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Matthias Cuntz

@mcuntz.bsky.social

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Ecophysiologist measuring and modelling land surface fluxes @INRAE Nancy, France.

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Bioclimatology Göttingen @bioclimatology.bsky.social · 17h

Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.

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Bioclimatology Göttingen @bioclimatology.bsky.social · 2d

First day of the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. More than 40 scientists are discussing fluxes anywhere and anytime. Great atmosphere!

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · 3d

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

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Lisa Wingate @lisawingate.bsky.social · 10d

@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11d

Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all.
That's fascism and unAmerican.

"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 13d

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”

We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

www.msf.org

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Matthias Cuntz @mcuntz.bsky.social · 14d

Just like me: I am also normally right about everything.

Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 16d

Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions.

“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”

www.eenews.net/articles/con...

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

www.eenews.net

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Grand Continent @grandcontinent.bsky.social · 16d

À l’AGNU, juste avant l’entrée de Trump, un discours anti-impérial a électrisé la salle : Lula a défendu la renaissance du multilatéralisme depuis un continent sans armes de destruction massive, bâti sur l’aspiration à la paix.

Nous le traduisons.

legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...

Contre les «forces antidémocratiques» : le discours de Lula à l'ONU

Dans un discours historique et anti-impérial qui a électrisé la salle de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies avant l’entrée en scène de Donald Trump, Lula s’en est pris à l’ingérence américaine en ...

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 16d

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

www.eenews.net

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21d

„Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate.“
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23d

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

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Reposted by Ankur R. Desai, Lawren Sack, Matthias Cuntz

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 26d

I found an obituary for Steve

www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

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Reposted by Sonia I. Seneviratne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Matthias Cuntz

ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 28d

ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.

Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Great honour for ETH climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne

ETH Professor Sonia Seneviratne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. The climate researcher shares ...

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EGU Hydrological Sciences Division @hs.egu.eu · 28d

Mentors matter—especially in challenging times.
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.

Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.

Check 👇

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Women in Hydrology – The Story of a Special Issue

It was 2021, and we were not feeling good. COVID-19 was in full force. Personally we were experiencing lockdown conditions, disruptions to our work, schooling and childcare arrangements. Our social...

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Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Peter Thorne, Arthur Geßler , and 9 more Valerie M. Delmotte, Peter Thorne, Arthur Geßler, Wim Thiery, Gavin A. Schmidt, Wolfgang Crämer, Matthias Cuntz, Juan Cole, Dominik Wiedenhofer, John Hogan, Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins, Béatrice Cointe

Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 29d

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.bsky.social · Sep 9

An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.

They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects

Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

www.frontiersin.org

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Matthias Cuntz @mcuntz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tell him that it is true but people cannot read and listen at the same time.

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Matthias Cuntz @mcuntz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Write an article with him that you then project.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · Sep 6

👏👏👏 👏👏

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Haut conseil pour le climat @hc-climat.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌍 Un engagement ambitieux de l’Europe pour 2040 est indispensable pour maintenir vivants les objectifs de l’Accord de Paris.
La position de la France fait peser un risque important sur l’adoption par l'UE d’objectifs à la mesure du défi climatique.
➡️ www.hautconseilclimat.fr/actualites/o...

Objectif climatique européen 2040 et COP 30 : une proposition de la France menace l’Accord de Paris — Haut Conseil pour le Climat

Paris, le 5 septembre 2025 – Au moment des négociations européennes sur les objectifs climatiques de l’Union européenne pour la […]

www.hautconseilclimat.fr

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · Sep 4

theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you

From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Sep 2

What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New #GCB paper from #MichaletzLab grad #JosefGaren uses #FAsTeR to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny!

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca @globalchangebio.bsky.social

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · Aug 29

On the way the Right has responded to the shooting in Minnesota (and all of them really)

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Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · Aug 29

New assessment on the biophysical potential of forestation to sequester carbon. As expected, we found just a fraction of what other assessments found, because we considered the obvious no-nos, such as risk to biodiversity, excess water use, and regional warming.

theconversation.com/the-climate-...

The climate case for planting trees has been overhyped — but it’s not too late to fix it

Reforestation can contribute significantly to tackling climate change, but research found its global potential is only a fraction of what’s been claimed.

theconversation.com

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us

If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 28

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

- MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions.

- “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit”

By @joeygrostern.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

www.desmog.com

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Nikola Besic @nikobesic.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy to be part of the team led by Martin Schwartz (@lsce-ipsl.bsky.social) behind our new publication:

“Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach.”

📖 Published in Remote Sensing of Environment:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Retrieving yearly forest growth from satellite data: A deep learning based approach

High-resolution mapping of forest attributes is crucial for ecosystem monitoring and carbon budget assessments. Recent advancements have leveraged sat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Trump regime is systematically crippling & blinding US science wherever science can provide independent information to the US public which the fossil fuel lobby doesn’t like.
A kind of self-harm for which the US will pay dearly for decades to come. Destruction is fast, recovery slow & costly.

Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · Aug 22

🌊 ❄️ A running thread on press coverage of the decommissioning of the Research Vessel/Ice Breaker N.B. Palmer (in rough chronological order):

1.- NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker (Science, July 28th, 2025):

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

www.science.org

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Trevor Keenan @trevorkeenan.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is a great opportunity for US based early career scientists to build international research collaborations. Please spread the word.

FLUXNET @fluxnet.bsky.social · Aug 22

The 2026 FLUXNET Secondment Program is open for applications!

The program supports extended visits of 2 - 6 weeks for early career scientists based in U.S. institutions to an international host institution to conduct research with eddy covariance data.

Apply here: fluxnet.org/community/se...

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