Bob King
@bkingdc.bsky.social
Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. https://www.politico.com
"Stardust" ... Hmmm, where have we heard that project code name before?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Stardust" ... Hmmm, where have we heard that project code name before?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1RUW...
Reposted by Bob King
🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.'
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Brazilian lawmakers seek to decimate green laws one week after hosting climate summit
Changes would damage President Lula’s efforts to cast Brazil as an environmental leader.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨'The worst environmental setback in Brazil's history.'
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Just a week after COP30 ends, it looks almost certain that Brazil's agribusiness dominated Congress will strip almost all oversight of damaging projects.
My report from Brasília.
www.politico.eu/article/braz...
Reposted by Bob King
Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming.
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming.
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future.
w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reposted by Bob King
Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30.
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
How the EU banished its climate demons and salvaged a weak COP30 deal
The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit.
www.politico.eu
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Arriving in Brazil after a messy fight over new emissions targets, the EU salvaged some of its climate pride at COP30.
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Final dispatch from Belém w/ @karlmathiesen.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
Reposted by Bob King
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
“If we had been involved as a pro-climate United States, it would not look like this at all,” former U.S. climate negotiator Sue Biniaz said of where things stood Friday evening.
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“If we had been involved as a pro-climate United States, it would not look like this at all,” former U.S. climate negotiator Sue Biniaz said of where things stood Friday evening.
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Maybe we should fire our football coach more often? #PennState #WeAre
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Maybe we should fire our football coach more often? #PennState #WeAre
What was the most iconic moment of #COP30?
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
https://politico.com/news/2025/11/2…
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What was the most iconic moment of #COP30?
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Was it the fire that interrupted negotiations about how to stop the Earth's burning? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The scuffle between protesters and UN security?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Earlier: "Deal or 'meh' deal"? Sara, Karl, Zia and Zack on the #COP30 agreement that didn't call for a faster abandonment fossil fuels or a quicker infusion of climate finance for vulnerable countries. But it did ... uh, say other stuff.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Deal or ‘meh’ deal? Climate summit ends on a deflating note
Nearly two weeks of talks in the Amazon ended with commitments to do more, but no firm movement on the most divisive issues — including turning away from fossil fuels.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Earlier: "Deal or 'meh' deal"? Sara, Karl, Zia and Zack on the #COP30 agreement that didn't call for a faster abandonment fossil fuels or a quicker infusion of climate finance for vulnerable countries. But it did ... uh, say other stuff.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
#COP30 "exposed the world as it is — haltingly and slowly tackling climate pollution, and fragmented by rising economic nationalism and protectionism, rather than the united, optimistic community of nations that produced the Paris climate agreement 10 years ago."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Reposted by Bob King
Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday.
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The world is fractured. The climate talks reflected that.
Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Two weeks of climate negotiations hardly ended in triumph Saturday.
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But they did end, with a deal that even critical delegates said shows that a divided, leaderless collection of nearly 200 nations can make some progress.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"Lizards crawl into your kitchen" is every house in Florida
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"Lizards crawl into your kitchen" is every house in Florida
Flock of Dimes on 11/11 at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social — my first time seeing Jenn Wasner perform since the Wye Oak show in March 2020 in Baltimore that was the last concert I attended before the Covid lockdown descended.
A few things have happened since then.
A few things have happened since then.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Flock of Dimes on 11/11 at @theatlantisdc.bsky.social — my first time seeing Jenn Wasner perform since the Wye Oak show in March 2020 in Baltimore that was the last concert I attended before the Covid lockdown descended.
A few things have happened since then.
A few things have happened since then.
Activists and UN security clashed tonight at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Protesters and UN security clash at climate summit in Brazil
The demonstrators waved yellow flags protesting oil drilling in the Amazon.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Activists and UN security clashed tonight at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
It's the most serious unrest seen inside one of the annual climate gatherings in years, unlike the summits held in authoritarian states such as Egypt and Azerbaijan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
"REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY": Trump rails against air traffic controllers who missed any shifts at their unpaid, high-stress, overtime-laden jobs during the shutdown, and threatens to replace them with "true Patriots."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
But he promises $10,000 bonuses to controllers who have shown up without fail during the more-than-monthlong shutdown.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY": Trump rails against air traffic controllers who missed any shifts at their unpaid, high-stress, overtime-laden jobs during the shutdown, and threatens to replace them with "true Patriots."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Reposted by Bob King
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Can we talk about the self-checkout machines at Giant?
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Can we talk about the self-checkout machines at Giant?
The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.
City buses are already free in Alexandria, Virginia. Just saying.
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
City buses are already free in Alexandria, Virginia. Just saying.
We Pennsylvanians are proud of our prothonotaries.
Dems are winning offices I didn’t even know existed.
Prothonotary?
I think they invented that, installed a GOPer in it, and then voted him out for sport.
Prothonotary sounds like a mid-level Vatican office held over from some 8th century schism.
But it got flipped in Bucks County!
Prothonotary?
I think they invented that, installed a GOPer in it, and then voted him out for sport.
Prothonotary sounds like a mid-level Vatican office held over from some 8th century schism.
But it got flipped in Bucks County!
UPDATE: Bucks County Democrats Sweep Row Offices, Dominate Races Across the County (LIVE Results) | "We are outperforming our own best expectations," said one local Democrat. #Election2025 #BucksCounty #Pennsylvania
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We Pennsylvanians are proud of our prothonotaries.
This is now the second year in a row that an anti-transgender message flopped among Virginia voters. And Winsome Earle-Sears pushed it even harder than Trump did.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This is now the second year in a row that an anti-transgender message flopped among Virginia voters. And Winsome Earle-Sears pushed it even harder than Trump did.
At WH press gaggle right now, JD Vance keeps saying airline pilots aren't being paid during the government shutdown.
Why would that be ... since the pilots don't work for the government?
Why would that be ... since the pilots don't work for the government?
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
At WH press gaggle right now, JD Vance keeps saying airline pilots aren't being paid during the government shutdown.
Why would that be ... since the pilots don't work for the government?
Why would that be ... since the pilots don't work for the government?
This situation is less NIMBY and more NOPTIO(AENBTCTOWZRO) "Not On Property That I Own (And Especially Not By The Current Temporary Occupant With Zero Regulatory Oversight)"
I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This situation is less NIMBY and more NOPTIO(AENBTCTOWZRO) "Not On Property That I Own (And Especially Not By The Current Temporary Occupant With Zero Regulatory Oversight)"
Trump's not done trying to kill international climate rules: Just days after stopping a UN body from taxing shipping's carbon pollution, the U.S. warned the EU to back off from a rule on corporate pollution — or risk higher prices for "critical energy supplies."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump targets European climate law after killing UN shipping fee
Once again the United States is using its economic might to pressure other countries to back down from an effort to limit greenhouse gas pollution.
www.politico.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Trump's not done trying to kill international climate rules: Just days after stopping a UN body from taxing shipping's carbon pollution, the U.S. warned the EU to back off from a rule on corporate pollution — or risk higher prices for "critical energy supplies."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Bob King
The Scottish government doesn’t want to pay the bill for Donald Trump and JD Vance’s summer trips — and London doesn’t want to stump up the cash either.
London battles Scotland over who pays for Trump, Vance visits
The Scottish government wants Westminster to fund the politicians’ trips. But the Treasury won’t open its wallet.
www.politico.eu
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The Scottish government doesn’t want to pay the bill for Donald Trump and JD Vance’s summer trips — and London doesn’t want to stump up the cash either.