Earthquake? War Zone? Nope. #floods

Climate integrity test for Kathy Hochul. If she wants to take meaningful action on climate, this should be a no-brainer for her. We'll see.

I was in Portugal last week to talk about climate change and it was hot and you could feel the fires coming. But like everywhere, awareness of climate risk is rising much more slowly than the danger itself.

"Trump no longer sees political profit in trying to peel off disaffected Democrats. He is, instead, seeking to energize politically disengaged bigots, a shift that finds Trump fishing for support in the foulest waters of the far-right." rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

In Alex's post "Fact Checking Genevieve Guenther" (author of the must-read new book The Language of Climate Politics) he ID's me as "the Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodall" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm not in the band, Alex. And it's Goodell, not Goodall. People in glass houses etc.....

Three huge flood disasters on 3 continents have killed over 1,500 and cost over $15 billion over the past month--Typhhon Yagi in Asia, Storm Boris in Europe, and monsoon floods in Africa: yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/epic-f…

I spent much of the summer reporting on Ted Cruz for this Texas Monthly cover story, including shadowing Cruz for two days in DC. I discovered a senator divided against himself, desperately trying to broaden his appeal while retaining his MAGA support texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

"Eating the Cats" live in Munich last night. Only a week ago I was in my studio in South Africa writing this song! 🤣

More than a decade ago, in my book Big Coal, I wrote: "If [fossil fuels] were were the sure-fire ticket to wealth and prosperity that many in the industry claim, West Virginians would be dancing on gold-paved streets." Sadly, nothing has changed. Fossil fuels have brought

Skyrocketing clean energy job growth means more than 250,000 Texans now work in the field — more than in oil and gas. #txlege #energytwitter douglewin.com/p/clean-energy…

Writing about pet-eating migrants is a lot like writing about the climate crisis

Trump has compared Mark Robinson a "fine wine," and I think today Democrats would certainly agree that he got better with age. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

"Skyrocketing clean energy job growth means more than 250,000 Texans now work in the field — more than in oil and gas. That's good news as oil prices — and jobs — are declining." Doug Lewin In 2014, TX had 300,000 oil & gas jobs. Now ~190,000. douglewin.com/p/clean-energy…

I *have* read her book and feel the same way.

“As long as one or two organisms survive, there will always be life. I’m not concerned about that. My concern is what human life looks like. What it means to survive.” washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Campus organizers for Colin Allred just told me they have signed up 4000 new voters at UT-Austin. The koozies are a big hit too.