Climate Crisis Gets Primary Debate – CNN, September 4

8 Democratic presidential candidates will participate in CNN climate town hall

Mark Preston, August 19, 2019 (CNN)

“…CNN is devoting the evening of Sept. 4 to the climate crisis. Eight of the [nine qualifying] Democratic candidates have accepted CNN's invitation to discuss this critically important issue: former Vice President Joe Biden; Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont; Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; and businessman Andrew Yang…Citing a scheduling conflict, Sen. Kamala Harris of California declined…CNN anchors Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon will moderate individual candidate segments, and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir will join in the questioning throughout…

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…[In back-to-back appearances, candidates will take questions directly from a live studio audience in New York drawn from Democratic voters and a CNN moderator. A late April CNN poll showed 96% of Democrats favored aggressive action to slow the effects of climate change. The United Nations projects temperatures will rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by as early as 2030 and] has warned that governments must take ‘rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’…[including sea level rise] leaving hundreds of millions of people displaced and forced to migrate to dry areas…[and plant and animal extinctions and drought causing] lower crop yields…July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth…” click here for more

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