gwagner

@gwagner@fediscience.org

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

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gwagner, to nyc

streets in 3 Acts:

Driver stops illegally in bike lane, hits deliverista on e-bike

Cyclists crashes, sits on ground visibly hurt; concerned onlookers call 911

By the time ambulance arrives, deliverista has hobbled back to his bike and zoomed away, more concerned that his delivery gets there on time than his own injury, perhaps even thinking that he'd have gotten into trouble had he talked to ambulance & police.

@TheWarOnCars

Cyclists crashes, sits on ground visibly hurt; concerned onlookers call 911
By the time ambulance arrives, deliverista has hobbled back to his bike and zoomed away, more concerned that his delivery gets there on time than his own injury

gwagner, to sustainability

One of the little joys in life: finding out that the sugar duster is the world's perfect single-serve tea strainer. Dishwasher safe to boot.

gwagner, to earthquake

Survived & in under 78hrs! Nothing can stop !

gwagner, to nyc

Sunday morning, Monday morning, no matter the day or time of day, I have yet to walk/run/bike past the new Wegmans and not see at least one car blocking the bike lane.

@nypd, would be grand to fix this before someone gets killed.

And yes, there are more than these 1 or 2 car-addled shoppers in the store at any one time. Most can somehow figure out how to bring their haul home without breaking the law.

@TheWarOnCars

gwagner, to climate

Cheap Chinese EVs are good news for consumers and the planet. They are bad news for shareholders and employees of Western car companies. What to do?

Hint: think subsidies, not tariffs.

My latest for Project Syndicate, joint with Shang-Jin Wei: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/western-tariffs-wrong-response-to-chinese-ev-subsidies-by-gernot-wagner-and-shang-jin-wei-2024-04

gwagner, to bikenyc

Lady crossing the street made my day: "Diehard! This is crazy!"

This morning's bike ride in to work was...rainy. Windy, too.

https://youtu.be/F8Wbz4IZpGY

gwagner, to climate

Never a good sign, when my gynecologist spouse's and my world's are colliding: "Pre-eclampsia rates linked to climate change in Bangladesh" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/02/headaches-organ-damage-and-even-death-how-salty-water-is-putting-bangladeshs-pregnant-women-at-risk

gwagner, to climate

Hydrogen! Geoengineering! Fusion! Beavers!

Looks like a good book. But no, beavers won't help avert climate disaster. Getting off fossil fuels will.

gwagner, to climate

"Hi, I work outdoors for ConEd...and I am considering retiring due to the extreme heat in the summer months and the toxic air that I have been breathing in from all the cars and suvs burning gasoline and emitting carbon dioxide and particulate matter."

[shared with permission]

gwagner, to climate

Coal out, solar farms & battery storage for offshore wind in

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/new-england-coal-plants.html

The clean-energy revolution in action.

gwagner, to climate

Aramco kills sarcasm.

HT @davidho

gwagner, to nyc

Flooded subway tracks, by design. #Infrastructure isn't climate-ready.

#NYC #climate #MTA

gwagner, to random

Salzburg voted this weekend, and the head of the local Communists brought his baby to the polls—and ended up winning big. Cue the handwringing in conservative Austria about whether it was the right "signal" to send, or just an odd "staging."

A dozen years ago at this point, but here's me at US Treasury. No signal, no staging, just a busy spouse and two parents figuring things out as they go along. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

with baby wrap at US Treasury

gwagner, to nyc

I've always thought this moment would be more momentous. But it was just a text from the contractor this afternoon: "New unit installed and running."

Thus ends the fossil fuel age in our 200-year-old, 7-unit coop. Heat pumps and induction it is. Time to cut the gas line.

https://gwagner.com/curbed-coop

gwagner, to climate

5 decades, 1 trend

gwagner, to cycling

Time for the annual service: 5min bike ride with 2 Bromptons to store, return with orange loaner for the day.

gwagner, to climate

US & EU hesitated, China raced ahead. China won.

The things possible, when vested interests aren't standing in the way of progress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/china-solar-energy-exports.html

gwagner, to climate

A useful rundown of possible climate impacts of 5 major elections this year https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00642-3

TL;DR
Little impact in India, Indonesia, Russia; potentially large impact in EU; US is the big questionmark, though let me stick to my own guns here and point to: https://gwagner.com/trump-climate

gwagner, to climate

Climate After Trump

My latest column just out: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-election-what-would-it-mean-for-climate-change-by-gernot-wagner-2024-03

In short, he could, would, and already is delaying clean investments – and any such delay is bad. But delaying the inevitable is all he has. Even a Trump victory this November could not halt it.

Or, perhaps more succinct: The revolution is inevitable. Attempts by to stand in its way would amount to little more than another wall that never gets built.

gwagner, to nyc

Dance class at the Catholic Sheen Center, brass band across the street drowning out the Planned Parenthood protestors.

Just another Saturday morning in .

Dance class across the street at the Catholic Sheen Center, brass band half a block away drowning out the protestors across the street from Planned Parenthood.

gwagner, to Futurology

"Why bother reading it, if you didn't bother writing it," research edition.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00592-w

gwagner, to climate

Area Drug Lord Blames Everyone But Himself for Addiction Problems

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-ceo-blames-public-for-failure-to-fix-climate-change/

gwagner, to nyc

Can we talk about basic traffic enforcement as climate policy?

I somehow prefer them when they listen to podcasts rather than trying to beat Magnus.
@TheWarOnCars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvrTfbCfOeA

gwagner, to climate

Frightening news on PM2.5 pollution https://grist.org/health/climate-change-is-undoing-decades-of-progress-on-air-quality/

Yes change kills, by some estimates as many as 4 million people so far. Not in some major Day After Tomorrow catastrophe, but just via regular ol' air pollution.

gwagner, to nyc

Saturday afternoon. Congestion pricing can't come soon enough.
https://gwagner.com/congestion-pricing

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