Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell
Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. Goodell's writings are known for a focus on energy and environmental issues. He is a 2016 Fellow at the New America Foundation...
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giving-up believe america
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.
average three temperature
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
jobs ocean views
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
coal world vanishing
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
fall australia water
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.
war thinking air
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.
issues climate records
Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.
sky america healthy
Not since the days of George W. Bush's 'Clear Skies' and 'Healthy Forests' initiatives has America been presented with a project as cravenly corporate and backward-looking as the Keystone XL pipeline.
presidential political campaigns
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
virginia america may
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.
dog texas iowa
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.
coal half fuel
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.
impact long dry
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.
nice frogs baths
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.