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It’s official: COP28 has more fossil fuel lobbyists than ever - Heated World (Dec 5) |
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Dec 5 · The number of fossil fuel lobbyists at this year’s U.N. climate summit is nearly four times higher than it’s ever been, revealing an extraordinary amount of influence from the biggest climate polluters on Earth.
Specifically, there are 2,456 fossil fuel representatives at this year’s United Nations Climate Change conference in the United Arab Emirates, according to an analysis of summit attendees published today by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition.
There were only 636 fossil fuel lobbyists at last year’s COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, making the fossil fuel presence at this year’s summit “unprecedented,” the coalition said.
“The sheer number of fossil fuel ... Read more ...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists pour into COP28 - Heated World (Dec 1) |
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Dec 1 · It’s day two of the 28th Conference of the Parties, known as COP28, the world’s most important climate conference - and organizers have released a massive excel spreadsheet containing all the names and workplaces of in-person attendees.
HEATED spent yesterday going through that spreadsheet, and found hundreds of fossil fuel industry representatives who are actively working to delay climate policy at home. More like Conference of the Worst Party Ever!
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Alongside highly publicized attendees like King Charles III and Bill Gates, here are ... Read more ...
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COP28 sucks. Pay attention anyway. - Heated World (Nov 23) |
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Nov 23 · I can understand why one might want to tune out COP28, the United Nations climate change summit set to begin tomorrow in the United Arab Emirates.
There’s the fact it’s being run by a literal fossil fuel baron: Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of the state-run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), which also happens to have one of the biggest oil and gas expansion plans in the world.
There’s the fact that Al Jaber’s self-proclaimed “game-changing plan” to achieve progress at COP28 is to give oil and gas companies more influence over the climate change summit, despite warnings from the U.N.’s former climate chief that the approach is “dangerous” and “a direct threat to ... Read more ...
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What does Taylor Swift owe the planet? - Heated World (Nov 21) |
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Nov 21 · It’s been widely reported that the day 23-year-old Ana Clara Benevides collapsed and died at a sold-out sweltering Taylor Swift concert in Rio de Janeiro was a historic and dangerously hot day for Brazil, with the local heat index exceeding 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48ºC).
What has been less discussed, at least thus far, is the fact that the day Benevides died was also a historic and dangerously hot day for the whole world.
On Friday, November 17, scientists saw Earth’s average surface temperature momentarily rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time since humans began keeping temperature records, marking a brief entry into a deadly ... Read more ...
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The Instagram wellness influencers spreading climate misinformation - Heated World (Nov 16) |
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Nov 16 · When Cecile Simmons, a part-time yoga instructor, scrolled through her Instagram feed earlier this year, she noticed something peculiar happening among the health and wellness influencers she followed: some had started posting climate change conspiracies.
A post from the New Age spirituality account @aguidetoawakening, for example, had told its 10,900 followers that the “The accelerating 'climate change’ is not due to human activities,” but due to the “organic phenomenon of Asciention Mechanics.”
Another post from @drmercola, a homeopath with 500,000 followers, claimed that “Biden wants to block out the sun to save the planet.” That post garnered 8,470 likes and 1,405 ... Read more ...
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Surprise! Billionaires aren’t solving climate change - Heated World (Nov 7) |
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Nov 7 · When billionaires announce grand philanthropic donations for the planet, they tend to get heaps of positive attention.
Who can forget the wave of press coverage that followed Jeff Bezos’ announcement of the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund; Elon Musk’s unveiling of a $100 million prize for “best carbon capture;” or Kim Kardashians’ recent announcement that she’s donating a portion of sales from her Skims Ultimate Nipple Bra to an environmental nonprofit.
(On the View, Whoopi Goldberg said she was “so proud of this girl" for donating money to climate change. And we are too, Whoopi. We are too.)
It is always good to see money going toward climate solutions. But one thing ... Read more ...
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Kim, there's people that are dying. - Heated World (Nov 2) |
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Nov 2 · I just want to start this off by saying I love a good climate change joke. The darker the better.Just yesterday, a friend who is also a climate journalist sent me a mug with a picture of a burning Earth on it that says, “The climate beat: So hot right now.” We joke to cope with professional lives dedicated to telling stories about one of the most deadly injustices known to humanity. We laugh because we have to. So when I saw Kim Kardashian’s new commercial for the SKIMS Ultimate Nipple Bra - which is essentially a bra with built-in hard nipples - my first reaction was to laugh. It pokes fun at the climate crisis in both a dark and racy way.
