To AC or not to AC is not the right question. The right question is how to reduce suffering and death from extreme heat. AC is just one tool. It is not a technofix for life on a superheated planet.

Genuinely extreme--and quite frankly explosive--fire behavior ongoing within #CottonwoodFire in SW Utah late this evening, with a persistent, deep, and apparently rotating *nocturnal* pyrocumulonimbus. This region had record low snowpack a following record warm winter. Yikes.

Love 2 be in Europe with a baby during a record heat wave

A terrifying thing about being a climate writer is when you start living your reporting. Headed to Europe just in time for a “very intense and widespread heat event.”

My mom had someone try to pull this same (super sophisticated!) scam on her; she said she was tipped off by the person seeming just a little bit too conversational on the call. They also hung up immediately when she said she was going to call the bank back directly.

So uh what happened at Lake Sammamish

For those following along: The Republican attempt to undo the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan using the Congressional Review Act has officially failed, with the 60-day clock expiring yesterday heatmap.news/politics/bou...

When it comes to the heat, Seattle is the second-safest host city in the 2026 World Cup. Unless, of course, there's another heat dome. heatmap.news/climate/worl...

We woke the baby up

Watching the Knicks game on the flight back to Seattle and it’s going nuts

Just gave someone subway directions, I’ve still got it 💅

Took the train seven hours with the baby for my grand return to New York City only to be disgorged from Moynihan into … this.

Americans are not psyched about what AI will do to their lives. Here’s @jeva.bsky.social with more from our latest Heatmap Pro poll: heatmap.news/politics/ame...

Hey East Coast American friends — the wildfire smoke could be coming back, and it’s now something we should be prepared for every year. Brace yourselves, writes @jeva.bsky.social for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/adaptation/2...

I was trying to remember the word "heartening" (leave me alone, I was up seven times last night), so I googled "cheeringly" because I thought Google responded to one-word searches with a dictionary definition and synonyms ... but it asked me if I wanted to "celebrate a win" instead???

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

First camping trip with baby ✅ First of seven flights in June with baby 😳 First 7+ hour Amtrak with baby 😳 First time in NYC with baby 😳 First international trip with baby 😳

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

I wish I loved anything as much as sports directors love the slow motion shot of someone doing a horsey lips exhale

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.

Hoping for a hurricane. Corpus Christi, TX, is poised to be the first major US city to actually run out of water. @heatmap.news @jeva.bsky.social heatmap.news/adaptation/c...

Uhh is someone going to tell them lol

Landlords are required to keep your unit above ~62 degrees in the winter by providing heat—so why, for all we know about the health impacts of extreme heat, is there not a similar rule for providing cooling? Inquiring minds in, of all places, the Northwest want to know! heatmap.news/adaptation/w...

The Millennium Falcon implies the existence of the Semiquincentennial Falcon

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Took the baby for her first hike and wow I’ve missed being in the mountains

"Since 2020, 98% of the more than 400 utilities in the Heatmap-MIT dataset have raised their rates — more than half of them by greater than 20%; about one in 10 utilities have raised their rates by 50% or more." heatmap.news/energy/energ... by @jeva.bsky.social 🔌💡

All you really need to know in terms of not letting your guard down is that Hurricane Andrew was in an El Niño year and making it all the way to August without a named storm meant nothing when the storm we got was one of the most devastating in the modern era.

Oh my god this is devastating www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Rawr.

Niñomaxxing. Is this anything.

Going to Paris (for like 24 hours) and Italy with the bébé, I can’t wait defector.com/free-things-...

A good reason to never leave New York is looking at what it costs to *visit* New York

All the baby books are like “your eight month old is discovering her voice 🥰” but what she’s actually discovered is if she goes wasAaahhhHHHHHHHHHaaaaoooooooaaaaaaa!!!! at us, we *will* give her the keys back

Sorry, craziest part is the 1:09 coming down

Honestly I've shifted my main hiking season to be in winter: no bugs, no ticks, no humidity — get a good layer and it's the elite season to get outside.

I appreciate USA Today publishing this map of places I will now never go www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...

Went camping at the rainiest place in the continental United States

Packing a baby for a four day camping trip feels like it’s probably more difficult than moving a Big Top circus to the next town over

One of my favorites!

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

Tired: Give the people their cookies Wired: There shouldn’t be flights for routes less than 350 miles

I got 45 minutes of sleep last night lol. Call your mom.

what if I moved to Texas

Have been reading to the baby at bedtime but she doesn’t know what’s going on so I’ve switched from children’s books to Agatha Christie lol

Cry for the cryosphere. Climate change is accelerating in alpine areas and glacial regions, and climbing guides experience it first hand. @jeva.bsky.social @heatmap.news heatmap.news/climate/clim...

Does anyone have ideas for Mother’s Day that aren’t … horrible

Sold 🧋

Wrote about my favorite thing for @heatmap.news today (mountains and going up them) heatmap.news/climate/clim...