7 Whole Minutes Of Last Night's Debate Dealt With Global Warming

[hatrack]

During the first Democratic debate Wednesday night, the moderators and candidates spent all of seven minutes talking about climate change.

That’s more time than global warming got during all of the 2016 presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. But since the 2016 election, the climate crisis has risen to the top of Democratic voters’ concerns. Voters now want to hear about solutions in a way they didn’t three years ago — and that means a full debate centered entirely on the issue.

Even when the debate did put a spotlight on climate change — which has contributed to chronic flooding in Miami, where the debates are happening — the discussion stayed broad and shallow. Yet two of the candidates on the stage, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, have released detailed plans that try to turn the Green New Deal into specific policy. And others have made climate change central to their platforms.

For example, the only question about taxing carbon emissions, which would gradually make polluting more expensive to incentivize companies to switch to cleaner energy sources, went to Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio. He’s a relatively unknown candidate who hasn't put forward a thorough plan to address climate change.

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https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9awz/democrats-spent-7-minutes-talking-about-climate-change-at-the-debate-thats-more-than-trump-and-hillary-in-2016

[wasupaloopa]

1. Democrats believe humans are causing global warming. If we take over the government

next year we can do something about it. Today all we can do is talk and plan for
the time when we are in charge.

[Hassler]

2. Chuck Toad needed to hear himself talk, climate had to go.