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If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.
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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.
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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.
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The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.
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Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
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Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
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If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.
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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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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.
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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.
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