Reposted by Emily AtkinMichael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great piece. Very strong "Don't look up" vibes: 1191
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My 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 beatcjr.orgHow 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 ... 15211
Reposted by Emily AtkinSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How 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-...cjr.orgHow 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 ... 14823
Reposted by Emily AtkinCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 23/09/2026Huge 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 36127
Reposted by Emily AtkinSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Such 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...coveringclimatenow.org‘Betting the House’: A Pop-Up Collaboration — Covering Climate NowBetting 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... 12513
Reposted by Emily AtkinChase Cain @chasecain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Could 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 ⤵️youtu.beWho Decides When a City Dies? America's Home Insurance CrisisYouTube video by Chase Cain 1157
Reposted by Emily AtkinKetan 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...heated.worldWhy I turned down funding for my Miami storySeven years in, HEATED still answers only to its readers. 0373
Reposted by Emily AtkinYung 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‼️investmentweek.co.ukHSBC 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. 1359
Reposted by Emily AtkinCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026Over 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.youtube.comWhy Coastal Homeowners are Spending Big on Small MovesYouTube video by Climate Central 1124
Reposted by Emily AtkinCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026At 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.theconfluence.newsMillion-Dollar Views, Crumbling CoastsAs owners pour millions into Hawai’i’s crumbling coastal estates, private property rights clash with public beach survival. 1125
Reposted by Emily AtkinCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026New 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? ... 1144
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So proud to be a part of this cool project bringing independent climate reporters together! 04314
Reposted by Emily AtkinCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/09/2026In 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... 2226
Reposted by Emily AtkinKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/09/2026I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis. 23825190
Reposted by Emily Atkin👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @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.socialheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 0388
Reposted by Emily Atkinlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud 351603402
Reposted by Emily AtkinKelly 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 34213
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Reporters in climate-threatened areas everywhere should just start asking about the risk at open houses. I’d read 100 of these stories 3317
Reposted by Emily AtkinMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW: 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...futurism.comHow 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 MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 18887478
Reposted by Emily AtkinCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 18/09/2026This 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...coveringclimatenow.org‘Betting the House’: A Pop-Up Collaboration — Covering Climate NowBetting 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... 0103
Reposted by Emily AtkinCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 18/09/2026Come 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. 22111
Reposted by Emily AtkinEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A 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 journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421279407
Reposted by Emily AtkinJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Blood 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 71112186
Reposted by Emily AtkinJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye 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 4253902351
Reposted by Emily Atkinmedievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026gosh 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 0122
Reposted by Emily AtkinDr. 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. 0105
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Honestly, I told myself (and this is not a joke) I was practicing to one day be on @officialsurvivor.bsky.social 1140
Reposted by Emily Atkinndweiss @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.”* 0216
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thanks for pointing that out, it's supposed to say "a" 12-story condo -- I think I changed it to "the" so I could put "the Champlain Towers South condominium" or something. Anyway it's just a typo. I fixed 0171
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thank you, makes up for the pukey feeling of lying to the nice real estate agents (even the hurricane guy) 2811
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I also pitched doing this experiment in California I just didn’t have the budget 120
Reposted by Emily AtkinDanforth @danforth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is a wiiiiiiiild bit of work. 0139
Reposted by Emily AtkinSergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A 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. 0187
Reposted by Emily AtkinCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026such a good genre of story! 38013
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026 I can't even describe to you what it was like hearing "I'm a glass half full kind of guy" in person 2840
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In the seven years since Miller posed as a Miami homebuyer and asked agents about flooding, the reality of climate change on the housing market there has gotten much darker It seemed like a good time to repeat the experiment 227423
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My article is an homage to Sarah Miller's 2019 story for Popula, in which she performed the same experiment It is an absolute masterclass in literary journalism and one of my favorite piece of climate writing, so if you have to pick one to read I recommend herspopula.comHeaven or High WaterSelling Miami's last 50 years 541041
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A 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 journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421279407
Reposted by Emily Atkinc-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Texas 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. 01014
Reposted by Emily AtkinJustin 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 Heatedheated.worldOil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weaknessTo 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. 03018
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I’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 0299
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Thank you! Shamelessly linking my article if people want to read more. I’ve also reached out to the major tech companies making AI tools for big oil to get their response.heated.worldAI’s climate problem is worse than we thoughtA new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint. 010043
Reposted by Emily AtkinKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/08/2026Have 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.nature.comAI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Actionnpj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model 6261158
Reposted by Emily Atkinjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/08/2026my 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.newsheatmap.newsHow the National Park Service Wound Up in a Data Center DealThe agency is reportedly considering a land swap that would allow AI infrastructure in one of northern Virginia’s largest green spaces. 5265148
Reposted by Emily AtkinSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Artificial 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.socialheated.worldAI’s climate problem is worse than we thoughtA new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint. 27566
Reposted by Emily AtkinEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026AI 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.worldAI’s climate problem is worse than we thoughtA new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint. 712686