Ann Godoff snatched me off the streets as a young hack and turned me into a book writer. She was brilliant and she was tough and knew what mattered on the page.
26.02.2026 00:31 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | 2020 Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE
Ann Godoff snatched me off the streets as a young hack and turned me into a book writer. She was brilliant and she was tough and knew what mattered on the page.
26.02.2026 00:31 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)
12.11.2025 19:02 โ ๐ 678 ๐ 241 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 37The State of the Climate.
25.02.2026 14:08 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 3This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is โfeared.โ
24.02.2026 17:27 โ ๐ 5224 ๐ 994 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 48I'm thrilled to say Plastic Inc is out today, shifting the lens on plastic from where it ends up to where it comes from โ the fossil fuel industry. "Deeply researched, sharply written & totally compelling," says @elizkolbert.bsky.social "Breath-taking & revelatory"โ
@christopherleonard.bsky.social
Congrats on book pub! Gonna buy a copy today.
24.02.2026 17:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologiesโwindcatchers, clay walls, and shaded courtyardsโthat kept cities habitable long before air-conditioning.
Read about the past and future of cooling our buildings by Yasmin Alrabiei below:
"The push for plastic reflects both the [oil] industryโs modus operandiโmore production means more moneyโand a growing anxiety about a future in which demand for fossil fuels as fuel may flatten and eventually decline."
Plastic is the future of oil. Read
@bethgardiner.bsky.social PLASTIC INC.
Deluge foreยญcast to raise food prices in Europe Winter โpantryโ depleted as rains devยญastยญate crops across Mediยญterยญranean counยญtries
#Fossilflation European food price edition
24.02.2026 12:21 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1โNow is a great time for the V-8 engine" the car guys chanted, high on the smell of gasoline, as they dug their graves in an abandoned car dealership outside of Detroit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
24.02.2026 13:11 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1RFK Jr spent years denouncing mercury pollution from power plants. He was one of Trump's most public opponents when he tried to roll back mercury limits in 2017. He himself actually got mercury poisoning (eating too much fish). On Friday, Trump's EPA weakened mercury rules. RFK Jr said nothing.
22.02.2026 16:14 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 3"Here's a very simple rule of thumb: If you're going to institute a policy that's going to upend your own economy, the global economy, foreign relations and change our position in the world... It's probably best to check that it's constitutional first. "
22.02.2026 12:52 โ ๐ 2194 ๐ 720 ๐ฌ 74 ๐ 39Huge respect for George Saunders' new novel VIGIL, not because it's flawless, but because he found a way to write a bestselling novel about a Big Oil CEO who is tormented on his deathbed by ghosts for his climate crimes.
21.02.2026 23:53 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The National Science Foundationโs entire budget is $10 billion.
21.02.2026 18:02 โ ๐ 934 ๐ 377 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 9โThis door knock marks a significant escalation,โ said Ronald L. Kuby, the manโs lawyer, who represents several climate activists.
โThe fact that they went to the wrong address of a member who has not been active suggests that they are starting an investigation. They are digging.โ
Some excellent writing right here about lakes and mussels and humans who are learning that there are better ways to protect yourself from big waves than building a fortress of rocks along the beach.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...
The better the science gets, the more dangerous the endangerment becomes.
19.02.2026 19:10 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ฅ from lawyer suing Big Oil for climate harm in Oregon: "As I see it, our house is on fire and our fire chief has turned off the water main, replaced the water in the tanker truck with gasoline, and retreated to a golf course to play a few rounds with the billionaire arsonists."
19.02.2026 18:46 โ ๐ 53 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2"If you donโt have a stick, you can never make the carrot big enough."
I once traveled across China on a reporting trip with Ma Jun. Great guy, deeply thoughtful about the forces at work in China's complicated moves to clean energy and climate leadership.
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
19.02.2026 11:16 โ ๐ 10338 ๐ 2286 ๐ฌ 153 ๐ 68It is so funny that the Trumpies tried to pull together a passably credible group of denialist climate scientists & the whole affair was such a clown show that they had to just cut bait & abandon it entirely.
18.02.2026 21:09 โ ๐ 224 ๐ 78 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 2It's not gonna work. I saw my first BYD EV in Austin yesterday. The revolution is here and Detroit is in big trouble.
18.02.2026 18:31 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A rapidly warming climate is catastrophic for Colorado ski resorts. They love to tout their own actions to reduce emissions. But meaningful political activism? They don't even have the courage to answer @denverpost.com reporter Elise Schmelzer's questions about it.
www.denverpost.com/2026/02/15/c...
Hoping Lee Zeldin can persuade the FCC to ban @drkatemarvel.bsky.social or @katharinehayhoe.com
17.02.2026 23:39 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โ.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbertโs December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..โ
@forbes.com #TXsen
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...
Quick reminder that 3 ยฐC of warming would set Europe up for heat domes that kill 30,000 people in a single week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
17.02.2026 18:52 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1"Big new global temperature records will remind the world the peril weโre actually in"
17.02.2026 13:53 โ ๐ 27 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"The first question to Shell chief executive Wael Sawan on the results call captured the mood: 'How can you counter the market concerns that the business is simply shrinking?'โ www.ft.com/content/f0a9...
17.02.2026 13:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Not coincidentally, early voting in Texas starts today.
17.02.2026 12:28 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The shameless idiocy of Lee Zeldin really is something to behold: "We're having a conversation right now, emitting a lot of carbon dioxide at each other. Should I go back to my building right now and start regulating media questions?" (8:45) www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyX...
16.02.2026 13:00 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 4