From MoveOn.org:

Dear MoveOn member, In the last year, the major TV networks asked the presidential candidates 2,679 questions. Pop quiz: How many were about global warming? A) 514—after all, it’s one of the top issues facing the country B) 165—as many as were asked about illegal immigration C) 3—the same number asked about UFOs If you guessed 3, you’re right: Reporters asked as many questions about UFOs as they did about the climate crisis—the biggest threat to our planet.

Strikes me as wrong — for example, does this include the infamous snowman question? Does it count multiple times if it was posed to multiple candidates?

But the funny thing is, I saw more UFO activists in Iowa than I did global warming activists. Seriously — I’m not making this up. There was one guy standing outside the caucus site in Council Bluffs who was screaming about UFO’s on the way in. (I don’t know if he was supporting Kucinich or Richardson.)

UPDATE: Even if it wasn’t asked on a “major television network,” a reader sends along what has to be my favorite Global Warming question of last year, from George Will (the link to Newsweek has expired for some reason):

“Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there?”