Gernot Wagner

Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It’s pronounced juggernaut without the jug.

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2026-03-08 22:19:12 GMT

Enshittification, recycling bin edition.
Yep, it all goes into one trash bag. The worst part, of course, is the general cynicism this breeds.
#recycling
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2025-11-08 20:25:52 GMT

Electrify 50% of your industry, save €250bn/year on fossil fuel imports.¹
Relatedly: the EU sends €380bn/year to autocratic regimes for its fossil fuel addiction.
¹Jamie Smyth's @nprofile…c58l Energy Source newsletter
#climate #eu #energy #economics #trade
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2025-10-12 00:20:42 GMT

Honey, I invested $100 billion in AI, and all I got was 1 + 2 + 3 = 15
#ai #microsoft
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2025-10-08 04:16:56 GMT

Morning run through Vienna:
"In this house, during the "annexation" of Austria by Nazi Germany, numerous Austrians were sentenced to death for their resistance against the unjust Nazi regime and subsequently executed…
Their fight for a free, independent Austria will never be forgotten."
#austria #vienna #fascism
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2025-09-07 23:43:18 GMT

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The entire @nprofile…wlm5 story is worth a look: https://www.thetimes.com/article/4843a526-2dfd-482b-b521-c75ae4a8717e?shareToken=e71f36912c154815fddc5d8c55cd7cf7

2025-09-07 23:42:52 GMT

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“The irony of this war is that the green transition accelerated in Ukraine, because they destroy a coal-fired power station and we build more wind parks to replace it.”
#renewables #climate #ukraine #putin #russia
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2025-09-07 23:42:12 GMT

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company
#ukraine #trump #wind #climate
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2025-08-26 10:23:29 GMT

This, too, is #climatetech: USB chargers on a local public bus. WiFi, too, of course.
#Climate #bus #transit #austria
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2025-08-25 13:34:13 GMT

At this point this is no longer just about wind or renewables, this is about basic investment certainty.
Lack thereof is why investors demand 20+% return for the same investment in Egypt that gets 6% return in Germany (and yes the US is already at 7 or 8% in this calc)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/25/trump-wind-energy-revolution-orsted-new-england
#climate #economics #us #germany

2025-08-14 14:58:49 GMT

Adam Smith still gets invoked by the odd "conservative" think tank, pretending that he'd have signed on to their "pro market" policies.
Smith was pro banking regulation, pro firewalls (the pre-Internet kind), and yes, he'd have been pro climate action.
Naomi Oreskes spot on as usual: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/climate-change-regulation-health.html
#climate #economics #us
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2025-08-14 11:01:11 GMT

BBC asks whether the B Corp bubble is about to burst: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6s2g
Well, yes, one prominent, small, founder-led, checks-all-the-right-boxes company is indeed leaving.
Meanwhile, multinational Danone is in the process of joining https://gwagner.com/ft-danone
Verdict: it's complicated.
#bcorp #Climate

2025-08-03 01:46:33 GMT

Econ 101: bad news for solar & wind, no 2 ways about it.
Political Econ 101: Shows how solar & wind are winning, to make these sorts of roadblocks necessary to protect fossil fuel profits.
Clear signs of a the death thrall of the fossil fuel age
https://heatmap.news/sparks/interior-department-wind-solar-land-use
#climate #solar #us #trump

2025-07-31 13:01:32 GMT

This is how you do climate goals:
In 2012, Copenhagen announced it'll be net zero by 2025. Guess what it's at -80%, and it's one of the most livable cities on the planet to boot.
The text:
Mission "net zero" failed?
Yes, but successfully!
#climate #eu #copenhagen #denmark
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2025-07-27 14:03:00 GMT

#climateflation graphic of the day, via @nprofile…eq3p
#climate #economics #inflation #us
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2025-07-26 21:25:22 GMT

Frightening to see how widely applicable this quote is these days:
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
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2025-07-21 02:05:25 GMT

Drought, disease, and tariffs drive beef prices to record high, up 12% from a year ago.
Almost as if the trifecta of ignoring climate change and animal health, and deliberately torpedoing the US economy with tariffs was a recipe for disaster.
https://apnews.com/article/beef-prices-record-high-cattle-steak-cows-e9fc33bbaec6a76fb243e277bbbb7c0e
#climate #us

2025-07-19 23:11:07 GMT

One more week for Summer Streets in NYC 💚🗽🚲
https://youtube.com/shorts/K3xpRe8VuiM
#nyc #cycling #summer

