‘Climate of Doubt’ Examines Politics vs. Climate Change

In the race to the White House this year, candidates have gone head-to-head on health care, the economy and foreign policy. But there is one issue that has been absent from all the debates — climate change. On Frontline Tuesday, “Climate of Doubt” looks at how groups of global warming skeptics changed the political climate on the issue.

NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan spoke with journalist John Hockenberry, host of the Frontline film, about why climate change has been left out of the political arena this election.