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robinsonmeyer Feb 8, 2023

Was talking to a reporter yesterday about how to learn the climate beat and realized I couldn’t confidently recommend that she do what I did anymore — follow a bunch of prospective sources, experts, and analysts on Twitter and try to understand the networks between them.

Between Twitter’s decay and the AI-ification of search engines, I’m not sure anyone is ready for how much the core mechanisms of primary-source discovery on the web could be about to degrade.

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JJ Peterson

@robinsonmeyer Tell the next reporter who asks to report the historic, unprecedented steps this administration is taking to convert the US grid to renewables and the tens of billions finally being spent on that many other climate initiatives. Few Twitter climate journos report the successes, I guess that’s too much work or doesn’t fit the “don’t look up” narrative the far left is attached to. So there’s a place to start.