Here’s what the whole thing ... Read more ...
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An Exxon-funded scientist speaks out - Heated World (Oct 31) |
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Oct 31 · Rebecca Grekin is researching how to mitigate climate change as a Ph.D. student at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability.
Grekin’s research, which looks at how to lower emissions of air conditioned buildings, is vital to a world that is rapidly warming. But it is also supported by the same industry that started the climate crisis in the first place - a reality she says she still struggles with.
“There are definitely ways that [fossil fuel funding] can influence the research, and I think that there are ways to set it up such that it doesn’t,” she told HEATED in an interview.
That’s why Grekin and five other graduate students signed their names to an ... Read more ...
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Calling this "climate change" is not enough - Heated World (Oct 26) |
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Oct 26 · A monster Category 5 hurricane pummeled the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people, knocking out power, and destroying infrastructure in the famed city of Acapulco.
If you’re surprised to hear about this, that may be because weather forecasters were, too. On Tuesday night, Hurricane Otis “experienced nearly unprecedented explosive development in hours, going from a Category 1 to a catastrophic Category 5 with nearly no warning, stunning residents and meteorologists alike,” Fox Weather reported.
The technical term for when hurricanes gain strength very quickly is “rapid intensification,” and the phenomenon is becoming more common as ... Read more ...
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How Big Beef muzzled methane research - Heated World (Oct 24) |
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Oct 24 · Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about methane, the second-largest contributor to the climate crisis - and focusing mostly on the fossil fuel industry.
But there’s another major contributor to methane emissions that we haven’t recently discussed, with an equally powerful lobby behind it: animal agriculture.
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Climate scientists have been saying for years that the world needs to eat less meat to slow global warming. They’ve said that even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted today, trends in meat and dairy consumption ... Read more ...
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The urgent need for methane literacy - Heated World (Oct 19) |
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Oct 19 · On Tuesday, The Washington Post published an important article on the latest, and perhaps greatest, recent threat to U.S. efforts to prevent climate catastrophe: A massive planned expansion of exported liquified methane gas.
In addition to the eight liquified methane gas export terminals that are currently operational in U.S. waters, six more have been approved and are currently under construction; 11 more have been approved and are awaiting construction; four more are currently awaiting federal approval; and three more are in pre-filing application stages.
It’s an unprecedented planned build-out of new fossil fuel infrastructure, and remarkable given that less than a ... Read more ...
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143 coal plants and a punch in the face - Heated World (Oct 18) |
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Oct 18 · The young people were angry. The man in the blue suit was angry.
They expressed their anger in different ways.
The young people, angry because of the U.S. government’s inadequate response to the climate crisis, organized a disruptive but non-violent protest at a policy conference last week, during which they confronted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg onstage and expressed outrage at his department’s recent controversial decision to approve a massive new oil terminal offshore of Freeport, Texas.
The man in the blue suit, seemingly angry because of the 21-minute disruption, followed the protesters as they left and struck one of them in the head.
A brief ... Read more ...
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Republicans use Israel-Hamas war to drum up fake climate controversy - Heated World (Oct 12) |
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Oct 12 · Here’s something to remember about the people and institutions committed to delaying climate action: They never let a crisis go to waste.
That’s become clear in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas, and subsequent deadly air strikes in Gaza by Israel, which conservative politicians and right-wing media are now using as an opportunity to attack President Joe Biden for being concerned about climate change.
While tempting to ignore, this latest right-wing outrage cycle is a useful window into the disingenuous ways conservatives use fear of global terrorism to turn public opinion against climate policy.
So today, we’re going to talk about the common ... Read more ...
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Technically, that New York City flood was “mild” - Heated World (Oct 4) |
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Oct 4 · If you read the news or scrolled social media this weekend, you probably heard that New York City experienced record-breaking rainfall and catastrophic flooding on Friday.
You probably heard that LaGuardia Airport shut down a terminal; that subway lines transformed into cesspools; that a whirlpool formed in Brooklyn; that a sea lion escaped its enclosure in the Central Park Zoo.
