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Climate activists call out climate silence via online protest

Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon, 202-503-6141, blair@fitzgibbonmedia.com OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of climate activists will participate in an online protest against climate silence today, the date of the final presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. The online protest, organized by the climate accountability watchdog Forecast the Facts and environmental group Friends of the Earth Read more.

Media outlets hear the climate silence in debates

Media outlets hear the climate silence in debates

After Tuesday night’s second round of presidential climate silence, the national media started to take notice. Below is a sample of articles noting and criticizing the essential issue that was left conspicuously missing in the debates. Climate change, the debate’s great unmentionable by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker “But aside from the potential for job Read more.

In second debate, climate silence continues

Here is a response from Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, to the failure of President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to address climate change during their second presidential debate: