Maggie Koerth
@maggiek.bsky.social
CNN editor for climate and weather. Columnist at Star Tribune. Sometimes news at Science Friday. Nieman Fellow '15.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
Previously: Science journalist with FiveThirtyEight, NYT Magazine, BoingBoing, mental_floss, and etc.
My views are not my employer's.
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World strikes climate deal but fails to agree to a roadmap away from fossil fuels after contentious, chaotic summit | CNN
The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change.
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“A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s special representative for climate change.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
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I run a livestream hangout show where #readers meet twice a month with nonfiction #authors (@astrokatie.com @maryroach.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social to name a few). Imagine muppet show run by Morticia Addams as a librarian. Music, comedy, cocktails! It’s subscribe season—consider supporting! 📚
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November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I run a livestream hangout show where #readers meet twice a month with nonfiction #authors (@astrokatie.com @maryroach.bsky.social @edyong209.bsky.social to name a few). Imagine muppet show run by Morticia Addams as a librarian. Music, comedy, cocktails! It’s subscribe season—consider supporting! 📚
I’m imagining something like the traditional governance of Andorra where we have to give $460 to the governor and, to the mayor of St. Paul, $12 plus six hams, six cheeses, and six live chickens.
I don't think we should require return to office as a sort of economic lever for the city of St Paul, but I do think that as our capital city, every other city in the state should pay us tribute. Maybe have a ceremony in City Hall, where they bring gifts from their their various exotic locales
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I’m imagining something like the traditional governance of Andorra where we have to give $460 to the governor and, to the mayor of St. Paul, $12 plus six hams, six cheeses, and six live chickens.
Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Obviously the answer is ham. WTF is wrong with people who eat ham at Thanksgiving? Who hurt you?
Rosebud, Charlie Brown.
I wish for you in the future to find someone who will mourn you when you are gone, Charlie Brown. Respectfully.
I like you, Charlie Brown. That is why I will kill you last.
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Rosebud, Charlie Brown.
This is driving me nuts, as well. Kinda just starting to feel like AI is a branding/marketing term.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is driving me nuts, as well. Kinda just starting to feel like AI is a branding/marketing term.
“A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s special representative for climate change.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
World strikes climate deal but fails to agree to a roadmap away from fossil fuels after contentious, chaotic summit | CNN
The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change.
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“A climate decision that cannot even say ‘fossil fuels’ is not neutrality, it is complicity. And what is happening here transcends incompetence.” Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s special representative for climate change.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/c...
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line
unfccc.int/sites/def...
As service journalism for others waking up to vague jokes:
- MTG is resigning, effective Jan. 5
- Trump really loves Mamdani now
- Olivia Nuzzi allegedly did catch and kill on behalf of RFK’s campaign (and also RFK wrote her a LOT of sexually explicit poetry. Allegedly.)
- MTG is resigning, effective Jan. 5
- Trump really loves Mamdani now
- Olivia Nuzzi allegedly did catch and kill on behalf of RFK’s campaign (and also RFK wrote her a LOT of sexually explicit poetry. Allegedly.)
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As service journalism for others waking up to vague jokes:
- MTG is resigning, effective Jan. 5
- Trump really loves Mamdani now
- Olivia Nuzzi allegedly did catch and kill on behalf of RFK’s campaign (and also RFK wrote her a LOT of sexually explicit poetry. Allegedly.)
- MTG is resigning, effective Jan. 5
- Trump really loves Mamdani now
- Olivia Nuzzi allegedly did catch and kill on behalf of RFK’s campaign (and also RFK wrote her a LOT of sexually explicit poetry. Allegedly.)
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oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
Dreamed I fell asleep on an NYC bus and woke up in the Rockaways. Which is all weirdly specific for someone who doesn’t live in New York
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Dreamed I fell asleep on an NYC bus and woke up in the Rockaways. Which is all weirdly specific for someone who doesn’t live in New York
They do teach this now. It’s called social-emotional learning
Mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell is cool and all but I think classes like "How to calm the fuck down as an adult in a healthy non self-destructive way 101" is something that should also be taught before graduation
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
They do teach this now. It’s called social-emotional learning
Youngest child has pajama day at school and it’s really making me consider spending the whole workday in a bathrobe. She looks so comfy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Youngest child has pajama day at school and it’s really making me consider spending the whole workday in a bathrobe. She looks so comfy.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me: Not sure I can keep going times are tough for real
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
*eats lunch*
Me: Being alive is its own reward, drawing breath such a beautiful privilege
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Environmental justice matters because past injustice still shapes how climate change impacts black and brown Minnesotans. My latest: www.startribune.com/racism-mappi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Environmental justice matters because past injustice still shapes how climate change impacts black and brown Minnesotans. My latest: www.startribune.com/racism-mappi...
Environmental justice matters because past injustice still shapes how climate change impacts black and brown Minnesotans. My latest: www.startribune.com/racism-mappi...
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Environmental justice matters because past injustice still shapes how climate change impacts black and brown Minnesotans. My latest: www.startribune.com/racism-mappi...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I cannot explain how or why these things were as delicious as they were. Chocolate covered granola bars of today do not match up.
Kudos Bars (1986-2017): A line of chocolate-covered chewy granola bars, marketed as a healthier snack for kids, despite ostensibly being candy bars. Available in flavors like chocolate chip, peanut butter, cookies n creme, and many more. then eventually actual candy variants like Snickers and M&Ms.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I cannot explain how or why these things were as delicious as they were. Chocolate covered granola bars of today do not match up.
More broadly, a daily practice of thinking is important … and I’m increasingly aware that this is one of the ways passive entertainment scrolling can be damaging. It doesn’t leave a lot of thinking space.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 42:
No one *needs* to work every day. But doing so - even for only a few minutes - ensures that you *think* about your work every day; solving problems away from your desk; keeping the plates spinning.
No one *needs* to work every day. But doing so - even for only a few minutes - ensures that you *think* about your work every day; solving problems away from your desk; keeping the plates spinning.
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
More broadly, a daily practice of thinking is important … and I’m increasingly aware that this is one of the ways passive entertainment scrolling can be damaging. It doesn’t leave a lot of thinking space.
Am I crazy or doesn’t Menards always have an 11% rebate? So why are they making a big deal about “the last 11% rebate of the year”? I’m so perplexed.
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Am I crazy or doesn’t Menards always have an 11% rebate? So why are they making a big deal about “the last 11% rebate of the year”? I’m so perplexed.
Oh no! Child’s aerial circus class doesn’t have parent seating in the studio and is down the hallway from a distillery. I’m forced to try a gin flight.
November 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Oh no! Child’s aerial circus class doesn’t have parent seating in the studio and is down the hallway from a distillery. I’m forced to try a gin flight.
We aren’t going to talk about how much he now looks like William Hartnell?
People are so ridiculous about aging.
“Tom Baker isn’t looking too good,” someone commented online after the beloved actor made a recent promo appearance. HE IS *91* AND LOOKS FINE, good grief.
“Tom Baker isn’t looking too good,” someone commented online after the beloved actor made a recent promo appearance. HE IS *91* AND LOOKS FINE, good grief.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We aren’t going to talk about how much he now looks like William Hartnell?