Jeff Goodell Quotes
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In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
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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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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.
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Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
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To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
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Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
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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.
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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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 been stymied by Tea Party wackos and weak-kneed Democrats in Congress.
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Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
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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 differently.
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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.
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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.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.
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The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
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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.
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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.