Another Series of Presidential Debates with No Climate-Change Qs

Did you notice? None of the debate moderators asked a single question about climate change. Isn’t that odd? As President Obama recently said: “No challenge  poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” So why didn’t this existential threat merit even one question? Are all of the moderators climate-change deniers?

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Probably not. My guess is that each of them asked questions on topics the American people find most pressing, and poll after poll shows that only about 1% of Americans name “the environment” (much less “climate change”) as one of the most important issues facing the U.S. today. The Big Q, then, is: Why do so few Americans express concern to pollsters about the environment? One of the reasons, no doubt, is that the news media under-report environmental problems relative to their importance. People discount environmental issues, because the media rarely bring the issues to their attention. Completing the vicious circle, the news media under-report environmental problems because the public seems not to care about those problems.

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Here’s a link to a relevant article, which contains links to a number of other relevant articles.

http://www.ecowatch.com/presidential-debate-climate-change-2055357847.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=231dbfcd88-MailChimp+Email+Blast&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-231dbfcd88-85933793