The Political Climate: an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

Today, the final installment of the Iowa/New Hampshire Exchange was entirely dedicated to how environmental issues are playing in the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary.  Professor and New Hampshire political celebrity Dante Scala gave a nice little shout-out to the Carbon Coalition website at the beginning of the program.

Listen to today’s Iowa/NH Exchange.

Oprah Winfrey is coming to Manchester for a rally with Barack Obama this Sunday at the Verizon Center.  MSNBC reported that there is already a waiting list to get into the arena, which holds more than 10,000 people.  It seems that Oprah is already drawing a large crowd and a lot of national media attention.
 
The Carbon Coalition, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club and others are coming together for a climate change rally outside of the arena to remind candidates and voters everywhere that NH wants action on global warming!  
 
Want to help? E-mail Emily or meet at the Climate Action Center (931 Elm Street) this Sunday at 5:00pm. 

In the meantime, check out Oprah’s Global Warming 101 on her website.

Below are three sample videos that the Carbon Coalition is submitting for the GOP CNN/Youtube debate scheduled for November 28th.  Submit your climate change question here.

Submit your climate change question here.

Radio ad - “According to FBI reports, Al Qaeda may be planning to strike at shopping malls here in America later this year, and the candidates for president are talking about healthcare and energy policy!  I am Tom Tancredo and I say all issues pale in comparison to the fact that Islamic Jihadists are here and plotting our destruction.”

The statement above is an excerpt from one of Tom Tancredo’s two new radio ads currently running in New Hampshire.  Tancredo’s concern over his competition addressing “energy policy” baffles me.  Listen to Tancredo’s ad here.

Climate change can not be separated from security.  I would argue that those who ignore the issue of climate change are weak on national security and lack the foresight to recognize the grave geopolitical ramifications of sea level rise, extreme weather conditions, infectious disease, economic crisis, and lower crop yields caused by climate change.

On a similar tone, Laurie David and Gene Karpinski reprimanded NBC’s Tim Russert for ignoring the issue of global warming in their Huffington Post blog “Did Russert get the Memo?”  Tancredo must be proud of Russert for not once discussing minor issues like energy policy or global warming in either of the two Presidential debates he has moderated or during any of his sixteen interviews with presidential candidates on Meet the Press.  Even NBC’s “Green is Universal” week did not entice Russert to question guest Barack Obama on his “green” cred.

Memo:  WAKE UP NATIONAL MEDIA