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Bill McKibben
Personal blog · billmckibben.substack.compoliticsscience
Bill McKibben writes The Crucial Years, a personal blog at billmckibben.substack.com about politics and science. Since 2021, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom. Joe Biden Could Damage Putin Badly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Bill McKibben's Substack as a source on climate topics: temperature records, wood pellet biomass sourcing, and ExxonMobil's historical climate projections. No commenter judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Working on Winning the Climate Fight.
Most-linked posts?
- Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom. Joe Biden Could Damage Putin Badly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-28
- Godalmighty, Exxon Knew Everything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Bill McKibben's reporting says scientists estimate via temperature proxies that this is the hottest the earth has been in 125,000 years. Is that better for you? https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/no-human-has-ever-seen-i...
Comment linking /p/no-human-has-ever-seen-it-hotter
on “Tuesday set an unofficial record for the hottest day on Earth”Submitted Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned as a story · 363 points
HN discussion> woody biomass isn't coming from clear cutting forests, its from necessary thinning to keep forests healthy From what I've seen, claims to this effect often turn out to be false. For instance, from https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-little-xmas-cheer-for-... : > ...the world’s largest supplier of wood pellets for power generation ... has long insisted that it doesn’t use big, whole trees, but only uses wood wast…
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on “Can We Please Never Talk About Dedicated Biomass Again”Submitted Godalmighty, Exxon Knew Everything as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubstantial recent discussion: "Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s" 151 comments, < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358759 > From the Guardian : < https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-clima... > "Godalmighty, Exxon Knew Everything" 23 comments, flagged as dupe < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363138 > From Bill McKibben: < https://billmckibben.s…
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on “Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections”Submitted Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom. Joe Biden Could Damage Putin Badly as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Crime and Other Tales of Billionaire Lying from the Data Center Wars as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're Finally Catching a Break in the Climate Fight as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heat Pumps for Peace and Freedom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Night into Day as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photo editors get lazy in the heat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Corrupted Cop as a story · 1 points
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