4-year postdoctoral fellowships for women @univie.ac.at The application consists of a short (3-page) research statement only. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested or would like to discuss potential projects. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application deadline: 2 March 2026

China's wind and solar capacity additions rebounded in October after the predictable slump over the summer. 14 GW solar and 9 GW wind was added to the grid, after an average of 9 GW solar and 3 GW wind per month in the past three months.

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

China's clean energy technology exports continued strong growth in August, increasing 33% in dollar value year-on-year, with EVs +58%, solar +18%, wind +15% and batteries +23%. Exports grew to all regions except North America, evidencing strong demand.

This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen. He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate. He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right. His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵

Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes. elpais.com/economia/202...

This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.

#Solar has taken off in US red states. #Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic. #climate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“It’s a moonshot.” Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Listen to this interview with John Major. Starts at ~12:25.

Just out: Solar power additions in China in 2024 exceeded expectations, again, with a whopping 277 GW installed in just one year! This was up 28% on the already towering 217 GW added in 2023. Wind power made a new record as well, with 79 GW added to the grid, up 5% on year.

Nach BDEW-Zahlen war der Strompreis für die nicht-energieintensive Industrie 2024 inflationsbereinigt *niedriger* als zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt seit 2015. Wenn es der deutschen Industrie schlecht geht, dann wohl nicht wegen hoher Strompreise.

This is my attempt to engage with and explain the data: dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...

How is China's EV boom affecting gasoline demand and electricity demand? It has been hard to find precise data on this so here's a thread working out some numbers.

Last week we had a chat with Empowered Futures alumni, Dr. Harald Grabher (@soecoharry.bsky.social), who recently defended his PhD in Social Ecology at BOKU, Vienna, about his research on the multifaceted benefits of biomass combustion in rural Ethiopian households and his journey with EF. 🌍🔥

Just days after scoring a win at COP29, Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and Iran, is at it again trying to weaken the global plastics treaty. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/27/g...

'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends. @iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social

New article! Zhengli Huang, Meseret Desta and I argue that the drive to generate property ownership in urban Ethiopia has actually undermined homeownership: 'Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Highly recommended insights on the progress of China's energy transitions, as always with an amazing depth and expertise! Not to be missed...

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.

Musk is one of the worst bullies on the planet. He disproportionately targets women and people of colour. He is beyond nasty. edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean. Just incredible.

Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming - Carbon Brief

In this article, I argue that what we're seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised, hierarchical societies. This is the way they were run for centuries. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Great piece here from @iandunt.bsky.social. I very much relate to all of it. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Die OMV erstritt gegen #Gazprom über 230 Millionen Euro vor einem Schiedsgericht. Der Anspruch kann ab sofort gegen Zahlungsverpflichtungen der OMV gegenüber Gazprom Export aus dem österreichischen Liefervertrag aufgerechnet werden. orf.at/stories/3375...

Super-rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid attribution study on Hurricane Milton shows that poor Floridans and US taxpayers are footing the bill for the failure to stop burning coal, oil and gas. Again. www.worldweatherattribution.org/yet-another-...

Almost 40 years ago in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

Noch 2 Tage: Bewerben! Wir suchen eine Projektassistenz in einem super spannenden Forschungsprojekt, 3 Jahre, 30h die Woche, IIIb Info im Link. www.karriere.at/jobs/7294990

I still don't think people realise how quickly renewable energy is expanding around the world 🇪🇺New renewables built over the past 5yrs were enough to power the entire EU 🇺🇸🇨🇦New renewables expected in the next 5yrs wld be enough to power the US & Canada www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wor...

Sign: „We’re allowed to do this! We’ve got a tractor“. (Comment on climate activists getting massive backlash for blocking roads while farmers blocking motorways with tractors are tolerated and even supported by many politicians in 🇩🇪 .)

🌏 Was a cool experience participating in the hive mind examining a massive heatwave that occurred in Antarctica in March 2022. Papers published in J of Climate. I explain some of complexity here in The Conversation

Dec 11: India announces plan to double coal production by 2030 Dec 13: India signs off on "transitioning away from fossil fuels" at COP28 Dec 22: India lays out plans to build 88 GW of coal power plants I tried to make sense of this mess. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very good interview with China's lead climate negotiator Su Wei -- some outtakes and highlights in a thread.

Good to be reminded what & who we are up against in our fight for social justice, equality, and a liveable planet for all. George Monbiot highlights the peak of neoliberal shadow structures that have been delivering social inequality and injustice for their investors.

Hey everyone, Raymond Zhong from the New York Times is here! He just published this great story about global warming in 2023. Follow him here: @zhonggg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/c...

NEW from us: PM2.5 pollution levels rebounded in China in 2023, after falling for 10 years straight. In 2023, China’s PM2.5 average has increased year-on-year for first time since start of China’s war on pollution in 2013.

#Kipppunkte bedrohen wichtige #Natursysteme – schützen sie aber auch. Guter Deutschlandfunk Beitrag über negative & positive Kippunkte, der das Konzept erklärt, in aktuelle Forschung einbettet & auch kritische Punkte wie Unsicherheiten thematisiert. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kipppunkte-k...

You ever think about how crazy it is that in 2019, the richest 1% of the world’s population (77 million people) produced as much carbon pollution as the poorest 66% of humanity (5 billion people)?

The US wants to support the production of 35 billion gallons of “sustainable” aviation fuel. If all of that was made from corn-based ethanol—although that’s unlikely—it would require more than 110M acres of corn, more than the total amount of corn grown today. www.fastcompany.com/90999437/sho...

I imported 21 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

"Investitionen in naturbasierte Lösungen sind wichtig, aber: Es gibt keine wissenschaftliche Evidenz dafür, dass man Treibstoff aus Flugzeugen durch den Erhalt bestehender Wälder / das Pflanzen neuer Bäume kompensieren kann", so PIK Direktor Johan Rockström. treibhauspodcast.ch/kompensationen

Climate deniers be like…

If direct air removal costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion per year (that's ~4x US military spending). It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be carbon-free). thebulletin.org/2023/12/dire...

Reducing methane emissions could be a key contribution to slowing down surging climate heating. Methane's atmospheric lifetime is shorter than that of other GHGs, hence this would help fast. Here an overview. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Im Paris-Agreement ist nicht festgelegt, wie die Einhaltung der 1,5°-Marke festgestellt werden soll. Das ist auch gar nicht so einfach... www.nature.com/articles/d41...