“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.”
Power
“In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.”
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“When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.”
Power“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”
Respect“Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.”
Environmental“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”
Change“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.”
Science“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?”
Environmental“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”
Business“In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.”
Alone“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, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”
Food“Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.”
Power“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.”
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 political power.”
Power“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 well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.”
Courage“In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.”
Politics“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 a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.”
Change“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 same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.”
Change“Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.”
Change“Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.”
Change“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.”
Politics