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Dr Harald Grabher

@soecoharry.bsky.social
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Social ecologist, sustainability scientist, development practitioner, researcher on social metabolism and practice changes towards the sustainability transformation.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Our findings underscore a deeper and more persistent climate footprint of super El Niño events, suggesting that early warnings and proactive measures are crucial for mitigating their escalating risks."
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Super El Niño events drive climate regime shifts with enhanced risks under global warming - Nature Communications
Super El Niño events greatly increase the likelihood of global climate regime shifts, revealing their amplified impact and risks in a warming world.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
And the final draft version. I got hundreds of responses across social media. So good to see the power of the crowd being applied creatively and constructively. Thank you!
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Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change @wegenercenter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
From Society to Social Strata: Energy Transitions as a Window into Past and Future Human Adaptations | Wegener Center Common Space with Alexandre Martinez 📆 28.05., 11 am | SR 56.11 @uni-graz.at 👉 wegcenter.uni-graz.at/de/veranstal...
Wegener Center logo (abstract world ellipse with green band) and "Common Space" written below
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Blaž Gasparini @blazgaspa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
4-year postdoctoral fellowships for women @univie.ac.at The application consists of a short (3-page) research statement only. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested or would like to discuss potential projects. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... Application deadline: 2 March 2026
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E-STEEM: Postdoctoral Positions for Women in STEM and Economics - University of Vienna
Supporting women in science: Postdoctoral positions in STEM and Economics as part of the E-STEEM programme. Apply between January and March 2026.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
China's wind and solar capacity additions rebounded in October after the predictable slump over the summer. 14 GW solar and 9 GW wind was added to the grid, after an average of 9 GW solar and 3 GW wind per month in the past three months.
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 09/10/2025
NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
China's clean energy technology exports continued strong growth in August, increasing 33% in dollar value year-on-year, with EVs +58%, solar +18%, wind +15% and batteries +23%. Exports grew to all regions except North America, evidencing strong demand.
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen. He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate. He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right. His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵
James Hansen photo by Don J Usner
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes. elpais.com/economia/202...
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El Gobierno reparte culpas entre Red Eléctrica y las empresas por el gran apagón
El Ejecutivo descarta el ciberataque y apunta a la mala planificación del operador del sistema y la actuación “indebida” de las eléctricas. El informe ve la luz 49 días después del primer cero energét...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.
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Exclusive: US, Russia explore ways to restore Russian gas flows to Europe, sources say
With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S. helping to revive Russian gas sales to the continent, eight sources familiar with the talks have told Reuters.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#Solar has taken off in US red states. #Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic. #climate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Solar has taken off in red states. Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic
On his first day in office, the president paused billions of dollars in funding for clean energy projects initiated by Biden
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“It’s a moonshot.” Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Vienna Embraces Heat Pumps to Ditch Russian Gas
The Austrian capital has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported natural gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Listen to this interview with John Major. Starts at ~12:25.
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The World This Weekend - Sir John Major: "We are moving into a more dangerous world" - BBC Sounds
The former PM tells this programme that 'democracy is threatened' by recent world events.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just out: Solar power additions in China in 2024 exceeded expectations, again, with a whopping 277 GW installed in just one year! This was up 28% on the already towering 217 GW added in 2023. Wind power made a new record as well, with 79 GW added to the grid, up 5% on year.
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Lion Hirth @lionhirth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Nach BDEW-Zahlen war der Strompreis für die nicht-energieintensive Industrie 2024 inflationsbereinigt *niedriger* als zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt seit 2015. Wenn es der deutschen Industrie schlecht geht, dann wohl nicht wegen hoher Strompreise.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is my attempt to engage with and explain the data: dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...
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China’s manufacturing pushed emissions sky high. What’s next?
The manufacturing drive risks counteracting the emissions gains of China’s clean-energy drive
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
How is China's EV boom affecting gasoline demand and electricity demand? It has been hard to find precise data on this so here's a thread working out some numbers.