2025-07-12 20:21:22 GMT

You've got to feel for the MAGAites trying to keep track of which conspiracies they're supposed to believe.
The Texas floods? Chemtrails!
But wait is it Trump doing the spraying?
The EPA explainer isn't half bad, but Lee Zeldin couldn't help himself fanning the flames
https://gwagner.com/hill-chemtrails
#climate #trump #chemtrails
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2025-07-10 22:08:02 GMT

Skip the editorial by the director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy on "sound science."
Read the letter by John Holdren instead: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz9562
#climate #trump #science
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2025-07-07 23:29:00 GMT

Today, the President of the U.S. declared solar and wind "unreliable," "foreign controlled," and — the kicker — "expensive."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-market-distorting-subsidies-for-unreliable-foreign%E2%80%91controlled-energy-sources/
#climate #us #trump
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2025-07-07 11:37:28 GMT

"Heavy rain and drought dampen economic growth" by 0.5% in the EU, 0.6% in the US, according to a new analysis by Allianz Research.
Matter-of-fact headline in the business section of Austrian daily @nprofile…9lpt https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278037/starkregen-und-duerre-daempfen-das-wirtschaftswachstum
#climate #klima #economics
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2025-07-06 13:37:37 GMT

Took 6 months and 6 days into the new year for me to learn that
(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = 2025
1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ = 2025
🤯
#math
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2025-07-05 17:51:29 GMT

China v US
The difference, it hurts
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/climate/china-clean-energy-power.html
#climate #china #us
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2025-07-05 14:26:25 GMT

Big interview out today in the Swiss @nprofile…4027
«Trump can delay the energy transition [in the US], he can't stop it»
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimapolitik-usa-trump-kann-die-energiewende-nicht-aufhalten-429924872368
#klima #climate
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2025-07-03 23:03:38 GMT

One too many takes today asking versions of "is there a future for climate tech?"
I know, tough day to say this, but: Yes!
US is taking a huge step back. Jobs will be lost, China will pull further ahead.
But oil, gas & coal are on their way out, and cleaner techs will only get better & cheaper.
#climate #us #gop
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2025-07-02 12:11:45 GMT

Where we are as a country:
"The funding in the bill will make ICE the largest jailer in the world, with $200 billion at their disposal."
https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-trump-concentration-camp
#gop

2025-06-23 12:51:18 GMT

Humidity is a killer. 84°F, RealFeel 96°F, at 8:30 a.m. in NYC, in June.
When it's too hot & humid to bike to the office to spend the day working on climate change.
Stay safe out there.
#Climate
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2025-06-22 17:13:28 GMT

The same week Senate Republicans are deciding how cowardly they're going to be in light of House colleagues abdicating all responsibility vis-a-vis anything other then their own lot
"A potent heat dome is building over the US, sending temperatures into the triple digits"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/21/weather/heat-dome-climate
#us #trump #climate

2025-06-22 17:03:34 GMT

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The Onion on point, as usual:
"today, @nprofile…4f75 calls upon lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing."
#trump #us #iran
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2025-06-22 15:35:19 GMT

The saddest part here: Iran showing Congress that Parliaments do have power.
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2025-06-21 11:58:33 GMT

Not the best noise to be waking up to on a Saturday morning, but this one bodes rather well:
The *final* final step to cut our building's gas line, and for ConEd to close our years-long project.
From August 2021 in Curbed @nprofile…mnry https://gwagner.com/curbed-coop
#climate #nyc #gas
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2025-06-15 03:11:54 GMT

Watching the footage from the hundreds of #nokings marches around the country today gives me hope we can pull this country back from fascism after all, but boy this is going to take a lot of dedicated, focused work.
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2025-06-06 23:44:56 GMT

No words
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2025-06-01 13:40:32 GMT

11-year-old is kicking ball on 2 teams this season.
Quick math on a Sunday morning: That's 2x 15 girls = 29 SUVs + 4 bikes. 😎
Off to a double-header for the kid, and some family time for the rest of us 🚲🚂
#nyc #cycling #soccer
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2025-05-26 19:38:03 GMT

Honest question to the Always Online:
How many of you knew that H.R.1 included a provision that makes it all but impossible for courts to hold government officials in contempt of court orders?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hidden-threat-to-democracy-slipped-into-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/
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2025-05-18 16:04:01 GMT

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Meanwhile, in the US
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/climate/ira-repubican-tax-bill-clean-energy.html
#trump #us
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2025-05-18 15:06:00 GMT

"Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US"
https://www.ft.com/content/f86782fa-9f2e-448a-b710-29e787dc9831
#china #trade #climate #us
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2025-05-18 01:48:49 GMT

