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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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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 5h
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social lays out the growing scientific underpinning for suing oil companies, while @insideclimatenews.org reports on yet more new evidence of their decades-long deception campaign insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 6h
Thanks, John. I can hardly wait to finish writing it!
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 21h
Happy pub day to @janetreitman.bsky.social. Go buy her book. It's as good and powerful and moving as @anandwrites.bsky.social's review says it is.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks, David.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks, Andy
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Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Most of these lawsuits were not filed by tattooed, vegan anticapitalists, but by sober-minded public officials desperate for money to repair sea walls, fight more intense wildfires and prepare their cities for a hotter world." @jeffgoodell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Attribution science...helps us see a storm or a heat wave or a flood not as an act of a god or the whim of Mother Nature, but as a disaster that has been knowingly shaped or intensified by particular human actions." great piece by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social today www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about how no matter what SCOTUS decides in Suncor v. Boulder case, they can't stop climate attribution science. One way or another, accountability is coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Janet Reitman @janetreitman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tremendously meaningful to do this Q&A about THE INHERITANCE with @rolllingstone, my home for 15 years, and thespringboard for this work @seanwoods.bsky.social @willdana.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'Fissures and Cracks': America's Division, From 9/11 to the Rise of White Supremacy
Janet Reitman's new book, The Inheritance: A Tragedy in Five Acts, traces how the war on terror created our current national reality.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“We dodged a bullet today,” said Billy Miller, a river guide who was one of the named plaintiffs in the suit. “It means that we can continue to introduce people to the wildness. Their plan was going to ruin the experience of anybody going out there.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas (Gift Article)
The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't worry about the heat. Your new t-shirt will save you.
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Clothes that cool you, warm you—and make power as you move
In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that switch on cooling and heating when you need it.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot of independent college daily newspapers show what journalism could be in the absence of corporate control.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you Arjun
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This El Niño is making California the new Florida.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“He was sitting up in bed, he was chatting, he was fine...and then the heat wave hit.”
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jake Bittle's review is 100x more fun than the movie itself.
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Janet Reitman @janetreitman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thrilled #theinheritance was included in this NYT list …26 Books Coming in October www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/b...
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26 New Books to Read in October: Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, Stephen Graham Jones and More
Novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Imbolo Mbue and Stephen Graham Jones; biographies of Larry David and Frank Capra; spooky season horror; and more.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/09/2026
“Roy Cohn is a creature from the depths of the American political imagination, too pure in his utter malignity to be entirely credible, too potent in his continuing consequence to be safely interred in the past.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
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Devils in America | Fintan O’Toole
Toward the end of his biography of Roy Cohn, written with his wife, Susan Goldmark, Kai Bird quotes the editor and publisher Jason Epstein: “In a way,
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard subject to write about, beautifully done.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I saw Digger last night, the new Tom Cruise/Alejandro Iñárritu movie about climate change. It's wildly imaginative but nobody is going to see it because it's so not-fun to watch men scream at each other for two hours. Oscar nomination for Cruise, crash and burn at the box office.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything is bigger in Texas, including assholes and the sheer number of rubes willing to shitkick their way into a voting booth and pull a lever for them. Can't fence them in.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Documenting the attacks on climate researchers as litigation against fossil fuel companies gets underway: This “wave of requests constitutes a larger and more targeted campaign against researchers whose work could be used by lawyers to advance climate lawsuits.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another judge says climate superfund laws are preempted by the Clean Air Act, even as the Trump administration argues the Clean Air Act doesn't allow for regulation of GHGs. Someone has to be wrong here.
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A Second Judge Strikes Down New York’s Climate ‘Superfund’ Law
A federal judge ruled that the new law, which would force fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion to help cover the costs of climate change, was unconstitutional.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥 A Russian strike against the building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 9/28/26
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Read The Inheritance. I did. I loved it. I blurbed it. And i just preordered a copy so i can read it again whenever i need that jolt of inspiration and hope that comes from great journalism and storytelling.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coastal erosion is just like the wildfire crisis, in a lot of ways. In places like Malibu, a century of poor development decisions designed to tame nature were already holding up poorly, and now they're getting torn to shreds with the climate crisis. insideclimatenews.org/news/2709202...
