The New York Times Calls Out the Presidential Candidates' Climate Silence

treehugger.com 26 Oct '12, 11pm

The New York Times Calls Out the Presidential Candidates' Climate Silence

Everyone's probably pretty tired of hearing about climate silence by now, so I'll keep this short. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a front-page article that honed in on the curious fact that neither of the would-be leaders of the free world are spending much time discussing global warming. From the story: Even after a year of record-smashing temperatures, drought and Arctic ice melt, none of the moderators of the four general-election debates asked about climate change, nor did either of the candidates broach the topic.Throughout the campaign, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney have seemed most intent on trying to outdo each other as lovers of coal, oil and natural gas — the very fuels most responsible for rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Sound familiar? This is precisely the complaint we climate-focused bloggers have been raising for weeks. It might as well be p...

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