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Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.
Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.
When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.
Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.
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.
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
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.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.
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.
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.
Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.
This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ever seen.
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.
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.
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.
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease.
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.'
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.
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.
The floods and fires and storms and droughts that Australia has suffered in the last few years have left no doubt in many Australians' minds about just how much is a stake in a super-heated world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid.