This is the first time since Bush/Quayle that global warming or climate change have not been brought up in a presidential election debate. The environment came up vaguely. Mostly that had to do with alternative energy sources.
I'm wondering why as we see more signs of climate change present themselves each year. Why the hands off approach? I suspect Romney did not want to talk about it since he is trying to distance himself from the opinions he has espoused in the last year. But, I don't know how much input the candidates had on debate topics.
Do you think that we have become bored with the topic of climate change? Do you think that because it's such a scary prospect with solutions that we can't seem to see that we don't want to hear about it? Have the climate change deniers been successful in ridiculing the theory so much that the debate presenters don't want to bother with it?
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Climate Change not mentioned at debates
Started by FamilyTreeClimber, Oct 25 2012 06:59 PM
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#2
Posted 26 October 2012 - 03:38 AM
I was surprised about it too, especially from Schieffer. He's from PBS, and with all their programming on the subject,
surely he would bring it up because he made up his own questions. But his questions were as lame as the others.
Obama has been talking about it on the campaign trail but lately he's been focused on his own record.
I thought all three moderators left a lot to be desired, to say the least.
And all three let romney continue his bullying method of running over the time limits and speaking to the subjects
he wanted to talk about.
Why bother with a 2 minute rule if it's not enforced?
And the audience selection of undecided's? Please.
Have democrats, republicans, and independent's ask the questions via Twitter and Facebook a few days
before the debates and the mods could take the most frequently asked questions.
Same with the audience. Have it made up of a mix of voters.
There was only one black person and one Latino in one of the debates and I didn't see any Asians that I can recall;
that's hardly a true representation of America.
Millions of voters watched the debates, why cater to a handful of people that remain clueless?
surely he would bring it up because he made up his own questions. But his questions were as lame as the others.
Obama has been talking about it on the campaign trail but lately he's been focused on his own record.
I thought all three moderators left a lot to be desired, to say the least.
And all three let romney continue his bullying method of running over the time limits and speaking to the subjects
he wanted to talk about.
Why bother with a 2 minute rule if it's not enforced?
And the audience selection of undecided's? Please.
Have democrats, republicans, and independent's ask the questions via Twitter and Facebook a few days
before the debates and the mods could take the most frequently asked questions.
Same with the audience. Have it made up of a mix of voters.
There was only one black person and one Latino in one of the debates and I didn't see any Asians that I can recall;
that's hardly a true representation of America.
Millions of voters watched the debates, why cater to a handful of people that remain clueless?
#4
Posted 27 October 2012 - 05:21 AM
But he talked about it at the UN meeting.
"The threat from climate change is serious it is urgent and it is growing. our generations response to this challenge will be judged by history.
For if we fail to meet it boldly and swiftly and together we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe....
The time we have to reverse this is running out, and yet we can reverse it."
http://networkedblogs.com/E0ROU
"The threat from climate change is serious it is urgent and it is growing. our generations response to this challenge will be judged by history.
For if we fail to meet it boldly and swiftly and together we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe....
The time we have to reverse this is running out, and yet we can reverse it."
http://networkedblogs.com/E0ROU
#6
Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:12 AM
Shortpoet, I don't think all the moderators were bad. Jim Lehrer was by far the worst. I don't know what he thought his role was, but it wasn't to keep order. I thought the other three did a much better job. Crowley and Sheiffer didn't really let Romney use his tactic of verbally pushing his way through the debates. It was not nearly as effective of a tactic in the second and third debate as it was the first debate.
I know that Obama has been talking about the issue at length. Unlike the previous president, he actually acknowledges the topic and the science behind it. As for Romney, he has taken a worse stance in his platform than McCain did. In 2008, the party platform included a line on addressing climate change responsibly. In 2012, the line has been removed and there is no mention of climate change at all. The New York Times has a comparison on the platforms of each party.
http://www.nytimes.c...iffer.html?_r=0
I know that Obama has been talking about the issue at length. Unlike the previous president, he actually acknowledges the topic and the science behind it. As for Romney, he has taken a worse stance in his platform than McCain did. In 2008, the party platform included a line on addressing climate change responsibly. In 2012, the line has been removed and there is no mention of climate change at all. The New York Times has a comparison on the platforms of each party.
http://www.nytimes.c...iffer.html?_r=0
#7
Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:26 AM
The tea bagger bosses don't want them talking about it, so they don't. They probably think it would be
"intrusive" gov't.
but
they sure don't mind being "intrusive" in women's va-jay-jay's do they?
If climate change were a women's privates, it would be solved by now.
"Do this-don't do that." 
"intrusive" gov't.
but
they sure don't mind being "intrusive" in women's va-jay-jay's do they?
If climate change were a women's privates, it would be solved by now.
"Do this-don't do that."
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