If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL,… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Climate scientists have long pointed to the Southwest as one of the places in the U.S. that is most vulnerable to global… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“If we burn all the known reserves of coal, oil, and gas on the planet, seas will likely rise by more than… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish.… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
You think the weather is weird now? Just wait. A new MIT study, just published in a peer-reviewed journal, projects that the Earth could… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
“When I asked the mayor if flood insurance rates had gone up after Sandy, he said, “Not really.” This is how disaster relief works… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
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 Copy Share
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share
