The left has claimed that pardoning that election-denying psycho Tina Peters makes Jared Polis bad, no matter what else he’s done…and gotta admit the left has a point on this one.

Farms are not nature! Farms are by far the greatest threat to nature. (And thanks for the kind plug for my book!)

What Lindsey Graham had in common with his boss Donald Trump was utter shamelessness. It’s really unfortunate, but really important to recognize, that the ability to feel no shame is an extremely useful talent for a politician.

Hello from Lake Dillon, which has gone missing this year.

DEI bike lanes and climate change is when I decided to kick your ass.

Heat kills chickens. So you need more farmland to grow more feed for more chickens. So you cut down more trees and make more heat. Which makes it harder to grow feed so you need more farmland. So you cut down more trees which makes more heat and kills more chickens… www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/c...

I’m still genuinely grateful to live in America, the worst country except for all the others. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

We Are Eating Even More of the Earth. (Because we are eating even more meat and dairy.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YES. Every word of this @dwallacewells.bsky.social joint. I've been critical of some forms of climate alarmism but vicious heat waves are legitimately alarming and getting worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

It’s an environmental disaster when a cow dies on its way to be slaughtered, a waste of all the land and water used to get it to slaughter weight. Those deaths doubled in the UK last year, and that was before this record heat wave. www.carbonbrief.org/livestock-he...

The right-wing Free Beacon wrote about my climate essay in @readliberties.bsky.social. They clearly preferred my mild critique of the climate left ("surprising and entertaining") to my harsh critique of Trump's climate denial ("predictable"). freebeacon.com/energy/clima...

The Trump Administration has zero interest in greenhouse gas reductions, except when it can steer extra subsidies to farmers who grow "regenerative" biofuels with ludicrous claims that they reduce greenhouse gases. www.agriculture.com/industry-rea...

The index for REGIME CHANGE has only one mention of climate change but...wow, what a mention. We all know Big Oil gets what it wants from Trump but nobody's gotten receipts like Maggie Haberman and @jonathanswan.bsky.social recounting Trump's 3/19/25 meeting with Big Oil.

We watched LINCOLN last night, such an awesome reminder that better is better than worse, and that the goal of progressive politics should be progress.

This is a great time to read The Heat Will Kill You First by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social . Heat sneaks up on people in unexpected ways, and we don't take it seriously enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hea...

I made a dumb mistake in this piece: When I said I calculated that drinking a cup of coffee every morning is the emissions equivalent of driving 100 miles in a gas car, I meant every morning FOR A YEAR. I think it's my first correction for @canarymedia.com. I'm sorry, I'm super-anal about accuracy.

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Lots of progressive pushback to my FL politics piece - no one wants Republican Lite, base would stay home, centrism is soulless, etc. OK! But tell me: How do progressive politics flip a red state where more Rs than Ds will vote? When has that happened? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

Huh, $55 billion seems like a lot for one year when I've been repeatedly assured that farmers don't want handouts. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Another awesome doom loop: Raising livestock drives deforestation, deforestation heats the planet, heat kills livestock so we need to raise more which means more deforestation and more heat. www.carbonbrief.org/livestock-he...

My thoughts on SCOTUS & Roundup: 1. I’m not a lawyer. Ask @richardprimus.bsky.social about the legal issues. 2. Glyphosate can pose risks for gardeners and farm workers. 3. Roundup is a valuable herbicide, and the widespread hysteria over the safety of food sprayed with it is absurd. It’s fine.

I wrote about your morning coffee. Click! (It's in @motherjones.com as well as @canarymedia.com) www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Boring earnest reminder: There's a record heat wave in Europe. There's a megadrought in the West. There will be horrible wildfires this summer. Those of us who care about climate change need a serious strategy to defeat politicians who don't.

"Mr. Jolly, a former Republican congressman who sometimes sounds more like a consultant than a candidate, believes that blue wave is building into the biggest tsunami since the post-Watergate wipeout of the G.O.P. in 1974." @mikegrunwald.bsky.social's latest for us! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

We Are Drinking the Earth, Too. Sorry to ruin your morning but I wrote about how your coffee hurts the planet. Don't feel bad though - everything else you consume also hurts the planet! @canarymedia.com

I got back to my Florida Man roots in the NYT, writing about @davidjolly.bsky.social trying to turn South Alabama blue. Here’s a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

Cool news: WE ARE EATING THE EARTH has been short-listed for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. Congrats to the other finalists, they sound great. www.library.upenn.edu/news/sustain...

