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Emily Atkin

@emorwee.bsky.social
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I run HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her. Signal: @emorwee.06

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great piece. Very strong "Don't look up" vibes:
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My contribution to this is basically “everyone’s brain is fucked and so is mine ” so I appreciate all the other, much more helpful and smart commentary from my esteemed colleagues on the climate beat
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How should we cover the climate story?
Speaking with climate reporters about staying on the beat—because, as Bill McKibben put it, “for better or for worse, by this time next year, there’s no doubt in my mind that climate coverage will be ...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How Should We Cover the Climate Story? Very kind of @columjournreview.bsky.social to include my thoughts alongside a bunch of esteemed journalists! @katbagley.bsky.social @sominisengupta.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @emorwee.bsky.social @vernonloeb.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/how-...
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How should we cover the climate story?
Speaking with climate reporters about staying on the beat—because, as Bill McKibben put it, “for better or for worse, by this time next year, there’s no doubt in my mind that climate coverage will be ...
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 23/09/2026
Huge thank you to everyone who attended our "No Immunity for Big Oil" #ClimateWeekNYC event yesterday! 🙌 @emorwee.bsky.social led a great discussion on holding Big Oil accountable w/ @govjayinslee.bsky.social, @brotherjones.bsky.social, Dr. Pallavi Phartiyal of @ucs.org & Angela Cai of Platkin LLP
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Such great journalism about climate and housing by four fellow independent journalists! Check out "Betting the House," by @emorwee.bsky.social, @chasecain.bsky.social, @rachelreports.bsky.social and Ben Tracy, with support from @coveringclimatenow.org: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/bet...
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‘Betting the House’: A Pop-Up Collaboration — Covering Climate Now
Betting the House is a pop-up collaboration of journalists reporting on what the climate crisis means for the places we call home. As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, the questi...
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Chase Cain @chasecain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Could this be the future of climate journalism? www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/five... Watch my report from New Orleans about the choices we face about which cities to protect from rising seas ⤵️
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Who Decides When a City Dies? America's Home Insurance Crisis
YouTube video by Chase Cain
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
"I love knowing that no one can dismiss our journalism by pointing to a corporation, foundation, or donor that pays for it" @emorwee.bsky.social at Heated -->>> heated.world/p/why-i-turn...
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Why I turned down funding for my Miami story
Seven years in, HEATED still answers only to its readers.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"sellers & agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it [..] The long-term risk belongs to whoever ends up holding the deed." No one knows this better than fmr HSBC global head of responsible investing, Stuart "who cares if Miami is 6 m under water in 100 years" Kirk‼️
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HSBC AM global head of responsible investing: 'Who cares if Miami is six metres under water in 100 years?'
HSBC Asset Management global head of responsible investing Stuart Kirk has questioned the risk climate change plays for financial markets, arguing that it is not one investors should worry about.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026
Over at @climatecentral.org, Ben Tracy explores how coastal homeowners in North Carolina and Connecticut are adapting to a changing shoreline — from moving an entire house inland and raising homes nearly 10 feet to rebuilding beaches at a cost of $50 million.
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Why Coastal Homeowners are Spending Big on Small Moves
YouTube video by Climate Central
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026
At The Confluence Substack, @rachelreports.bsky.social reports from Honolulu to explore how private property rights are clashing with public beach survival as owners pour millions into Hawai’i’s crumbling coastal estates.
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Million-Dollar Views, Crumbling Coasts
As owners pour millions into Hawai’i’s crumbling coastal estates, private property rights clash with public beach survival.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026
New Orleans is sinking, sea levels are rising, and the cost of home insurance is soaring. Chase What Matters' @chasecain.bsky.social went to New Orleans to ask an unavoidable question: who decides which communities we protect? And who gets left behind? ...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So proud to be a part of this cool project bringing independent climate reporters together!
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026
In 2024, Miami was ranked as the most climate-threatened city in the Americas. Yet, in July alone this year, sales of $1 million homes in Miami-Dade County were up 15% from the year before. What are home buyers being told about climate risk? Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social posed as one to find out...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026
I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.
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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 19/09/2026
'"How do you protect a place like this?” “Really expensive insurance,” he replied. “That’s the answer.”' And increasingly, everyplace is a place like this. Great work here by @emorwee.bsky.social
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026
this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud
Hill was willing to speak bluntly and on the record. But not every scientist I contacted felt able to do that. I called one Florida scientist who studies sea level rise to fact-check some of the agents' comments, but before we got very far, they asked not to be named. They explained that their current research depends on cooperation from county and municipal governments, which means they have to "tread very carefully" when speaking about real estate development in the
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That made sense to Hill. "If we get in the way of developers, their attorneys can go after us through our universities," she said. "It's not uncommonẠỊi
For the most part, she said, silence about climate risk in housing is incentivized. Because if climate risk tanks a property's value, she said,
"everyone's going to be pressuring everyone else not to talk about it."
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I asked about the threat of the rising sea. 'It’s definitely a problem,' the agent said. I blinked. 'Dang,' I said. 'Then how do you protect a place like this?' 'Really expensive insurance,' he replied. 'That’s the answer.'" 🙃🙃🙃 Great commentary by @kzhill.bsky.social too
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reporters in climate-threatened areas everywhere should just start asking about the risk at open houses. I’d read 100 of these stories
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 18/09/2026
This story is part of Betting the House, a pop-up climate newsroom bringing together independent journalists to cover climate and housing. Learn more, and read other stories from the project here: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/bet...
