115 Quotes by Jeff Goodell

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    Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

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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'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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    Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

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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.

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    In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

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    In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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    With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

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