Climate Change In 20 Presidential Debates

Primary Debate Scorecard: Climate Change Through 20 Presidential Debates

Kevin Kalhoefer, March 23, 2016 (Media Matters For America)

“With 20 presidential primary debates now completed, debate moderators have only asked 22 questions about climate change, which is just 1.5 percent of the 1,477 questions posed…[and] moderators were more than twice as likely to ask a climate question to a Democratic candidate than to a Republican candidate…[T]hey have not asked a single climate question to Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the two front-runners for the GOP presidential nomination. Nearly one-third of the climate questions were asked in the two most recent debates in Miami, following a bipartisan group of 21 Florida mayors urging the networks to address the issue…Among the ten networks that have hosted presidential primary debates, the moderators on Univision have asked the highest percentage of questions about climate change…Nine of the 20 presidential debates have not included a question about climate change. Fox News, CNN, and ABC each moderated two debates that did not include a question about climate change, while Fox Business, PBS, and CBS each moderated one debate that did not feature a climate question…” click here for more

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