Presidential climate forum now online
Hear Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich talk energy and global warming. The Nov. 17 presidential forum on climate is now available online. Watch the full video below, or read the full transcript (PDF).
To kick off the forum, L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa gave a short welcome in which he points to the Bush administration's continued suppression of global warming-related science. "It's time we had someone in the White House who actually believes in science," Villaraigosa says.
Each candidate got a half-hour: 10 minutes to make a speech, then 20 minutes to answer questions from a panel of environmentalists.
Grist writer Dave Roberts -- one of the panelists -- shares his impressions here, including this about Kucinich:
The big question about all this, of course, is how a President Kucinich could get such a radical agenda past Congress. His only answer was that he would talk over their heads, directly to the people, and get them so riled that they would, I guess, drag Congress along. I'm not sure where he sees the evidence for this enormous untapped vein of radical progressivism among the American populace, but he seems convinced.
The L.A. Times covered the event here. Feel free to share your impressions on the candidates in the comments. For the record, all candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties were invited to the event.
