Max Boykoff

Fellow journalists, please join! We have a great group of experts. Excited to chat with @maxboykoff.bsky.social, @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social and @zacklabe.com.

Track current fires and smoke with @wwanews.bsky.social's new Intermountain West Current Wildfires and Smoke Forecast Map! wwa.colorado.edu/current-wild...

With climate cases moving through courts worldwide, @granthamlse.bsky.social has submitted evidence to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, outlining how justice systems can be strengthened to address the climate crisis and uphold human rights.

Daily Briefing: Oil ‘jumps’ | Europe’s ‘hottest June’ | China storms Read today's briefing here ➡️ buff.ly/rdIKMR7 Sign up to our email briefings ➡️ buff.ly/k84LIFK

🚨New research from @influencemap.bsky.social explores how the steel sector is shaping climate and energy policy. In many cases, industry associations are leading the push for incentives over regulation, slowing and softening climate policy. Read the full findings ⬇️ influencemap.org/briefing/How...

Gooool for TELEMUNDO who not only refuse to run ads during the mandatory hydration breaks, but also straight up just announced that hydration breaks are necessary because of dangerous heat caused by fossil fuel-driven climate change. Bravo Telemundo. #worldcup #futbol

Beautiful coverage of Colorado's newly legal plug-in solar, and the Third Actors who helped make it happen. @thirdactorg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJJN...

New CIRES-led research reveals two-thirds of US television news segments about climate change don’t mention policy at all. "When policy is largely missing from coverage, so too are the pathways people can imagine for addressing the problem.” 📖 Read the story: cires.colorado.edu/news/televis...

New CIRES-led research reveals two-thirds of US television news segments about climate change don’t mention policy at all. The work also shows that some news networks are polarized in their coverage. 📖 Read the story: cires.colorado.edu/news/televis...

CIRES' @maxboykoff.bsky.social discusses the drop-off in climate change media coverage, including the potential impact of climate fatigue, on the Living on Earth radio program www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

We can use some humor on Earth Day Eve" = no tickets, all welcomed until we're at capacity at @bouldertheater.bsky.social Read about it in my latest sustainability & environment column, co-authored with Beth Osnes in the @dailycamera.com (April 18 print edition) www.dailycamera.com/2026/04/18/b...

Special treat, got to see rehearsal this morning at the Boulder Theater for the @itgreenhouse.bsky.social @colorado.edu "Stand Up For Climate Comedy" event, organized by @maxboykoff.bsky.social & colleagues. If you're in the area, you must come out for this performance next Tuesday:

Thanks for joining us this morning! We're on our way for an exciting and energized show on Tuesday evening here in Boulder, CO!

Climate news stories across the globe have dropped nearly 40% since 2021, notes @maxboykoff.bsky.social, director of UC Boulder’s Media and Climate Change Observatory. www.loe.org/shows/segmen...

@itgreenhouse.bsky.social @maxboykoff.bsky.social

What if one of the most powerful climate solutions isn’t technology—but conversation? This week in Talking Climate, we're talking about hairdressers inspiring climate convos, war supercharging emissions, and more positive content creators to follow. Read on!

CIRES Fellow @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes that in 2025, media coverage of climate change went down by 14% -- and by 38% since 2021. Read the story in azcentral: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

"Plans to shutter NCAR are misguided... Execution of this action will threaten habitability, water and air quality, environmental and public health, as well as national security and prosperity." Read more from @maxboykoff.bsky.social ⬇️

Now is the time to join Max to #saveNCAR @agu.org has made it easy:

'Dear National Science Foundation" is my latest sustainability & environment column in the local Boulder Daily Camera (Feb 28 2026 print edition) with open-access gift link here www.dailycamera.com/2026/02/28/b... There is a letter-writing period now open until March 13, sent to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

"Journalists may be hesitant to connect the dots between ecological and meteorological events, like wildfires, and a changing climate due to the ongoing politicization of climate science." Read the Q&A with CIRES' @maxboykoff.bsky.social about climate change media coverage:

Creative advertising through outdoor media, including billboards and buses, can be a powerful and effective tool to increase awareness about climate change and inspire action, according to new work led by CIRES Fellow @maxboykoff.bsky.social 🚌 Read the paper: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

'Cowering from cooperation, pushing towards a pariah state': here's my latest sustainability & environment column in the local #Boulder @dailycamera.com (Jan 17 2026 print edition) with open-access link here www.dailycamera.com/2026/01/17/b...

