Gernot Wagner

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Kevin's really underselling things here. This is a 100TB climate impact data set—TB with a T. And it's so accessible it works as a class project¹. Zero excuse not to account for the full set of climate risks, whether as a climate economist PhD or finance MBA ¹ gwagner.com/climate-risk

Glass + steel + CO₂ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/c...

Brazil, Serbia. Hungary earlier. Almost feels like the fascism supercycle isn't a forgone conclusion after all.

Speed limits on the Autobahn to cut CO₂ emissions? That would be an undue government takeover, impinging on people's 'freedom', etc etc Meanwhile... www.tagesanzeiger.ch/mineraloelma...

The school pickup line hits different in Copenhagen.

Early flood cost estimates: $4.7 billion UN Loss & Damage Climate Fund payment: $20 million The world isn't ready for climate risks hitting home now, let alone the orders of magnitude increase coming down the line www.reuters.com/business/env...

I've had coffees at the Peet's across the street from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with friends in the Obama and Biden administrations who refused to let me pay the $5 for their coffee, lest it seemed like I was trying to bribe them. 🤷

Excited to keynote the @aereorg.bsky.social Fall Workshop on "Teaching Climate Economics and AI" Giddily excited about the keynote title: "Teaching climate despite [gestures around]" gwagner.com/aere-teaching

2 feet of rain in 24 hours Monday during the Fossil Age

We reviewed FBI documents that showed a sweeping pay-to-play investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins was in motion. Then Trump shut down the unit in charge. Had we found a road map to corruption in Congress? We decided to dig deeper.

You know fossilflation hits home, when the top credit card "reward" is $0.50 off a gallon of gas

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Little sister is turning 13 tomorrow, the 15-year-old is making lasagna for her birthday eve dinner (while doing his own homework 😎) 15-year-old's pizza video for health class youtu.be/EgnuinIuMUo

How To Spend It Wisely: on getting off fossil fuels¹ ¹ ft.pressreader.com/article/2829...

Amazing job to help shape @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social's and the world's approach to Critical Minerals ellenmacarthurfoundation.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoa... Key strategic bit: not to use the need for getting CMs right as an excuse to delay getting off fossil fuels gwagner.com/nature-fossilflation

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

Hard to keep track of all the fossil-fueled fires these days, figurative and literal:

Preprint alert: coalcrossover.org now available without a password: 6,580 coal units in 2,384 plants in 73 countries. The math: for >95% of these units, coal OpEx alone > full CapEx + OpEx aka "LCOE" for solar and/or wind. The preprint explaining how, what, why: gwagner.com/coalcrossover

Martin Wolf on fire: “In less than seven years, the global economy has been subjected to an exceptional sequence of events.” All but one of these shocks, the exception being the pandemic, are man-made — or perhaps “strongman-made.”

Germany's Bild newspaper celebrates some sort of 'secret' deal to stop the EU international combustion engine phaseout plan, at a time when EV take-up is accelerating everywhere. China, meanwhile: Hold my electrons...

A decade ago I was in Japan talking EV grid integration. The country had all the ingredients: bidirectional charging tech, manufacturers building EVs. They could have led the way. I suppose the Japanese have a word for losing the competitive edge, probably mixing the kanji for jumping & backwards.

I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.

Street design FTW. DOTs everywhere, take note.

$800m > $300m, it seems. All joking aside, there's a good reason FedEx, UPS, NYC cabs and other large fleet management co's have driven EV adoption from the very beginning.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.