In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
But overall, Obama’s record on the environment has been uninspired – and that’s putting it kindly. He hasn’t stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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 to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia – and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
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. Jeff Goodell Read Quote
