“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯 - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Turns out sea levels are *already high* than scientists thought, especially in Southeast Asia and Pacific nations. Which means hundreds of millions of people face greater risk from sea level rise than previously understood: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

gyre? not widening. center? holding. falcon? listening. blood-dimmed tide? properly restrained. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

“How quickly the Earth continues to warm ultimately depends on how rapidly we reduce global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels to zero." A very hot future hiding here beneath a cool mist of can-do optimism.

It's like a habitable climate is a luxury Dems have decided they can't afford.

Not only is there no Plan B, there is no Plan A. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Just sayin.

This level of primary turnout for Democrats in Texas yesterday is super heartening--both Talarico and Crockett turned out substantially more voters than any R candidate.

Iran. Venezuela. Iraq. Oil leads to bad governance and greed, which leads to friction with the United States, which makes military conflict more likely. goodauthority.org/news/is-oil-...

For US automakers, Trump's election in 2024 may have been an extinction-level event. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

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.

The hot in the west was hotter than the cold in the east was cold. #climatechange

The public and commentators need to stop thinking about "wars for oil" as about securing oil for the U.S., it's been decades since that was a motivator. "Wars for oil" are instead about securing oil for oil companies, securing a fossil fueled global economy, and denying oil's wealth to "enemies."

"A decadent people elected a bunch of decadent congressmen and congresswomen and then layered a decadent, corrupt, and unserious game show host on top of all that, and now we reap the whirlwind." open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Insane potential desecration of a national treasure. www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

My writing partner, looking in through my office window this morning, checking to see how the new pages are coming along.

The cover of this week's Lancet, featuring RFK Jr:

In Norway, wealth funds are confronting climate risks and dropping companies that don't manage them well. In the US, financial giants like Blackrock and Vanguard are capitulating to RAGA intimidation to stay silent on climate risks. If you have a 401K, Trumpers are stealing your future.

"We might need to reframe 'American exceptionalism.' Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind."

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

The number of birds in the US and Canada has fallen by 2.9 billion, or 29 percent, since 1970. Forest-dwelling birds are doing OK. The big losses correlated with hot places: Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arizona.

spot the difference

We're heading for a world where the Supreme Court decrees fossil fuels can't be regulated, but they can't be sued either. That would leave you paying every cent of the tab for climate damages Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Ann Godoff snatched me off the streets as a young hack and turned me into a book writer. She was brilliant and she was tough and knew what mattered on the page.

Wow and I always thought the most damning citation of Larry Summers was the epigraph from *Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor* (2011)

The State of the Climate.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

I'm thrilled to say Plastic Inc is out today, shifting the lens on plastic from where it ends up to where it comes from — the fossil fuel industry. "Deeply researched, sharply written & totally compelling," says @elizkolbert.bsky.social "Breath-taking & revelatory"— @christopherleonard.bsky.social

As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies—windcatchers, clay walls, and shaded courtyards—that kept cities habitable long before air-conditioning. Read about the past and future of cooling our buildings by Yasmin Alrabiei below:

"The push for plastic reflects both the [oil] industry’s modus operandi—more production means more money—and a growing anxiety about a future in which demand for fossil fuels as fuel may flatten and eventually decline." Plastic is the future of oil. Read @bethgardiner.bsky.social PLASTIC INC.

#Fossilflation European food price edition

“Now is a great time for the V-8 engine" the car guys chanted, high on the smell of gasoline, as they dug their graves in an abandoned car dealership outside of Detroit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK Jr spent years denouncing mercury pollution from power plants. He was one of Trump's most public opponents when he tried to roll back mercury limits in 2017. He himself actually got mercury poisoning (eating too much fish). On Friday, Trump's EPA weakened mercury rules. RFK Jr said nothing.

"Here's a very simple rule of thumb: If you're going to institute a policy that's going to upend your own economy, the global economy, foreign relations and change our position in the world... It's probably best to check that it's constitutional first. "

Huge respect for George Saunders' new novel VIGIL, not because it's flawless, but because he found a way to write a bestselling novel about a Big Oil CEO who is tormented on his deathbed by ghosts for his climate crimes.

The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

“This door knock marks a significant escalation,” said Ronald L. Kuby, the man’s lawyer, who represents several climate activists. “The fact that they went to the wrong address of a member who has not been active suggests that they are starting an investigation. They are digging.”

Some excellent writing right here about lakes and mussels and humans who are learning that there are better ways to protect yourself from big waves than building a fortress of rocks along the beach. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...

The better the science gets, the more dangerous the endangerment becomes.

🔥 from lawyer suing Big Oil for climate harm in Oregon: "As I see it, our house is on fire and our fire chief has turned off the water main, replaced the water in the tanker truck with gasoline, and retreated to a golf course to play a few rounds with the billionaire arsonists."

"If you don’t have a stick, you can never make the carrot big enough." I once traveled across China on a reporting trip with Ma Jun. Great guy, deeply thoughtful about the forces at work in China's complicated moves to clean energy and climate leadership.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

It is so funny that the Trumpies tried to pull together a passably credible group of denialist climate scientists & the whole affair was such a clown show that they had to just cut bait & abandon it entirely.

It's not gonna work. I saw my first BYD EV in Austin yesterday. The revolution is here and Detroit is in big trouble.

A rapidly warming climate is catastrophic for Colorado ski resorts. They love to tout their own actions to reduce emissions. But meaningful political activism? They don't even have the courage to answer @denverpost.com reporter Elise Schmelzer's questions about it. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/15/c...

Hoping Lee Zeldin can persuade the FCC to ban @drkatemarvel.bsky.social or @katharinehayhoe.com

“.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbert’s December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..” @forbes.com #TXsen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...