Bob King
@bkingdc.bsky.social
Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. https://www.politico.com
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Average global temperatures are now around 1.4C higher than during the pre-industrial era, new data shows.
If the trend continues, the 1.5C limit set out in the Paris Agreement will be breached before the end of this decade.
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If the trend continues, the 1.5C limit set out in the Paris Agreement will be breached before the end of this decade.
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January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Average global temperatures are now around 1.4C higher than during the pre-industrial era, new data shows.
If the trend continues, the 1.5C limit set out in the Paris Agreement will be breached before the end of this decade.
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If the trend continues, the 1.5C limit set out in the Paris Agreement will be breached before the end of this decade.
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Carmakers are rolling out small electric SUV models in the US for $35,000 or less.
Cheap Electric SUVs Could Sway Buyers Despite End of US Subsidies
Nissan, GM and others are launching new models with a price tag designed to offset the end of green incentives in the US.
bloom.bg
January 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Carmakers are rolling out small electric SUV models in the US for $35,000 or less.
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US oil producers pledge to help stabilize Iran if regime falls
US oil producers pledge to help stabilize Iran if regime falls
American Petroleum Institute President Mike Sommers indicated the industry is more open to helping in Iran than it has been with Venezuela.
dlvr.it
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
US oil producers pledge to help stabilize Iran if regime falls
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The Trump vs. Newsom energy showdown is just getting started
The Trump vs. Newsom energy showdown is just getting started
From offshore oil to solar and dams, federal agencies are steadily muscling into California’s energy decisions.
dlvr.it
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The Trump vs. Newsom energy showdown is just getting started
On the other hand, the EPA has declared that its five key goals include U.S. supremacy in artificial intelligence.
Under President Trump, the EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. It’s counter to the agency’s mission statement, which says has a core responsibility to protect human health and the environment. nyti.ms/3Loch27
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
On the other hand, the EPA has declared that its five key goals include U.S. supremacy in artificial intelligence.
In related news, the Eagles are "inclined" to skip the Super Bowl this year.
President Trump said that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump 'inclined' to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after CEO response at White House meeting
President Donald Trump says he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
In related news, the Eagles are "inclined" to skip the Super Bowl this year.
The official GenX response: Whatever.
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
econ.st
January 11, 2026 at 5:05 AM
The official GenX response: Whatever.
Linux is just better and easier to use unless you've got some kind of specialized need that depends on software only available in Windows. And Debian Stable is the most trouble-free OS I've ever encountered; you can literally forget about it for years.
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
What, like it’s hard?
buff.ly
January 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Linux is just better and easier to use unless you've got some kind of specialized need that depends on software only available in Windows. And Debian Stable is the most trouble-free OS I've ever encountered; you can literally forget about it for years.
“He got all these countries to pay their fair share into NATO security, and he did it by fear and sheer force of will. He’s been proven right about that aspect, and he’s going to be proven right about this.”
With Greenland push, Trump once again thinks he's got the cards
The president's already gotten Europe to submit to him on NATO spending, Ukraine aid and tariffs.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
"a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry)"
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 250 yrs ago today www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 250 yrs ago today www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
Common Sense
www.gutenberg.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
"a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry)"
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 250 yrs ago today www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
Thomas Paine's Common Sense, 250 yrs ago today www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
"We don't want to be Americans": Somehow, Trump's efforts to win Greenlanders' hearts and minds appear to have fallen short
www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
‘We don’t want to be Americans’: Greenland’s political parties hit back at Trump
“The future of Greenland must be decided by the Greenlandic people,” the five parties in Greenland’s parliament said in a joint statement.
www.politico.eu
January 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"We don't want to be Americans": Somehow, Trump's efforts to win Greenlanders' hearts and minds appear to have fallen short
www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
Trump claims oil companies will "spend at least $100 billion" restoring production in politically unstable, socialist-ruled Venezuela at a time when crude prices are near a 5-year low, despite having plentiful alternative places to invest their cash.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump says oil companies pledge to spend $100B in Venezuela
The White House is scrambling to expand a Friday meeting with oil executives because of skepticism from the top oil majors.
www.politico.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Trump claims oil companies will "spend at least $100 billion" restoring production in politically unstable, socialist-ruled Venezuela at a time when crude prices are near a 5-year low, despite having plentiful alternative places to invest their cash.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump abandoned the crucial 1992 treaty that underlies all global climate diplomacy. And for the most part, Europe's leaders said nothing.
