Robinson Meyer
Staff writer at , covering climate change. And sometimes other stuff. Say hi: [email protected], DM for Signal.
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Ford Wants to Sell You an Electric S.U.V. It’s Called a Mustang.
Nytimes.com 19h 3 tweets
Automakers have made battery-powered cars largely to meet environmental rules. Now they’re putting more skin in the game.
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Robinson Meyer “Ford thinks that the domestic market share of electric vehicles will quadruple to 8 percent by 2025” 15h
So Has the Green New Deal Won Yet?
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 4d 5 tweets
Since it debuted a year ago, the idea has lost, and won, and could lose again.
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Robinson Meyer A new study of 2,400 Americans suggests that climate policy becomes more palatable to Democrats—without cutting into its Republican support—if it’s bundled with some social and economic reforms. 4d
How to Cut U.S. Carbon Pollution by Nearly 40 Percent in 10 Years
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 6d 9 tweets
A bill in Congress could slash American greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s even bipartisan—if you squint.
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Robinson Meyer There’s a bipartisan proposal in Congress that could cut US carbon pollution by a third in just five years, a new study finds. But “bipartisan” is a funny word. Dozens of Democrats support the bill. Its sole GOP backer is planning to leave politics. 6d
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Robinson Meyer We hear a lot about the dream of a bipartisan carbon tax-and-dividend scheme, so it’s worth being very clear: Right now, there is NO such carbon-tax bill supported by lawmakers of both parties who are seeking re-election in 2020. 5d
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Robinson Meyer Something I didn’t know: A US carbon tax would have a really outsize effect on the power sector. Even with a very high carbon price, ~85% of all emissions cuts nationwide come from electricity. Study from et al: My story: 5d
Inside the war on coal
Michael Grunwald - The Agenda 876d 7 tweets
The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It’s real and it’s relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal-fired power plant every 10 days. It has quietly transformed the...
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Robinson Meyer Worth mentioning that Mike Bloomberg has bankrolled what may be the most successful effort so far to cut carbon pollution in the United States 11d
Trump Isn’t a Climate Denier. He’s Worse.  
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 13d 5 tweets
The president is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change because he just can’t quit carbon.
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Robinson Meyer I’ve come to think “climate denier” is a terrible way to understand climate politics in America. It isn’t even a useful way to understand Trump White House policy. I wrote about “carbonism,” which I think may be a better name for Trump’s worldview 13d
The Best and Worst Halloween Candies, According to the Presidential Candidates
Nytimes.com 18d 4 tweets
Candy corn divides the field.
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Robinson Meyer Impressed by Cory Booker’s ability to sound like Cory Booker even when discussing the worst Halloween candies 18d
Germany Chooses Economic Nostalgia Over Saving the Planet
Foreign Policy 18d 2 tweets
Central bankers are recognizing they have the power and responsibility to fight climate change. The Bundesbank would rather not.
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Robinson Meyer The European Central Bank is about to inject billions of euros into the economy by directly buying assets. Its decision about *what* assets to buy will either speed up climate change or help decarbonization, writes. There is no neutral option. 18d
WSJ News Exclusive | White House Backing Off Proposed Fuel-Efficiency Freeze
Tim Puko - WSJ 18d 4 tweets
The Trump administration is backing away from a controversial plan to freeze tailpipe-emissions targets for new vehicles through 2025, say people familiar with the process.
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Robinson Meyer NEW from the WSJ - The Trump administration is backing off its plan to freeze fuel-economy standards in 2020 and may adopt 1.5% increases every year, and report 18d
The Smoldering State
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 19d 3 tweets
California doesn’t know how to run a power grid in the climate century. But no one else does, either.
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Robinson Meyer I wrote about the California wildfires, PG&E, and how there are shockingly few new ideas about how to govern a power company in the climate century 19d
Will Anyone Remember 11 Dead Jews?
Emma Green - The Atlantic 25d 7 tweets
Eric Lidji is on a one-man mission to keep the Tree of Life massacre from becoming just another entry on a long list of mass shootings and anti-Semitic attacks.