DOGE cuts
⤷ tornado forecast offices closed overnight
⤷ 27 Americans dead after overnight tornadoes
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2025-05-18 01:11:27 GMT

11-year-old just discovered sewing 🧵 🪡 😎
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2025-05-11 03:28:09 GMT

Sorry, but whoever doesn't consider European night trains the pinnacle of civilized long-distance travel, I can't help you.
This ÖBB NightJet is spectacular.
In case you're wondering, yes, the price of the single cabin (with your own bathroom!) is cheaper than hotel + flight.
Yes, it's *much* more pleasant, productive & efficient! (And yeah, I'm talking United 1K treatment flight.)
#travel #trains
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2025-05-08 10:00:53 GMT

Daily motivation to get out of bed in the morning and get to work https://www.politico.eu/article/this-april-was-worlds-second-hottest-on-record-eu-scientists-say
For further motivation, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKBIET9kMw
#climate

2025-04-27 16:00:32 GMT

Another #climate change effect: rapid temperature flips!
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2025-04-25 21:30:20 GMT

>40% drop at Port of LA isn't exactly "local" news.
That's the bottom dropping out at the biggest container port in the Western Hemisphere
https://cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-ports-expect-roughly-40-drop-in-traffic-as-trumps-tariffs-continue

2025-04-21 09:31:03 GMT

“We must take care of nature so that it takes care of us.”
— Pope Francis

2025-04-19 15:32:13 GMT

Trump's America
#trump #energy #economics
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2025-04-10 13:23:23 GMT

Ah, probably nothing. Needs more research, and in any case, did you hear that lithium-ion batteries contain lithium. Probably a wash.
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/oil-gas-development-childhood-leukemia-study/
#climate #energy #health #oil
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2025-04-09 13:04:43 GMT

Academia — like federal workers, and law firms, and ... — hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
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2025-04-08 13:20:06 GMT

Turns out Shell scenario planning didn't just "predict" Greta before she was born. (~"Youth-led climate uprising by 2020, making Oil & Gas go the way of tobacco.")
They also painted an "Islands" scenario in 2021, showing how "security first" leads to more warming than any of the other scenarios.
#climate #trump #uspol
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2025-04-07 04:43:10 GMT

Top 3 news stories just now on BBC news: global markets tumbling, 2nd kid in Texas dies from Measles, 17 dead due to 30cm of rain across several US states.
How I wished we didn't have to worry about the self-inflicted idiocy of 1 and 2, to able to focus on fixing 3.

2025-04-07 02:01:27 GMT

Pretty much the entire logic of these tariffs summarized in one headline: Monomaniacal guy gets to feel more monomaniacal
#trump #uspol #tariffs
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2025-04-06 00:01:39 GMT

If you thought the Trump tariffs caused a major blow to business, wait until you hear about climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer
#climate #economics

2025-04-03 09:51:51 GMT

We all know what's going on here, right?
Tariffs not as economic policy, but purely to consolidate political power.
From here on out, every day for Trump will be one of CEOs, presidents, prime ministers showing up to grovel, kiss the ring, ask for special favors.

2025-03-30 13:01:11 GMT

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Original news:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56687585
And yes, in a world with PEF, any amount of PET is bad.
Covering PET in paper to trick consumers is inexcusable.
#sustainability #climate #plastic

2025-03-30 10:49:37 GMT

define "greenwashing"
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2025-03-27 09:53:32 GMT

WSJ: "Economic Growth Now Depends on Electricity, Not Oil"
yup
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/economic-growth-now-depends-on-electricity-not-oil-40250941
#climate #energy
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2025-03-25 00:06:12 GMT

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Solar power is so cheap that Texas's "free-market" approach favors solar, wind, and increasingly also storage (utility-scale batteries!) above fossil power sources.
For more, read: How States Like Texas Are Driving the Clean Energy Boom in the Trump Era
https://business.columbia.edu/insights/climate/texas-clean-energy-boom-trump-era
#climate #texas #uspol #solar
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2025-03-18 13:00:08 GMT

Amazing how beautiful and efficient it is living in a functioning society: infrastructure built for people, to make daily lives easier.
Goes for big — Port of Rotterdam's investments to go zero-CO₂ within 25 years — and small: train travel made so easy, it's show up, tap, go.
#climate #trains #urbanism #infrastructure #amsterdam #rotterdam #eu
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2025-03-17 21:21:11 GMT

Who says the EU is hesitant on carbon removal technologies? 380 ppm CO₂ at the European Commission today!
#climate #eu
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2025-03-15 15:19:14 GMT