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Empowered Futures @empoweredfutures.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Last week we had a chat with Empowered Futures alumni, Dr. Harald Grabher (@soecoharry.bsky.social), who recently defended his PhD in Social Ecology at BOKU, Vienna, about his research on the multifaceted benefits of biomass combustion in rural Ethiopian households and his journey with EF. 🌍🔥
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Biomass Combustion and Well-being in Rural Ethopia: Empowering a Sustainable Future | NMBU
Last week, we had the pleasure of catching up with our first alumni, Dr. Harald Grabher, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in November 2024. Harald took his PhD in Social Ecology at ...
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Just days after scoring a win at COP29, Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and Iran, is at it again trying to weaken the global plastics treaty. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/27/g...
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Global plastics pact "hangs in balance" as petrostates block talks
Major fossil fuel-producing countries are blamed at negotiations in Busan for opposing curbs on plastic manufacturing, a key market for oil and gas
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Kai Kornhuber @kornhuber.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends. @iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
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Tom Goodfellow @goodfellowtom.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New article! Zhengli Huang, Meseret Desta and I argue that the drive to generate property ownership in urban Ethiopia has actually undermined homeownership: 'Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme
Ethiopia’s Integrated Housing Development Programme (IHDP) is among the most ambitious housing programmes in Africa, producing over 300,000 relatively low-cost condominiums. This article considers ...
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Dr Harald Grabher @soecoharry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Highly recommended insights on the progress of China's energy transitions, as always with an amazing depth and expertise! Not to be missed...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.
A graph displaying global CO2 emissions from energy and industrial processes, showing data from 2000 to 2024, and projected trends needed from 2000 to 2100 to achieve 1.5°C. It includes a dotted vertical line indicating 2030, and a red point indicating 20 GtCO₂/yr and various scenario lines demonstrating emission pathways. The decrease during COVID is projected from 2024 to 2030, missing the target by a lot.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/11/2024
Musk is one of the worst bullies on the planet. He disproportionately targets women and people of colour. He is beyond nasty. edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
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Elon Musk publicized the names of government employees he wants to cut. It’s terrifying federal workers | CNN Business
When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2024
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean. Just incredible.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation driven by subarctic freshening since the mid-twentieth century - Nature Geoscience
Fresh meltwater entering the Labrador and Irminger seas has resulted in a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation since the 1950s, according to a combination of modelling approaches...
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming - Carbon Brief
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State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming - Carbon Brief
This year is now virtually certain to beat 2023 as the hottest year on record, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In this article, I argue that what we're seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised, hierarchical societies. This is the way they were run for centuries. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him | George Monbiot
Voters have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 15/11/2024
Great piece here from @iandunt.bsky.social. I very much relate to all of it. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.
The exodus is real.
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Christoph Dolna-Gruber @chrigru.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Die OMV erstritt gegen #Gazprom über 230 Millionen Euro vor einem Schiedsgericht. Der Anspruch kann ab sofort gegen Zahlungsverpflichtungen der OMV gegenüber Gazprom Export aus dem österreichischen Liefervertrag aufgerechnet werden. orf.at/stories/3375...
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OMV erstritt gegen Gasprom über 230 Mio. Euro
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Super-rapid @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid attribution study on Hurricane Milton shows that poor Floridans and US taxpayers are footing the bill for the failure to stop burning coal, oil and gas. Again. www.worldweatherattribution.org/yet-another-...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Almost 40 years ago in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.
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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Noch 2 Tage: Bewerben! Wir suchen eine Projektassistenz in einem super spannenden Forschungsprojekt, 3 Jahre, 30h die Woche, IIIb Info im Link. www.karriere.at/jobs/7294990
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Projektassistenz bei Institut für Soziale Ökologie (SEC) | karriere.at
Job zu vergeben: Projektassistenz in 1070 Wien bei der Firma Institut für Soziale Ökologie (SEC). Jetzt bewerben und Arbeit finden. Weitere Stellenangebote auf karriere.at.
