Gernot Wagner
@gwagner.com
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Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It’s pronounced juggernaut without the jug.
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McSweeney's
1 day ago
Q: What time is kickoff? A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”
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FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...
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One of the more ambitious projections for Voluntary Carbon Credits I've seen of late: ~$50b by 2035, up from ~$1.5b today. Quick sanity check: Today's size of Europe's (compliance) market alone? ~$200b.¹ California's? ~$10b.² ¹
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Hey
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
, minor request but one of these 'nudges' with outsized influence:
@nyc311.bsky.social
alerts have a near daily parking reminder. 90% of New Yorkers don't need that. Ask drivers to sign up for some special alerts only they need. Send flower emojis to the rest of us.
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Sometimes I do miss that site. Oh, and yeah natural gas can clearly do no harm. It has natural right there in the name.
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Tyler, from the Internet
3 days ago
The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
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The thing, of course, is that some of these people will get through the nomination process, where they'll do damage for decades to come.
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14(!) climate reporter, fired
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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"warmer homes in the winter, cooler homes in the summer, lower emissions, and real climate action that improves people’s lives — starting with the communities too often left behind." Heat pumps FTW
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"America's deeper question is whether or can restore a culture of shame"
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More of this, much more. Yes, induction, and heat pumps, and properly insulated windows should be standard fare for any high-end home design
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/r...
And yes, there's a $60 induction plate at IKEA...
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The Rise of the All-Electric Luxury Kitchen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/realestate/luxury-electric-kitchen-induction-trend.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.KHl-.MgC4qEwm53FA&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
4 days ago
To commemorate Transit Equity Day and Black History Month, a seat has been reserved today to honor the legacy of Rosa Parks. Each and every day, we’re committed to providing accessible and equitable transit for all.
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Gabe Ortíz
4 days ago
“And then we also have the best of the best of humanity for the way people are showing up for each other in community,” she continued, “and Americans coming out to support each other and protect each other and fight against injustice.”
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I just passed a USPS truck with Bad Bunny blasting at full power, and now I'm wondering why there are delivery trucks that aren't blasting music.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
5 days ago
“Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
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Another solar spill, necessitating overnight emergency drilling in subzero temperatures 🤷♂️ (Yes, rather happy our building is off gas completely.)
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Scott Imberman
7 days ago
Let’s be clear- the cost here is dead kids.
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Detroit is toast
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File under: "What could possibly go wrong?" Even for scientists producing peer-reviewed papers, it's basically all about, "How long can I use AI to BS my way to more publications, until someone finds out I'm not actually contributing anything novel?" Sigh.
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One thing snow in Manhattan makes painfully clear: How much public space is occupied by cars dumped there for free long-term storage.
#TheHighCostOfFreeParking
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Better Things Are Possible
8 days ago
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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Coach Finstock
8 days ago
Smartest man in the game and he's telling you the press are cowards. Telling you someday everyone is gonna find out
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Don Moynihan
8 days ago
I talk about this a bit in the piece. Large chunks of US institutions were ready to go along with this, including the Supreme Court and a de facto state media that came from the private sector.
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I suppose the one big question here is how to account for the decades-long process of building up an alternate reality — talk radio, cable news, "think" tanks, etc.
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Science: 1 Deception: 0
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/climate/energy-department-climate-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IlA.j-eX.iOeBoxqFFDyR&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Dan Gearino
9 days ago
Despite everything, energy transition investment grew in 2025. I spoke with
@gwagner.com
and
@femkenijsse.bsky.social
about the findings, which come from a BloombergNEF annual report:
insideclimatenews.org/news/2901202...
#energysky
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Global Energy Transition Investment Grew in 2025 Despite Major Obstacles; Here Are the Numbers - Inside Climate News
Clean transportation led the way while renewable energy spending decreased.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29012026/global-energy-transition-investment-grew-in-2025-despite-major-obstacles-here-are-the-numbers/
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I s'pose that's one way to cut nuclear costs: "Trump administration secretly loosens nuclear safety rules"
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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Jess Calarco
13 days ago
On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
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Genuine fascination with the effort that is NYC snow preparedness, check. A call for everyone to chip in for the public good, ✅ Fun along the way, ✅ 💚
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While one of the bigger storms blankets the U.S., leading to power outages for millions... Republicans move to dismantle one of the most important climate & weather prediction agencies.
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"Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting"
@nytimes.com
just dropped the "appear to" in front of the "contradict[s]." Anyone who knows anything about NYT headline writing knows how big a deal that is.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
15 days ago
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Brandy Zadrozny
15 days ago
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
15 days ago
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January 2026: "Trump Razes Old Order, Letting China Fill Void" + a picture of empty US shelves for good measure
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Alain Lépine
16 days ago
Tout n'est pas lié au réchauffement du climat, mais ce lien de cause à effet est très clair. Changement climatique → Températures océaniques plus élevées → Air plus humide → Tempêtes (hivernales) plus intenses
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Not everything's always climate change. Not everything's always climate change. Not everything's always climate change. But then... Climate change → Higher ocean temperatures → More moist air → More intense (winter) storms Yes, there's a link
csi.climatecentral.org/ocean?lat=26...
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2½ days later... Hello world (again)!
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Christina Hood
17 days ago
But actually, as
@gwagner.com
reminds us in this article, economists have quantified the mortality cost of emissions. Roughly one death between now and 2100 for every 4,500t of CO2-equivalent put into the atmosphere today. Every tonne matters. 2/-
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...
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How to Measure Climate Progress
Gernot Wagner thinks tackling the problem is justified on social and economic grounds, not existential ones.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/measure-climate-progress-in-lives-improved-by-gernot-wagner-2025-11
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David Ho
19 days ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Excited to start teaching Business and Climate Change tomorrow: Full house with 75 MBAs getting an 18-hour deep dive in 2½ intense "block week" days. 1 Climate Risks & Opportunities 2 Climate Policy 101 3 Climate Tech: solar, wind, batteries, nuclear...
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"Academy of Fine Arts Vienna extends offer of admissions to Trump: Don't want to be blamed again." Masterful from the German
@theonion.com
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I just filed an essay on geothermal for
@milkeninstitute.org
Review, fourth in a mini-series. (The third:
gwagner.com/cementing-carbon
) Needed a couple references, and I'm told AI is helpful with this sort of thing, so I broke down and tried it. Hm, 2 of 3 are
@wikipedia.org
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R.I.P.,
@theonion.com
newsroom
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2 screens in front of him, and he's been engrossed in one story for the past 30min 💚😎
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There's something magical about the City in the snow. 💚🗽
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Just in case the "batteries and cold don't mix" trope is still alive: A couple Austrians drive their 40 tonne electric truck to the northernmost point in Europe at -40°C, and back. Not some kind of experimental truck. Off-the-shelf e-truck.
www.electrive.net/2026/01/15/w...
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I just filled out one of my
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settlement claims: $3k per book, as part of the $1.5b class action settlement. So I got curious about what I inadvertently 'taught' Claude... Claude is good 😎
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