23 Oct '12, 1am

You Can’t Ignore Climate Change in a Presidential Foreign Policy Debate

You Can’t Ignore Climate Change in a Presidential Foreign Policy Debate

Climate change is a really big global problem. You don’t need to be convinced of impending doom to believe this – you just need to accept that we’re running some pretty large risks . When the moderator of the last debate half-apologized to “the climate people” for not touching on the subject, she revealed something important: too many people think about climate change as a special interest issue. It isn’t , and the candidates’ approaches deserve to be debated. This one is simple to tee off: just ask each candidate what he’d do.

Full article: http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/22/you-cant-ignore-clima...

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