WHERE THEY STAND: Clinton, Trump on the Issues (Often Ignored)

It is really too bad that the media rarely discusses the vast differences between the campaigns on the issues. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the subject of climate change, which no moderator has mentioned during any of the debates. Instead, Hillary Clinton had to bring it up during the first debate.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/24/us/politics/ap-us-campaign-2016-where-they-stand.html?_r=0

CLIMATE CHANGE

It's as if Trump and Clinton live on two entirely different Earths: one warming, one not. Clinton says climate change threatens us all, while Trump repeatedly tweets that global warming is a hoax.

Measurements and scientists say Clinton's Earth is much closer to the warming reality. And it is worsening.

From May 2015 to August 2016, 16 months in a row set records globally for heat, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The world is on pace to break the record for hottest year, a record already broken in 2010, 2014 and 2015. It is about 1.8 degrees warmer than a century ago.

But it's more than temperatures. Scientists have connected man-made climate change to deadly heat waves, droughts and flood-inducing downpours. Studies say climate change is raising sea levels, melting ice and killing coral. It's making people sicker with asthma and allergies and may eventually shrink our bank accounts.