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Emily Atkin
Personal blog · heated.worldsciencepolitics
Emily Atkin writes HEATED, a personal blog at heated.world about science and politics. Since 2019, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Prime Now's freezer bags: an environmental investigation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis. Click to read HEATED, by Emily Atkin, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Prime Now's freezer bags: an environmental investigation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-01
- Big Oil's favorite way to lie: paltering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-08
- How Exxon Duped New York Times' “The Daily”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-17
- Heated: A daily newsletter for people pissed off about the climate crisis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-10
- Big Tech's loudest climate advocate has a fossil fuel problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
- Nothing to See Here Folks – Critique of Media Reporting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
What Hacker News says?
"Paltering" Here[1] is a discussion about how Exxon uses paltering in NY Times ads in contravention of NYT's claims that they prevent misleading ads. [1] https://heated.world/p/how-exxon-duped-the-daily
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on “Apple announces Self Service Repair”Submitted Bezos Earth Fund has yet to announce a single grant as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> Interesting. In effect I think you are asking how the opposition should appeal to the supporters. Exactly. The opposition has to realize that they are outnumbered, at the moment ; but this is not a static or permanent things. By definition, every majority hangs on "swing voters", and is ousted when the swing voters decide to swing again. "Appealing to your base" is how you win primaries ; if you continue beyond th…
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on “US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights”Submitted The editorial boards are failing on climate as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAnyone know how the newsletter mentioned in the article, Heated, has a custom domain[0] on substack? As far as I know substack doesn't allow you to use a custom domain[1]. [0]: https://heated.world/ [1]: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037454992-...
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on “Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters”Submitted Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere was also this business about removing fact-checking of a bunk climate science article at the behest of a Republican congressman: https://heated.world/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinform... My interpretation of this is not that Facebook has a conservative bias (what does it even mean for a company to have a bias?), but that Facebook's leaders are well aware that the company are extremely vulnerable to regul…
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on “Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment”Submitted How Exxon Duped New York Times' “The Daily” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOk, I found these: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da3NGbfk6Lo/ https://heated.world/p/another-summer-day-stolen
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on “The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood”Submitted Big Tech's loudest climate advocate has a fossil fuel problem as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"What can I do?" Anything. - https://heated.world/p/what-can-i-do-anything
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on “What if a deadly heatwave hit India?”Submitted Why vilify the oil and gas industry? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe details are still hazy but it does seem there was some actual supply chain and manufacturing issues with some of these planes. There's a few people that have done pretty nice deep dives on this, like https://heated.world/p/boeings-big-green-disaster .
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on “Am I Flying Boeing?”Submitted Nothing to See Here Folks – Critique of Media Reporting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn addition to lobbying, utilities will often purchase or create "local news" websites and have them publish seemingly independent articles criticizing whatever the utility doesn't like. They work very hard to hide their ownership and editorial control. It should be illegal if it isn't already. https://heated.world/p/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-fake-news
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on “Utilities Use Dark Money to Stop Climate Progress”Submitted The advertisers funding Greta Thunberg's autism troll as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think the headline is just... wrong? https://heated.world/p/climate-activists-are-not-coming which links to the relevant city record https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/cityrecord/cit... which talks about particulate emissions, not carbon emissions.
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on “NYC rules for coal-, wood-fired pizzerias – must cut carbon emissions up to 75%”Submitted The open houses at the edge of disaster as a story · 2 points
HN discussion“Which initiatives / organizations / companies – teams / groups of people / individuals are actually working towards impactful climate change solutions?” Personal changes work to a point. Take for instance solar power in Aus. “The sudden rise in solar PV installations in Australia since 2018 dramatically propelled the country from being considered a relative laggard to a strong leader by mid-2019. Australia has the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is at the forefront of fighting climate change?”Submitted The climate cost of L.A.'s police choppers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're now trying to pretend that having a few reactors extended (after expensive work which costs roughly as much as replacing them) doesn't mean they typically shut down long before planned (usually after running at a huge loss for a decade or so). It's exactly the same lie again. Paying $15/W now *and then* $30/MWh on top *and then* having an option of paying $1-2/W later isn't somehow superior to paying $2/W for…
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on “Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis: Version 16.0 [pdf]”Submitted The world promised to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Instead, it doubled them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autodesk's omerta on its fossil fuel problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted For $25K, you can publish climate denial in The Washington Post as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fairness Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prime Now's freezer bags: an environmental investigation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tragedy of the Climate Dildos as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prime Now's freezer bags: an environmental investigation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heated: A daily newsletter for people pissed off about the climate crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven. Freaking. Hours as a story · 2 points
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