Jeff Goodell Quotes

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• When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
• 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 global warming have…
• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
• Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
• 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…
• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
• In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
• Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the…
• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
• 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…
• Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to,…
• If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
• In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
• When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
• 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…
• 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…
• The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of…
• Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal…
• 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.
• Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

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