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Jeff Goodell
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
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Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | 2020 Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 13d
A postcard from a lost world.
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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 13d
10 years ago @jeffgoodell.bsky.social talked to President Obama about the climate crisis for a Rolling Stone cover. So much has changed but the threat remains and we simply haven't done enough.
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Obama's Climate Crusade
YouTube video by Rolling Stone
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 13h
It's hard to imagine that there's a bigger story than America's fall towards fascism, a brewing Third World War, or the economy on the brink of a massive global recession...

but there is.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 16h
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until the Trump effect kicks in in 2025 and beyond.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 16h
How Trump's tariffs will help destroy (what's left of) Brazil's Cerrado, from @sominisengupta.bsky.social
Trump’s Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for a Vast Wilderness in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 16h
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait until the Trump effect kicks in in 2025 and beyond.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
www.theguardian.com
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d
it’s sad that more people don’t find using chatgpt to write completely unsatisfying
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Doug Lewin @douglewin.bsky.social · 1d
Electricity costs are increasing nationwide, but the idea that clean energy drives up prices? The data clearly doesn't support those claims. States that added renewables fastest generally have lower electricity costs.
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 1d
Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
www.nytimes.com
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d
"Disasters in remote Alaska are not like disasters anywhere in the lower 48 states....While East Coast homeowners recovering from a nor’easter can run to Home Depot for supplies or drive to a hotel if their home floods, none of that exists in remote Native villages."
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve got a short piece up in The Conversation on the catastrophic flooding in Southwest Alaska from ex-typhoon Halong and the challenges of recovery work. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Alaska #AlaskaSky

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Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
theconversation.com
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 2d
Great to meet you at George Mason, Packy. And thanks for coming out to my talk.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 2d
“We’ve developed technology that enables flood to be an investible asset."

www.wsj.com/finance/the-...
The Former Banker Betting on Unprofitable Business of Flood Insurance
Trevor Burgess sees profits where many don’t: insuring homes against flood damage.
www.wsj.com
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 5d
Is this one of those conservative ideas we aren’t supposed to be belittling?
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d
The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 5d
When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth.
www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...
‘Do You Want a Player to Die?’ Tennis Feels the Heat Over Extreme Conditions
Sweltering temperatures in China have pushed the sport’s stars to the limit, leaving them cramping, throwing up on court and sweating through four pairs of sneakers
www.wsj.com
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 6d
The majority of heat related deaths in European cities this summer were caused by climate change. These figures should terrify us.

This shows us that heat plans not enough – we need strong EU climate targets to cut the emissions causing this dangerous heat.

www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 6d
👇 Great journalism does not just flow down from a golden bowl in the sky. It takes sweat, time, skill, courage and a paycheck. Subscribe and donate!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d
It seems there are two main reasons things haven’t gone completely to shit in the US: 1. Lawyers and the courts; 2. Journalists and the media. Most of us can’t do anything about the first, but we can support journalism. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe to news & donate to public media.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 8d
A tale of two energy systems: “For coal, oil and gas, it’s white glove service. For renewables and storage, it’s freezes, delays and cancellations.”
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 7d
Every so often you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to change minds.

This chart from @hausfath.bsky.social is one of those, directly refuting at least 2 standard climate-denier talking points we've heard from Trump recently

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
A Chart Climate Denialists Can’t Ignore
Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.
www.bloomberg.com
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8d
My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.
Twee fruit
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 8d
Folding bikes are the Swiss Army Knife of mobility.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d
i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 8d
“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 8d
I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 8d
The law, like science, depends on a shared reality. But we have a president who invents his own reality.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8d
The federal government does and should have the authority to deploy troops into our cities—even without local consent—*when the circumstances actually warrant it.*

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com, me on why the real issue in Portland, Chicago, and elsewhere is the missing / contrived factual predicate:
Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
www.nytimes.com
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 9d
Yea that too.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 9d
This is why Trump is at war with California.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9d
Solar generated 39% of California's electricity from January-July 2025, up from 33% in 2024. Fossil fuels plunged to just 26% of CA's power in Jan-July 2025, down 40% in July 2025, compared to July 2024. Wow! Batteries tripled to 14,000 MW since 2022!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10d
If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.
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