Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

magazine. Goodell's recent writings focus on energy and environmental issues. In 2006 he published his most popular book to date Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future. In spring 2010 he published How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate about geoengineering

Geoengineering

The concept of Geoengineering refers to the deliberate large-scale engineering and manipulation of the planetary environment to combat or counteract anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in 2007 that geoengineering options, such...

, global warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

, and climate change mitigation. The book discusses ideas by Ken Caldeira

Ken Caldeira

Ken Caldeira is an atmospheric scientist who works at the Carnegie Institution for Science's . He researches ocean acidification, climate effects of trees, intentional climate modification, and interactions in the global Carbon cycle/climate system...

, James Lovelock

James Lovelock

James Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling...

, David Keith

David Keith (scientist)

David W. Keith is a Canadian environmental scientist. He is the former director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary. Keith is noted for his work in carbon dioxide air capture, and has been featured on...

, Raymond Pierrehumbert

Raymond Pierrehumbert

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert is Louis Block Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was a lead author on the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and a co-author of the National Research Council report on abrupt climate change...

, Stephen Salter

Stephen Salter

Stephen Hugh Salter is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Edinburgh and inventor of the eponymous Salter duck wave energy device...

, and Lowell Wood

Lowell Wood

Lowell Wood is an American astrophysicist who has been involved with the Strategic Defense Initiative and with geoengineering studies. He has been affiliated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Hoover Institution, and chaired the EMP Commission. Wood invented the Mosquito laser.-...

 among others. In 2011, How to Cool the Planet won the Grantham Prize (Award of Special Merit).

Earlier works include Sunnyvale (2000), a personal memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...

 and the breakdown of his family; The Cyberthief and the Samurai (1996), the story of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick

Kevin David Mitnick is a computer security consultant, author, and hacker. In the late 20th century, he was convicted of various computer- and communications-related crimes. At the time of his arrest, he was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States.-Personal life:Mitnick grew up in...

; and Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith (2002), about the Pennsylvania Quecreek Mine Rescue

Quecreek Mine Rescue

The Quecreek Mine Rescue took place in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, when nine miners were trapped underground for over 78 hours, from July 24 to 28, 2002...

 of 9 trapped coal miners in 2002, which was a New York Times Best Seller.

Works

• The Cyberthief and the Samurai: The True Story of Kevin Mitnick-And the Man Who Hunted Him Down (1996) ISBN 978-0440222057
• Sunnyvale: The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family (2000) ISBN 978-0679776383
• Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our Friendship and Our Faith (2002) ISBN 978-1401300555
• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
  Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future is a book by Jeff Goodell which claims that coal mining is one of America's largest and most influential industries...
  
  (2006) ISBN 978-0618872244
• How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate (2010) ISBN 978-0618990610

External links

• "The Miracle Seeker", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, November 11, 2010.
• "Let's Talk About Geoengineering", Jeff Goodell, Slate (magazine)
  Slate (magazine)
  Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
  
  , September 23, 2010.
• "The Poisoning", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, August 2010.
• "Can Technology Cool the Planet?" Salon
  Salon.com
  Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
  
   interview with Jeff Goodell, April 15, 2010.
• "As the World Burns: The Politics of Climate Change" Interview with Jeff Goodell on NPR's Fresh Air
  Fresh Air
  Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States. The show is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its longtime host is Terry Gross. , the show was syndicated to 450 stations and claimed 4.5 million listeners. The show...
  
  , January 28, 2010.
• "As the World Burns: How Big Oil and Big Coal mounted one of the most aggressive lobbying campaigns in history to block progress on global warming", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, January 2010.
• "Secretary of Saving the Planet" Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, June 2009.
• "The Ethanol Scam", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, August 2007.
• "Can Dr. Evil Save the World?", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, November 2006.
• "Capital Pollution Solution?", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, July 30, 2006.
• "Black Cloud", Review of Big Coal in The New York Times Book Review, June 25, 2006.
• "Steve Jobs: the Rolling Stone Interview", Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, December 2003.
• "Who's a Hero Now?", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, July 27, 2003.
• "The Venture Capitalist In My Bedroom", Jeff Goodell, The New York Times Magazine, May 28, 2000.