MSNBC Climate Change Forum Will Give Voice to Democrats Denied the Debate Stage and One Republican

The forum, moderated by MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi, is set to be streamed live on NBC News Now and Telemundo on September 19 and 20...

the MSNBC forum will also include former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, one of two Republicans challenging President Donald Trump in the presidential primary.

Weld's planned appearance underlines a stark difference between him and Trump. While the president has said he is an environmentalist, Trump recently skipped a G7 meeting on climate change and then announced plans to rollback restrictions on methane emissions, a move likely to perpetuate the negative effects of climate change.

Weld, on the other hand, has said "we're past the point of being able to dispute the science" behind climate change. He has pledged to rejoin the Paris Accords and more closely regulate carbon dioxide emissions.