But what you may not have heard, as I hadn’t before yesterday, is that scientists who study coastal flooding actually consider Friday’s flood to be “mild.” That’s because, while the rainfall itself was record-breaking - more than 8.65 inches fell at JFK airport - the coastal flood level was only ... Read more ...
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Do we need to change our behavior? - Heated World (Sep 28) |
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Sep 28 · Someone I admire recently reached out and asked if we could discuss his climate anxiety. This person, who does not work in climate change but reads about it frequently, told me that no matter how hard he tries, his anxiety about the planet’s future keeps getting worse.
One reason for this, he speculated, was the feeling of screaming into a void. He said it feels like most people - including those who work in climate professionally - aren’t truly grappling with the severity of the problem.
He said it feels like there are certain hard truths, particularly regarding humanity’s overconsumption of natural resources and the need to change behavior, that even climate-focused ... Read more ...
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How Exxon tried to twist climate science for profit - Heated World (Sep 19) |
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Sep 19 · It’s already been a historic, anger-filled week in the fight for a livable planet. And things are only about to get angrier.
On Sunday, tens of thousands of peaceful protestors flooded the streets of New York City, calling for an end to the fossil fuel era. The unprecedented showing kicked off a week of 650 climate actions across the world, including a Monday march on Wall Street that resulted in more than 100 arrests; a traffic blockade in The Hague that resulted in more than 600 arrests; a protest blocking the entrance to Citibank’s Manhattan headquarters; and a “die-in” at the Museum of Modern Art.
Protests of a similar ilk took place in Pakistan, Germany, the ... Read more ...
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These insurers are screwing the public on climate change - Heated World (Sep 15) |
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Sep 15 · Here’s something everyone needs to understand about climate change: In addition to being an existential threat to life on Earth, it also costs a lot of money.
Already this year, the U.S. has seen more climate disasters costing over $1 billion than ever before. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday that the U.S. has already seen a record-breaking 23 weather disasters costing more than $1 billion in 2023, with a total cost of $57.6 billion so far.
The cost of these disasters has always fallen on individuals. But right now, we pay using a system designed to spread out those costs among the population. We pay taxes to local, state and ... Read more ...
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Why did this climate scientist chain herself to a pipeline? - Heated World (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · In the dark hours of early morning on September 7th, climate scientist Rose Abramoff chained herself to a drill working on the Mountain Valley Pipeline in a last-ditch attempt to block its construction.
Abramoff was not alone - she and five elders, all women, were arrested while protesting the fracked gas pipeline, which is in its final stretch towards completion after years of environmental protests and legal controversy.
The women were criminally charged with obstruction, trespassing, destruction of property, and violation of the West Virginia Critical Infrastructure Protection Act. The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, part of a new wave of laws designed to ... Read more ...
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Al Gore's new TED talk is out - Heated World (Sep 5) |
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Sep 5 · Since former Vice President Al Gore filmed his latest TED Talk this past July, here are just a few of the record-breaking extreme weather events that have happened:
Catastrophic flash-flooding in Vermont. Punishing drought across the Midwest. Unrelenting heat waves in Arizona and Texas. Devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. Dangerous smoke pollution across the Eastern United States. A havoc-wreaking freak tropical storm in Southern California. A rain bomb in the Nevada desert during Burning Man. And that’s just within the United States.
For years, climate scientists have told us that the more carbon we put into the atmosphere, the worse extreme weather events like these ... Read more ...
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Debunking the UAE's B.S. - Heated World (Sep 2) |
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Sep 2 · We’re just two weeks out from COP28, the annual high-stakes U.N. summit where world leaders hash out their plans to stave off global ecological and economic catastrophe from climate change.
This year, the summit will be held in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates and led by UAE oil baron Sultan Al Jaber, who has what he calls a “game-changing plan” to achieve unprecedented progress: Allow oil and gas companies to have more influence over the negotiations.1
If you understand one thing about this plan, let it be this: There is nothing “game-changing” about giving fossil fuel companies more influence at global climate talks. The strategy is merely a repackaging of a ... Read more ...
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How Vivek Ramaswamy makes money from climate denial - Heated World (Aug 29) |
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Aug 29 · At the first Republican presidential debate last week, most of the candidates struggled to explain their position on human-caused climate change.
