Jeff Goodell
  • In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

  • Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  • Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

  • Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

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