Wolfgang Cramer

#Climate & #biodiversity scientist, professor of global #ecology, [@cnrs](https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnrs ), [@IMBE](https://social.sciences.re/@IMBE ) (Medit. Inst. for Biodiversity and Ecology), #MedECC, #IPCC, Académie d'Agriculture de France, Chief Editor Regional Environmental Change (Springer Nature).

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2024-06-08 23:33:24

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I don't actually bother to look at the carbon emission figures - it is clear that they are orders of magnitude below those from flying.
I may post the costs later as an update to this thread - I am rather sure this was also cheaper than flying for this kind of business trip.
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Thanks to all who have followed and maybe shared this little 🧵 I am happy about any suggestions to make this more useful or interesting in the future.
Stay grounded!

2024-06-08 23:29:50

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A really brief summary:
During this week (Sunday morning to Saturday afternoon)
I traveled 6481 km in 10 trains,
I participated in one full afternoon meeting in Stockholm,
I had a nice day "off",
I worked one day near my lab in Aix-en-Provence,
and I participated in two major public discussion events in Paris.
I did not miss one connection, but was close to that in Hamburg on the way back from Sweden - and apparently the Danish railways are to blame.
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2024-06-08 23:20:42

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And arrived in Valence TGV perfectly on time, also for the elections (plz vote for parties that seriously decarbonize travel, at all scales)!
(6481/6481km)
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2024-06-08 14:37:28

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Now on the last train of the trip, one of the Paris-Barcelona TGVs, but I will get off in Valence already.
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2024-06-08 11:11:43

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Arrived in Paris after yet another beautiful ride and a few minutes ahead of schedule.
(5955/6481km)
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2024-06-07 07:42:59

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The bus stops at Aix-en-Provence TGV are OK for departure on the train, but if you have to wait here, you can't help thinking that this place was designed specifically to tell you that you should never take that shuttle bus.
TGV for Paris getting ready to go, on-time.
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2024-06-07 07:36:58

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Heading out from Aix-en-Provence this morning towards Aix-en-Provence TGV.
This type of stations (essentially huge parking lots, far away from towns in what used to be biodiverse and/or productive landscapes) should have never been built. Here, for example, a good upgrade of Marseille St. Charles, constructed when the TGV connected Marseille 30 years ago, would have served everyone better.
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2024-06-05 22:23:49

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End of leg 2 (but not the trip!) at Aix-en-Provence TGV, almost 30 minutes late, due a "police intervention" in a regional train near Lyon.
The only critical moment today was the late arrival in Hamburg, but there would have been one or two solutions left had I missed the ICE.
(5226/6481km)
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2024-06-05 19:35:55

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Long, but really nice evening ride through Burgundy and the Beaujolais, now along the Saône river.
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2024-06-05 14:06:58

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Time enough to get some food and board the last train of the day, a TGV towards Marseille.
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2024-06-05 14:03:55

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That ICE had what was unthinkable a few years back, a 🚲 compartment (but it seems rather tiny). We arrived Frankfurt with around 10 minutes delay.
(4213/6481km)
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2024-06-05 12:58:09

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I lived near these places before ICE's even existed, so please forgive me a tiny bit of nostalgia.
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2024-06-05 12:03:33

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This ICE is a rather curious one. It has come to Hamburg from Stralsund and, now going south, it avoids Fulda and rather passes through world-famous places such as Treysa, Wabern and Giessen. This is anything but fast, but there seems to be no congestion so we smoothly roll along, about 10 minutes behind schedule.
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2024-06-05 08:31:19

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Of my planned layover of 2 hours 28 minutes in Hamburg, about 10 minutes remained, but who am I to complain?
(3692/6481km)
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2024-06-05 06:48:58

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I can guess that rail logistics aren't simple, but is it really not possible to avoid adding 45 minutes to the 1.5 hours delay in Padborg?
And no app "knows" we are late, not SJ not DB.
Breakfast OK though.
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2024-06-05 05:15:59

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Admittedly, this does not look so very good. The weather is one point, but more importantly, we should have passed the 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 border 1.5 hours ago.
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2024-06-04 21:13:58

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Rolling along Swedish lakes an evening like this is something I enjoy very much.
I also tried the brandnew "bistro" on this train and found it good value.
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2024-06-04 18:00:25

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But now it's time to board that same bumpy SJ night train again, heading south.
What a mess on this tiny platform, given we are getting on a train that connects two major European capitals.
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2024-06-04 17:52:40

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After a good meeting with a nice (Mediterranean...) dinner, my #slowtravel gave me the pleasure of walking around Stockholm today.
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2024-06-03 10:32:02

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Another question regarding this trip: who actually allows programmers to treat rail passengers with maps like this one?
If that is how we traveled last night, then I am surprised we don't have more delay...
(2559/6481km)
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2024-06-03 08:06:36

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That's a good word for it indeed.
And I would not do it so often if I weren't also enjoying it.