But 38-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy came prepared.
“I'm the only candidate on stage who isn't bought and paid for, so I can say this: The climate change agenda is a hoax,” he said.
“The anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on the economy,” he added. “And so the reality is, more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
These claims were, of course, baseless. As both The New York Times and Washington Post pointed out in fact checks, there is no data showing that people are ... Read more ...
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Why climate denial could still be taught at Texas schools - Heated World (Aug 29) |
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Aug 29 · Last month, the ultraconservative media group Prager University was approved as an educational resource in Florida public schools. That approval, covered by media outlets across the country, meant that millions of children across Florida could be taught PragerU material, which includes a video that promotes fossil fuels by subtly comparing climate-concerned students to Nazis.
It recently looked like PragerU - which is not actually a university - had chalked up another win. Last week, the group announced it was approved by Texas as an official resource in schools.
That turned out to be entirely false, as we reported last week. And since that story, two more state agencies ... Read more ...
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Hilary took L.A.'s unhoused by surprise - Heated World (Aug 24) |
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Aug 24 · For many people across Los Angeles, Hilary wasn’t as bad as it could have been. If you had shelter, you could hunker down and wait out the storm.
But for Charles, who lives in a tent in an encampment near East Hollywood, the record-breaking rain brought major challenges.
The 61-year-old said water came through the bottom of his tent, soaking his belongings and clothes. “I got sick just before the rain started, so I wasn't able to prepare,” he told me over the phone.
Charles was one of more than 70,000 unhoused people living on the streets of Los Angeles County during the storm. They are the most vulnerable to climate disasters, and Sunday’s storms were no ... Read more ...
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PragerU says it's approved in Texas schools. It's not. - Heated World (Aug 23) |
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Aug 23 · For the last week, Arielle and I have been trying to report more deeply on the fossil-fueled effort to teach climate denial in public schools.
Specifically, we’ve been looking into the Prager University Foundation, the self-proclaimed “world’s leading conservative nonprofit,” which recently got its “educational” materials on climate change approved for use in Florida public schools.
PragerU’s materials, which have been widely reported on by mainstream media, falsely claim that heat records around the world are “natural;” that wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable; and compare climate activists to Nazis.
We weren’t surprised PragerU would ... Read more ...
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The real story behind ABC's Hawaii headline change - Heated World (Aug 17) |
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Aug 17 · Earlier this week, ABC News published an article with the headline: “Why Climate Change Can’t Be Blamed for the Maui Wildfires.”
It pissed me off. So I tweeted about it. And soon I was chatting with the scientist whose comments were the main basis for the piece.
Near the top of ABC’s article, UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain had been quoted as saying, “We should not look to the Maui wildfires as a poster child of the link to climate change."
The quote was taken from one of Swain’s YouTube livestreams, and was a major supporting point for ABC’s claim that climate change “can’t be blamed” for the Maui wildfires.
But in his replies to my thread, Swain said he ... Read more ...
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Justice for Hawaii? - Heated World (Aug 15) |
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Aug 15 · Before the wildfires that would eventually become the deadliest in U.S. history broke out in Maui, climate change had already upended 13-year-old Kaliko’s life.
The Native Hawaiian teenager lost her home in Hurricane Olivia, the first-ever recorded tropical storm to make landfall in Maui, in 2018. Scientists have found that climate change is increasing the risk of stronger and more frequent hurricanes in the state.
That tragedy was why, in 2022, Kaliko joined 13 other young Hawaiians in suing her state government for ignoring the climate crisis by promoting fossil fuels.
That lawsuit, scheduled for trial next year on June 24, claims that by failing to reduce ... Read more ...
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Lahaina used to be a wetland - Heated World (Aug 13) |
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Aug 13 · Editor’s note: If you would like to support wildfire victims, the source for today’s story recommended this fund.
Kaniela Ing, a seventh-generation indigenous Hawaiian living in O'ahu, understands why most breaking news coverage of the horrific Maui wildfires describes the destroyed town of Lahaina as a tourist destination.
“If you’re not from Maui and your readers are not from Maui, they probably only relate to it that way,” he told HEATED in a phone interview on Friday.
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Nevertheless, Ing - who is also the national director of the ... Read more ...
