Calls/emails from reporters asking for a comment on last's years temperature are coming earlier than normal this year. Time to dust off my 'last year was hot' auto-response.

Christiane Schmitz That's the funny thing about the Leitkultur right? As a native you get a permission to deviate from it.

📢Today the Global Carbon Project releases its 2023 edition of the Global Carbon Budget, a comprehensive assessment of our perturbation of the carbon cycle and the balance of sources and sinks of CO₂. 1/🧵

I trained as physicist. As a group, we tend to be very smart people. We also have a bad track record of making mistakes when venturing into unfamiliar territory.

Like not realizing that aligning economic, social & technical forces behind an energy transition is a better plan.

WMO State of the Global Climate 2023 is WILD 🤯🫣

Bit shocked by how fast political discourse is degenerating in this country to be honest 😳

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Das ist unglaublich 🤯. Fürs #Klimageld ist kein Geld im #KTF drin, aber jetzt soll der #Industriestrompreis daraus gezahlt werden (der im Zweifel sogar noch dazu führen wird, dass der Strompreis für die normalen Verbraucher:innen teurer wird)

Fiscal austerity increases populist votes; the rise in populist party vote share is driven by economically vulnerable voters; new empirical evidence based on data for district-level elections in Europe.

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