climate change
Warming and what would actually move it: emissions, carbon, and the difference between a gesture and a lever.
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Bill McKibben quoted
Writer and climate campaigner
Their wordsIf what we’re worried about is reining in climate change, then we have to build huge amounts of clean energy and that has to quickly drive fossil energy down to zero. If we just build lots of both, or even just a little more of clean energy than dirty, than we haven’t gotten anywhere.
↗Making the Decent the Enemy of the Desperatebillmckibben.substack.com
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- BM
Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordsEl Niño, likely exacerbated by climate change and definitely riding in on top of already overheated seas, will raise temperatures to places that no member of our species has yet experienced.
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- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting…
Our readingThe extreme worst-case future becoming unlikely does not mean climate change is chill now.
Their wordsThe extreme worst-case future becoming unlikely does not mean climate change is chill now.
↗How good climate news became fossil fuel propagandaheated.world
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Andrew Dessler quoted
Professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M
Their wordsUnderstanding climate change will help Texas graduates manage those risks and identify new business opportunities for solving the problems that climate change creates.
↗Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about ittheclimatebrink.com
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Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordsIf transmission corridors are matched by new gas pipelines, we haven’t made much progress.
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Zeke Hausfather quoted
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst
Their wordsBy 2150 we have a 77% chance of being above 3C, a ~30% chance of being above 4C, and a 6% of more than 5C warming.
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Zeke Hausfather quoted
Their wordsThe global land (where, its worth noting, we all happen to live) is warming around 50% faster than the world as a whole, and has already passed 2C.
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David Roberts quoted
Writes and podcasts Volts, on the technology
Their wordsAs I've said a million times, electrification is the heart of decarbonization, the heart of economic growth, the heart of everything.
↗Volts community thread #30: what should I ask the Danes?volts.wtf 2nd of 2 in this piece
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- EA
Emily Atkin quoted
Our readingSurviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate risk
Their wordsSurviving up to now is not evidence that a property is prepared for what comes next, she said-especially when the conditions around it are changing.
↗The open houses at the edge of disasterheated.world 1st of 2 in this piece
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Emily Atkin quoted
Their wordssellers and agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it. Everyone involved only needs the property to look safe long enough to pass it along
↗The open houses at the edge of disasterheated.world 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo
Their wordswe produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.
↗NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Ketan Joshi quoted
Their wordswe explore and contest all these claims, which we contend are not supported by strong evidence.
↗NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Richard Stallman quoted
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project
Our readingGlobal heating is being deliberately inflicted rather than occurring as a natural disaster.
Their wordsGlobal heating is an intentional outrage, not a natural calamity. It is being done to us knowingly.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 9th of 10 in this piece
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- BM
Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordspoliticians routinely underestimate the potency of this whole complex of issues.
↗The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formationbillmckibben.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Andrew Dessler quoted
Our readingRising atmospheric water vapor raises the ceiling on how extreme rainfall events can become
Their wordsSo the increase in PWAT is not just a weirdo statistic. It is a statement about the ceiling on the worst rain events we can face.
↗The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Recordtheclimatebrink.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Andrew Dessler quoted
Our readingClimate change made the July 2025 Texas flooding more intense than it otherwise would have been
Their wordsGiven that we can connect increases in PWAT to global warming, we can confidently conclude that climate change made this rain event more intense than it otherwise would have been.
↗The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Recordtheclimatebrink.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsI think a huge failure mode for progressive politics is looking at a difficult problem like climate change that can only be addressed through a mix of hard international coordination problems and hard technical problems, only to decide that it's really just a political question of beating the fossil fuel industry.
↗A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.slowboring.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Paul Krugman quoted
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
Their wordsAnd everything we know about climate change suggests that what we’ve seen so far is just a foretaste of the disasters to come.
↗The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsClimate denial, we know from decades of experience, is fueled by an unholy trinity of financial interest (fossil fuel companies determined to keep their profits flowing), ideology (conservatives hostile to any form of regulation) and psychological insecurity (real men burn stuff.)
↗The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsChina scaled solar and batteries when America refused to, because the CCP got scared of climate change.
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Emily Atkin quoted
Their words"Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.
↗We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.heated.world 3rd of 3 in this piece
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- BM
Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordsIt is entirely prudent to keep researching and testing carbon capture technology-someday it may be part of the solution to the greatest problem humanity has ever faced.
↗Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordsthere is actually one thing we do know how to do, and that is build out lots of cheap solar, wind, and batteries.
↗Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Andrew Dessler quoted
Their wordsthe temperatures produced under RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 are a reasonable upper bound on what the future climate might be.
↗The Worst Case Is Still on the Tabletheclimatebrink.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Andrew Dessler quoted
Their wordsKeeping the RCP8.5/SSP5-8.5 runs as a plausible upper limit is particularly important given that recent research has emphasized the possibility that models are underestimating future warming.
↗The Worst Case Is Still on the Tabletheclimatebrink.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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- BM
Bill McKibben quoted
Their words"Just switching to sustainable energy" is in fact the one good, scalable weapon we have to fight that
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Tyler Cowen quoted
Economist at George Mason University
Their wordsWhen it comes to the cybersecurity risks from advanced AI, very likely they will not come close to being as bad as either Covid or global warming.
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- BM
Bill McKibben quoted
Their wordsBut physics is giving us very little time now, and so the next set of elections in this country will be, I think, our last real chance to make the sea change-replacing oil and gas with sun and wind-that is our best hope for limiting warming.
↗The growing rumblebillmckibben.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Elon Musk quoted
Founded SpaceX in 2002
Their wordsExtremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be needed or it will be game over.
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Emily Atkin quoted
Their wordsAs the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.
↗“What can I do?” The answer is still anything.heated.world 1st of 3 in this piece