“In the red rock desert of Utah, where status is tied to how long one has lived here, not even the old-timers remember anything like this summer,” TerryTempestWilliams writes on the American Southwest’s flash floods. Read: nyti.ms/3AHSMMi

From Ted Chiang's recent New Yorker essay about AI. I totally agree with this:

"If our answer is no, then we are standing in the ruins of our own making where what is coming is already here: suffering and more suffering." Always such a joy and honor to work with TerryTempestWilliams. nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opi…

What a treat to work with @tedgenoways on this for #LaborDay2024 nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opi…

ICYMI: TerryTempestWilliams's very gripping piece about the terror and beauty of living through five flash floods in rapid succession this summer near Moab, Utah: nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opi…

Such impressive work by Rachel Louise Snyder and my colleagues on the Special Projects team nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Momentous: The UK, home to the world’s first coal power station in 1882, will stop using coal to generate electricity this month, the 1st G7 country to do so Coal supplied 80% of UK electricity in 1990. Remember: they said it couldn't be done ft.com/content/516418… #climate

Intense convection now firing over the developing storm in the Gulf. We should see Francine named soon and a quick strengthening to a hurricane is expected. Preparations need to be underway for Louisiana residents. Most of the state is in the cone! #lawx

Hey I don't want to distract you from the vital narrative-building on fracking in Pennsylvania, but ... 51% of energy jobs in PA are clean energy; clean energy employs 8X as many PA workers as gas; 78% (!) of PA residents want *more* clean energy. climatepower.us/news/clean-ene…

Important piece. China now leads the world in the clean energy technological revolution - EVs, batteries, solar, and wind. This is partly due to Trump doubling down on fossil fuels, the energy of the past. nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opi…

"The American economy will rely on batteries in the future, just as much — if not more — than it relies on fracking today. The United States is at risk of never learning to produce those batteries and falling ineluctably behind." Read Robinson Meyer: nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opi…

We can definitely say that over the last 30 years in the Northeast, we have seen more tornadoes, and there have been more favorable environments for tornadoes." insideclimatenews.org/news/04092024/…

“After a year of floods and storms across the country, more than 10 percent of Americans no longer have home insurance, as climate risk sends the insurance industry fleeing vulnerable places.” theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Oh yes nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opi…

"In the process, that hulking beast known as the modern reality star was born. The canniest knew how to command and control attention... In this pursuit, villainy, far from being a detriment, was increasingly an asset." nytimes.com/2024/09/13/opi…

Meanwhile, the tanker carrying 1 million barrels of oil is still stuck and on fire in the Red Sea. Should it sink it could cause one of the largest oil spills in history. Eye-opening piece by Josh Keating about this massive disaster waiting to happen. vox.com/climate/371734…

Recently experimented with dragging my toddler around with me on a Saturday while I hung out with my friends and it was a great success nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opi…

Great piece here on big tech corporations using nondisclosure agreements and other secrecy tricks to prevent communities from opposing new data center construction #BanSecretDeals nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opi…

Bipartisan critical minerals bill introduced in US Senate aimed at creating a federal minerals strategy for the energy transition, boosting research funding and promoting more-responsible mining practices. “What we need is a Project Mercury for critical minerals,” says

If a data center is coming to your town, you might never know. "Big tech operators are aggressively deploying nondisclosure agreements to force local officials, construction workers and others to keep these projects under wraps," writes Sean Patrick Cooper: nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opi…