Gernot Wagner
Climate economist, Columbia
https://gwagner.com
It’s pronounced juggernaut without the jug.
- Reposted by Gernot WagnerAs many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead.
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- "DOGE had by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications… "Our closed-to-the-public deliberations were observed by Zachary Terrell from [DOGE]. … Terrell showed more interest in his water bottle and his cuticles than in the discussion." time.com/7285045/resi...
- Perfect timing for this @npr.org story on Vienna's climate efforts: Austria's new government may be backtracking on a number of climate efforts, Vienna is doubling down. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...
- This, by the way, is how you do journalism. No he-said-she-said. Just one biting, factual sentence immediately after the asenine quote.
- Genuinely shocked how far and fast the Conservative Party has fallen on climate change. They’re now at the accusing climate scientists of ‘bias’ and considering quitting the Paris Agreement stage of things. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Follow along for a Vienna appreciation 🧵, observing the most mundane of things en route to and from the Wiener Klimarat these past couple of days. Exhibit 1: This apparently is a major interior building renovation. This truck is here to haul away the debris. They even protected the bike path! 🚲😍
- Perfection. And that's not even a @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social intervention.
- This video is perfect, especially when you learn it happened as this man was driving his Super Tough Man Truck™ into the parking lot of a business for "Self Reliance and Civilian Tactical Enthusiasts" www.instagram.com/p/DJc9S_MsXND/
- Nuts watching US budget bill from Vienna today. One place advertises "balcony power plants" to lower electricity bills €140 a year. The other proposes hiking prices $140 a year and slowing renewables deployment. go.auroraer.com/l/885013/202...
- En route to Vienna City Hall to talk climate with the mayor, watching ads in the tram for how "a balcony power plant saves around €140 in electricity costs annually" Fact check: true. gwagner.com/wiener-klimarat-10
- My inbox abbreviated the headline to "Bill Gates’s $200bn plan to not die" Glad it's: "Bill Gates’s $200bn plan to not die rich" www.ft.com/content/624b...
- En route to Vienna City Hall to talk climate with the mayor, watching ads in the tram for how "a balcony power plant saves around €140 in electricity costs annually" Fact check: true. gwagner.com/wiener-klimarat-10
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- Tap tap tap. Softish launching an entirely redesigned & restructured gwagner.com The key bit: it's all about the tagging, trying ro make sense of some 1000+ entries. Concept, design, and execution by @codyjames.bsky.social Any and all pointers, though, directly to me, please.
- "You're supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. … I campaigned in prose. So I'm going to govern in econometrics." I'm a week behind on my @economist.com reading. Is it too late to get 🇨🇦 citizenship and vote for @mark-carney.bsky.social?