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File under "it isn't EVs, it's Musk":
BMW spots opportunity, as Tesla tumbles
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/15/bmw-spots-an-ev-sales-opportunity-as-tesla-tumbles/
#cars #EV #climate #musk #tesla

2025-03-13 11:55:36 GMT

The French just introduced the next-generation TGV.
The low-carbon transition comes with 5G at 350km/h.
#climate #eu #trains #tgv #cars
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2025-03-11 11:46:20 GMT

If NYC feels quieter now, that's because it is.
More good congestion pricing news: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/11/traffic-noise-complaints-drop-congestion-pricing
#nyc #climate #congestionpricing #cars

2025-03-10 21:45:18 GMT

Tesla lost half its market value since December.
And no, this isn't an EV market problem. It’s an Elon Musk problem.
Me just now via @nprofile…rgnh https://gwagner.com/marketplace-tesla-mar25/
#climate #tesla #ev #musk
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2025-03-09 03:21:24 GMT

German Tesla sales in February: -76%, after -60% in January.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sales-plunged-76-february-152605713.html
#musk #tesla #germany

2025-03-08 01:54:56 GMT

You know how Trump doesn't like offshore wind because the turbines turn whales "batty"?
Yeah, he just fired the NOAA scientists working on helping whales and turbines coexist
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trump-fires-noaa-scientists-helping-whales-and-offshore-wind-coexist
#climate #wind #trump #noaa

2025-03-06 11:13:55 GMT

"The president and reality are drifting apart"
@nprofile…yk0l not mincing words.
https://econ.st/41tx87X
#trump #uspol #economics
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2025-03-05 23:44:25 GMT

“Five years ago, an induction stove would have cost you $1,500. Now IKEA sells induction plates for $60.”
From @nprofile…v2dc in a supermarket checkout lane near you: “Progress for the Planet” by Meryl Davids Landau
https://gwagner.com/prevention-progress/
#climate #trump
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2025-02-23 23:51:19 GMT

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Hey, we can play this game forever.
#ai
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2025-02-23 23:50:41 GMT

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And the instant boosts here, because I tagged #ai, tell me that this site isn't immune to such things either.
Fun.
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2025-02-23 23:49:31 GMT

Fake headshots, fake AI-generated posts, fake AI-generated "engagement."
Ah, progress.
#ai
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2025-02-22 00:51:20 GMT

Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage
https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/trump-to-shut-down-all-8000-ev-charging-ports-at-federal-govt-buildings/
#climate #us #ev #musk

2025-02-21 11:43:55 GMT

40%.
Since 2000.
This sort of thing always reminds me of my first experience with how much uncertainty matters: Back in the late 1990s, the IPCC sea-level rise headline figure didn't yet include melting polar ice caps: "too uncertain." It included inland glaciers: "they are all gone anyways."
“European glaciers have shrunk 40% since 2000, study says”
https://on.ft.com/3Xe9j2W
#climate #eu

2025-02-14 14:32:35 GMT

If you read one thing today: @nprofile…qwfn on regime change in America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/
#trump #musk #uspol
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2025-02-14 00:35:10 GMT

This sentence alone: Republican nuttiness "could foster the emergence of drug-resistant HIV strains"
http://science.org/content/article/researchers-face-impossible-decisions-u-s-aid-freeze-halts-clinical-trials
#trump #uspol #health
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2025-02-13 08:56:27 GMT

When @nprofile…wyf2 ends and article thusly: “Ukraine is fucked. And so is Europe, by the way.”
https://econ.st/4jVgu9I
#ukraine #uspol #eu

2025-02-07 04:21:53 GMT

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@nprofile…8kev Sigh. I also have the Schwalbe Marathon Plus. Fantastic tires, and no flats for ~2 years of daily biking in NYC, but it wasn't meant to be.

