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In a short interview with E&E News after the panel, Inslee attributed his own 2012 election as governor in part to his focus on climate issues in the campaign.

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Then Obama's State of the Union speech, which sounded off alarm bells in Ottawa and Alberta by unexpectedly bringing up climate change, an issue largely ignored during the president's electoral campaign.

The deafening silence around climate change in the US presidential campaign has left leading climate scientists baffled by the absence of debate about the «greatest issue of our time».

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Climate change - the issue David Cameron described a year ago as «one of the most serious threats that this country and this world faces» and on which all three leaders signed an important pledge as recently as February — has been studiously avoided in this campaign.

President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment will be a winning cause in the 2016 presidential campaign.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

David Ray, Buerkle's campaign manager, issued a statement in which he did not address the congresswoman's current position on climate change.

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

, who made climate a major part of her campaign to win a coastal district in southern Los Angeles County, said a special committee with Democrats setting the agenda would be the best way to confront the issue, because the Climate Solutions Caucus «feels a little like lip service.climate a major part of her campaign to win a coastal district in southern Los Angeles County, said a special committee with Democrats setting the agenda would be the best way to confront the issue, because the Climate Solutions Caucus «feels a little like lip service.Climate Solutions Caucus «feels a little like lip service.»

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Mr. Obama has not made climate and energy a front - tier issue for the most part, although his proposals are laid out in detail on his campaign site.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

For instance, Senator Sanders had huge success well beyond all expectations, and climate was a key issue in that campaign.

Mr. Obama stressed the issue throughout his campaign and several times in his inaugural speech, mentioning stabilizing climate in the same breath as preventing nuclear conflict at one point.

There's more here on black carbon and climate, and how the issue roiled politics and environmental campaigns and science in 2000.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Though the campaign did not revolve on the issue of climate chnage, once in the oval office some actions will be initiated to save the p [lanet not only for the benefit of the us kids but all the kids all over the world.

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In 2004, the International Broadcasting Trust - a lobby group funded by a number of charities, including many involved in campaigning on climate change - devised the first in a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasterIn 2004, the International Broadcasting Trust - a lobby group funded by a number of charities, including many involved in campaigning on climate change - devised the first in a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasterin campaigning on climate change - devised the first in a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasterin a series of seminars on development issues, where the lobbyists could address broadcasters.

In this excerpt from his full rebuttal to the essay, Ward describes the role environmental foundations play in frustrating effective campaigning, and suggests that if they intelligently directed their funding toward a coordinated climate - change campaign, they could catapult the issue to the top of the national agendIn this excerpt from his full rebuttal to the essay, Ward describes the role environmental foundations play in frustrating effective campaigning, and suggests that if they intelligently directed their funding toward a coordinated climate - change campaign, they could catapult the issue to the top of the national agendin frustrating effective campaigning, and suggests that if they intelligently directed their funding toward a coordinated climate - change campaign, they could catapult the issue to the top of the national agenda.

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The strategy is to divide conservative candidates and moderate voters; framing conservatives as standing on the morally wrong side of the climate change issue; as they have been portrayed in the gay marriage and Civil Rights debates.9 The NextGen campaign applies a master narrative that is adapted to each state, emphasizing that climate change poses a serious threat to the economy, public health, and children, and that if a candidate doesn't believe in climate change, they can't be trusted.

Campaigning environment journalist Oliver Tickell told the conference that, unlike issues like climate change where it took years to get international legislation in place to reduce greenhouse gases, treaties were already agreed that should prevent plastic reaching the oceans.

Martin Hiller, Director General of REEEP, has over 30 years of experience working in sustainability issues, climate change and clean energy policy, and environmental campaigns and communications.

The list includes former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who spoke about climate change on the 2012 presidential campaign trail; Senator John McCain, who proposed a series of climate change legislation in the mid-2000s; former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed an emissions - reduction law for his state in 2006; and former Reagan Secretary of State George Shultz, who writes about climate and other issues as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

To raise awareness, News Corp.'s TV stations are planning a campaign to give viewers ideas about what they can do to fight climate change; Fox plans to use Major League Baseball's All - Star Game in the summer to educate viewers; and the National Geographic Channel is launching Preserve Our Planet, an initiative to offer programming related to the issue, he said.

Clinton would welcome working with Congress to address this issue but she also believes it is too important to wait for climate deniers to listen to science,» Trevor Houser, a Clinton campaign energy policy adviser said in a statement.

Tom Steyer, who will be launching a major bipartisan climate change campaign in October with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, first challenged President Obama on this issue at a private fundraiser he hosted in his San Francisco home.

President Obama has identified climate change as one of his top three priorities in his second term after coming under fire from environmentalists for giving the issue short shrift during the campaign.

Like Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter saga, climate change has been the issue «that shall not be named» — mostly a political no - show in the presidential campaign.

But last week, over 60 international civil society groups at Cochabamba's alternative climate summit lent their collective voices in a grassroots campaign to unanimously oppose geoengineering and are urging the public to join with Hands Off Mother Earth (H.O.M.E.) by «lending a hand» in their photo petition.With support from environmental and social justice luminaries like David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, Naomi Klein, Herman Daly and Frances Moore - Lappé, the petition hopes to raise more public awareness about the issue prior to the next climate change convention slated for December.

Climate change became partisan in 2010, shortly after the five Republican - appointed justices of the Supreme Court upended a century of law and precedent to issue the Citizens United decision, which rejected limits on corporate spending on political campaigns.

While environmental groups have kicked - off a campaign to target this «climate silence,» the lack of discussion on climate change is a part of a larger trend in the U.S. where media coverage of the issue has declined even as scientists argue that impacts are increasing.

Activists organized by 350.org unfurled a huge parachute in Times Square with the words, «End Climate Silence,» a message meant to call attention to the fact that there has been almost zero mention of climate change during the presidential campaign, including not a single reference to the issue in the four presidential dClimate Silence,» a message meant to call attention to the fact that there has been almost zero mention of climate change during the presidential campaign, including not a single reference to the issue in the four presidential dclimate change during the presidential campaign, including not a single reference to the issue in the four presidential debates.