Jeff Goodell

It's like a habitable climate is a luxury Dems have decided they can't afford.

Iran War Live Updates: Trump ‘Actively Considering’ U.S. Role in Iran After Conflict Ends The U.S. sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean with a torpedo from a submarine. Follow along for live updates, news and analysis as the conflict in the Middle East unfolds.

Not only is there no Plan B, there is no Plan A.

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A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Just sayin.

This level of primary turnout for Democrats in Texas yesterday is super heartening--both Talarico and Crockett turned out substantially more voters than any R candidate.

Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? To understand the Trump administration’s military targets, take a closer look at the petrostate pattern.

Iran. Venezuela. Iraq.

Oil leads to bad governance and greed, which leads to friction with the United States, which makes military conflict more likely.

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U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles

For US automakers, Trump's election in 2024 may have been an extinction-level event.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

Big primary today in Texas. Also a big reminder of why we have Trump as president. In my blue district in Austin, out of 632,000 registered voters, only 16.8% bothered to vote in 2024.

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold.
#climatechange

The public and commentators need to stop thinking about "wars for oil" as about securing oil for the U.S., it's been decades since that was a motivator. "Wars for oil" are instead about securing oil for oil companies, securing a fossil fueled global economy, and denying oil's wealth to "enemies."

Iran Thoughts I woke up this morning and my wife informed me that we were at war with Iran, and my response was “why?” That’s a bad sign.

"A decadent people elected a bunch of decadent congressmen and congresswomen and then layered a decadent, corrupt, and unserious game show host on top of all that, and now we reap the whirlwind."

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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Government documents reveal Big Bend border wall details as opposition grows U.S. Customs and Border Protection has in recent weeks sent letters to local property owners in the path of potential border wall building. The documents reveal new details on the plan, which has garn...

Insane potential desecration of a national treasure. www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

My writing partner, looking in through my office window this morning, checking to see how the new pages are coming along.

The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:

In Norway, wealth funds are confronting climate risks and dropping companies that don't manage them well.

In the US, financial giants like Blackrock and Vanguard are capitulating to RAGA intimidation to stay silent on climate risks.

If you have a 401K, Trumpers are stealing your future.

"We might need to reframe 'American exceptionalism.' Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind."

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

The number of birds in the US and Canada has fallen by 2.9 billion, or 29 percent, since 1970.

Forest-dwelling birds are doing OK. The big losses correlated with hot places: Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona.

Here's alt text for this image: **Alt text:** A two-panel comparison graphic. The top panel is titled "Tobacco companies trying to mislead the public" and shows a scanned excerpt from an internal tobacco industry document stating "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public" — a strategy of manufacturing public controversy despite internal acknowledgment that cigarettes are harmful. The bottom panel is titled "Climate Working Group emails" and shows a text excerpt stating "About all I can hope is that what we write will provide sufficient 'reasonable scientific doubt' regarding the science claims in the 2009 TSD, based upon almost 2 decades of new science, to call into question the original reasoning for the EPA Administrator's decision that CO2 presents a threat to human health and welfare." The juxtaposition draws a parallel between tobacco industry disinformation tactics and the climate denial strategy reflected in the DOE Climate Working Group communications.

spot the difference

A Supreme Court Shield for Big Oil Would Come at Your Expense When we talk about someone wanting to both eat their cake and still have it, we’re using a logical impossibility to highlight the cake-haver’s delusional mental state. When it comes to the fossil-fuel...

We're heading for a world where the Supreme Court decrees fossil fuels can't be regulated, but they can't be sued either. That would leave you paying every cent of the tab for climate damages

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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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.

Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)

The State of the Climate.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

Plastic Inc. by Beth Gardiner: 9780593717103 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An extraordinary exposé of the industry flooding our world with plastic—and now ramping up to make more than ever “Deeply researched, sharply written, and totally compelling.”...

I'm thrilled to say Plastic Inc is out today, shifting the lens on plastic from where it ends up to where it comes from — the fossil fuel industry. "Deeply researched, sharply written & totally compelling," says @elizkolbert.bsky.social "Breath-taking & revelatory"—
@christopherleonard.bsky.social

Congrats on book pub! Gonna buy a copy today.

The Future of Cooling Was Invented Thousands of Years Ago | Atmos As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies.

As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies—windcatchers, clay walls, and shaded courtyards—that kept cities habitable long before air-conditioning.

Read about the past and future of cooling our buildings by Yasmin Alrabiei below:

Big Oil’s Not-So-Secret Weapon For World Domination? Plastic. | Atmos Plastic Inc. author Beth Gardiner on how plastics became central to fossil-fuel profits—and how new laws could cut the flow at the source.

"The push for plastic reflects both the [oil] industry’s modus operandi—more production means more money—and 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 fore­cast to raise food prices in Europe Winter ‘pantry’ depleted as rains dev­ast­ate crops across Medi­ter­ranean coun­tries

#Fossilflation European food price edition