When it comes to covering the climate issue in the campaign for president, politicians and the nation’s news and editorial pages just can’t commit.
The environment, and that includes global warming, is an issue that politicians like to date but don’t want to marry.
That’s how Cliff Zukin, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, describes the kind of attention the 21st century’s greatest environmental challenge has received this election season. And the nation’s reporters, editorial writers, op-ed columnists, TV talk show hosts, and pundits haven’t pushed very hard to keep the relationship going.