Friday, September 14, 2012

How would I phrase the climate change question?


Al Gore's Climate Reality Project has an online petition drive to get the moderator of the first Presidential debate, Jim Lehrer, a question about climate change.   This made me think about how I would phrase the question.


Here's what I came up with:

"Governor Romney, President Obama:  with the vast majority of the world's credible climate scientists indicating that climate change is a real and worsening threat to the people of the world, and also clearly indicating that human activities, notably fossil fuel energy generation, are the primary cause of current climate change trends - which both of you have acknowledged as correct -  and with current events such as the shrinking Arctic ice cap and an increasing number of extreme weather-related disasters linked to climate change - what will you do to address the threat the climate change poses for the national and world  economy, security, and natural environment?"
That oughta get an interesting response from the candidates.

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