By @karlmathiesen.bsky.social, @ziaweise.bsky.social and @charliecooper8.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
By @karlmathiesen.bsky.social, @ziaweise.bsky.social and @charliecooper8.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe’s leaders watch silently as Trump torches UN climate treaty
Beset by crisis in Ukraine and Greenland, leaders let the U.S. withdrawal from the world’s most important climate body pass with barely a mention.
www.politico.eu
January 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Trump abandoned the crucial 1992 treaty that underlies all global climate diplomacy. And for the most part, Europe's leaders said nothing.
By @karlmathiesen.bsky.social, @ziaweise.bsky.social and @charliecooper8.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
By @karlmathiesen.bsky.social, @ziaweise.bsky.social and @charliecooper8.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Trump is no longer content to stand aloof from the global alliance to combat climate change. His new goal is to demolish it.
@karlmathiesen.bsky.social & I explored Trump’s multi-prong strategy to instead build a coalition reliant on US fossil fuels.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@karlmathiesen.bsky.social & I explored Trump’s multi-prong strategy to instead build a coalition reliant on US fossil fuels.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump’s fossil fuel crusade confronts the climate faithful
Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says on the eve of a summit in Brazil: "You have to potentially destroy it."
www.politico.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Trump is no longer content to stand aloof from the global alliance to combat climate change. His new goal is to demolish it.
@karlmathiesen.bsky.social & I explored Trump’s multi-prong strategy to instead build a coalition reliant on US fossil fuels.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@karlmathiesen.bsky.social & I explored Trump’s multi-prong strategy to instead build a coalition reliant on US fossil fuels.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump pulls out of the Senate-ratified 1992 UN climate treaty that underlies the entire global system of climate diplomacy — a potentially far more permanent action than his ritual withdrawals from the 2015 Paris Agreement. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
By @saraschonhardt.bsky.social
#UNFCCC
By @saraschonhardt.bsky.social
#UNFCCC
Trump quits pivotal 1992 climate treaty, in massive hit to global warming effort
The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change underpins global efforts to address rising temperatures.
www.politico.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Trump pulls out of the Senate-ratified 1992 UN climate treaty that underlies the entire global system of climate diplomacy — a potentially far more permanent action than his ritual withdrawals from the 2015 Paris Agreement. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
By @saraschonhardt.bsky.social
#UNFCCC
By @saraschonhardt.bsky.social
#UNFCCC
There's no law saying I cannot eat a Wawa soft pretzel for breakfast, right?
January 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
There's no law saying I cannot eat a Wawa soft pretzel for breakfast, right?
Who needs human forecasters?
The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
January 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Who needs human forecasters?
January 5, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
"Ukraine and Taiwan should be very afraid"
"This might end up signaling...that America’s addiction to regime change is just as disastrous in the Western hemisphere as it was in the Middle East."
Will Latin American countries align with China for protection?
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"This might end up signaling...that America’s addiction to regime change is just as disastrous in the Western hemisphere as it was in the Middle East."
Will Latin American countries align with China for protection?
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Could Change the World. Here’s How.
13 experts on what comes next in Latin America and beyond.
www.politico.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
"Ukraine and Taiwan should be very afraid"
"This might end up signaling...that America’s addiction to regime change is just as disastrous in the Western hemisphere as it was in the Middle East."
Will Latin American countries align with China for protection?
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"This might end up signaling...that America’s addiction to regime change is just as disastrous in the Western hemisphere as it was in the Middle East."
Will Latin American countries align with China for protection?
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"In ‘Doralzuela,’ They Partied": Isa Domínguez on the scene among South Florida's Venezuelan exiles
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www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strongman Fell. In ‘Doralzuela,’ They Partied
Venezuelans in South Florida took to the streets to cheer Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s capture, while fretting about what comes next.
www.politico.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM
"In ‘Doralzuela,’ They Partied": Isa Domínguez on the scene among South Florida's Venezuelan exiles
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Scoop by @benlefebvre.bsky.social, @zcolman.bsky.social and James Bikales: Trump has a use-it-or-lose-it demand for oil companies thinking of returning to #Venezuela: They go back in NOW, and spend billions of $, or forget about compensation for their seized assets.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump’s message to oil companies on Venezuela: 'You gotta go in'
The White House has told companies they must to rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
www.politico.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Scoop by @benlefebvre.bsky.social, @zcolman.bsky.social and James Bikales: Trump has a use-it-or-lose-it demand for oil companies thinking of returning to #Venezuela: They go back in NOW, and spend billions of $, or forget about compensation for their seized assets.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Maybe look behind you and check on whether there are a dozen people behind you in line before you ask the only clerk on duty your elaborate question about the inner workings of the U.S. Postal Service, random customer at the post office in Lansdale, PA.
January 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Maybe look behind you and check on whether there are a dozen people behind you in line before you ask the only clerk on duty your elaborate question about the inner workings of the U.S. Postal Service, random customer at the post office in Lansdale, PA.