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Jeff Goodell
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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