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Eversource left the American Gas Association. These other “climate-friendly” utilities haven’t. - Heated World (Aug 10) |
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Aug 10 · If we want to achieve real climate action in the United States, we have to do something about trade associations.
Over the last two decades, trade associations for fossil fuels and other industries have spent billions obstructing climate policy and spreading climate misinformation. They spent $3.4 billion on political activities related to climate change from 2008 to 2018, according to a study released last year.
One of the most obstructionist associations is the American Gas Association. One of two major trade groups for utilities - aka, the companies you pay your electric bill to - AGA is currently fighting climate policy and pushing misinformation throughout the country. Read more ...
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Your electric bill payments may be funding climate delay - Heated World (Aug 8) |
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Aug 8 · If you’re like most people in America, you pay an electric bill every month.
And if you’re like most people in America, you pay that bill to a monopoly electric utility, meaning you have no choice in the matter of what company receives your money.
Almost all of these monopoly electric utilities - be it Pepco, ConEd, PG&E, Duke, FirstEnergy, Xcel, or one of the many, many others - are members of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI). The main lobbying group for U.S. utilities, EEI is an influential political force: It spent more than $10 million on lobbying last year and more than $6 million so far this year. (For comparison, the oil and gas industry’s most powerful ... Read more ...
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The original “Climate Barbie” - Heated World (Aug 4) |
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Aug 4 · Long before the Barbie movie took the world by storm, Catherine McKenna, Canada’s former Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, had a meeting with an executive at Mattel.
Her political enemies had been calling her “Climate Barbie,” a name clearly meant as a sexist insult.
But, McKenna thought, maybe it didn’t have to be.
Maybe “Climate Barbie” could be a good thing, despite all the bad that had come with it. Maybe the doll could “be on a bicycle, [have] her reusable water bottle and metal straw,” McKenna told the CBC in 2019.
At some point, McKenna told HEATED, she actually brought the idea to Mattel. She proposed a “Climate Action Barbie” made ... Read more ...
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The Iowa meteorologist who quit after death threats got nice e-mails, too - Heated World (Jul 27) |
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Jul 27 · When Chris Gloninger found out that not everyone in Iowa hated hearing about climate change, the feeling was bittersweet.
He already announced he was quitting his job as chief meteorologist and weather reporter for CBS affiliate KCCI in Des Moines, in part because of the “vicious” and “cruel” messages he was consistently receiving - including a barrage from a man who threatened to show up at his house and kill him.
“The vulgar, awful, cruel things people said; it was shocking,” Gloninger told HEATED in a recent interview, where he recounted his experiences attempting to weave climate science into his weather coverage in a deeply conservative area of the country. ... Read more ...
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Climate change comes to Comic-Con - Heated World (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · I went to San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, and climate change was there. Maybe I brought it with me because I’m a climate reporter, but I couldn’t help but marvel at how much the climate crisis has permeated popular culture.
This is my fourth or fifth San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). If you’ve never been, SDCC is one of the most popular comic book and fan conventions in the world. I was one of 150,000 people that attended this weekend - all of whom came to celebrate the popular arts. It’s like being transported to another world, one where cosplayers create costumes that rival those on movie sets, and where fandom is front and center.
But this year’s convention was different ... Read more ...
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Environmental warfare is the colonizer's favorite tool - Heated World (Jul 21) |
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Jul 21 · I’m in the middle of reading The Nutmeg's Curse, an illuminating book that reveals how Western colonization is at the root of the climate crisis.
In chapter four, titled “Terraforming,” author Amitav Ghosh writes about one of the most common ways European colonizers in North America killed Indigenous peoples: not by using guns and weapons, but by screwing with the natural environment on which they depended.
A common way colonizers weaponized the environment was by killing and driving away wild animals, leaving Indigenous peoples to starve. But the “environmental interventions” Europeans perpetrated against Native Americans weren’t limited to animals. “Pathogens, rivers, ... Read more ...
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Who gets arrested for climate crimes? - Heated World (Jul 18) |
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Jul 18 · Last week, HEATED was in Detroit, Michigan for the TED Countdown Summit, which debuted dozens of new TED talks on how to accelerate climate action.
(We already published one dispatch from Al Gore’s presentation. We’ll have even more takeaways for you later this week).
