All Jeff Goodell Quotes
- 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 see… Degrees
- You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his… Best
- 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… Air
- Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms,… Acidic
- 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… America
- Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as… Activist
- Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can… Brought
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion,… America
- 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… America
- Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may… Cooked
- Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline… Approve
- The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House. Climate
- 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… Always Win
- Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how… Admitted
- 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
- Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might… Amazon
- What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia:… Almost Limitless
- The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners… Been
- 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… Century
- 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