What Emily Atkin thinks about climate change
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
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17 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Emily Atkin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsFossil fuel money is one of the most powerful forces in American politics. It is the biggest obstacle we face in preserving a livable climate for everyone on Earth.
- 6 days earlier
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Their wordsAnd I think there’s a good reason to question the whole premise that climate change doesn’t swing votes. Economist Matt Burgess studied the 2020 presidential election and estimated that if climate change hadn’t been an issue, Republicans might have gained a roughly three-point swing in the popular vote.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsIt’s because we’ve all been subject to a decades-long industry influence campaign targeted at politicians and the public, designed to convince us that methane gas is “natural” fuel that’s good for our bodies and the environment.
↗Why smart people believe the myth that natural gas is cleanheated.world
- 2 weeks earlier
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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
- 3 weeks earlier
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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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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
- 8 days earlier
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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
- 11 days earlier
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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
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Their wordsHowever worse the climate crisis gets now depends on how quickly society transforms. How quickly society transforms depends on how many people demand it.
↗“What can I do?” The answer is still anything.heated.world 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe most harmful lie being spread about climate change today is not that it is fake. It's that nothing you can do can help save the world.
↗“What can I do?” The answer is still anything.heated.world 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsAI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.
↗We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oilheated.world 1st of 2 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsthey found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.
↗AI’s climate problem is worse than we thoughtheated.world 1st of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIt is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.
↗The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame gameheated.world 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.
↗The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame gameheated.world 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPolluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
↗Another stolen summer dayheated.world 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.
↗Another stolen summer dayheated.world 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsclimate coverage is rapidly shrinking-and what remains is increasingly paywalled