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Gernot Wagner

@gwagner.com

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

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

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 8h

It's like Republicans arguing against CO₂ markets.

Sir, you're supposed to be the friend of the market-based solution.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 8h

Almost as if the "market-based" approach was always the Republican solution to a problem whose only other solution is single-payer, government-run

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

Der Text im Print: "Batterien statt Kraftwerke"

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 21h

"Europa erfindet die Energiewende, China baut sie"

aka

"Batterien statt der 30 bis 40(!) neuen Gaskraftwerke"

Mein Gastbeitrag mit @monika-schnitzer.com in der heutigen @zeit.de

www.zeit.de/2025/43/ener...

Energiepolitik in Deutschland:
Europa erfindet die Energiewende, China baut sie
Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine zukunftsfähige Energiepolitik konsequent zu verfolgen – und davon zu profitieren. Was es jetzt braucht, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben.

Vor 16 Stunden
Ein Gastbeitrag von Monika Schnitzer und Gernot Wagner

In Brüssel lässt sich dafür eine wichtige Grundlage schaffen. Wenn wie bisher in jedem Mitgliedstaat der EU andere Vorschriften gelten, entsteht kein Wettbewerbsvorteil gegenüber den USA oder China. Ein gemeinsamer Binnenmarkt für Energie hingegen, abgestimmte Ausbauziele und eine gezielte Industrie- und Investitionspolitik, angetrieben von der lange anvisierten Kapitalmarktunion, könnten Europa wieder zu einem Standort machen, der nicht nur importiert, sondern auch produziert.

Am Ende entscheidet Energiepolitik über mehr als nur über die Strompreise. Sie ist Industrie-, Sicherheits- und Standortpolitik zugleich und damit der Schlüssel dafür, ob Europa seine Zukunft selbst gestaltet – oder sie von anderen geliefert bekommt.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been pulling guns on civilians, spraying tear gas in the face of protestors who film them, shooting priests with pepper spray and pellets—and, increasingly it seems, targeting journalists and others trying to document their activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

Oh, Austria, where a 5min delay on a 4-hour ride across ⅔ of the country leads to eye rolls.

±15min is considered "on time" for @amtrak.com 🙄

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

Most fun part of Vienna-Innsbruck trip: my parents getting on in St. Pölten (20min east of my hometown), getting out in Linz (20min West), taking a video zooming through my hometown. 😎

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

It's the only way to live.

Science says so

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

A well-earned spot on the most essential of lists

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 1d

Viennese trains: a dozen trains all arriving within 5min of each other.

The one cancelled local train? 3(!) other trains arriving at the same time going to the same stop.

#WienLiebe

PS: Off to Innsbruck: gwagner.com/uibk-csu

#InnsbruckLiebe

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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 2d

Only if it’s from the Hamburg region of Germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling bean

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

One of the nuttier cultural fights: EU parliament will soon decide whether veggie burgers are allowed to be called "burgers" because...meat lobby.

Austrian daily Der Standard: "EU-Countdown for Veggie-Burger"

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

Vienna City Hall, with full moon

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

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."

Wiener Straflandesgericht:

"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 in the Vienna Regional Court.

Their fight for a free, independent Austria will never be forgotten."

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

A well-earned spot on the most essential of lists

go.bsky.app/EDtpuEq

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

Welcome to Zero Migration America

Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 2d

One of the nuttier misconceptions about city life: hostile to kids.

Ever ask a 10-year-old whether she'd rather take the New York subway to visit her friends after school, or be stuck at home in her own bedroom upstairs, scrolling through the life that could have been?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

The 912,000 children in NYC public schools make the city’s public schools the 16th biggest city in the US (a little behind Columbus’s 933,000, ahead of Indy’s 890,000).

Kudos to gay couples for really ramping up having kids—y’all are going to solve the fertility crisis!

Or these guys are nuts.

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

Sources:

¹ Today's @bloomberg.com Green newsletter, by @akshatrathi.bsky.social

² yesterday's @financialtimes.com Climate Capital newsletter, by Steven Bernard

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 3d

One feature of exponential growth: China as the "clear" winner "for now" will soon look like an even clearer winner.

The only real question is whether the rest of the world will be buyers or producers, importers or manufacturers.

And the winner is...
By Akshat Rathi

There’s a battle underway to win the energy export market between the world’s two largest economies: The US wants the world to buy its fossil fuels, while China wants to sell the world its clean energy technologies.

For now, there is a clear winner: China.

FT Climate Graphic: exponential solar growth in 12 African countries

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 4d

Fun ride to work up Park Ave, through Grand Central, and up the length of Central Park.

Equally fun: overtaking a Roadie on my @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social, only for him to catch up with me & recognize me from some talk. 😎

We ended up talking climate the rest of the ride

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Riding to work up Park Avenue and through Central Park

YouTube video by Gernot Wagner

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 4d

Happy Sunday morning!

Happier with SNL. Outright cathartic.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 4d

Now with @wolfgangcramer.net

bsky.app/starter-pack...

He somehow didn't bring his to the Schneefernerhaus. 🤔

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