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One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell
Death
You
Change
Debate
Will
Big
Same Thing
Nice
Enjoy
Bath
Out
Pretty
Slowly
Seem
Pot
Put
Instead
Smarter
Until
Climate
Climate Change
Doing
Questions
Up
Jump
Than
Same
Heat
Frog
Frogs
Big Questions
Any
Warm
Turn
Much
Cooked
Thing
Humans
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global warming impacts, especially drought. And if there's one thing that even climate denialists don't dispute, dry things burn.
Jeff Goodell
Long
One Thing
Impacts
Pointed
Drought
Global
Most
Global Warming
Dry
Vulnerable
Climate
Scientists
Southwest
Burn
Places
Warming
Even
Dispute
Thing
Things
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Jeff Goodell
Environmental
Slow
Too
Part
Failed
Global
Global Warming
Well
Because
Polite
Climate
Been
Behaved
Pollution
Warming
Activists
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
Jeff Goodell
Good
Respect
Good Job
Job
Ocean
States
Pretty
Pretty Good
No Respect
Protecting
Gets
Iconic
Landscapes
Views
United
United States
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
Jeff Goodell
Work
Politics
You
Impatient
Up
Get
Done
Anything
Ground
Believes
Need
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
Jeff Goodell
Science
Problems
Energy
Back
Our
Everything
Mine
Solutions
More
Drill
Sound
Permits
Up
Familiar
Offer
Roll
Republicans
Regulations
Tweak
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
Jeff Goodell
Plentiful
Cheap
Like
Well
Least
Anymore
China
Coal
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Jeff Goodell
Today
You
Energy
Way
Take
Cheap
House
Industry
Very
Just
Dependent
Granted
Works
Things
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.
Jeff Goodell
Government
Class
Win
Political
Will
Presidents
More
Drilling
Price
Putting
Calculation
Votes
Calculations
Always
Than
American
Any
Taught
Oil
American Government
Elect
Carbon
Recall
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.
Jeff Goodell
World
Few
Doubt
Minds
No Doubt
About
Fires
Droughts
How
How Much
Years
Left
Australia
Australians
Just
Storms
Stake
Much
Many
Suffered
Floods
Last
Last Few Years
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
Jeff Goodell
Natural
Worse
Some
Fact
Could
Studies
Climate
Than
In Fact
Natural Gas
Coal
Shown
Gas
Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.
Jeff Goodell
Work
Environmental
Cleaning
Plants
Important
Pay
Pulse
Sexy
Outlaw
Attention
Environmental Issues
Because
Important Work
Issues
Up
Get
Hugely
American
Anybody
Mean
Much
Racing
Much Attention
Coal
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
Jeff Goodell
War
Reality
Solar
Wind
Long
Power
Energy
Taxpayer
State
Stripping
Would
Promote
Laws
Clean
Attacked
Clean Energy
Investments
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Been
Subsidies
Moves
While
Republicans
Them
Fuels
Standards
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Ridiculed
Bashed
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.
Jeff Goodell
People
Problem
Mountains
Live
Too
Local
Air
Top
Mines
Releasing
Area
Point
Point Of View
Blast
Toxic
Industry
Chemical
Cousins
Off
Left
Cozy
Polluting
Turning
View
Coal
Who
Companies
Near
Streams
What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.
Jeff Goodell
Natural
Country
Sense
Think
Resources
Recognition
Vanish
Almost
Beyond
Likely
Limitless
Australia
Transformed
Land
Natural Resources
Barrier
Many
Things
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
Jeff Goodell
Corn
Total
Crop
Federal
Allowance
Propped
Between
Most
Up
Itself
Times
America
Subsidies
Subsidized
Wheat
Tax
Ethanol
Much
Billion
Including
Twice
Four
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell
Change
Risks
Words
Nation
Pulpit
President
President Obama
Unlikely
Collapse
Has-Been
Obama
Catastrophic
Since
Trade
Climate
Climate Change
Been
Bully
Legislation
Movement
Again
Inaction
Public
Cap
Realization
Much
Use
Less
Prepare
Ever
Utter
Funk
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.
Jeff Goodell
Good
Needs
Energy
Radical
Clean
Clean Energy
Consumption
Climate
His
Just
Energy Consumption
View
Gates
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
Jeff Goodell
Will
First
White
White House
Sign
Crisis
Obama
About
He
House
Revealed
How
Climate
Whether
Confronting
Serious
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
Jeff Goodell
National
Energy
Hell
Everything
Wildlife
Out
Emerge
Arctic
Drill
Superpower
Like
Protected
America
National Wildlife Refuge
Refuge
Public
Regions
Lands
Public Lands
Including
Fragile
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
Jeff Goodell
Environmental
Health
Risks
Natural
Power
Incredible
Mark
Draw
Worst
Superhero
Determined
Attention
Hottest
Industry
His
Committed
Hulk
Movie
Natural Gas
Public
Public Health
Use
Moment
Who
Serious
Star
Activist
Gas
Nightmare
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
Jeff Goodell
Director
Natural
Long
Josh
Failed
Smear
Industry
Natural Gas
Worked
Hard
Gas
Fox
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Jeff Goodell
Political
Political Power
Power
Presidential
More
Obvious
Been
Campaigns
Than
Coal
Nowhere
If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
Jeff Goodell
You
Change
Dangerous
Post
Threshold
Enough
Crisis
Degrees
Know
Read
Climate
Climate Change
Acknowledged
Interested
Warming
Widely
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
Jeff Goodell
Risks
World
Progress
Made
Understanding
Addicted
Despite
Run
Atmosphere
Climate
Still
Scientists
Fuels
CO2
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Ever
Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.
Jeff Goodell
Healthy
Keystone
Corporate
Project
Clear
Since
Days
George
Been
George W
Forests
Pipeline
America
Bush
Skies
Initiatives
Presented
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