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Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality
No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Green congestion is still congestion, with its social costs.
America’s brain drain
No words
New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho...
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Delighted to announce that Malthus Enigma: Technology, Science, and Policy for a Fragile Earth is now published in hardcover and paperback.
Living in Berlin, working in Potsdam.
30% of the WGIII authors have no prior IPCC experience.
51% of the authors come from developing countries/ Economies in Transition.
58% of the WGIII authors are men; 42% are women. In AR6 overall, one-third of the authors were women.
For Working Group III (mitigation), we received 1211 nominations, and the WGIII Bureau selected 222 experts from 79 countries.
Congratulations to all Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, and Review Editors for the @ipcc.bsky.social Seventh Assessment Report.
I am very happy to announce that I have joined RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability | at GFZ, where I am continuing my work as Head of Science for the IPCC Working Group III Technical Support Unit.
"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn...
You: world class scholar, looking to make a move
Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy
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Imagine if people moralized about how heat in winter is unnecessary and unsustainable the way they do about AC.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Subtract days in July in Washington, DC.
Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.
It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.
"The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns, the horsetails rotted under the layers of sand and clay and the clay, became black, and turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us, in this case with their carbon.
Reading Rebecca Solnit & I love this:
""The remains of the swamp grass, the ferns ... turned into coal. And to this cemetery we intend to go, drag the dead out of their tombs, and force them to work for us." That language frames it as a zombie movie, a horror story, the dead come back to haunt us."
I first came to DC to work on a scientific cooperation program between ORD scientists and researchers in the former Soviet Union. What a tragic loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
Maybe this is just rage bait at this point, but I find it Interesting that heating uses 4x the energy globally as cooling does, but authors of AC-shaming articles like this never call for people to just “tough it out” through the winter without heating their homes 🤔
Shows death rates in US and eu cities by temperature, air con being the decisive factor
Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l
Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions.
But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.
Susie Essman, the brilliant comedian from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” recently offered some wise advice: focus on the small things in life that give you happiness. As Susie memorably put it, “The macro is fucked. We gotta go micro.” — @borowitzreport.bsky.social (July 11, 2025)
And here's a full copy of the NCA5 website. I backed it up earlier this year, before Trump took office: replayweb.page?source=https...
