Emily Atkin

A 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 journey

You or someone you know probably believes misinformation about natural gas; polling shows HALF of likely voters think it’s a clean fuel. We made this episode to try and debunk some of that misinformation, but also to explore the decades-long propaganda campaign fueling it. Pls like/share!

My investigation for @nature.com finds a surge of open records requests from groups with ties to the energy industry targeting climate attribution researchers. They come as the field plays a growing role in lawsuits suing big emitters for climate-related damages. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Natural gas is NOT "clean." So why do 50% of likely voters believe that is is?? @emorwee.bsky.social and @rebleber.bsky.social unpack how Big Oil spent decades convincing people that this polluting fossil fuel was safe — and how that myth secured its successful takeover of our energy system. 😑

You or someone you know probably believes misinformation about natural gas; polling shows HALF of likely voters think it’s a clean fuel. We made this episode to try and debunk some of that misinformation, but also to explore the decades-long propaganda campaign fueling it. Pls like/share!

extremely good @emorwee.bsky.social / @rebleber.bsky.social piece here, on the REALLY REALLY WILD number of ppl who think that gas is a "clean" fuel - that didn't just happen, the industry made it happen! heated.world/p/why-smart-...

“Americans over 60 now spend more than half their leisure hours in front of screens.”

wat

Exxon scientist says the company knew its algae biofuel ads were BS, from @emorwee.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Another flash flood in Nepal as the country is still trying to recover their dead from the last one. This is what climate change looks like now. My heart goes out to all the families suffering devastating loss in Nepal. 💔

CAAD talks to HEATED about our latest report exposing how climate disinformation actually works in turning good news into conspiracies: heated.world/p/how-good-c...

Great piece. Very strong "Don't look up" vibes:

My 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 beat

How 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-...

Huge 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

Such 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...

Could 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 ⤵️

"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...

"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‼️

Over 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.

At 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.

New 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? ...

So proud to be a part of this cool project bringing independent climate reporters together!

In 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...

I gave a talk yesterday at a clean tech in incubator, and this was literally my thesis.

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

"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

Reporters in climate-threatened areas everywhere should just start asking about the risk at open houses. I’d read 100 of these stories

NEW: 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...

This 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...

Come 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.

Blood 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

Eye 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

@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.

*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.”*

This is a wiiiiiiiild bit of work.

A 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.

such a good genre of story!

Texas 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.

"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 Heated

I’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

Have 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.

my 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.news

Artificial 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.social