Here’s a bullet point in the guidebook of American journalism: If Pam wrote it you need to read it.

This is like if we took the side of the aliens in Independence Day

This happened on Inauguration Day. Just formalizing it now.

"America’s illegal abduction of the elected ruler and spouse of a foreign country on their sovereign soil will have no impact on decarbonization, or Venezuela’s oil flowing again....It’s theater, theater with a side helping of dead civilians and regime change." 🔥

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

The Earth is tied to the railroad tracks, and a big black-smoke-belching-oil-burning locomotive is headed right for it.

Big Oil prefers "stability" but work in plenty of unstable locations. They prefer friendly governments, but they work with hostile ones all the time. What they want is access--which Trump got them at the barrel of a gun, the host government to take-on as much of the costs of start-up as possible 2/3

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.

My sense is that China is using this oldie but goodie @rockymountviews.bsky.social playbook to destroy global oil demand. With subsidized EV technology, China can help 50+ emerging markets destroy 3-4 million barrels per day of oil demand by 2030.

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

"Increasingly, disaster strikes within an urban envelope, drawing on homes and landscaping for fuel rather than trees and wild brush. These are not forest fires encroaching on human settlement but rather human settlements burning like only forests used to." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...

"To pump more, Venezuela would need to overcome three problems: a dire need for funds, a shortage of labour and a saturated global market" www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“We do need Greenland, absolutely." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

US Government as run by New York City mafiosi.

Always read Jim Fallows fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...

Lest there been any doubt that Bezos captured WaPo for Trump: Justice in Venezuela wapo.st/3NbW4xj

“[Trump] also claimed that we would take the oil in Venezuela. He even suggested that some of the oil would be taken to pay the US back for oil ‘stolen’ from us—presumably a reference to nationalization of the oil companies in the 1970s. That is looting, plain and simple, and clearly unlawful.”

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

As a justification for war, Trump claims Venezuela "stole" US oil and infrastructure. That is, of course, a lie. wapo.st/4smUTLL

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

"kinetic action" makes war sound like something you do in a seniors exercise class at the Y.

“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!” Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves. My latest for Zeteo:

To slop or not to slop? That is the question. And the faster AI advances, the dirtier the answer gets. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is like an ICE kidnapping but on an international scale.

In news that should surprise no one…

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

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)

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

Great story by my colleague @sominisengupta.bsky.social on how cheap solar energy is changing lives in South Africa. It's a story playing out around the world, especially in places where access to electricity is limited or nonexistent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

Smart end-of-year take on the Great American Pump and Dump.

“Swaths of the Permian appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction.” *geological malfunction* 😯 euphemism for our time.

More sustainability challenges for drillers that have nothing to do with climate change…

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.

Liberals should support the whaling industry. The benefits of this to the American economy are large. Natural resource extraction offers good-paying blue-collar jobs. It also generates useful tax revenue. In more abstract terms, it improves the country’s literary reputation and metaphor production

This OpEd is a prime example of the thesis of my book: climate policymaking isn’t actually polarized, but instead unified around a center that dismisses climate science and lies about the economics of fossil fuels.

Exxon is happy to help the tech industry meet its greenwashing needs, claiming that 90% of emissions from fossil-powered data centers will be captured. Never mind that CCS has never been successfully deployed at a gas plant and no CCS facility has ever come close to 90%. @emorwee.bsky.social

The administration dismantling NCAR is scientific vandalism, much like the Taliban demolishing cultural artifacts. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/m...

"The global coal demand increase of about 40mn tonnes this year was largely due to the US."

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

The 2023 global heatwave led to 178,000 deaths. More than half (54%) of those deaths were attributable to human-induced climate change. The heat may not get you first, but the heat is killing huge numbers of our brothers & sisters. @jeffgoodell.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Ending climate research and burning more fossil fuels because he hates California. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Great news for everyone who likes more expensive, dirtier energy: 1,891 projects with a combined 266 GW of generation capacity have been cancelled in 2025—equivalent to roughly 1/4 of America’s entire current electricity generation capacity. Clean energy accounts for 93% of project cancellations.

Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.

Something prophetic about the fact that CoreWeave's meltdown was triggered by "unexpectedly turbulent" storms in Texas.

"[Ely] went on to travel with the Ringling Bros circus, where he took care of horses and was nearly trampled by a line of elephants. Returning to music, he released his debut solo album and befriended Joe Strummer and the Clash, who enlisted Ely to open their tour in support of London Calling."

This harrowing @propublica story about the carnage created by Trump’s USAID cuts in South Sudan won’t get as much attention as his deranged Rob Reiner rant but they’re both stories about a president who just doesn’t give a shit about other humans. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

New data shows the world started warming up at more or less exactly the same time America was founded. Modern democracy and climate change are twins. 250 years later, one is withering, the other is stronger than ever. edition.cnn.com/2025/12/15/c...

When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.