When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel.… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
It's not all Obama's fault: His plans to rebuild America's energy infrastructure have been hampered by the recession, and his efforts on… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