2025-02-06 21:06:57 GMT

Hey BikeVerse,
Flat tire on my ride home. The next open bike shop: 3 blocks away. (I💚NYC!)
The mechanic only had 27.5” inner tubes, not one for my Brompton. He tucked it in on 5 spots with his fingers, put it in my 16" tire, and off I rode.
That was a week ago.
Keep pedaling, or get a 16" tube?!
#cycling #Brompton #nyc

2024-12-24 21:07:22 GMT

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The haul from that early afternoon Christmas Eve stroll.
💚NY(PL)
#NYC #books
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2024-12-24 05:15:21 GMT

The 11-year-old put a package in the fridge today, and I haven't been as excited about getting to open a Christmas gift since I was 11. 🎄🎁
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2024-12-18 13:59:15 GMT

Reality bats last
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/18/climate/insurance-non-renewal-climate-crisis.html
#climate
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2024-12-17 02:51:00 GMT

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Five years ago, Inman Square was a death trap! Now it has a protected bike lane, a sloped turn(!), and superb markings in every direction.
Well done, Cambridge, MA. Well done!
#cycling #CambridgeMA #Boston
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2024-12-17 00:29:19 GMT

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Heading home.
Yep, the Brompton fits nicely into the space between Acela seats.
And yep, I prefer Austrian trains, alas they don't yet make it to either Cambridge.
#bike #train #brompton #nyc #amtrak
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2024-12-16 02:21:07 GMT

Quick overnight to Cambridge, MA. Carry-on and main modes of transport, all in one picture.
#bike #train #nyc #cambridgeMA
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2024-12-11 04:06:33 GMT

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@nprofile…fynq Fair, though Wikipedia seems to have an answer there, too: ~10x
"Articles make up 11.16 percent of all pages on Wikipedia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

2024-12-08 18:23:07 GMT

The first actually impressive use case of AI https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/google-ai-weather-forecast.html
#climate #ai

2024-12-01 15:11:32 GMT

Guess what we're doing today: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-can-ride-a-1930s-subway-train-in-nyc-next-month-112124
Also striking: there are subway cars still running every day that are closer in age to these museum pieces from the 1930s than the year 2024.
Congestion relief can't come soon enough.
#NYC #trains #MTA #traffic

2024-11-28 14:18:49 GMT

11-year-old rolls out of bed, sits down for Thanksgiving Day breakfast, picks up front page: "Sigh, what happened this time?"
#kids #news
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2024-10-30 17:18:18 GMT

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Floods today in Valencia. Surreal.
All images via Getty/BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckmgmdxg254t
#climate #floods #valencia
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2024-10-30 07:24:17 GMT

Hurricane Sandy hit New York 12 years ago to the date, Helene hit Florida & North Carolina 1 month ago, followed by Milton 3 weeks ago. It all seems ages ago, making it easy to move on, as the cameras leave.
It takes real leadership to invest in solutions that will help avoid the next flood, invest in the sort of solutions that will help avoid the next flood
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/02/floods-havoc-vienna-austria-climate-crisis
#climate #floods #Vienna #us

2024-10-23 12:56:52 GMT

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@npub1jw2…jvlw TED Countdown? See you there! :)
Afraid I will have to fly there, though, from NYC.

2024-10-22 16:55:01 GMT

Looks Right
#us #trump #NYC #cycling
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2024-10-20 17:33:46 GMT

Oh, I might know a couple more 🚲🛴🚌🚆🌇
#cycling #trains #urbanism #housing #NYC
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2024-10-20 11:05:45 GMT

What could possibly go wrong?
#us
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2024-10-19 14:05:51 GMT

Clearly the next/final(?) frontier in urban mobility: actual consequences for cyclists and pedestrians insured, or worse, at the hands of drivers.
SUV optional, though let's face it, it's almost exclusively drivers in SUVs that are killing people
https://www.dw.com/en/france-man-charged-with-murder-after-running-over-cyclist/a-70539992
#cycling #Paris #cars #suv

2024-10-18 10:44:41 GMT

Happy 11th, kid!
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2024-10-16 10:33:17 GMT

#NYC has discovered trash bins
#trash #compost #sustainability #recycling
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2024-10-16 10:28:52 GMT

#NYC has discovered trash bins, and 1 day in, I can say it's all rather neat
#trash #compost #sustainability #recycling
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2024-10-16 01:41:27 GMT

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#us #health
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2024-10-16 01:35:02 GMT

Pop quiz: what does this map show?
#us
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2024-10-15 11:23:39 GMT

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Meanwhile, some "quick carbon removal demand math" from Nan Ransohoff on whether the world could -- and would -- scale carbon removal to sufficient levels this century.
~1% does it
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/quick-carbon-removal-demand-math
#climate

2024-10-14 15:23:52 GMT

"Carbon dioxide removal will achieve too little, too late"
Interesting how the print version drops the "Don't overshoot" (for space reasons, no doubt), turning it into an even stronger statement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03266-9
Doesn't mean we shouldn't invest in carbon removal, and fast. See e.g. https://gwagner.com/stripe But banking on it because of all those yummy profits to be had from extracting fossil fuels now and using the atmosphere as a free dumpster is courting disaster.
#climate
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