One of the new talks we were most looking forward to was from Vietnamese climate activist Hoàng Thi Minh H?ng. It was supposed to be about the need for climate activism in politically hostile environments, and strategies for how to execute it safely and effectively.
But when the time came for Hong’s presentation on Tuesday, TED science curator David Biello announced she would not be able to attend. ... Read more ...
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Al Gore has turned the corner - Heated World (Jul 12) |
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Jul 12 · If someone had bet me five dollars yesterday that Al Gore’s next climate change slideshow would include a dick joke, I probably would have taken that bet.
And today, I would be out five dollars. Because the former vice president’s newest climate change slideshow does include a dick joke - and for the purpose of exposing fossil fuel industry lies, it might be the best one I’ve ever heard.
First, some necessary context: Gore’s new slideshow was actually a TED Talk, presented last night to a packed audience at The Fillmore Theater in Detroit, Michigan. The talk is part of the TED Countdown Summit, which is debuting dozens of new presentations focused on climate solutions ... Read more ...
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Oil companies are laughing while the world burns - Heated World (Jul 11) |
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Jul 11 · Over the July 4th holiday, while Americans were firing up their barbecues and setting off fireworks, the world broke a new record.
Earth had her three hottest days ever recorded since instrumental measurements began in the 1850s. One climate scientist told the Washington Post that last week’s global average temperatures were likely the highest in 125,000 years. Another climate scientist, Bill McGuire, called the record heat “totally unprecedented and terrifying.”
The grim milestone may be unprecedented, but it’s not unexpected. Texas and the Southwest broke records just last month as a heat dome drove the heat index above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48°C). Parts of northern ... Read more ...
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HEATED goes to Hollywood - Heated World (Jul 6) |
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Jul 6 · A few years back, in the depths of quarantine, I started taking drum lessons. I didn’t do it because I wanted to become a great drummer. I did it because I was feeling bad, and I thought beating the crap out of some stuff to music would help.
This was the first time in my life I had taken up a hobby primarily for self-fulfillment. In the past, when I’d taken up any regular practice outside of work, it was mainly because I was also trying to “optimize” myself somehow: usually my career, my body, or my social status.
But this new approach, in which I decided to regularly do something that made me feel good without the pressures of chasing external success, gave me a lot of ... Read more ...
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Even mainstream news outlets are causing fake pizza panic - Heated World (Jun 29) |
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Jun 29 · On Tuesday, Arielle and I published a newsletter seeking to correct the viral claim that New York City is proposing carbon regulations for pizza ovens. Because they are not.
The proposed regulations, which cover commercial wood- and coal-fired ovens built before 2016, never even mention the words “carbon,” “carbon emissions,” or “climate.” The regulations seek to limit emissions of harmful particulate pollution - aka, smog, smoke, and soot - and seek to limit them for the benefit of local populations surrounding restaurants with old wood- and coal-fired ovens. (Many of which happen to be pizzerias).
There is a legitimate argument for regulations on particle pollution ... Read more ...
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Show this to anyone who says renewables are unreliable - Heated World (Jun 29) |
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Jun 29 · As a Californian who’s been through extreme heat waves, I’ve felt a lot of empathy this week for Texas, which is suffering its third week under a deadly heat dome pushing temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius).
As one meteorologist put it, Texas is now one of the hottest places on Earth.
I know that, at those temperatures, air conditioning is an absolute necessity. But I also know that, when tens of millions of people turn on their air conditioning at the same time, it can cause a huge strain on the power grid - and, potentially, cause it to fail.
Texans know well the vulnerability of their electric grid to extreme, climate-fueled weather. ... Read more ...
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No, climate activists are not coming for NYC pizza - Heated World (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · Ever wanted to see how climate change disinformation spreads in real time?
Look no further than the New York Post’s latest viral story: An “exclusive” on New York City regulations to reduce pollution from coal- and wood-fired pizza ovens.
The proposed rules would “ruin” and “destroy” the quality of New York City pizza, the story claims, citing the concerns of an anonymous “pizza restaurateur” who implies pizzerias would no longer be able to use high-temperature ovens under the rules. “You take away the char, the thing that makes the pizza taste great, you kill it,” the anonymous restaurateur says.
The story also includes a comment from a random pizzeria customer, ... Read more ...
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