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/01/2024
I still don't think people realise how quickly renewable energy is expanding around the world 🇪🇺New renewables built over the past 5yrs were enough to power the entire EU 🇺🇸🇨🇦New renewables expected in the next 5yrs wld be enough to power the US & Canada www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wor...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Sign: „We’re allowed to do this! We’ve got a tractor“. (Comment on climate activists getting massive backlash for blocking roads while farmers blocking motorways with tractors are tolerated and even supported by many politicians in 🇩🇪 .)
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
🌏 Was a cool experience participating in the hive mind examining a massive heatwave that occurred in Antarctica in March 2022. Papers published in J of Climate. I explain some of complexity here in The Conversation
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A heatwave in Antarctica totally blew the minds of scientists. They set out to decipher it – and h...
A heatwave in 2022 redefined scientific expectations of the Antarctic climate. Now the global community must prepare for what a warmer world may bring.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Dec 11: India announces plan to double coal production by 2030 Dec 13: India signs off on "transitioning away from fossil fuels" at COP28 Dec 22: India lays out plans to build 88 GW of coal power plants I tried to make sense of this mess. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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India’s Plans to Double Coal Production Ignore Climate Threat
The south Asian giant is setting new targets to use more coal, despite committing to transitioning away from fossil fuels.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Very good interview with China's lead climate negotiator Su Wei -- some outtakes and highlights in a thread.
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Dr Harald Grabher @soecoharry.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Good to be reminded what & who we are up against in our fight for social justice, equality, and a liveable planet for all. George Monbiot highlights the peak of neoliberal shadow structures that have been delivering social inequality and injustice for their investors.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Hey everyone, Raymond Zhong from the New York Times is here! He just published this great story about global warming in 2023. Follow him here: @zhonggg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/c...
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Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?
Scientists are already busy trying to understand whether 2023’s off-the-charts heat is a sign that global warming is accelerating.
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
NEW from us: PM2.5 pollution levels rebounded in China in 2023, after falling for 10 years straight. In 2023, China’s PM2.5 average has increased year-on-year for first time since start of China’s war on pollution in 2013.
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
#Kipppunkte bedrohen wichtige #Natursysteme – schützen sie aber auch. Guter Deutschlandfunk Beitrag über negative & positive Kippunkte, der das Konzept erklärt, in aktuelle Forschung einbettet & auch kritische Punkte wie Unsicherheiten thematisiert. www.deutschlandfunk.de/kipppunkte-k...
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Klima-Kipppunkte bedrohen Erdklimasystem
Kipppunkte im Erdklimasystem drohen durch die Erderwärmung überschritten zu werden. Das könnte irreversible Schäden bedeuten - mit schweren Folgen.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
You ever think about how crazy it is that in 2019, the richest 1% of the world’s population (77 million people) produced as much carbon pollution as the poorest 66% of humanity (5 billion people)?
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Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity | Oxfam International
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
The US wants to support the production of 35 billion gallons of “sustainable” aviation fuel. If all of that was made from corn-based ethanol—although that’s unlikely—it would require more than 110M acres of corn, more than the total amount of corn grown today. www.fastcompany.com/90999437/sho...
Should we make jet fuel out of corn?

Incentivizing corn-based ethanol could (my edit: “would”) be even worse for the environment.
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Dr Harald Grabher @soecoharry.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
I imported 21 friends from Twitter to Bluesky
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Import your Twitter follows to Bluesky
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
"Investitionen in naturbasierte Lösungen sind wichtig, aber: Es gibt keine wissenschaftliche Evidenz dafür, dass man Treibstoff aus Flugzeugen durch den Erhalt bestehender Wälder / das Pflanzen neuer Bäume kompensieren kann", so PIK Direktor Johan Rockström. treibhauspodcast.ch/kompensationen
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Episode 49: Kompensation mit Schweizer Wald? Ein Reality Check - treibhauspodcast.ch
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Climate deniers be like…
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