Jeff Goodell
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
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
· Oct 3
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
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A postcard from a lost world.
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Excellent breakdown of Joe Rogan's climate denial tactics, from @dananuccitelli.bsky.social: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Excellent breakdown of Joe Rogan's climate denial tactics, from @dananuccitelli.bsky.social: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/five...
If anyone can tell the story of Luigi, and what he says about our world, it's @jhr54.bsky.social. Perfect match of subject and writer. Can't wait to read this book.
Richardson says if Kaczynski were still alive, he would have asked him: “Did you see the news about Luigi? What do you think? Is he the one you’ve been waiting for?”
In his new book Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, John H. Richardson shares his correspondence with Ted Kaczynski.
Interview ↓
In his new book Luigi: The Making and the Meaning, John H. Richardson shares his correspondence with Ted Kaczynski.
Interview ↓
What Would the Unabomber Think of Luigi Mangione?
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November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If anyone can tell the story of Luigi, and what he says about our world, it's @jhr54.bsky.social. Perfect match of subject and writer. Can't wait to read this book.
“Right now, we live in a world where it’s possible to make a profit from digging up fossil fuels and burning them. That is absurd, and the ICJ told us that the international legal system cannot continue to make that possible."
Wealthy polluting states want Cop30 to be business as usual… read my explainer on the landmark ICJ climate ruling on why this would be a violation of international law
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Right now, we live in a world where it’s possible to make a profit from digging up fossil fuels and burning them. That is absurd, and the ICJ told us that the international legal system cannot continue to make that possible."
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James Watson was such a big, divisive figure that no single obituary I've read yet really captures him. The Cold Springs Harbor obit does a fine job on his very real, very important scientific accomplishments but seriously slights the weird, awful turn his life took in his last ~20 yrs...
In remembrance of Dr. James D. Watson | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jim Watson made many contributions to science, education, public service, and especially Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). As a scientist, his and Francis Crick’s determination of the structure of...
cshl.edu
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
James Watson was such a big, divisive figure that no single obituary I've read yet really captures him. The Cold Springs Harbor obit does a fine job on his very real, very important scientific accomplishments but seriously slights the weird, awful turn his life took in his last ~20 yrs...
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New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
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He's literally trying to starve people to gain political leverage
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
He's literally trying to starve people to gain political leverage
“How do you do that to people?” one homeowner asked. “How do you insure people in the South, take all of these premiums, and then just belly-up?”
Great reporting on insurance industry woes and trickery from @zteirstein.bsky.social
| grist.org/economics/in...
Great reporting on insurance industry woes and trickery from @zteirstein.bsky.social
| grist.org/economics/in...
They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn't.
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
grist.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“How do you do that to people?” one homeowner asked. “How do you insure people in the South, take all of these premiums, and then just belly-up?”
Great reporting on insurance industry woes and trickery from @zteirstein.bsky.social
| grist.org/economics/in...
Great reporting on insurance industry woes and trickery from @zteirstein.bsky.social
| grist.org/economics/in...
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This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
At the Fox Patriot Awards tonight, Hegseth tells a story about how Trump makes Truth Social posts after bombings.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
Latest twist in Tesla shareholders' plot to destroy Tesla.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Latest twist in Tesla shareholders' plot to destroy Tesla.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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And the US is going to miss out
We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
And the US is going to miss out
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If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
How Texas turns blue (or at least purple) www.newsweek.com/election-res...
Election results show "Latinos abandoning GOP"—Republican strategist
Mike Madrid said the Virginia gubernatorial election results indicated that Latino voters are moving away from the Republican Party.
www.newsweek.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
How Texas turns blue (or at least purple) www.newsweek.com/election-res...
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It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
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I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish
Big if true.
Last night's biggest loser may be Greg Abbott. Seeing Latino voters in NJ swinging left by huge margins — plus a Democrat taking the lead for a Texas state senate seat in Fort Worth that Trump won by +18 — you have to imagine Abbott is waking up to the nightmare that his new map may be a dummymander
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Big if true.
“This is astonishing; the rate of retreat is just crazy,” said Ted Scambos, a study author and senior research scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...
Antarctic glacier saw the fastest retreat in modern history; it could spell trouble for sea levels, report finds | CNN
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level r...
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“This is astonishing; the rate of retreat is just crazy,” said Ted Scambos, a study author and senior research scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Dick Cheney got George W. Bush to break his promise to regulate carbon emissions, and began turning climate into a strictly partisan issue. He was always loyal to fossil fuels and that’s a huge part of his legacy.
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Dick Cheney got George W. Bush to break his promise to regulate carbon emissions, and began turning climate into a strictly partisan issue. He was always loyal to fossil fuels and that’s a huge part of his legacy.
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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According to this (extremely informed) projection, Zohran Mamdani will win more votes than any mayoral candidate in New York since 1969.
NEW: I predicted the results of the New York City mayoral election BLOCK by BLOCK.
🚨Spoiler Alert🚨 Zohran Mamdani is going to win
2,000,000+ Votes, 120,000+ Blocks, 350 Neighborhoods, 5 Boroughs, 3 Candidates
ONLY 1 PREDICTION:
www.michaellange.nyc/p/predicting...
🚨Spoiler Alert🚨 Zohran Mamdani is going to win
2,000,000+ Votes, 120,000+ Blocks, 350 Neighborhoods, 5 Boroughs, 3 Candidates
ONLY 1 PREDICTION:
www.michaellange.nyc/p/predicting...
Predicting Every Block of the 2025 NYC Mayoral Election
Spoiler Alert: Zohran Mamdani is going to win
www.michaellange.nyc
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
According to this (extremely informed) projection, Zohran Mamdani will win more votes than any mayoral candidate in New York since 1969.
Ice is nature’s most exquisite thermometer.
November 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Ice is nature’s most exquisite thermometer.
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Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.
Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!
Sorta seems like a problem.
Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!
Sorta seems like a problem.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.
Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!
Sorta seems like a problem.
Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!
Sorta seems like a problem.
Looking forward to this climate rodeo at the Texas Book Festival in Austin on Sunday, Nov. 9. Join us!
AUSTIN! On Sunday I’ll be at the Texas Book Festival in the C-SPAN tent, talking about the eating of the earth with the great climate authors @jeffgoodell.bsky.social and Alan Weisman. Here’s the link: texasbookfestival.org/schedule/see...
texasbookfestival.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Looking forward to this climate rodeo at the Texas Book Festival in Austin on Sunday, Nov. 9. Join us!