Jeff Goodell

A postcard from a lost world.

Astonishing! During this morning's king tide, Miami crossed the threshold for "Major" flooding without a hurricane for the first time. This was the city's highest water level in 11 years, and 3rd-highest since 1994. Yellow highlights: 8 of 14 top spots are from king tides during the past 2 years.

“Traditional art museums are steadily adding science-related exhibitions ... The shows are part of an effort to demystify science, as issues such as climate change, technology, medical advances and artificial intelligence are mired in controversy and misinformation.”

“The question that arises from the book is whether Cole has done enough to warrant a major congressional investigation into his allegations. The answer is an emphatic yes.” This is what journalists dream of. Just a spectacular review. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

More fossil fuels, less science. Wonder what happens next.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Sunny day flooding in San Francisco amid the city’s highest October tide on record.

Great reporting at the crossroads of fossil fuels and political corruption. Words by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu, photos by @lynseyaddario.bsky.social

Electric motors are so much more efficient that internal combustion engines that even on fossil fuel power they still cut emissions substantially. Run them on 100% renewable power & the impact is even greater. Switching to renewables saves money, improves health, environment & climate. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋

One person does not want you to see this movie. But everyone else does.

Of the year (tho that may change on Nov. 3)

“The pacing of ice ages over the last 2.5 million years has been one of the most consistent cycles in the Earth system that we have....We have evidence now that humans, and specifically greenhouse gases, have actually terminated one of the most consistent cycles on Earth.”

One: We will fail on climate if pollute-for-free persists as fossil fuel’s business model. Offloading trillions in harm to humankind has always been wrong, morally and economically. It’s now lethal to any prospect of climate safety. It must end.

Jon Ossoff could make a Senate hearing on agricultural subsidies feel like the season finale of The West Wing.

“Vipond is now a 20-year-old university student studying environmental science at the University of British Columbia. Next week, she will be sitting inside a courtroom in Vancouver telling her story of how extreme weather and climate change have affected her health and quality of life.” #prouddad

Trump’s America: A pay to play kleptocracy where polluters can be princes.

Our ability to attribute climate change to human activities. 🫠

Of the 50,000 heat deaths in Europe in the summer of 2026, 32,000 were killed by fossil fuels. Meanwhile, $65 billion in windfall profits for five biggest oil and gas companies in second quarter of 2026. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/g...

The Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

are you trying to get blue mississippi because this is probably the only way to do it

So, an Atlantic writer says 2 months ago that reading is dead and a New Yorker writer now argues the opposite. How to decide which is more likely to be true? If I had to investigate, the 1st person I'd call would be Robert Darnton, a historian who has spent ~50 yrs researching books, publishing...

"Heat waves have evolved from sporadic, isolated episodes to massive, cascading weather events that can blanket vast swaths of the planet for months or even years at a time."

This is how the fossil fuel industry says thank you to Americans who vote for climate deniers.

My latest @coveringclimatenow.org column: "The Trump Scandal That Everyone Overlooked" newrepublic.com/article/2166... via @newrepublic.com

81% of the 2400 stocks in the MSCI's global stock index are already suffering losses due to extreme heat, costing $3.9 trillion every year. There are no safe havens from climate change, not even in a stock portfolio Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If you want to learn more abt heat's tremendous impacts on life, @jeffgoodell.bsky.social 's excellent and insightful book, "The Heat Will Kill You First" is well worth a read.

One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.

Never been a clearer grift www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... bsky.app/profile/atru...

Exxon scientist says the company knew its algae biofuel ads were BS, from @emorwee.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Important paper, important idea. Every ton of CO2 we dump into the sky moves us farther away from the stable world that you and me and all our human ancestors grew up in. We are on a ton-by-ton march toward chaos and loss.

Learned about marine ice cliff instability from the great ice scientist Richard Alley while I was writing "The Doomsday Glacier." It's what puts the "doom" in "doomsday." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The new axis of evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Mexicans were lucky, hurricane Polo hit a sparsely populated region - but already today the impact of climate change is larger than that of El Niño on hurricanes like this. El Niño will pass, climate change will get worse @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/effect-of-cl...

"'Digger' is such an accurate portrayal of the necessity of bad art that it’s very easy to mistake it for bad art." 👍 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/o...

Good piece on the limits of recovery after climate disasters, the emotional and social losses that rarely can be made whole even when homes are rebuilt. Much worse is coming as brittleness drains the resources vulnerable places need to prepare for the next times. www.forbes.com/sites/monica...

“The simple truth is, the climate accountability genie is out of the bottle, and the Supreme Court is unlikely to jam it back in.” Such a smart, stirring essay by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social — I can hardly wait to read his book on attribution science. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...

New paper out today shows that ICE and National Guard presence in DC led to a pretty sizable drop in pediatric ER visits among Spanish-speaking and Hispanic patients. If sick kids can't go to the emergency room, immigration justice has to be a public health issue. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Counting the days until the insurance industry makes the inevitable turn and sues Big Oil for selling a product that amplifies extreme weather and causes rates to skyrocket. Insurers do it all the time in other cases. They will do it here eventually. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/u...

Anyone who thinks we're going to "adapt" to climate change need to read this piece by @johnvaillant.bsky.social

".....the SEC has identified all the ways investors try to press companies to manage climate risk and is working to shut down each path, from limiting their ability to file shareholder resolutions to making it harder for investors to meet with companies."

"The age of accountability for the fossil fuel industry has just begun and has a bright future," Jeff Goodell writes. "The reason for that is the emergence of a powerful field of climate science known as attribution science." nyti.ms/4jcT2XS

Check out the music video we put together from clips from "Musk," to celebrate DAvid Byrne's song, "Let Me Sell You a Dream," written by David and Daniel Pemberton. theplaylist.net/musk-david-b...

Terrific piece, but it just skims the surface of what's going on at @utaustin.bsky.social, where a great public university is being dismantled with astonishing speed.

If only Claude had told us sooner that ice melts in a hotter world, I'm sure we would have taken action to avoid this.

Another lawsuit filed against Big Oil for climate damages, this time by Brazil's national prosecutor: "The costs of climate damage should not fall solely on society and on those who lost everything in the tragedy." www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...

“It’s 99 percent of us against like 15 billionaire dudes and the weak leadership that allows them to get away with whatever they want.” A pretty good description of how things work in Texas right now by @ginafortexas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...