A normal day in Delhi with the government AQI readings showing around 400, but it looks and feels way more beyond that. This should be a health emergency anywhere in the world, but in Delhi, however, this is a period of forced adaptation imposed upon us by government. #airpollution #health #delhi

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)

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

And it's going to make large swaths of America *uninsurable* long before they become physically uninhabitable. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Useful summary of where things stand here from NYT, but hooboy... this glaring error jumped out at me before they fixed the headline. Emissions are still going up! Small detail that's, uh, somewhat important if you're trying to frame the climate story circa 2025. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The data center backlash has 2009 early days Tea Party vibes. Except with much more potential broad-based support since, as @heatmap.news own polling has shown, its seems like just about *everyone* hates data centers. Definitely going to see more politicians try to catch this wave.

This is exactly the sentiment I heard over and over while reporting on the broad grassroots opposition to a proposed fossil gas pipeline in rural Virginia. Much of organizers' energy at first went into simply convincing their neighbors that the project wasn't inevitable. That they had some agency.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

You mean... let FERC rubber-stamp them? With a 99.5% approval rate? And tell opponents to go pound sand?

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

In fact I agree so hard that I wrote a book making precisely that case in 2015. Soot melts glaciers, disrupts monsoons critical to food security, kills millions per year. Tackling it offers climate/health win-wins. Happy to send you a copy, @billgates.bsky.social! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

100% agree with Zeke's core critique of the Gates memo here: climate mitigation and poverty alleviation are not zero-sum! And his point that solutions like rural electrification, clean cookstoves, and cutting outdoor and indoor air pollution will both slow climate change and save millions of lives.

20+ years of climate impacts research in one figure. Climate change hits everything, everywhere, all at once. From Solomon Hsiang's new NBER paper on empirical methods and economic impacts of climate change: www.nber.org/papers/w34357

Perfect. 60 Minutes edited out an important part of its Trump interview in which he boasts about extracting millions from its parent company on an utterly meritless claim . . . that 60 Minutes selectively edited its Kamala Harris interview.

the spookiest Halloween content I've encountered today:

The Lancet and WHO effectively rebutting Bill Gates' 'climate is not that important' take in real-time: "This report makes clear that climate inaction is killing people now in all countries. However, climate action is also the greatest health opportunity of our time." www.who.int/news/item/29...

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

NHC 5 pm Melissa update for Jamaica: "Remain in your safe shelter and do not venture outside." Winds "may cause total structural failure." Wind speeds are now at *175 mph*.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

A remarkable, and ominous, satellite snapshot this evening of Hurricane #Melissa as it continues to move very slowly westward just south of #Jamaica. The storm will likely further strengthen into a Category 5 storm before turning northward & making landfall in Jamaica on Tue.

Here's what ~30 inches of rain that fell on mountainous Nelson County, VA in 1969 in the wake of Hurricane Camille did: Liquefied entire mountainsides, sent debris flows down on people below while they slept, parked house-sized boulders in valley floors, ground the bark off trees. Cataclysm.

At current warming rates, 80% of Himalayan glaciers gone by 2100. Our highest mtns, mostly ice-free *in our lifetimes.* A truly staggering 'achievement' for humanity. Wrote a book about this a decade ago. Still shocked by collective global shrug in response. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Good reporting by @insideclimatenews.org on Dominion's astroturf push for its gas peaker plant. Same tactics it used for its Atlantic Coast Pipeline: “We can't just sit back and hope that the merit of our project will sell itself" - Dominion lobbyist, 2017 insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

So... building AI slop factories and cleaning up climate disasters are the two sectors propping up the US economy right now?

Took my brain a second to register this wasn't a new photo of the White House being demolished. Whew, nope, just climate change whacking the US economy with its wrecking ball faster than ever. No biggie.

Our story so far: Trump orders minions to destroy the Capitol on Jan 6. He's banned from YouTube. He returns to the White House. He sues YouTube for banning him. They settle for $22 million. That money is used by Trump to destroy the East Wing www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/t...

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

"guided missile warheads"??

“We pay farmers to farm soybeans, pay them more to convert some of those soybeans into inefficient fuels, pay them even more when they can’t sell soybeans because of our trade war, then pay extra to bail out one of the countries replacing them in the marketplace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

Mountain glaciers are vanishing in the geological blink of an eye. To illustrate that fact, the legendary mountaineer/photographer David Breashears (RIP) kindly let me use this 2007 photo of Everest's shrinking Rongbuk Glacier in my first book. Today I'm sure its retreat is even more dramatic.

The outlook for the Cerrado was already grim. When I visited the region on a reporting trip in 2012, much of it had already been cleared to grow soybeans. China's demand was accelerating that process. Now Trump's tariffs could deal the world's biggest, most biodiverse tropical savanna a death blow.

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

The US wants the world to buy its fossil fuels. China wants to sell the world its clean-energy technologies. There is one clear winner — for now

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

And if you want a quick summary of WHY this race (and other public utility commission elections/appointments) is so important, I've got you covered: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/o...

Public utility commissions — so hot right now. This one goes straight to the top of my listening queue.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Former USAID official here. The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world. It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation. The facts, below. 🧵

NEW @ember-energy.org report out today | Renewables now produce more electricity than coal worldwide ⚡️ Renewables produced 5,072 TWh (34.4% share) in the first half of 2025 overtaking coal for the first time which stood at 4,896 TWh (33.1%.)

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Adding more wind and solar to the grid have one guaranteed effect: They make electricity more expensive." US Energy Information Administration: "Nope that's wrong" EIA data show that states with more renewables have lower electricity prices.

I know there's a lot going on. But this really deserves more attention: "Trump administration ... officials want to decommission and possibly destroy two NASA satellites that monitor greenhouse gases and cost more than $800 million to launch." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social: Can Trump's Energy Dominance/trade war agenda overcome market forces (oversupply+softening demand) + other countries' climate/energy security concerns to keep US LNG booming past 2030? Plenty of analysts find reasons for skepticism. e360.yale.edu/features/tru...

Energy Secretary Wright made tens of millions of dollars as the CEO of a fracking company, so he certainly knows that the natural gas he brought to market is the primary cause of the decline of the coal industry.

Now on the Energy Dept’s banned words list: “Climate change,” “green” and “emissions.” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

If India really wants to be seen as a climate leader, its government might want to reconsider today's decision to arrest Sonam Wangchuk, the country's most prominent climate activist. www.ndtv.com/india-news/c...