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Robinson Meyer This report from Pittsburgh, by , is worth your time. 24d
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Bloomberg.com 27d 4 tweets
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Robinson Meyer A friend asked about this study, so some context: The study says $300 billion could improve global soils such that they would absorb the next 15 years of CO₂ pollution. It doesn’t say $300B would fix our economy’s dependence on fossil fuels. 26d
Trump Administration Sues California Over Cap-and-Trade Market
Tim Puko - WSJ 27d 5 tweets
The lawsuit aims to shut down California’s emissions-trading market designed to limit air pollution, claiming it is unconstitutional because one of the participants is the Canadian province of Quebec.
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Robinson Meyer Wow - The Trump administration has sued California, claiming its cap-and-trade system is unconstitutional, reports 27d
The Worst Day in Earth’s History Contains an Ominous Warning
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 28d 4 tweets
One of the planet’s most dramatic extinctions was caused in part by ocean acidification, which has become a problem in our own era.
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Robinson Meyer The asteroid that killed non-avian dinosaurs also acidified the oceans, a new study confirms. It now appears that all three of the worst mass extinctions in history featured ocean acidification. That’s worrying—since ocean acidification is happening now. 28d
Barney
Barney Wiki 32d 1 tweets
Barney the Dinosaur is the main protagonist of Barney& Friends and a two hundred million year (two dinosaur years) old, six-foot tall, purple tyrannosaurus rex with a green belly and green spots on his back and his tail and yellow toes. He comes to...
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Robinson Meyer Coincidentally, I recently found myself on the Barney Wikia, where I learned that Barney is canonically both a T. rex and 200 million years old, which is puzzling, because T. rex as a species only evolved about 68 million years ago. 32d
How Does Your State Make Electricity?
Nadja Popovich - Nytimes.com 330d 35 tweets
There’s been a major shift in how America makes electricity over the past two decades. Each state has its own story.
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Robinson Meyer It’s just weird that they had a Democratic primary debate in Ohio and didn’t ask about coal. It generates 47% of the state’s electricity! 34d
WNYC Is Dropping ‘New Sounds’ After 37 Years. Musicians Are Mourning.
Michael Cooper - Nytimes.com 38d 7 tweets
The eclectic radio program that has influenced New York’s music scene since 1982 is going off the air.
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Robinson Meyer You know you did good when Laurie Anderson is mourning what you made in the second graf of the Times story about it You know you effed up when Laurie Anderson is asking “Why would they do that?” in the second graf of the Times story about it 38d
This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 39d 7 tweets
PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.
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Robinson Meyer The California blackouts may have cost as much as $2.5 billion through economic disruption. You won’t see that number in an infrastructure bill or a bankruptcy filing—but it, too, is a cost of adapting to climate change. I wrote about it 39d
Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 43d 10 tweets
Most registered voters are in favor of spending trillions on weatherized buildings and renewable-energy infrastructure.
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Robinson Meyer I was really surprised by how much voters liked a national, WWII-style recycling plan for clean energy—an idea in ’s Green New Deal proposal that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. It has majority support from every age group! 42d
The Atlantic Reporter Robinson Meyer Named EPIC Journalism Fellow | Energy Policy Institute at University of Chicago
Epic.uchicago.edu 49d 1 tweets
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Robinson Meyer I’m excited to announce that I’ll be the visiting fellow in journalism at , the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, for 2019 to 2020. I feel really lucky that I’ll get to learn from their brilliant team in person this year. 49d
A Last Chance to Stop the Deluge
Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic 55d 5 tweets
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s newest report lays out the troubles plaguing warming oceans and the ways in which they could get worse.
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Robinson Meyer Congrats to , a contributing author to the new IPCC report who is having a busy week 55d
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Robinson Meyer The next few years of climate policy will decide whether there’s 1 or 2.5 feet of sea-level rise from 2050 to 2100. That’s a huge range! And 2050 is shockingly *soon.* The prime working years of a baby born today will fall mostly between 2050 and 2075. 55d