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Jeff Goodell

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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 · 5d

A postcard from a lost world.

Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 5d

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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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 1h

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 · 13h

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23h

Folding bikes are the Swiss Army Knife of mobility.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

The law, like science, depends on a shared reality. But we have a president who invents his own reality.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Yea that too.

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

This is why Trump is at war with California.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent strategy, because here's what's coming soon on campuses that cave to Trump: you want federal money? Then shut up about climate change and sing the gospel of fossil fuels.

Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social · 1d

"One key focus will be campus organizing to urge schools to resist Trump’s attempts to control their curricula and rules around political dissent, the letter from Shiney-Ajay says." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

"We focus a lot on global average temperatures, but this masks the real local impacts that climate change is having. The land – where all of us live – is warming about 40% faster than the global average, and high latitude regions are warming even faster." www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-th...

Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records

Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding

www.theclimatebrink.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 1d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 1d

“Bivalve records are really amazing. They are like the tree rings of the sea. They offer a continuous, annually resolved record of ocean conditions.”
New study finds #AMOC destabilization since 1950 "suggesting that the region is moving toward a tipping point."🌊
insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News

Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 2d

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'Get On to the Next Fight, Don't Give Up': P.T. Anderson and Leo DiCaprio on 'One Battle After Another'

The filmmaker and star open up about finally collaborating together, how not to burn out and fade away, why River Phoenix is the GOAT, and more.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

We're not debating facts.
We're negotiating power.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

I had some thoughts about Portland and the contest to define what's real under authoritarianism

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw One Battle After Another. None of the reviews I’ve read do it justice. Complicated, funny, timely & powerful in ways that defy simple description.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 2d

There is a massive overinterpretation of the 2024 election results in the media as being some huge pro-Trump swing. 2 out of 100 people net switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.

Just wait. There is going to be a big swing back to the Democrats in the upcoming elections and midterms...

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 3d

Plants understood what is going on before humans did.

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
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🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 3d

Lessons here for climate fight, too.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4d

But texting about sending the 82 Airborne into Portland in plain view of someone able to video the exchanges and capture enough evidence that the @startribune.com could verify isn’t all! There’s also this

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Samantha Maldonado @smaldo.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: A buyout program is coming for homeowners in The Hole, a NYC neighborhood unlike any other.

It’s the first time the city pursues this climate adaptation strategy proactively, instead of after a disaster, and with a focus on inland (not coastal) flooding.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/03/f...

They Live Below Sea Level in NYC. Now, the City Could Buy Out 'The Hole'

The low-lying neighborhood on the Brooklyn-Queens border will be the first place in New York where officials may buy properties proactively — instead of in response to a disaster.

www.thecity.nyc

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 5d

Sadly, tragically, I think UT is gonna be the first to cave. And will do so with pride and with gusto.

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 5d

Next step in this extortion racket: You want federal money, you sing sweet words about fossil fuels and you don't talk about climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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