And there's no journalism without people like Scott Pelley.

"When she shopped around for coverage, she was quoted as high as $12,000 a year to insure her 2-bed, 1-bath house built in 1956. Her accountant suggested that she pull from her 401k to pay off her mortgage so she could drop her coverage" @senwhitehouse.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

Thinking of all the people I met while reporting my book who live in hot, poorly insulated apartments and homes in Phoenix who turn off their AC during extreme heatwaves because they can't afford extreme power bills.

Cool idea

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

"The Climate Change Committee shows a single fossil fuel shock could cost as much as the entire additional investment required to reach net zero between now and 2050." Any Democrats pointing out this extremely salient fact?

There will be no bottles of AI tears.

I’m so used to thinking of politicians as motivated by greed that I forgot about malice. Nobody’s making money off this, it’s pure destruction

In a humans vs. heat tournament, heat will always win game, set, match.

shoutout to photo editor on this story, the bucket over the head is 😘

A/C can be a life-saver, but it's also a technology of forgetting. Forgetting how we built cool buildings in hot places for thousands of years. Wind towers, dog trot homes, even just transoms above doors to let heat escape rooms. (lots more in ch. 11, The Heat Will Kill You First)

the entire paxton campaign is just gonna be republicans calling talarico gay over and over then offering coy denials when called on it and accusing the libs of being to sensitive when they call it out bsky.app/profile/came...

Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐

It's wild that I spend so much time communicating the dangers of heat, and yet have never seen an image like this. We truly do hide the horrors of heatwaves.

Sure but they‘re really stupid questions

Startled to discover this herd of endangered species, largely extinct in the US, thriving in a remote corner of Northern Ireland.

Belfast, Northern Ireland

"The company is asking for $7 million to get rid of the coal pile and dispose of it in a landfill near the Oregon border." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/c...

How to talk about climate change.

Record (literally) Heat Dome for May builds over West-Central #Europe the next several days. Peak temperatures will reach 15° above normal in Spain, France and Germany as well as surrounding areas. Maximum temperatures will reach 39°C/ 102°F into next week, with the highest in SW Spain. #heatwave

We don’t just need to end fossil fuels; we need to end fossil fuel companies. “…the largest 250 oil and gas companies only own 1.42% of global renewable energy, and just 0.01% of the energy they extract comes from renewable sources.”

Funny what happens when you burn billions of tons of fossil fuels long after everyone knows what the consequences will be of burning billions of tons of fossil fuels.

My flight to Montana is half full of wildland firefighters heading for training in Missoula. The intensity and seriousness of their conversation reminds me of athletes before a big game. They they know what’s coming this summer.

“Woody Guthrie wrote ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in response to Irving Berlin’s ‘God Bless America,’ arguing that this country belonged to the struggling and the marginalized as much as it did to the privileged and pedigreed.”

Still thinking about this (from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social 's Becoming Earth): "a single gallon of gasoline represents 100 tonnes of ancient life, roughly equivalent to 20 adult elephants". I knew it was big, but never worked it out. A tank of petrol is a LOT of ancient life. +1 reason to electrify!

Three times more likely because of human caused climate change. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Democrats—who mostly aren’t talking about climate change—are continuing to debate whether they should talk about climate change." great lede for smart piece by @katearonoff.bsky.social

Every year now, the pre-monsoon heat (the hottest time of year in South Asia with temperatures well over 40°C) starts earlier & lasts longer - due to human-induced climate change - exposing 1billion people to deadly heat. @wwattribution.bsky.social www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Two of the deadliest weather-related disasters globally in the 21st century have been droughts in Somalia. The current drought may join this list: "Somalia’s worst-ever drought leaves millions starving as Trump’s aid cuts and Iran war deepen hunger crisis" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"According to our analysis, Americans in the bottom 18 percent have had to spend at least half a week’s income to pay off the higher price of fuel since the end of February." @jeffcolgan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

If you are a journalist covering business, politics, metro, science -- basically, any beat in our hot, wild world today -- and you are not paying attention to @coveringclimatenow.org, you are not doing your job right.

Great example of how scientists' understanding of the mechanics of a fast-warming atmosphere is getting more nuanced. It's not just how much rain you get, it's when and how you get it. Big implications for ag, dams, wildlife.

Sea walls are luxury goods, things that wealthy people buy to protect themselves from themselves. For a little while.

"Trump’s policies will add an extra seven billion tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere through 2030 compared to the U.S. Paris Agreement target. Using the Biden EPA’s own social cost of carbon, that will result in $1.6 trillion in global climate damages." (from @leahstokes.bsky.social)

This also explains the decline of climate science in America.

Doctors say that vaccines are safe, effective, and humanity's greatest scientific achievement. A guy who swims in sewage and dumps bear cub carcasses in public spaces says they cause autism and allergies. For busy Americans, it's hard to know who to trust.

Just spent a week offline in Texas hill country. Ate pickled garlic, saw a vermillion flycatcher, chatted with a sheriff who keeps his engraved chrome .45 in a bikini holster. And wrote many pages of new book. Amazing how productive it can be to disconnect from the digital treadmill for a while.

Only Big Oil and their pals are allowed to "educate" judges. Otherwise, it is a sign of corruption and conspiracy against America.

Something that's rare? Major fossil fuel producers - including Nigeria, Canada and Australia - getting together to find concrete ways to transition away from fossil fuels. That's what's happening with more than 50 countries gathered in Santa Marta Colombia right now. 📻🎧 only on @npr.org ⬇️ 🇨🇴🇳🇬🇨🇦🇦🇺+🌏

War is bad and people die and stuff gets blown up but if you look at it a different way --

Lots to love about @bookshop.org, born out of the pandemic, Bezos-free, bookstore-strong. Great place to buy books if your local store is out of stock or has been converted into a red light therapy spa.

If I was in charge of space missions, I wouldn't be sending engineers or scientists or wannabe space colonists up there. I'd be sending artists, poets and writers - the people who can look back at Earth and share what it feels like to see directly how beautiful, fragile & unique our planet is. [1/2]

No climate policy — EV subsidies, CAFE standards, etc. — would have ever done as much to push the world off oil, as this war. The transition would have just been a lot slower, better planned, less disruptive.

Given the war-driven acceleration of the shift to renewables and EVs in much of the world, it may be more like a party on the deck of the Titanic. Feels big now. Will be remembered differently.

20th C: Beach houses on stilts 21st C: Beach houses on wheels

South Carolina has a climate change candidate in the governor's race. And not in a good way. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

Oil geopolitics and the energy transition just got more interesting www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The last thing any petrostate wants is clean, cheap energy.

This might be the most insane story about the US EPA that you’ll read.