Every new power plant: zero-carbon starting in 2018
Alexander Pfeiffer, Richard Millar, Cameron Hepburn, and Eric Beinhocker, “The ‘2°C Capital Stock’ for Electricity Generation: Committed Cumulative Carbon Emissions from the Electricity Generation Sector and the Transition to a Green Economy,” Applied Energy, October 1, 2016, http://www.sciencedirect.com/?science/?article/?pii/?S0306261916302495.
Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long…”
Martin Luther King Jr., baccalaureate Sermon delivered at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, June 7, 1964.
Lewis V. Baldwin, Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King Jr. (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016).
Not Just Another Election Cycle—Epic Bad Timing
Greenpeace: Clinton’s campaign received at least $1.7 million from employees and registered lobbyists of fossil fuel companies
Jesse Coleman, Greenpeace, personal correspondence with author or her research assistants, May 9, 2017.
Robery Farley, “Clinton’s Fossil Fuel Money Revisited,” Factcheck.org, April 7, 2016, http://www.factcheck.org/?2016/?04/?clintons-fossil-fuel-money-revisited/.
Clinton: people should “do their own research”
Perry Wheeler, “Fact Checkers Miss the Point on Greenpeace Research into Clinton Fossil Fuel Money,” Greenpeace website, http://www.greenpeace.org/?usa/?news/?fact-checkers-miss-the-point-on-greenpeace-research-into-clinton-fossil-fuel-money/.
Eva Resnick-Day: “and that is why we are so terrified for the future…”
Eva Resnick-Day, “I’m the Greenpeace Activist Who Asked Hillary Clinton to Pledge to Reject Fossil Fuel Contributions at the Purchase NY Campaign Rally,” Greenpeace website, March 31, 2017, http://www.greenpeace.org/?usa/?im-the-greenpeace-activist-who-asked-hillary-clinton-to-pledge-to-reject-fossil-fuel-contributions-at-the-purchase-ny-campaign-rally/.
Warmed the planet by just one degree Celsius
Met Office (UK), “Global Climate in Context as the World Approaches 1°C Above Pre-industrial for the First Time,” Met Office website, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/?research/?news/?2015/?global-average-temperature-2015.
“World Energy Outlook,” International Energy Agency, accessed May 3, 2017, https://www.iea.org/?publications/?scenariosandprojections/.
Kevin Anderson: “incompatible with any reasonable characterization…”
Kevin Anderson, “Climate Change Going Beyond Dangerous– Brutal Numbers and Tenuous Hope,” Development Dialogue 61 (September 2012), http://www.whatnext.org/?resources/?Publications/?Volume-III/?Single-articles/?wnv3_andersson_144.pdf.
Paris Agreement: “well below” 2 degrees
“Paris Agreement: Essential Elements,” United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, accessed April 20, 2017, http://unfccc.int/?paris_agreement/?items/?9485.php.
September 2016 study from Oil Change International
Oil Change International, The Sky’s Limit (Washington, DC: Oil Change International, September 2016), http://priceofoil.org/?content/?uploads/?2016/?09/?OCI_the_skys_limit_2016_FINAL_2.pdf.
A Very Oily Administration
Scott Pruitt: sued the EPA; received money from fossil fuel companies
Dominique Mosbergen, “Scott Pruitt Has Sued the Environmental Protection Agency 13 Times. Now He Wants to Lead It,” Huffington Post, January 17, 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/?entry/?scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency_us_5878ad15e4b0b3c7a7b0c29c.
Rick Perry ties to the oil industry
Associated Press, “Rick Perry Is a Board Member of the Company Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline,” Fortune, December 13, 2016, http://fortune.com/?2016/?12/?14/?rick-perry-donaldtrump-energy-dakota-pipeline/.
Richard Perry Financial Disclosure form, 2017, accessed from https://www.bloomberg.com/?graphics/?2016-trump-cabinet/?data/?pdfs/?Perry-James-Richard-final278.pdf.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
“The carbon bubble”
Paul Rosenberg, “Donald Trump’s ‘Carbon Bubble’ Economy Is Bound to Pop—the Only Question Is How Bad It Will Be,” Salon, January 2, 2017, http://www.salon.com/?2017/?01/?02/?donaldtrumps-carbon-bubble-economy-is-bound-to-pop-the-only-question-is-how-bad-it-will-be/.
White House website removes references to climate change
Tom DiChristopher, “The White House Website’s Page on Climate Change Just Disappeared,” CNBC.com, January 21, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/?2017/?01/?20/?the-white-house-websites-page-on-climate-change-just-disappeared.html.
Plans to cut the NASA satellite program
Amina Khan, “Trump’s Budget Plan for NASA Focuses on Studying Space, Not Climate Change,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/?science/?sciencenow/?la-sci-sn-trump-budget-nasa-20170316-story.html.
Mick Mulvaney: “Regarding the question as to climate change…”
Dan Merica and Rene Marsh, “Trump Budget Chief on Climate: ‘Waste of Your Money,’?” CNN.com, March 16, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/?2017/?03/?16/?politics/?donaldtrump-budget-cut-epa/?index.html.
Trump plan to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by over 30 percent
Office of Management and Budget, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” released March 16, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/?sites/?whitehouse.gov/?files/?omb/?budget/?fy2018/?2018_blueprint.pdf.
Price Is Everything
ExxonMobil: one-third of the company’s reserves were located in the Alberta tar sands
Securities and Exchange Commission, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Annual Report, 2015, 5, https://www.sec.gov/?Archives/?edgar/?data/?34088/?000003408816000065/?xom10k2015.htm.
Oil prices crash in 2014…and price has hovered at around $55 a barrel since
Brent Crude Prices, 2013–2017, Bloomberg.com, accessed April 13, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/?quote/?CO1:COM.
170,000 oil and gas workers have lost their jobs
Matt Egan, “100,000 Oil Jobs Could Be Coming Back,” CNN.com, July 14, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/?2016/?07/?14/?news/?economy/?oil-jobs-worker-shortage/.
Investment in the Alberta tar sands dropped by an estimated 37 percent
Government of Alberta, “Capital Investment in Alberta to Decline Again in 2016,” government report, July 8, 2016, https://www.albertacanada.com/?files/?albertacanada/?SP-Commentary_07-08-16.pdf.
ExxonMobil wrote off nearly 3.5 million barrels of tar sands oil
Geoffrey Smith, “Exxon’s Big Oil Sands Write-Off Could Help It Dodge SEC Troubles,” Fortune, February 23, 2017, http://fortune.com/?2017/?02/?23/?exxonmobil-oil-sands-sec/.
ExxonMobil profits: $45 billion in 2012, $8 billion in 2016
Chris Isidore, “ExxonMobil Profit Just Short of Record,” CNN.com, February 1, 2013, http://money.cnn.com/?2013/?02/?01/?news/?companies/?exxonmobil-profit/?index.html.
ExxonMobil Corporation, “ExxonMobil Earns $7.8 Billion in 2016; $1.7 Billion During Fourth Quarter,” press release, January 31, 2017, http://news.exxonmobil.com/?pressrelease/?exxonmobil-earns-78-billion-2016-17-billion-during-fourth-quarter.