Robinson Meyer
He is also a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. Rob was previously a visiting fellow in journalism at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was a recipient of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ NEXT Award for Journalists Under 30 in 2021. Meyer was previously a technology writer for The Atlantic, and he now covers climate.
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change
Introducing Atlantic Planet
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Patricia Monteiro / Bloomberg / Getty The Rise of Greenflation
Extreme weather and energy uncertainty are already sending prices soaring.
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Getty / The Atlantic Not Even Free Money Can Fix a Carbon Tax
A carbon dividend seemed like a great way to solve climate politics. But it might not work.
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Gregg Segal / Gallery Stock The Simplest Way to Sell More Electric Cars in America
Decades-old laws that protect car dealers are keeping the U.S. stuck in the gas-powered past.
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James MacDonald / Bloomberg / Getty Lumber Prices Are off the Rails Again. Blame Climate Change.
“This is a supply-side problem. This is unlike any other market that any of us lumber traders have ever experienced.”
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty It’s Not Just Manchin
The 49 other Senate Democrats are making a reckless climate gamble too.
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Bing Guan / Bloomberg / Getty The World Is Half-Prepared for a Different Energy Future
Humanity’s energy plans have two giant gaps.
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Getty; The Atlantic We’re Heading Toward a Very American Climate Tragedy
If Democrats fail to pass a climate policy, they will all but guarantee that the world will warm a dangerous degree and that the U.S. will surrender its technological advantage to China.
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Allison Bailey / NurPhoto / AP A New Estimate of the ‘Most Effective’ Way to Fight Climate Change
Climate-concerned donors should focus on helping to pass climate policy, not offset their emissions, an advisory group says.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change
John Doerr’s new book, Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, is a checklist for global action.
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AFP / Getty Climate Advocates Are Gambling With Fate
Climate advocates finally have some power—and all the dilemmas that come with it.
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty The Seven Lawmakers Who Will Decide the Climate’s Fate
Negotiations in Washington, D.C., are far more important than those in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Sebastiaan Kroes / Getty; Ian Forsyth / Getty; … Climate Hype Might Be the Ticket to Decarbonization
Glasgow is a spectacle. That’s kind of the point.
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Shawn Poynter / The New York Times / … Nuclear Is Hot, for the Moment
The United States, Russia, and France now describe the once-neglected technology as a key part of their decarbonization plans.
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Lukas Schulze / Getty Steel Is Back
Why a new U.S.-EU trade arrangement about steel is surprisingly important
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Avalon / Universal Images Group / Getty Biden’s Amazing, Disappointing Climate Triumph
What the president’s deal would mean for the battle against climate change
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Democrats Might Give Up on a Methane Tax, and Maybe That’s Okay
Instead of mourning the loss, some climate experts are simply shrugging it off.
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Zeb Andrews / Getty The Key Insight That Defined 50 Years of Climate Science
A climate scientist has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time. It’s a reminder that the field, which emerged from the mid-20th century’s biggest questions, hasn’t always been fraught.
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Ryan McGinnis / Getty Biden Cannot Declare Victory on Climate Without One of These Policies
And the chances of passing either are getting slimmer.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty The Energy Crunch, in Six Paragraphs
Governments and companies have built the global energy system around natural gas almost without a second thought. Now it’s costing them.
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Ron Haviv / VII / Redux Deforestation Is a Crime
A new bipartisan bill would treat it that way.
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