Eliza Barclay
@elizabarclay.bsky.social
Climate and environment editor at New York Times Opinion
Necessary, brilliant, and powerful #ClimateWeek OpEd by @dwallacewells.bsky.social @zekehausfather.com “Don’t be fooled: The risks are far too high and growing still with each molecule of carbon. The world still isn’t nearly concerned enough.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
Opinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table
Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.
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The world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026...
"We don’t even have settled language for describing these systems or their volition or their behavior. We don’t have a consensus on why they are doing what they are doing or how to make sure they don’t do it again." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
Opinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. (Gift Article)
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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"This entire debacle is a stark reminder that opting out of taking political stands is, in and of itself, a political stand: a politics of self-interest." @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities (Gift Article)
Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.
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Love this German Lopez piece on political heterodoxy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | This Is Why So Many Voters Hate Both Parties
Most voters have messier views than their partisan labels would suggest.
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HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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RIP Joe Romm! A tireless thinker and agitator of the best kind. And indeed, one of the first climate bloggers! Huge loss for the world.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.Joe was one of the very first climate bloggers I ever read -- pugnacious, tenacious, a real example for young writers of how to combine colorful rhetoric with a dogged pursuit of truth. I had him on Volts several times -- you can hear his personality so clearly. 😢
Read this thread & the linked piece from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. The climate bean-counting industry is boring, I understand why most people ignore it, but this is a truly epochal disaster in the making.
Danny Cullenward@ghgpolicy.org · last wk.The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.
"At the very top of the market, climate risk could be acknowledged because the buyer presumably had enough money to insure against it, adapt to it, or simply lose the bet. Everywhere else, the risk kept getting moved just out of frame." heated.world/p/the-open-h...
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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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
The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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have I mentioned lately that oligarch-owned media consolidation is bad
Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)
The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.
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The inimitable @mikegrunwald.bsky.social has an exceptionally well written oped on the disastrous proposal from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to give companies carbon credit for cutting down trees.
Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Beware carbon trickery: “The problem, again, is that the key committees overseeing the rewriting of the land-use rules are stacked with corporate representatives, with few independent scientists” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o...
Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Private equity - a few profit and most of us pay, in so many ways #ClimateEmergency #FinancialSector www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
World’s top 20 private equity firms produce more greenhouse gases a year than most countries, report finds
Firms manage $7.3tn in assets and could afford to transition away from fossil fuels yet invest in natural gas and coal-fired plants to power datacenters
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‼️ "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family." www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
"In order to prevail in states such as Alaska, Democrats need a faction that can live with oil and gas. And Ms. Peltola is showing them one way that it’s done." @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social's latest for us: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
Opinion | Mary Peltola’s Energy Politics Fits Alaska. Democrats Need Her. (Gift Article)
To win in states such as Alaska, the party needs a faction that can live with fossil fuels.
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NYT's lead this morning: "Almost 20 months into Mr. Trump’s second term, his long-running media clashes have grown into a sweeping campaign to control speech in America that stands out for applying so many levers, so fast, all at once." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Always a privilege to edit the immensely talented Terry Tempest Williams. This time: the Endangered Species Act. "The act of protecting a tiny black bird that weighs roughly a pound reminds us that we are not the only species that lives and grieves on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Defang the Endangered Species Act (Gift Article)
What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?
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The larger context here: The Trump-MAGA GOP has increasingly normalized anti-Muslim bigotry over the last decade, as @cathyyoung63.bsky.social writes. As I try to show in the piece below, JD himself pushes such bigotry while demanding that no one call it out. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-ri...
How the Right Came to Embrace Anti-Muslim Bigotry
After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Republican leaders opposed anti-Muslim sentiment. But the right’s worst instincts won.
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w agoNow that JD Vance is again pretending El-Sayed smeared Usha/Papaw, reupping this: It is absolutely true that JD has compromised with some of the most vile racists in the MAGA coalition. JD hesitated before defending Usha against them. So El-Sayed is 100% correct: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
🤮 "The cuts of meat covered by Mr. Trump’s proclamation are... lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...
Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat?
On second thought, I’m not that hungry.
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Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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"In the immediate aftermath of disaster, public attention and collective ambition are pulled perversely backward, toward restoration, as much as pushed forward, toward adaptation." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/m...
In an Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster, Rebuilding Is the Wrong Goal
But every crisis is an opportunity.
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"Perhaps the better analogy is...with the long crusade against nuclear power, which managed to pull many threads of opposition together because nuclear plants’ iconic towers triggered, beyond political objections, apocalyptic ones, as well." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...
Opinion | I Expected Tech Fatalism. Americans Are Putting Up a Remarkable Fight Instead. (Gift Article)
Three-fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?
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“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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A hotter climate means dry places swing between extremes of drought and floods, as happened in the Grand Canyon. Like lottery winners, dry places aren't ready to handle bounties that for now do more harm than good Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Grand Canyon Floods Point to Our Bigger Water Crisis
The reason most lottery winners eventually go broke is that they aren’t prepared for the unexpected influx of wealth. They blow it on luxuries, bad investments and long-lost relatives. Dry places face...
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