There is no shortage of absurdities at the periodic debasement competitions that are Trump Cabinet meetings. At this week's version, one could find the Labor Secretary encouraging the president to go look at his "big, beautiful" face on a giant banner at her department's
The result of all that is an obvious chilling of the federal workforce's speech.
The media industry: great fun forever. Last week, I was laid off from my role as deputy editor of Splinter, where I spent about a year and a half covering — among other things — climate change, science, public health, and their intersection with politics and policy. Over the seven months of
As you might have (almost certainly didn’t) noticed, it’s been quiet around the Gravity Is Gone hallways the last year-plus. Just to catch you up, that’s because after spending the bulk of my career as a freelancer, I have now been on staff as a climate reporter
Over at his Slow Boring site, Matt Yglesias has a bit of a screed against the “climate left.” He argues, basically, that the activist groups (like the Sunrise Movement) pushing for transformational action on climate change are ignoring political realities, are muddling up too many other issues along with climate,
Two decades of climate inaction and the two damning quotes that bookend them.
With climate change, there is no single corner to turn.
America's curse of individualism and the genetic reshuffling that couldn't care less.
The conversation has changed, but there are still more ways to speak progress into existence.
Pondering the objections to a precursor of a precursor of solar geoengineering.
The hurricane—or the pandemic—doesn't care where your information came from.
"The Martian" is Hollywood's best rebuke to Trump's coronavirus response.
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For some environmental issues, "close" doesn't really exist.
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Some of the ways that coronavirus science—doing it, interpreting it, acting on it—is remarkably complicated.
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The push to "reopen" and forcing binaries onto non-binary situations.
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Our limited rhetorical imagination might have made the outbreak worse.
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The virus is showing us what a cleaner planet could look like.
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How do you self-quarantine at home when you don't have one?
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The clearest signal that climate change has very much arrived may come from your doctor.
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An interview with New Zealand's first-ever chief science advisor, and what we lose when science isn't allowed in the room.
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Solar geoengineering doesn't exist. Can it make or break the world anyway?
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Climate change isn't like any other political issue. Politicians are out of their depth.
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What do we do with the anti-vaxxers?
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Clean energy potential abounds. Man yet to bite dog.