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‘Betting the House’: A Pop-Up Collaboration — Covering Climate Now
Betting the House is a pop-up collaboration of journalists reporting on what the climate crisis means for the places we call home. As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, the questi...
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 18/09/2026
Come see us at #ClimateWeekNYC! 👋 Next Tuesday (9/22), we’ll be co-hosting a panel with @ucs.org, moderated by @emorwee.bsky.social, to discuss how Big Oil is pulling every lever to escape accountability for its role in the climate crisis — and how communities across the country are fighting back.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
gosh I knew about the saltwater intrusion to the limestone that passes for “bedrock” in Florida but I had not connected the dots on foundation rebar/steel being bathed constantly in brackish groundwater
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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@emorwee.bsky.social and @sarahlovescali.bsky.social are both like a cross between an intellectual and a modern day pirate 🏴‍☠️- willing to do whatever it takes to tell the story the way the story needs to be told! This story about the luxury real estate market and sea level rise *needs* to be told.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*The realtor tells me owners in this building have recently been assessed $6,000 apiece toward the construction of a new [seawall]… “We’re fine,” he says. “There’s nothing wrong with the island. They did tests.”*
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Danforth @danforth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a wiiiiiiiild bit of work.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A sales pitch made for an increasingly chaotic climate: “It doesn’t really get any flooding at all,” he said. “You’re kind of in the safe zone.” The safe zone, it seemed, was whichever property I happened to be standing in.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
such a good genre of story!
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c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Texas is proposing to allow frackwater (complete with benzene and radioactive elements) to be discharged into waterways and spread on crops. Sound like a horrible idea? Here's what you can do to stop it.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"In doing so, they inadvertently gave the public a free lesson in how to bring the U.S. oil and gas industry to its knees." Intrigued? @saulelbein.bsky.social has the details at @emorwee.bsky.social's Heated
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Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness
To keep drilling, Big Oil needs permission to dump treated fracking wastewater into rivers and onto cropland. We don’t have to give it to them.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m being completely serious when I say someone needs to alert the Texas MAHA moms about this. It’s a serious health threat particularly to children
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/08/2026
Have we just been examining the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI's carbon emissions? This new study says YES. Thanks to @emorwee.bsky.social and @grist.org for reporting on this.
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
my latest: i can confirm there's been a concerted campaign to develop a data center in northern virginia within a historically important national park site relying on help from a senior advisor to the interior department under the first trump admin will the land swap happen? for @heatmap.news
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How the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center Deal
The agency is reportedly considering a land swap that would allow AI infrastructure in one of northern Virginia’s largest green spaces.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Artificial intelligence could help oil and gas companies spew as much as 13 times more climate pollution, per a new study — dwarfing the climate impacts of data center energy use. heated.world/p/ais-climat... via @emorwee.bsky.social
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Holy hell
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI is not just consuming a lot of fossil fuels. It it also enabling the fossil fuel industry to drill more, faster. These applications create far more climate pollution than data centers — 3.3x to 13.3x more, according to new peer-reviewed research. We *have* to start talking about this.
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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PodKATT @podkatt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The whole situation kinda reminds me how teenage smoking was almost eliminated then came roaring back through unregulated vapes. Watching the explosion of growth in solar and renewables in other countries over the last year is a depressing example of the future we could have had.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“There are teams of engineers and salespeople at these tech companies that are explicitly for the fossil fuel industry,” Holly Alpine, a former senior manager at Microsoft, told HEATED. “They are engineers writing code explicitly in partnerships with oil majors to expand production.”
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI is not just consuming a lot of fossil fuels. It it also enabling the fossil fuel industry to drill more, faster. These applications create far more climate pollution than data centers — 3.3x to 13.3x more, according to new peer-reviewed research. We *have* to start talking about this.
heated.world
AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought heated.world/p/ais-climat...
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought
A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.
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Pizza belongs on pineapple @essin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...
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The Slop Doctrine
Why the right has overwhelmingly embraced terrible AI-generated imagery.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There's something ironic about the fact that AI slop is the primary method being used to spread misinformation about utility-scale solar projects
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In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom • Tennessee Lookout
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue.
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Desi Doyen/Green News Report @greennewsreport.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check out @emorwee.bsky.social covering this emerging phenomenon in the US heated.world/p/the-influe...
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The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Was just searching on Facebook marketplace for rugs and this came up as sponsored content. I am losing it
A rug with three swastikas on it that is branded as the Whirling Log Navajo Rug. It’s from a site called Esmaili Rugs  The rug is $3,900 and 3x8. Only one left in stock! A description of the rug says “the whirling log motif, which predates its appropriation in other contexts, is deeply rooted in Navajo cosmology and tradition
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mal @malorienilson.com · 03/08/2026
I'd not encountered Fasulo, and this pattern of coopting progressive language/concerns about environmental impacts was surprising. I went to Insta to see if anyone I know follows her (no shame), and several people do. I think genuine concern is being manipulated here. Appreciate Heated, as usual!
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