Jeff Goodell

“Acceleration of sea level rise beyond historical average rate is…one of the most worrisome facts about man-made climate change, so of course it’s a truth that fossil-fuel pushers don’t want you to you believe. The U.S. government and Dept of Energy now fit into that category: fossil-fuel pushers.”

This is the company that sued Greenpeace and won a $667 million judgment.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel in part for asking: Why did India avoid the mass famines that killed tens of millions in China? His answer: a free press. Journalists could expose suffering and shame governments into action. Silence and avoidance, by contrast, can be deadly.

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

Why you can be confident that climate change made the Texas floods worse the importance of testing the right hypothesis

Another great essay to share with your climate denier friends. It won't convince them, but really strong and fact-based arguments annoy the heck out of them, so there's that.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/why-you-ca...

Generous words, Matt. Thanks.

*ask ask* i’m shy and sometimes i stutter when i type.

People who read my heat book often ask ask me: how hot can heat waves get?

It’s a complex question. But this new paper suggests models may be underestimating future temperature extremes by as much as 5 C.

That’s a lot.

Let them eat cake.

A punnet that has only a single cherry in it.

Breaking: US shortage of cherries since so many were picked for the DOE ‘critical’ review of climate science.

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

“You don’t just ‘visit’ Tesla here. You dwell in it.”

Happy 25th anniversary, @newamerica.org. So much bold and brave work has been done in these 25 years. Proud to have been a part of it.

Congrats, Helen. You are so good at this, and I'm sure the lectures will be terrific. And, in our world, much needed!

“This is how energy policy should work: encourage the use of cheap renewables whenever possible, use load flexibility, demand response, and storage regularly to shape load, and burn “incremental gas” when needed. That keeps costs low and reliability high.”

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

"The [DOE] report they produced should be thought of as a law brief from attorneys defending their client, carbon dioxide." 🔥

We live in a backwards, upside down world now.

“Wild,” as in laughable, pathetic, dangerous and wrong.

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

Revoking the endangerment finding on same day when 150 million Americans are endangered by extreme heat and all the bodies of people lost in the Texas floods have not yet been recovered may not have been a deliberate political strategy. Or maybe it was.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Journey to Antarctica

PS I sailed to West Antarctica on the Nathaniel Palmer in 2019. And like anyone who has taken a dangerous journey on a ship, I have very fond feelings for her.

You can read my dispatches here:

www.rollingstone.com/t/journey-to...

Antarctica is a wild world of ice, one of the last unexplored regions of the Earth, a place with huge climate and national security implications. Now, by ditching America's only research icebreaker, we're going to deliberately make ourselves stupid about it.

Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.

I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com.

"The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."

Today, half the people in America will have good reason to think about the climate crisis and the hot, turbulent world we are creating for ourselves. As a climate scientist once said to me, "If CO2 stained the air purple, people would see the sky darkening and they would understand."

He is really a brilliant comic.

A newspaper wrecked on purpose.

Fear of ICE raids is making heat intolerable for Southern California families Fear from ongoing ICE operations has led immigrant workers and families in Southern California to face worsening extreme heat conditions at their workplaces and homes.

"In the Inland Empire, where summer temperatures climb into the triple digits, many families are now making impossible choices: Do they turn on the air conditioning or buy groceries? Do they stay inside and risk heat exhaustion, or go outside and risk being taken?"

www.latimes.com/environment/...

This is one of the biggest & most intense heat domes I remember in recent years in the SE/ Midwest. By early week it expands such that everyone in pink has a heat index of 100+, with a few spots peaking near 120. About 350 heat records (day and night) in jeopardy thru next week.
#heatwave #heatdome

The Fight for Climate Justice at the World Court Vanuatu, a South Pacific island nation on the frontlines of the climate crisis, is fighting for climate justice at the world’s highest court.

Writer, activist and lawyer Julian Aguon wrote a beautiful and moving account of the fight for climate justice at the ICJ for @rollingstone.com

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

First Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast - Eos By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise.

The first global comparison of glacier mass change reveals a global loss of 273 billion tonnes per year, an amount equivalent to what the entire human population on Earth drinks in 30 years. 🧪