Gernot Wagner

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

WSJ: "America's Most Prolific Oil Field has a natural-gas problem"
Cement abatement technologies
MetLife
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NYT: Why are we still taking this Conservative Legal Theory Seriously? The Supreme Court's originalism has become a joke.
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Earth is dimming
Cost-effective, deployable solutions can partially abate cement emissions; full decarbonization requires emerging technologies
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A Bojangles in Savannah, Ga., recently added E.V. charging stations outside the restaurant.Credit...Gavin McIntyre for The New York Times
CLIMATE SHIFT Europe is the fastest-warming continent, growing hotter about twice as fast as the global average for all of Earth’s land and oceans. On the basis of temperature data such as these, some researchers say that Europe’s climate began to shift in the 1980s.
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AirNow.gov
Notify NYC: Air Quality Health Advisory: Air Quality Index (AQI) has reached 151-200. Unhealthy for everyone, especially sensitive groups.
Notify NYC: NYCEM & DOHMH advise NYers to prepare for potential deteriorating air quality from Canadian wildfires beginning 7/15.
For Argentina, a Semifinal Against England isn't just Soccer
NYC Heat Advisory
Utility-scale solar and wind cheaper than fossil fuels, while battery storage is closing the gap fast
LeMonde.fr front page: "LIVE, heatwave: the fire that burned 800 hectares in the Fontainebleau forest continues; delays on the TGV southeast line due to a fire in the Yonne"
FT: "It pays to kiss up and kick down"
"US clean power prices soar as tax credits end and data centres proliferate"
FT: "Ship owners lose faith in clean energy ventures"
FT: "Europe's slow electrification is a 'major mistake', warns IEA"
Europe's June heatwave brings record warm nights
Columbia Butler Library stacks
Nächster Halt Weststeiermark
The average temperature in Western Europe last month was 20.74 degrees Celsius (69.3 degrees Fahrenheit), more than 3C above the average for June during 1991-2020, the data showed. France recorded its hottest day since records began nearly 80 years ago, when temperatures peaked at 44.3C in the south-western town of Pissos on June 24 and the nation was placed under a red heat alert. It comes as 'catastrophic' wildfires ravaged Southern France on Monday, while poisonous clouds swept through Greece and Costa Brava in Spain was put on alert as temperatures across Europe are predicted to reach 40C.
Today's Climate Shift Index
DailyMail sensationalizing heatwave without much sensationalizing needed
WSJ Latest in Energy & Oil   The Global Oil Market Isn’t Ready for the Iran Ceasefire to End   America’s crude inventories are flirting with dangerous levels, while exports of gasoline and diesel hover near records.
Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Andrew Tate on the value of reading
ECON 1170 Midterm & Final Scores After Serrano made the final in-person, 18 students dropped the class and nine students did not take the exam. The scores of the remaining 59 students are displayed here.
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Global warming has sped up in recent years
June sea temperatures break 2024 record
NYT front page: One Nation, Many Americas
As of 3 p.m., Washington had hit 100 degrees with a heat index of 112. By 5 p.m., when the fair grounds are scheduled to reopen, it is still expected to be above 100, with the heat index even higher.Credit...Amid Farahi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative Summer 2026 fellows
Bloomberg Green: "Coal's role in net zero"
Ted Cruz questions whether US is a "first-world" country
CSI, July 2, 2026
Climate Shift Index July 2, Northeastern US
Paying peer reviewers speeds up editorial decision time
Dangerous Heat Forecast in the U.S.
Investors want out of Spanish solar By Thomas Gualtieri, Eamon Farhat, and Clara Hernanz Lizarraga Over the past 15 years, Spain has been one of Europe’s fastest-growing renewable-energy markets, with venture capitalists, utilities and banks plowing more than $80 billion into the sector. But that surge in investment has created a glut of electricity so large that solar parks are plummeting in value and investors are looking for an exit. So much solar capacity was added last year that it flooded the grid, pushing prices deep below zero during peak times as producers cut rates to off-load excess power. Only six months into the year, the country has already surpassed its annual record for the number of hours when producers must pay users to take their electricity. The problem is happening across Europe, but it’s most dramatic in Spain, where solar last year overtook wind as the largest source of electricity. “The economics have deteriorated so sharply that investors are trying to exit at steep discounts,” says Daniel Pérez, head of L’Energètica, a utility in the Catalonia region.
Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, says that advances in economic research coupled with climate change’s rapid acceleration now make it easier to pinpoint these costs. “The compounding effects over time are big enough that they do already show up in economic statistics,” he said. “We are already poorer because of climate change.”
FT: "Airlines face billions in extra costs as carbon credit squeeze drives up prices"
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How Europe went off the heat charts
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ZIB: "Österreich: Im Vorjahr sind 449 Menschen an Hitze verstorben"
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Funding Statement The Climate Knowledge Initiative does not receive funding from any fossil fuel interests, nor from any companies or organizations featured in its work.
Climate Shift Index showing climate fingerprint in European beatwave
DHL Set to Transport Goods in New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships By Clara Hudson
Green Economy Hits $10 Trillion in Market Value If the green economy—defined as the group of companies heavily involved in environmental business—were its own industry, it would be the third-largest in the world. By Ajani Stella
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