Stephen Lacey writes, The Sound of Climate Silence: Romney and Obama Spar Over Who Wants to Drill For More Fossil Fuels During Debate:| Those concerned about climate change were sorely disappointed during Tuesday night's town hall-style debate when both the candidates and the moderator'CNN's Candy Crowley'failed to address the issue of climate change, even during a lengthy and heated exchange about energy issues. 'I had that question for all of you climate change people,' said Crowley in the post-debate coverage. 'We just, you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing so you knew you kind of wanted to go with the economy.' Obama started off the debate with a strong nod to renewable energy, explaining that we need to invest in 'solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.' But after a voter asked about gas prices, both Obama and Romney proceeded to battle over who could drill more fossil fuels. [...] Obama separated himself by focusing on the need to develop more renewables and lower consumption of petroleum through better efficiency measures. But when talking about why he believes those investments are important, he never mentioned the reasons that alternatives to fossil fuels are so important. Perhaps Australian climate scientist Will Steffen can explain: 'This is the critical decade. If we don't get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines. We are on the cusp of some big changes. We can ' cap temperature rise at two degrees, or cross the threshold beyond which the system shifts to a much hotter state.' |
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