Jonathan Mingle

Journalist. Author of GASLIGHT: THE ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE AND THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE (2024) + FIRE AND ICE (2015).
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[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to even be considered alongside these other authors.

This kind of journalism has never been more important. I'm grateful to @nypl for recognizing this work.

[NY Public Library @nypl]

NYPL is pleased to announce the finalists for the 38th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Congratulations to @VinceBeiser, @Mike_Hixenbaugh, Layal Liverpool, @AbrahmL, and Jonathan Mingle!

→ Meet the 2025 Finalists: https://t.co/W5oMFMEUKy

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

Really honored to be recognized as a finalist for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for my book GASLIGHT. And humbled to even be considered alongside these other authors.

This kind of journalism has never been more important. I'm grateful to @nypl for recognizing this work.

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

Here's @bentarnoff brilliantly diagnosing our political moment in @nybooks.

And channeling St Exupery, too:

“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery.”

―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

[Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde]

Following Trump's first-term, the share of academic papers written about Earth Science topics hit a 20-year low in the USA.

The drop in this category over the last five years was the largest of any category tracked by the NSF.

https://t.co/lwFnpCy7pl

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[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

@daniel_lefferts Perhaps we should call this the "Rolling Coal" theory of MAGA's electoral appeal.

(h/t @brianbeutler circa 2017)

https://t.co/1ZmVLoG3tn

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Valencia ♥️

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch

2024 Democrats are the red dot.

Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

[Ally Mutnick @allymutnick]

There will be two Black women serving together in the Senate for the first time in US history

Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland
Lisa Blunt Rochester in Delaware

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

Have the Russian bomb threats targeted any Republican-majority polling places? or only Democratic ones?

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

this 10,000 percent. right in the open. treated as a given now that trump/gops just accept the help. dog bites man.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING - Over 40 different fake bomb threats have now been called into Democratic-leaning polling places

And they're coming from RUSSIA

This should literally be THE story right now -- it is blatant and brazen election interference to steal the election for Trump

[Liam Martin @LiamFromBoston]

The biggest story of the night is Russia calling multiple bomb threats into Democratic strongholds across the country. This should shock every American to the core.

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

👀

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Early signs in Chesterfield Co, suburban Richmond, that Harris is outpacing Biden's number. Biden won the county by 6+

[VTDigger @vtdigger]

BREAKING: Vermont Gov. Phil Scott votes for Kamala Harris for president #vtpoli #election2024 https://t.co/2BiNK8zKH7

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

Yeah well this reinforcing feedback scenario has been keeping me up at night for roughly last 5 years, since I first wrote about the methane spike.
(Occupational hazard of being a climate reporter.)

Which is why I had to get it off my chest in final pages of my book GASLIGHT:

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

“Wetlands will emit more methane as temperatures warm,” Jackson said. “This may be the start of a reinforcing feedback, that higher temperatures release more methane from natural ecosystems.” https://t.co/tbELYEPXnt

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

Election Day self-care strategy:

Step 1: eat jalapeno cheddar muffin from the bake sale at my town hall polling place (after voting)

Step 2: read this feel-good story on a new solar electric school bus pilot project in Brooklyn from @CanaryMediaInc

https://t.co/SyNBPWiDSe

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

@JesseJenkins @ricredman @queenofpeat @hausfath @undarkmag Same fears of feedbacks taking over voiced then as now. Leading to same conclusion: "even if new detection tools definitively identify wetlands as main driver, our task remains the same...reduce CH4 emissions as far and fast as possible, from sources we can control."
ie: oil+gas!

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

@JesseJenkins @ricredman @queenofpeat @hausfath Concerning to see more evidence of this trend, but these worries aren't at all new.

Several scientists I interviewed for @undarkmag story I wrote back in 2019 investigating the methane spike were already pointing to tropical wetlands as likely culprit:

https://t.co/Ne5Q9GH2fF

[ProPublica @propublica]

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
https://t.co/9IidlYNdYU

[Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle]

If you want a (not at all soothing) break from the electoral map, here's one for you.

48 out of 50 states in drought last month.
Never happened before.

Climate change in a landslide.

https://t.co/FupphVRJF9