As countries meet in Poland from all over the world this week to discuss measures to mitigate the effects of climate change, US delegates showed up ready to discuss the role of coal and fossil fuels in the world’s energy mix, including the rising star of the energy world—natural gas. As one might imagine, such talk was met with staunch criticism from the forum’s nearly 200 attendees. “It is important to the overall climate discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic,” Wells Griffith, special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, said at the forum, as cited by Time , adding that “energy innovation and fossil fuels will continue to play a leading role.” When former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that the US still had a major role to play as a global leader of climate change issues, we doubt that’s what he had in […]