Join us on Thursday, January 15th @ 9:30am MST while we chat with the International Polar Foundation about the sustainability initiatives and climate research happening at the Princess Elizabeth Antarctica!

we're hiring at the new Buckley Center for Sustainability Education @colorado.edu Curriculum & Sustainability Education Program Manager jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Student Support & Engagement Program Manager jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... apply by January 19, share w/ others interested!

'Our individualized climate mindset is stymieing our collective capabilities': here's my latest sustainability & environment column in the local #Boulder @dailycamera.com (Jan 3 2026 print edition) with open-access link here www.dailycamera.com/2026/01/03/b...

'Trump 2.0 ‘Makes America Dangerous (Again)’: Plans to shutter NCAR/UCAR and abandon CAFE standards are the latest mishaps in a Trump 2.0 tragedy..here's my latest sustainability & environment column in the local Boulder Daily Camera (Dec 20 2025) open-access here www.dailycamera.com/2025/12/20/b...

'Front Range First!' #Boulder area needs a localized carbon offset scheme to support low-income residents: heating/cooling, insulation, new housing..while we improve voluntary offsetting elsewhere. my latest sustainability & environment column in @dailycamera.com www.dailycamera.com/2025/11/29/b...

As we witness climate obstruction in real time at #COP30, this @cssn.org presser w/ @timmonsroberts.bsky.social, @daniellefalzon.bsky.social, @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Carlos Milani to discuss a new global assessment on climate obstruction is rather timely. Details: cssn.org/news-researc...

Technocratism dominates the COP30 approach to the climate crisis, with language and framing that can obscure other ways of knowing: "Emotional, experiential, aesthetic, or even just visceral ways of understanding that something’s not right," said @maxboykoff.bsky.social

You can find @aronczyk.bsky.social and @maxboykoff.bsky.social's chapter, "Steering the Climate Discourse" here: cssn.org/wp-content/u.... In it, they explore the themes of legitimizing climate denial, oil & gas working with legacy news agencies, and more.

In his Boulder Daily Camera Opinion column, @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes the similarities between Hurricane Melissa in 2025 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. "27 years separate them, yet climate connections persist." Paywall: buff.ly/5JUr8pl #hurricanemelissa

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

An important conversation. Thanks @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @aronczyk.bsky.social larger book project led by @timmonsroberts.bsky.social (Brown University), Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami), Carlos Milani (Rio de Janeiro State University) & Christian Downie (Australian National University)

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE available until they're gone! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-heat-o...

join @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, Nat Towsen, @katiehannigan.bsky.social, @millytamarez.bsky.social, Brittany Bell Surratt @hiphopcaucus.bsky.social, @manolosomething.bsky.social & @kylemarian.bsky.social for NYC climate week/UNGA @caveatnyc.bsky.social thru @itgreenhouse.bsky.social @colorado.edu

Join us Sept. 11th, 6-8pm for our improv climate comedy workshop with the Center for Media & Social Impact!

'Let's not dismantle established science and policy progress' Here's my latest sustainability & environment column in the local #Boulder Daily Camera (August 23 2025 print edition) www.dailycamera.com/2025/08/23/b...

NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/YaUavl0

here's my latest sustainability & environment column in the local #Boulder Daily Camera (July 26 print edition) lnkd.in/eFpXUuNb (what's expressed here are personal views & shouldn't be considered the university's official position on any specific issue [that's usually in my byline too])

TODAY/TONIGHT in New Orleans, leading into 20th year commemoration of Hurricane Katrina

Expect big laughs, big talent, and a big message. ✨ Free and open to the public – come support these incredible youth performers and see who takes home the $500 grand prize!

Hosted by the hilarious duo Rude Jude & Chuck Nice, this live comedy showcase features the next generation of comedians tackling climate, culture, and community with bold punchlines and brilliant energy.

Join @hiphopcaucus.bsky.social for the Climate Comedy Contest Live Show — high school students will bring the funny and the facts as they battle it out on stage for over $1,300 in cash prizes!

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".