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Jeff Goodell

@jeffgoodell.bsky.social
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Author, NYT bestseller THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST | Guggenheim Fellow | Contributing Writer, ROLLING STONE

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“They jump out of the van and grab their cutting torches and gas and air tanks, their heavy gloves and goggles, then just stand there on West Street in a moment of eerie calm, confused and overwhelmed and trying to make sense of it all: huge iron beams twisted like drinking straws..." 1/
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“Protect Big Bend” signs now popping up in my neighborhood in Austin. Given what’s at stake, they should be everywhere.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're in the mood for something more modern, the 1000-hp, 190-mph-top speed McMurtry EV hypercar is attracting a lot of attention at the show. It's a little pricey, tho, starting at about $1.3 million.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At a car show in Monterey, I just learned about a CA company buys old VW surfer vans and refurbishes and electrifies them. Pretty cool. Starting at only $275K!
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Visited site of Mann Gulch fire in Montana yesterday. 77 years ago, on what was then the hottest day in regions history (103 F), the Mann Gulch fire exploded. 13 smokejumpers died. First heat/fire human tragedy of the climate age?
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The fossil fuel industry is hyping my book again. I wish they would stop.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Air-conditioning changed America. It also changed American politics. Without it, there would have been no Nixon (and of course, no Trump) (Excerpt from my book The Heat Will Kill You First)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You'll feel a lot better if you don't think of it as climate change. Think of it a marketing opportunity.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In Dublin a few weeks ago for book festival, I saw a few pages of the manuscript of Ulysses. It looked a lot like my daughter's 3rd grade workbook. #bloomsday
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Getting heat alerts in real time while you are working on a chapter of a new book about climate change is a very 2026 kind of deadline pressure.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Word of the day, from @profrrothschild.bsky.social: "Agnotology" Def.: “The social construction of ignorance, or how and why we *don’t* know things”
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There will be no bottles of AI tears.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Startled to discover this herd of endangered species, largely extinct in the US, thriving in a remote corner of Northern Ireland.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
At the Garven store in Mountain Home, I bought homemade jalapeño jam and said hi to a peacock. All peacocks, including this one, remind me of the great southern writer Flannery O'Conner: “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The diamond-encrusted fingers of Sergey Brin's MAGA girlfriend creeping up the back his head, the blurred images of Trump and Melania across the table -- this great photo in @nytimes.com says everything about what's happening in Silicon Valley today.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Had coffee this morning in Austin with ten Never-Trumpers.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Baby great horned owls spotted today in Austin. A rare sight. Their gaze is already unnerving.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Make America read again (or at least California, anyway) @katieporterca.bsky.social
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Albertine, George Orwell’s favorite rose, in full bloom in Austin.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I asked Google about life in Tehran
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Same BYD, another view
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The walls have been breached. Just went for walk in my Austin neighborhood and spotted this Chinese BYD EV. Second BYD I’ve seen in a week.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The vibe in Austin
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My writing partner, looking in through my office window this morning, checking to see how the new pages are coming along.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The State of the Climate.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about how the death of coal has been hindered by two things: 1) industrial inertia 2) political corruption. I think my thesis holds up, although I wildly underestimated the depth of corruption that has surfaced in Trumpworld.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Watched a coal train in Montana this morning. It took forever to rumble by. I haven't seen a train carrying sunshine or wind yet, but will keep looking.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Brave and blunt talk at UT Civitas Institute by @andrewdessler.com listing some of the Scientific Felonies committed in criminally flawed DOE Climate report while authors of report (Koonin, Christy, McKitrick) look on.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I'm thinking about how upside-down the world feels right now. Then I look out my window and see this.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A question worth asking amidst Trump's blustery threat to invade Greenland: How well prepared is the US military to venture into a harsh, icy environment? Ten years ago, US Navy officers admitted to me they were "woefully unprepared" to operate in the Arctic. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Ford CEO Jim Farley in happier, more climate-conscious times (the summer of 2024)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Sometimes, the right book arrives at just the right time. Up late last night reading The Criminal State by Lawrence Douglas, coming in April from Princeton University Press.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Written by Montana artist Charles Russell to friends in 1926 Xmas card, but all too perfect for America in 2026: "Here's hoping the worst of your trail is behind you." (from a drawing I saw yesterday at the fantastic new Montana Heritage Center in Helena)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
First light, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park. Feeling grateful for the men and women who fought for our parks and imagined an America bigger than themselves.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Austin
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Once, when I interviewed Jane Goodall, I took my son with me to meet her. She was far more interested in talking to him than talking to me. The way she has her hand on his shoulder in this pic says everything about her. RIP to a great woman, a great scientist, a great human.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Wrote this 20 years ago, as a proud member of the chardonnay set (aka the isn't-there-a-better-cheaper-less destructive-way- to-generate-electricity-than-burning-rocks set)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
What gives me hope? Seeing people reading books on crowded NYC subway
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
As part of a reporting trip to Peru, I went for a long hike yesterday in the Andes and visited some fast-vanishing tropical glaciers. During this Crazy Time, it's so good to leave the keyboard behind and get outside and hear nature tell her own story about what stupid humans are doing to her.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
How much has been lost? 10 years ago today, I talked w @barackobama.bsky.social in Alaska talking about climate change: "Each time I get a scientific report, I’m aware that we have less time than we thought, that this is happening faster than we thought..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Last refuge of government-sponsored climate science in America: atop Cadillac mountain in Acadia National Park.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Making a rapid transition to 100% solar today.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
California has still got it (Mt Lassen 5:50 AM, 7.22.25)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
In Woody Creek CO today, visited the ghost of a man who knew something about weird times in America
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Arrived in London and this dude named Darwin keeps staring at me like he has something important to say.
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