According to a new study conducted by the League of Conservative Voters, of over 2000 questions asked of the presidential candidates on five major Sunday morning political talk shows, only three of those questions mentioned global warming. Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation Voters gave Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman a sample of the study breakdown:
Tim Russert of NBC’s Meet the Press asked 755 questions to the candidates without mentioning global warming. George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week didn’t mention those two words in any of his 726 questions to the candidates. Neither did Bob Schieffer of CBS’s Face the Nation. Wolf Blitzer of CNN and Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday were alone in mentioning global warming. Blitzer mentioned it once, Wallace twice.
The League of Conservation Voters has launched the website whataretheywaitingfor.com and created this short video clip in response to the study.