Gernot Wagner

@gwagner.com

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

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Gernot Wagner is an Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School. He holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University, as well as an MA in economics from Stanford University. A founding co-director of Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (2017–2019) he joined the faculty of New York University in 2019, moving to Columbia University in 2022. Wagner writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, and is the co-author, with Martin L. Weitzman, of Climate Shock, a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015. He won the "Austrian of the Year" award in 2022, awarded by Austrian daily Die Presse. .. more

Economics 35%

Environmental science 29%

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

Unacceptable. A road — possibly associated with Tren de Aragua — left unpaved by Minnesota radicals weaponized itself against two of our courageous officers, causing one to discharge his firearm in self-defense.

We stand by our brave boys.

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VCÖ - Mobilität mit Zukunft @vcoe.bsky.social · 21h

Bilanz von 1 Jahr City-Maut in New York: 27 Millionen weniger Autofahrten, flüssigerer Verkehr, deutlich mehr Öffi-Fahrgäste, weniger Bus-Verspätungen, weniger Lärm- und Abgasbelastung. #Verkehrswende voranbringen! www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @gwagner.com

27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

www.nytimes.com

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

RIP Donald Shoup

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

😐

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

Good news on congestion pricing.

Now let's tackle street parking.

There are at least 3 illegally parked cars in this picture illustrating the @nytimes.com congestion pricing story.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

Low enough to be on par with solar & wind

business.columbia.edu/insights/climate/nuclear

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 23h

*relative costs

Solar panels are just so damn cheap, and still getting cheaper.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 23h

Every once in a while, someone discovers that nuclear is low-carbon and tries to stick it to renewables as a result.

Yes, the German nuclear phaseout was a mistake. Of course.

Meanwhile, Électricité de France has been fully nationalized to keep its reactors running. A model for the US?

Person on the internets discovers that nuclear is low-carbon.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

The Venezuela morass told through @wsj.com's Energy & Oil newsletter is...something.

The moral depravity of the Trump admin alone is nuts. The go-it-alone incompetence is another matter altogether.

The Wall Street Journal

Latest in Energy & Oil

Trump Presses Oil Executives to Invest in Venezuela—but Gets Lukewarm Reception

Exxon’s CEO says the South American country is currently “uninvestable” and plans to send a technical team to assess the situation.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

Keeping this one on the pile with the Jan 7 front page 5 years ago, and the first Obama win.

Sigh.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

"My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me."

Hard to think of a scarier, or more consequential, pullout quote on the @nytimes.com front page.

Picture of NYT front page with Trump quotes

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting piece from Le Monde noting how uncomfortable most of the European far-right is with Trump's actions in Venezuela and now Greenland:

Venezuela: From Orban to Farage, Europe's far right is unsettled by Trump's new imperialism

NEWS ANALYSIS. The US operation in Venezuela has forced European nationalists to confront their own contradictions as politicians from countries that carry little weight compared to Russia, China and ...

www.lemonde.fr

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Clear view

View of New Jersey across the Hudson from Pier in Lower Manhattan

Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

"Fascism is here, but there are more antifascists"

John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 3d

In the UK, where Reform wants to usher in ICE and Labour wants to imitate Reform, we should not regret, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, to inform ourselves of who is going to win.

Fascism is here, but there are more antifascists than fascists in the US and the UK.

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

www.whitehouse.gov

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 3d

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3d

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Even the oil companies are like, cutting those GHG programs is going too far bro. By @jack-cavanaugh.bsky.social & @pavan.bsky.social
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Oil companies want to keep the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. Yes, really

The EPA aims to cut unnecessary regulation and empower the oil industry. But getting rid of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program would actually creates bigger headaches.

www.houstonchronicle.com

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Not quite as mesmerizing as Utrecht bike commuters in 5cm of snow, but still rather grand 😎

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Yowza.

Can't wait for behind-the-meter fusion ;)

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

I'm sure that's the case. I didn't delete it either. At the time, I deleted all but one tweet — saying I was no longer there.

xcancel tells me it no longer exists, so they must have deleted it at some point.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d

Trump defends the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.

Video footage does not support Trump's claims.

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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 3d

The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.

murdered woman's glove compartment filled with stuffed animals

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Your Dutch Cycling Moment of Zen
youtube.com/watch?v=SmMRVeRs3vU

Commuting in the snow (Utrecht, Netherlands)

YouTube video by BicycleDutch

www.youtube.com

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Couldn't agree more. Lists FTW

EnergySky
GreenSky
Climate Crisis
Climate & Sustainability
#EconSky
Brompton Bicycles
NYC Congestion Relief
Climate, economics & industrial policy

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

When did we start calling fusion a "renewable energy source"?

Not entirely wrong on the substance, but then again, we also don't call fast breeder fission reactors "renewable," do we?

Fusion Startup Gets an AI Boost From Nvidia and Siemens
By Perry Cleveland-Peck

Today: Commonwealth Fusion Systems is partnering with tech companies to develop a simulator to help spur commercial use of the renewable energy source; technology firms urged to power down data centers to avoid blackouts; America’s biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker.

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Little Free Library dog treat box, now stuffed with a handful of ICE whistles 📣

Little Free Library dog treat box with ICE whistles

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Yup

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 4d

Can't claim my own data are quite as convincing, but when I deleted my Twitter account in August 2022, it took <1 month to get the same "engagement." If anything, it meant more (direct) journalist pings, including from @npr.org: "I miss seeing your posts..., have a minute to talk?"