“In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.”
Politics
“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.”
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“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“But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.”
Success“Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?”
Environmental“"If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for ""dangerous"" climate change."”
Change“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.”
Power“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“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“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”
Business“Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.”
Change“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“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 was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.”
Government“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“Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over 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“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.”
Health“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 a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.”
Change“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“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”
Respect