Climate Change Not Mentioned In Presidential Debates For First Time In A Generation

as noted by several debate watchers, climate change was never mentioned -- not by the candidates, and not by the debate moderator, Bob Schieffer of CBS News. Given the absence of the topic at the two preceding meetings between Obama and Romney, the close of Monday night's event marked the first time in roughly a generation that climate change has failed to receive an airing at any of the presidential debates.
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"Climate change is a global threat that requires a global response. Yet neither candidate saw fit to address climate change’s implications for foreign policy," said Erich Pica, president of the environmental group Friends of the Earth Action, in a prepared statement. "By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe.
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In an email message to HuffPost, Michael E. Mann, a prominent physicist and climatologist and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested he was disappointed.

"There's not a whole lot to say here," Mann said. "Bob Schieffer obviously made the decision not to broach the topic. That's really too bad. Given that climate change may be the greatest challenge we face in the decades ahead, to be silent on the issue over the course of four debates does a real disservice to the country."
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Taking to his Twitter account at the conclusion of the debate, Jamie Kilstein, a comedian and co-host of Citizen Radio, summed up the popular frustration.

"Maybe they didn't mention global warming," he wrote, "because they are hoping it wipes us all out before we can hold them accountable."

A Look at Climate Silence and the Romney-Obama Debates - NYTimes.com

Given how little progress has been made through the years when global warming did come up, perhaps the silence this year signals a change?

After all, the reality is that Obama has moved pretty aggressively, if quietly, to roll out restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions through regulations, tighter standards for energy use and vehicle fuel economy and pursue policies fostering a shift from coal to gas.

Is a little climate silence golden?

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The New Nostradamus of the North: "Creative" warmist scientists finally find a way to show that global warming increases violent conflicts

How have the six warmist authors been able to succeed where others have failed?
The answer is: By using a new database, in which the criteria for violence have been "relaxed" in order to get the results that suited their needs:
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(I would not be surprised if family quarrels are included in the new dataset)

But even with the manipulated criteria, not everything went according to the wishes of the creative scientists