Robinson Meyer

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All about climate change and decarbonization. Executive editor, Heatmap. @robinsonmeyer on Twitter.

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“‘The country saw [at the debate] what those of us who have had personal interactions with him have all known for the last 2½ years,’ a senator said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s fitness.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe...

Some Democrats say Biden's debate performance wasn't an anomalywww.nbcnews.com “The country saw [at the debate] what those of us who have had personal interactions with him have all known for the last 2½ years,” one senator said.

this is not sustainable www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/p...

yoda arrogantly oversaw the collapse of the republic and died in exile

honestly they’re kinda cooking with this

new zach bryan album tomorrow. gonna be huge.

let me go full-bore pundit for a second and say my read is: the electorate is trying to heal itself. people are tired of hating their neighbors. and the desire for ‘normalcy,’ driven by socialized hatred of biden over age & gaza & inflation, is — catastrophically — crystallizing around donald trump

democracy in the 24/7 online news cycle era has a real 'twitch plays pokemon' feel

NEW SHIFT KEY How should Europe and the US craft climate policy in an age of geopolitical tension and a rising far-right? This week, I chat in London with Ann Mettler & Aliya Haq, who lead US and EU policy at Bill Gates-founded climate mega-group Breakthrough Energy. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

How Europe and America Are Weatherproofing Climate Policyheatmap.news Inside episode 22 of Shift Key.

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Fell out of a coconut tree, you think you just did? No. In the context of all in which you live and what came before you, you exist.

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Breaking News: President Biden told a key ally his campaign may be unsalvageable if he can’t convince the public he’s up for the job. The conversation is the first public indication that Biden is seriously considering whether he can recover after the debate. nyti.ms/4cHJgGu

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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

new CNN poll Trump 49 Biden 43 Trump 47 Harris 45 www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

CNN Poll: Most voters think Democrats have a better chance of keeping White House if Biden isn’t the nominee | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a new...

“it’s really interesting, for political economic reasons, that the hawk tuah girl is a 21-year-old white woman who works the overnight shift at a spring factory,” i mutter, to nobody in particular

It hasn’t received as much attention, but a Supreme Court ruling last week basically break the process by which the federal government responds to public comments in *any* process — which means it will take *longer* to permit new clean energy or new infrastructure. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

The Supreme Court Is Slowly Breaking the EPAheatmap.news Four rulings from the past week will weigh heavily on future climate regulation.

New from me: The Supreme Court — in addition to granting Trump broad immunity — is slowly breaking the EPA, eroding its ability to write new climate rules, respond to public comments, and punish companies that pollute the air and drinking water. heatmap.news/climate/supr...

The Supreme Court Is Slowly Breaking the EPAheatmap.news Four rulings from the past week will weigh heavily on future climate regulation.

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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock

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here we go

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One fallout from Thursday’s debate is that it creates a permission structure for Biden aides and staffers to now voice their qualms to the press. See, for example: www.axios.com/2024/06/30/t...

Top aides shielded Biden, but couldn't hide the debatewww.axios.com Current and former White House aides are feeling whiplash — and now questioning whether Biden could fulfill a second term.

guys he is the president of the united states and he was not consistently capable of stringing complete sentences together, i don’t think this one comes down to media framing

this is closer to where i come out

Anyway, if Biden stays in, which seems likely, I don't think telling people "no, he's fine, actually" for the next several months is tenable. I don't know what you say instead. But openly lying to voters over and over again about something they know to be untrue probably hurts Dems long-term. So.

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The question is especially pertinent as "offsets" fall out of fashion and everyone is searching for affordable carbon removal credits.

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I wrote about the ethanol industry's entry into carbon removal, and how it highlights key disagreements in the field about how we should define "carbon removal" in the first place. 1/2 heatmap.news/climate/what...

Carbon Removal’s Existential Questionheatmap.news It starts with ethanol.

Excuse the punditry but I am standing in line waiting for a flight (which is neither to nor from DC) and I’m overhearing people talk about the debate and I just don’t think this one can be chalked up to media framing, guys

never, ever been happier to be on london time.

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Guy Salieri. Frosted tips, bowling shirt, hates Mozart. Sorry.

whoa

Huge EV news after the close *VOLKSWAGEN PLANS TO MAKE A $5 BILLION INVESTMENT INTO RIVIAN *RIVIAN AND VOLKSWAGEN PLAN JV FOR NEXT-GEN ELECTRIC VEHICLES

the elizabeth line is so good. every time i take it i am in awe

one of the reasons we’re in such a discursive break right now is because a big rhetorical move of the 2010s — “if you don’t talk about [bad thing] in the exact way i just specified, you’re complicit if not responsible for [bad thing]” — has lost its ability to persuade.

Maybe I'm a crank but I'm sorry, this is insane

Nothing makes me feel like I live in the ruins of a lost civilization than encountering the sheer volume of edited, commercial prose that the American economy used to produce

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This piece is probably the wisest analysis I’ve seen of the whole cross Atlantic journalism mess.

The brilliant Emily Bell gives a lot of helpful context for what the Brits think they do better and why and same for Americans.

US and UK journalism are different. But they’re going to get a lot more similar | Emily Bellwww.theguardian.com Although the Washington Post uproar has highlighted cultural differences, we’re probably heading to the same place

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1/ Last year, I became obsessed with a plastic cup. The cup was made via pyrolysis — a kind of chemical recycling I'd heard a lot about. The plastics industry made pyrolysis sound magical. It was a way to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into new plastic. So I tried to buy the cup…