Emily Atkin
@emorwee.bsky.social
I run HEATED, a weekly-ish newsletter devoted to climate accountability reporting and opinion. Philly-based. She/her.
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Emily Atkin
@emorwee.bsky.social
· May 27
Wider lens, sharper focus
How HEATED will cover the second Trump era.
heated.world
PSA for freelance climate journalists: I'm taking pitches for HEATED
These are the types of stories I'm interested in.
Particularly looking for stories in categories 2 and 3.
These are the types of stories I'm interested in.
Particularly looking for stories in categories 2 and 3.
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I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
heated.world
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
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Irons in the fire.
“It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka
“It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka
Bill Gates Says He's Fighting Climate Change While Cashing in on Oil
The billionaire's investment portfolio includes millions of shares of companies contributing to the climate crisis.
www.vice.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Irons in the fire.
“It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka
“It’s frustrating to me when I see Bill Gates held up as this hero of climate change when you know that he’s benefitting from all of these investments that are directly contributing to climate change,” said Justin Mikulka
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Every day I say a little prayer we get to see Dark Gore and today feels a little good.
I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
heated.world
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Every day I say a little prayer we get to see Dark Gore and today feels a little good.
I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
heated.world
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I talked to Al Gore about Bill Gates's climate change memo.
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
He called it "manifestly absurd" and questioned Gates's true motives for releasing it.
"He has a lot of irons in the fire with whoever is in power."
Gore on Bill Gates’s climate memo
"I can’t judge what his motives are. But I think that there’s some evidence that he is frightened of Donald Trump. As soon as Trump was elected, he fired most of his climate staff, and then began to try and get on Donald Trump’s good side." heated.world/p/al-gores-c...
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
heated.world
December 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Gore on Bill Gates’s climate memo
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"The days off of Donald Trump directing policy in other countries are quickly coming to an end," Al Gore tells @emorwee.bsky.social. "He is now well and truly a lame duck." open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
Al Gore's case for optimism
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"The days off of Donald Trump directing policy in other countries are quickly coming to an end," Al Gore tells @emorwee.bsky.social. "He is now well and truly a lame duck." open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...
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"[The fossil fuel industry] no longer feel any compulsion to pretend that they're not [at COP] to......fart in church"
@amywestervelt.bsky.social on @fisherdanar.bsky.social's fantastic #COP30 pod along w/ @katharinehayhoe.com
cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
@amywestervelt.bsky.social on @fisherdanar.bsky.social's fantastic #COP30 pod along w/ @katharinehayhoe.com
cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"[The fossil fuel industry] no longer feel any compulsion to pretend that they're not [at COP] to......fart in church"
@amywestervelt.bsky.social on @fisherdanar.bsky.social's fantastic #COP30 pod along w/ @katharinehayhoe.com
cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
@amywestervelt.bsky.social on @fisherdanar.bsky.social's fantastic #COP30 pod along w/ @katharinehayhoe.com
cece.american.edu/cece-launche...
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more like escargone
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
more like escargone
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It's almost like the head of a data center is financially driven to not understand, and outright lie, about how data centers drive pollution by their insane draw on local aquifers.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's almost like the head of a data center is financially driven to not understand, and outright lie, about how data centers drive pollution by their insane draw on local aquifers.
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Some of us can read, Andy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Some of us can read, Andy.
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The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
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Probably gonna regret this but…before you curse all “DC media,” please consider that most of us are just working on our little stories, never mixing with VIPs and horrified by these freaks too
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Probably gonna regret this but…before you curse all “DC media,” please consider that most of us are just working on our little stories, never mixing with VIPs and horrified by these freaks too
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
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anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
November 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
anyway. conde naste should fire Nuzzi, fire the hack editor at vanity fair, reverse its gutting of teen vogue, and apologize to all of us for this nonsense.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
Don’t forget the other core tenet of ethical journalism: paywalling said urgently newsworthy information to the tune of $80 a year
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Don’t forget the other core tenet of ethical journalism: paywalling said urgently newsworthy information to the tune of $80 a year
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Since I tried to read the excerpt (yeah, dumb move, I know), it's bugged me how she uses the LA fires as a lazy metaphor for her personal life. Good to see a writer articulate the problem with that.
I cannot stop thinking about how Olivia Nuzzi turned a climate-fueled wildfire that killed people and destroyed thousands of homes into romantic mood lighting for her affair with a guy who helped put a climate denier back in power.
Climate disaster is not ambiance
Especially not for an illicit affair with a politician who helped a climate-denying administration come to power.
heated.world
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Since I tried to read the excerpt (yeah, dumb move, I know), it's bugged me how she uses the LA fires as a lazy metaphor for her personal life. Good to see a writer articulate the problem with that.
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No right-winger is ever, ever allowed to concern troll about wind farm bird deaths or whales, EV critical minerals or solar panel land use ever again for their entire lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No right-winger is ever, ever allowed to concern troll about wind farm bird deaths or whales, EV critical minerals or solar panel land use ever again for their entire lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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I cannot stop thinking about how Olivia Nuzzi turned a climate-fueled wildfire that killed people and destroyed thousands of homes into romantic mood lighting for her affair with a guy who helped put a climate denier back in power.
Climate disaster is not ambiance
Especially not for an illicit affair with a politician who helped a climate-denying administration come to power.
heated.world
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I cannot stop thinking about how Olivia Nuzzi turned a climate-fueled wildfire that killed people and destroyed thousands of homes into romantic mood lighting for her affair with a guy who helped put a climate denier back in power.
I cannot stop thinking about how Olivia Nuzzi turned a climate-fueled wildfire that killed people and destroyed thousands of homes into romantic mood lighting for her affair with a guy who helped put a climate denier back in power.
Climate disaster is not ambiance
Especially not for an illicit affair with a politician who helped a climate-denying administration come to power.
heated.world
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I cannot stop thinking about how Olivia Nuzzi turned a climate-fueled wildfire that killed people and destroyed thousands of homes into romantic mood lighting for her affair with a guy who helped put a climate denier back in power.
Oh my god
Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Oh my god