Gernot Wagner

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

Website: https://gwagner.com
Bio: https://gwagner.com/bio
email: gwagner@columbia.edu

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Last Notes

2026-04-15 10:26:21 UTC

The Iran War has once again led to a bout of what ECB board member Isabel Schnabel memorably dubbed 'fossilflation'.
It's en vouge to talk about the solution as some massively complex undertaking. It really isn't. Get off fossil fuels faster.
My latest just out [@nature](https://sciencemastodon.com/@nature )
https://rdcu.be/fdxig
#climate #iran #us #trump #oil #energy #inflation #economics
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2025-09-29 13:53:37 UTC

Meanwhile, in the alternate universe occupied by the Trump administration, via Fox News
#climate #trump #coal
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2025-09-28 14:25:18 UTC

Yup
#climate #china #us #eu
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/282/378/397/707/547/original/5657aaa804c686a8.jpg

2025-08-24 10:42:19 UTC

Gondola up the Zugspitze, marvel of German engineering 🚠
Also witness the massive parking lot at the bottom. Yes, there's an easy train from Munich. Yes, there's the beautiful, almost entirely undeveloped Eidsee. But no, asking Germans to take the train to avoid a 500-car lot would be too much. 😔
#climate #mountains #germany
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/083/319/107/482/989/original/65f08435732e53e1.mp4

2025-08-10 15:10:24 UTC

Civilization, visualized
Positively mesmerizing: https://www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2761369-Vienna
#trains #EU #Vienna #climate
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2025-07-27 14:03:00 UTC

#climateflation graphic of the day, via [@financialtimes](https://flipboard.com/@financialtimes )
#climate #economics #inflation #us
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2025-07-08 13:01:03 UTC

OK, I'm about as negative on Trump's climate arson as it gets, but this framing is way over the top.
#climate #trump
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2025-07-07 23:29:00 UTC

Today, the President of the U.S. declared solar and wind "unreliable," "foreign controlled," and — the kicker — "expensive."
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-market-distorting-subsidies-for-unreliable-foreign%E2%80%91controlled-energy-sources/
#climate #us #trump
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2025-06-06 12:39:13 UTC

Wistful parental post/boast: I'll miss the "Please bike with me to school, I made scrunchies for my friend's birthday and need you to push me" requests from the 11-year-old.
Turns out she didn't need pushing. 🛴🚲
#nyc #kids
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2025-05-16 14:07:10 UTC

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Wright seems to think that running a country is the same as running a company.
It is not.
But he does have a point about high German power prices.

2025-05-16 14:06:19 UTC

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"As he sees it, Germany was wrong to spend some $500 billion, equivalent to the US spending around $3 trillion, on clean-energy deployment. 'Think of how much poorer we would be.'"
Yeah...no.

2025-05-16 14:03:27 UTC

Thank you, #ProjectSyndicate, for giving me the space to explore in depth how, "While there is no one-size-fits-all cure for Germany’s malaise, most of the biggest challenges facing the new government have a common denominator: a lack of cheap power."
🧵
#eu #Germany #energy #climate #economics
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2025-03-30 10:49:37 UTC

define "greenwashing"
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/250/990/091/062/132/original/59a48b121d3f9ce9.jpeg

2025-03-27 09:53:32 UTC

WSJ: "Economic Growth Now Depends on Electricity, Not Oil"
yup
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/economic-growth-now-depends-on-electricity-not-oil-40250941
#climate #energy
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2025-03-17 21:21:11 UTC

Who says the EU is hesitant on carbon removal technologies? 380 ppm CO₂ at the European Commission today!
#climate #eu
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2025-03-15 15:14:36 UTC

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Similarly designed to break the American mind: competitively priced longish-distance train tickets.
#trains #transit #cars
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2025-03-14 15:07:23 UTC

2 economists heading to a meeting at Europe's largest asset manager and the world's largest insurer...by bike, of course — fastest way to get across town from ifo econ think tank to Allianz HQ.
Hard to imagine the American mind comprehending this one.
#cycling #eu #climate
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/161/402/896/070/332/original/00a9211736df5225.mp4

2025-03-09 03:21:24 UTC

German Tesla sales in February: -76%, after -60% in January.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sales-plunged-76-february-152605713.html
#musk #tesla #germany

2025-02-25 01:18:25 UTC

Just in case you were wondering how things are going...
Official EPA press release: Administrator Lee Zeldin finds $2 billion in gold bars at Stacey Abrams' group.
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/icymi-administrator-lee-zeldin-finds-gold-bars-epa-stacey-abrams-connected-group-biden
#climate #usgov #epa #musk #trump
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2025-02-14 14:32:35 UTC

If you read one thing today: @npub13d2…hgm2 on regime change in America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/
#trump #musk #uspol
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2025-02-13 17:02:14 UTC

The danger of having a CEO as a policymaker:
Trump's Energy Secretary Chris Wright spent a good part of his first speech criticizing Germany's Energiewende.
Lots to say, but Wright's biggest misconceptions come down to confusing running a country with running a company. 🧵
#climate #Germany #energy

2025-01-22 14:05:32 UTC

In what universe is "money grab" at all a valid counterpoint to "endangering kids with illegal behavior"?
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