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A Century of Sand Debt Comes Due in Malibu - Inside Climate News
A new study finds the world’s great surf breaks are vulnerable to climate change. In Malibu, the problem is more specific: a coast with few defenses, with a record El Niño winter closing in.
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Adam Welz @adamwelz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump administration wants U.S. drivers to spend more on fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered cars
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, surprise, surprise! Justice Alito recuses himself from SCOTUS Suncor v. Boulder climate case.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 28/09/2026
The ‘lionesses’ who sued to get air conditioning in every Texas prison — and won 🔥🔥🔥 A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers. 19thnews.org/2026/09/wome...
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The ‘lionesses’ who sued to get air conditioning in every Texas prison — and won
A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 28/09/2026
"The magnitude of the corruption is compounded by its elusiveness. Trump’s venal debasement of the presidency does not fit the usual categories, making its full extent unusually difficult to measure." Historian Sean Wilentz breaks down Trump the mob boss ↓
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How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in United States history. He's been preparing to use the government for self-enrichment his entire life.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Writing a book about extreme heat was like writing a biography of a ghost. Thermal images like this are powerful because they make that ghost visible.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My former colleagues, Mark Cane and Stephen Zebiak, were the first to successfully predict El Niño more than a year in advance in the late 1980s. Now we’re really good at it, and know the consequences. It’d be irresponsible for governments not to take action. Read this from my buddy Jeff Shaman.
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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare (Gift Article)
There’s still time to prepare.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You know that feeling when you're sitting in a dark theater and you see a trailer for an upcoming movie with buildings burning and people screaming? This is like that, except the coming mayhem and chaos is real.
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Opinion | The Super El Niño Comes Bearing One Gift: Time to Prepare (Gift Article)
There’s still time to prepare.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Most important words here are not about the price of electricity or jobs. It is this: "we've got to be willing to go out and fight that fight."
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way." My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...
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Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it
Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awesome thermal drone photography by my juntos photo cooperative comrade @caitlinohara.bsky.social. She worked diligently and thoughtfully on this. I am really proud of her; our whole coop is.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"How to piss off a judge you appointed (and who issued a relatively modest ruling) in three easy steps."
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The art of the deal: Big Oil gets $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies. We get higher energy bills, $2500/yr increased health care costs, $2948/yr higher home insurance costs, and the knowledge that we are contributing to great suffering and loss in a hotter world.
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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
White House readies next major attack on United States www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The stench of this fossil fueled corruption of justice can be smelled from sea to shining sea. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @ucs.org
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Judges overseeing Louisiana's landmark oil cases have financial stakes in defendants
Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the La. coast.
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
100 years ago yesterday, the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane caused profound destruction, plunging the city into a deep economic downturn. Four groups say a repeat would cost over $200 billion. Such a catastrophe, like the 1926 hurricane, would cleave Florida history into a “before” and an “after.”
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A repeat of Miami’s 1926 hurricane could cost over $280 billion. That's more than Hurricane Katrina. » Yale Climate Connections
A century of development, rising seas, and climate change have made South Florida far more vulnerable to a catastrophic storm.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brilliant piece as always from @emorwee.bsky.social. I love it when journalists go outside and ask questions.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Who knows, but it's excellent reporting, visuals, and framing of a complicated topic.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Heartbreaking. Joe told the hard truths when others told soft lies and he fought when others were silent. He inspired me and many, many others. RIP, my friend.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We are also looking at whether the Earth is flat”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
I have a new piece all about these insane numbers, which have been bubbling up all summer. prospect.org/2026/09/16/o...
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A Path to a Texas Breakthrough - The American Prospect
James Talarico is deploying his Christian faith in his bid for the Senate. But he’s winning because Texans have been pummeled by inflation and corruption.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US EPA everyone! Emissions from power generation accounts for 25% to 30% of US GHG emissions. Models show that greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change. And, if all 'carbon dioxides' were indeed eliminated tomorrow, the Earth would rapidly turn into a snowball. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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