You’ve probably heard about the nasty globs of sargassum overwhelming Florida beaches. You probably haven’t heard they’re fueled by nutrient pollution from agriculture. Ag is the leading driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water shortages…and this. www.foxnews.com/video/639839...

I happened to catch a little climate change in action this morning. I took the photo a few seconds too late but I still think we should try really hard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Loved this Marc Gunther review of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH. He said it’s a “terrific book” so I guess I was inclined to love it. Also “science-based, thoroughly researched, lively,” “a book every environmentalist should read” and other nice words. marcgunther.substack.com/p/a-book-eve...

Screwworm prevention is the kind of government spending that sounds stupid until you wish DOGE hadn’t cut it. I remember Bobby Jindal mocking the Obama stimulus for funding “something called volcano monitoring.” Funny until there’s an eruption!

This is really bad. Climate accounting rules are boring but if you mess them up you mess up the climate, and the forestry industry has hijacked the process that makes the rules.

That’s my Max, graduating from HS. The teachers voted to award him the Faculty Cup; as the head of school said, “Think Einstein crossed with The Buddha.” He’s the sweetest kid on the planet and I’m so insanely proud of him.

Loved this Progressive Farmer review of WE ARE EATING THE EARTH: “Like them or hate them, they’re ideas well worth grappling with.” www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

My first call on my first newspaper story was to Barney Frank. His office took a message, my phone rang, I answered “Hello this is Michael Grun—“ and before I could finish he said “I know that, you called me, whaddya want.” RIP to an awesome no bullshit guy. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One thing I learned when I wrote a book called THE SWAMP is that when I look out my airplane window on a sunny day in May, the Everglades is not supposed to be on fire.

“How should Dems talk about climate” is a tough question but “leaving aside red states” is a bit of a tell. Red states matter! Anyway I had a more nuanced take than that NYT piece but there’s a reason the biggest climate bill ever didn’t have climate on its name. libertiesjournal.com/articles/cli...

I'm not a legal expert, maybe Virginia's redistricting case was complicated, but Florida's case is not: Voters passed a referendum that said no partisan redistricting, DeSantis and the Legislature said fuck you we're doing it anyway, and nobody seems to think the all-Republican court will stop them.

Philip Caputo wrote a best-selling classic about Vietnam, shared a Pulitzer for uncovering Chicago’s voting fraud, was captured by militants in Lebanon & shot by others, covered wars in Afghanistan to Africa, hunted big game & caught bigger fish RIP dad www.facebook.com/share/p/1EwY...

Isn't this an impeachable offense? I know, get in line, but I don't think a president should be able to destroy an industry just because he gets a lot of money from oil companies and he didn't like seeing wind turbines near his golf course in Scotland.

This is crazy but it will not get farmers to vote for Democrats. It will just get Trump to give farmers billions more of our dollars in bailouts. Democrats should stop pandering to the 1% of Americans who farm and start thinking about the 99% who subsidize them.

Progress. But “agricultural expansion continued to be the biggest driver of forest loss around the world. We Are Still Eating the Earth. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

You can now pre-order WE ARE EATING THE EARTH in paperback! The Washington Post called it "thrilling and provocative," it's triggered intense debate in food circles, and even the people angry about it have said it's a fun read. I'll be so grateful if you check it out: www.amazon.com/We-Are-Eatin...

You can now pre-order WE ARE EATING THE EARTH in paperback! The Washington Post called it "thrilling and provocative," it's triggered intense debate in food circles, and even the people angry about it have said it's a fun read. I'll be so grateful if you check it out: www.amazon.com/We-Are-Eatin...

Whoa.

There’s something heartbreaking about throwing away the press kits from green startups after they fail.

Great to hear that Casey Means won't be surgeon general. It's ironic that this anti-science administration probably bounced her because her pseudo-science about Roundup and other agri-chemicals offended big donors, but whatever, the broken clock was right this time.

I’ve noticed that none of the people who indignantly reject the premise that we need higher crop yields to feed the world are hungry people.

I keep getting asked about this so: I also agree you should be able to sue Bayer. But if you’re claiming you got sick from eating food sprayed with Roundup, you should lose, because you didn’t.