Urge the Media to Ask Global Warming Questions

A study conducted by the League of Conservation voters looked at all of the major debates and interviews in 2007 that involved the presidential candidates. They logged the number of times “global warming” was mentioned by some of the top political reporters. Their findings are truly scary. Only a couple out of thousands of questions even mention global warming. Check out this “Get the Facts” page to view the data.

Want to take action? You can sign one of these petitions to urge the media outlets to start asking the right questions about global warming and make it a priority for interviews in the 2008 election season.

http://wecansolveit.org/page/s/presspetition

http://www.whataretheywaitingfor.com/sign.php

You might also want to check out this video filmed in March 2008 for TED: Ideas Worth Spreading.

About this talk from TED.com:
“In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates’ climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.”