 2 mentioned climate change at all [link]
@earthislandjrnl » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
A survey of presidential endorsements by 21 big newspapers around the US shows only 2 mentioned climate change at all [link]
@johnvoelcker » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
RT @drgrist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@NHCaitlin » 22 Oct '12, 4pm
RT @grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@grist » 22 Oct '12, 4pm
Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@gristmill » 22 Oct '12, 3pm
We looked at all of the major newspaper endorsements to-date. Guess how many mention climate or food policy? [link]
@RocksEm » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
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@GreenNewsReport » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@LastoftheJedi77 » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @ClimateSilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@A_Siegel » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @ForecastFacts: RT @climatesilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@gwenetwork » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @ForecastFacts: RT @climatesilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@gardencatlady » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change | Grist [link]
@talktobond » 22 Oct '12, 7pm
RT @ClimateSilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@floeaise » 22 Oct '12, 6pm
RT @ClimateSilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@ForecastFacts » 22 Oct '12, 6pm
RT @climatesilence: .@pbump notes: even newspaper endorsements are complicit in #climatesilence [link]
@wongkxt » 22 Oct '12, 6pm
RT @grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@Yoca1000 » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
RT @drgrist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@earthisland » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
RT @earthislandjrnl: A survey of presidential endorsements by 21 big newspapers around the US shows only 2 mentioned climate change at all [link]
@MaxTGreenberg » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
RT @drgrist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@drgrist » 22 Oct '12, 5pm
Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@bostridsberg » 22 Oct '12, 4pm
RT @grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change [link]
@EIAinvestigator » 22 Oct '12, 4pm
RT @grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore #climate change [link]
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