2024-06-03 07:29:12

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Someone at SJ is probably reading this thread...
(if this were an 🛬 they would have probably given updated info and tons of excuses)
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2024-06-03 07:10:10

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Train rolling along with occasional stops in the middle of nowhere. So I installed the SJ app to figure out whether we might be late...
This is what SJ knows about their own train. What about a new estimated arrival? (with detective work and the GPS I can figure out it's at least 90 minutes)
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2024-06-02 22:12:53

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This is the SJ 2nd class sleeper cabin tonight which I will share with a nice young man. Looks just good enough for me.
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2024-06-02 21:57:49

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The ambiance on a platform with everyone waiting for a night train has changed very little since I first took this one almost four decades ago.
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2024-06-02 21:45:20

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Arrived with about 15 minutes delay in Hamburg, lots of time left for dinner and find that night train. Even the "canceled" ICE seems to have made it.
I found some really good (Syrian) food, but beyond that I don't find this station to be a place where I want to stay longer than absolutely necessary.
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2024-06-02 17:32:43

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Since my journey was indirectly affected by the floods in Germany today, a few points from a climate impact attribution expert:
No, these floods today are not a direct consequence of global warming.
Yes, the probability, frequency and intensity of such events increases with global warming.
Inadequate climate policies also include failure to adapt infrastructure to such events.
And nature-based floodplain management can help.
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2024-06-02 16:11:43

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Oddly, travelling to Hamburg today implies crossing the Rhine three times.
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2024-06-02 14:09:44

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No more Zugbindung, so I can just take the next train from Karlsruhe to Mannheim, earlier than planned. Should be fine to get to Hamburg more or less as planned, via an unconventional route.
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2024-06-02 13:23:29

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Not sure whether the DB just un-cancelled the trip, anyway in one place they say it's cancelled and in another they announce 8 minutes delay on departure.
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2024-06-02 12:58:49

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But I can smell upcoming problems. ICE from Karlsruhe to Hamburg has just been cancelled, probably due to flood damage (including a minor landslide, directly hitting the track and derailing a train) between München and Stuttgart.
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2024-06-02 12:52:35

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On-time arrival Strasbourg (despite 5 min delay in Colmar, bizarre) and easy connection to ICE bound for Stuttgart.
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2024-06-02 11:03:12

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Definitely a low ceiling above Franche-Comté this morning and no water shortage.
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2024-06-02 09:30:23

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I am going to take some risks with short connections on this trip, and there is of course no through-ticketing for Valence-Stockholm anyway. In practice, I have an SNCF ticket to Karlsruhe, a DB ticket to Hamburg and an SJ ticket to Stockholm, not reassuring but there is no other choice.
No interrail this time, because I travel for several different purposes and budgets - the administrators are far happier to pay way too expensive tickets than a part of some interrail fare.
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2024-06-02 08:52:35

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This morning early departure from Valence TGV for another work-related #noflying journey around a large swath of Europe, including #Stockholm. Estimated distance 6404km in only 9 trains, including 2 night-trains.
Perfectly on-time, train fully booked. Actually looking forward to what should be, for the first leg, about 26 hours in trains from here.
(and yes had to do the first 76km by car, since on Sunday mornings we have no early TER)
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2024-05-24 18:11:34

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(unfortunately I made a mistake at the start of this 🧵, so I re-post it in its entirety)
Day 1
So here I am on the first TER on my trip to Lyon, Paris and Madrid. This one sometimes is painfully late (when our night train from Paris is delayed and has priority to climb the valley) - but the unfortunate travellers this night seem to have been on a bus and I thus can hope to catch my first TGV.
#WesternEuropeByTrain
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2024-05-18 21:05:55

The posts from @npub10ra…24jw on international rail travel - always interesting - make me wonder. I have three long work-related train trips planned for this year, all originating from SE France: Madrid (next week), Stockholm (June), Lisbon (December). And several trips to Berlin and other places in Germany.
Are there any people here who want to follow and get my experiences (good and bad) quasi-live on mastodon?

2024-05-16 00:05:45

The warming stripes web page has been updated https://showyourstripes.info/
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2024-05-09 07:08:33

"An exclusive Guardian survey of hundreds of the world’s leading climate experts has found that:
- 77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels, a devastating degree of heating;
- almost half – 42% – think it will be more than 3C;
- only 6% think the 1.5C limit will be achieved."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
@npub16gu…hudy
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2024-04-24 11:28:39

"I want to tell you that I am sorry, and that I tried". These three minutes are not easy to listen to, and even harder to share. https://youtu.be/yJvczRkQHK0?si=sKeNgDa3ked5kafS [@StuartClimate](https://mastodon.social/@StuartClimate)
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