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Climate change has not been a major focus of either the candidates for president or the media covering their campaigns. MPR host Kerri Miller talked to a Republican climate scientist and a former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force about why the climate isn't coming up more on the campaign trail. They also fact-checked some of the statements that candidates have made on the issue.  

, president of Bledsoe and Associates and a former climate official in the Bill Clinton White House; and 

, Professor at the Department of Geosciences, and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University.

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Two climate experts discuss why candidates and the media aren't making climate change a bigger focus of the presidential campaign.

The candidates for president in both parties are saying very little about climate change and their plans to either combat it or prepare for its effects. MPR news host Kerri Miller spoke with Republican climate scientist, Richard Alley, and a former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force, Paul Bledsoe, about why climate isn't coming up more on the campaign trail. 4/7/16

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