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US elections: Barack Obama accused of 'climate denial'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/22/us-elections-barack-obama-climate-denial?newsfeed=true ^ | 10/23/12

Posted on 10/23/2012 2:05:18 AM PDT by markomalley

The Green party's presidential candidate has called Barack Obama a "climate denier" for failing to talk about climate change during the elections.

On the eve of the third and final presidential debate, the Green party's Jill Stein said Obama's failure to speak out about environmental concerns made him virtually identical to Republicans who deny the human causes of global warming.

The absence of climate change from the elections, after a year of record temperatures, wildfires and drought, has hugely frustrated environmental campaigners.

Obama and Mitt Romney, who has expressed doubt about the human causes of climate change and the viability of renewable energy such as wind power, have failed to address the issue in their last two presidential debates.

But no campaigner has gone as far as Stein, who said Obama was "another climate denier who basically sold out with just a little bit of window dressing".

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/23/2012 2:05:22 AM PDT by markomalley
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“The Green party’s presidential candidate has called Barack Obama a “climate denier” for failing to talk about climate change during the elections.”

He didn’t bring it up out of convenience and because it requires a lot of bullsh*t to try to substantiate it.


2 posted on 10/23/2012 2:24:16 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Even Liberal Democrats know it is a loser to bring up the Global Warming Hoax nonsense from that Nobel-winning scientist, Al Gore

Jill Stein: Is that Ben’s unfunny sister?


3 posted on 10/23/2012 3:01:54 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
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To: markomalley

I would have given odds this was the Guardian just by looking at the story headline.


4 posted on 10/23/2012 3:25:44 AM PDT by expat1000
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