the screenwriters are just phoning it in at this point

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

NEW: A famed pool expert says that to even begin to tell what’s wrong with the Reflecting Pool you’d want to analyze the water, which no one is allowed to do. What a metaphor! @mollytaft.com has all your Algaegate needs covered:

"But you don’t need Swimming Pool Steve to tell you that when you see what appears to be the interior surface peeling up and floating in chunks, that’s an 'oh, crap' moment." Instantly iconic @mollytaft.com interview with the internet's favorite pool guy, Swimming Pool Steve

IEA said Iran War created the worst fossil-fuel disruption in history. Price of oil stayed below $150. Why? Biggest reason: China cut its demand by 5 million barrels a day. Some say it's a mystery. But @davidfickling.bsky.social says public data explains it. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Turns out dismantling the ocean sensor network right as what's shaping up to be the strongest El Niño on record wasn't such a good idea after all

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

pool still green even though trump want pool blue

The DOJ wants the suit against xAI's gas turbines dismissed because it "threatens American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations"

NEW: The Trump administration is weighing in on the lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines. It wants the suit tossed, arguing the turbines and Grok are critical to national security. Important late night scoop from @mollytaft.com

NEW: A variety of actors find it convenient to claim that opposition to data centers is the result of CHINESE COMMUNIST PSYOPS. If so, the crafty CCP has done a hell of a job covering up the evidence, reports the diligent @mollytaft.com:

The SpaceX IPO is going to mint thousands of new millionaires. Elon Musk alone is going to make hundreds of billions of dollars. Who'd not getting rich? Anyone who lives near the pollution-spewing turbines that power the company's AI ambitions. from @mollytaft.com

In case you were wondering how people living in the shadows of xAI's gas-powered data centers feel about the SpaceX IPO that could make Elon a trillionaire... www.wired.com/story/spacex...

Took a break from editing and writing about my passion (climate and science) to write about my other passion (trying to figure out where Phoebe's next popup show will be)

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

totally normal Energy Department post

This is the science equivalent of paying companies $1 billion not to build an offshore wind farm when there's an energy crisis

wake up babe, new solar conspiracy theory dropped www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Update: The White House got back to us after publication to say it had updated the website to exclude a "handful" of arrests by Homeland Security Investigations. A review of the updated aliens.gov data shows they deleted 270,214 arrests.

well that's certainly one way to answer a question about how much you relied on AI to write your book about how AI impacts the truth... www.wired.com/story/future...

In which @mollytaft.com wades into the PFAS pan wars and the latest legal front that's opened up for @wired.com

The DOGE cuts and shuttering USAID are creating a nightmare for the ebola response—and why cases could show up in the US "in no time." Really harrowing read from @knibbs.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

For the @wired.com Big Interview this week, I interviewed California gubernatorial hopeful and billionaire Tom Steyer. It was a tough hang for many reasons, but particularly because he didn't know who he was talking to.

This is the most Bay Area real estate thing I have ever read

xAI has expanded unpermitted behind-the-meter gas capacity at its Colossus 2 site to roughly 1 gigawatt. Wild stuff from @mollytaft.com

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

NEW: i took a look at a chevron power plant designed to power a data center that is asking for a school district tax break in texas — the plant's probable client is microsoft, which made a series of promises around tax breaks in january my dive into tax breaks for data center power:

some (belated) personal news: wrapping up my first week @wired.com where I'm overseeing science coverage. I'm still working on climate but so excited to cover everything science at a time when so many fields are both under attack and churning out amazing discoveries

California's ambitious climate goals are bumping against the reality that nobody — particularly people living in increasingly fireprone areas — wants utility-scale batteries in their backyard. @toddwoody.bsky.social dove into the growing wave of battery NIMBYs in the state and beyond

Hello, I wrote about Pete Hegseth’s anti-climate stance vs. the very real climate risks faced by the USM, which it is not ignoring, and how these things are in tension. Please check it out!

News to me and the 8 billion people who live on land

The Endangered Species Committee, a little-used panel of US senior federal agency leaders, on Tuesday exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from sweeping endangered species protections, citing reasons of national security. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

My interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social is now live. We touch on wealth tax, Iran, North Sea, community energy and so much more. youtu.be/STXgaWdfWKs

What stands out perhaps most here is how much oil demand electric two- and three-wheelers have avoided. Most talk in developed countries is about passenger cars, but the transition to electric among these smaller vehicles in developing countries has been huge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EVs already avoid 2.3 million barrels of oil demand per day, an amount roughly on par with UAE production

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

Chat is it bad when its 106 degrees in February? weather.com/news/weather...

The Trump administration literally canceled $450 million in grid resilience grants to Puerto Rico last month but sure the halftime show was absolutely apolitical

Compared with the 1st year of previous admins, including Trump’s 1st term, the current admin has taken fewer polluters to court & settled fewer existing court cases, per a new review of federal court records by the nonprofit EIP. Story @bloomberg.com w/gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Data center energy and water use have gotten a lot of (rightful) attention. But there's another issue that's getting less attention than it should: The immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them 🎁🔗

Jennifer Granholm's advice for Democrats: Implement their agenda as aggressively as Trump and tie building renewables to lowering energy bills. Oh, and don't mention climate: “On Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, climate does not rise as much as how much I'm paying for my electricity bill" 🎁🔗

Not the just White House. Also extremely unclear what penguins and MAHA have to do with each other

Local news remains undefeated in creating new weather metrics

The fossil fuel industry has a long history of mascots. One of my favs is Captain Coal, who is featured in coloring books and other materials the Lignite Council gives out for free to teachers

Shot: The Trump administration is pushing the biggest US grid operator to hold an emergency wholesale electricity auction later this year to accelerate new power coming on the grid and bring down costs 🎁🔗

The US rare earth industry saw record venture funding in 2025 as the US looks to build out a supply chain of elements crucial to the defense and energy sectors. My latest for @bloomberg.com w/ Emily Forgash www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #rareearths #climatetech #investment

Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers. 🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...