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Ted Nordhaus

@tednordhaus.bsky.social
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Founder and Executive Director Breakthrough Institute. www.thebreakthrough.org. An original ecomodernist.

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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I very much appreciate @eaterofsun.bsky.social engagement with my essay. His points are well taken. I would make one key distinction, which is that there are plenty of reasons to take climate change seriously and support mitigating it without having a particularly catastrophic view of climate risk.
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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Required reading on #China #climate—facts to displace fictions, propaganda, “greenwashing”—from @wang-seaver.bsky.social @tednordhaus.bsky.social @vijramachandran. thebreakthrough.org/issues/energ...
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Greenwashing With Chinese Characteristics
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Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The second is a deep dive into the numbers - and lives - behind China's renewable energy surge by @wang-seaver.bsky.social and @tednordhaus.bsky.social. --> www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/greenwashi...
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Greenwashing With Chinese Characteristics
China's "Green Electrostate" Is Neither
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geraldine woessner @gewoessner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Bill Gates l'avait prédit, l'issue de la #COP30 le confirme : la lutte pour le climat est entrée dans une nouvelle ère, décrypte @tednordhaus.bsky.social, fondateur du @thebti.bsky.social. Celle des réalités physiques, géopolitiques... Et du pragmatisme. À lire ! www.lepoint.fr/environnemen...
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« Arrêtons de prétendre que les COP vont sauver le monde »
INTERVIEW. Selon le fondateur du Breakthrough Institute Ted Nordhaus, si la diplomatie multilatérale a échoué, le climat sera sauvé par l’innovation technologique, la croissance économique et les dyna...
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RealClearScience @rcscience.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist. by @tednordhaus.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/08/13/w...
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Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist
Recently, in an exchange on X, my former colleague Tyler Norris observed that over the years, my views about climate risk have evolved substantially. Norris posted a screenshot of a page from the book
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Bracing advice from @tednordhaus.bsky.social on climate philanthropy. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/dont-set-y...
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Don’t Set Your Money On Fire
My Advice to New Climate Philanthropists
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Dan Blaustein-Rejto @danbr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Secretary Kennedy reiterated misguided and unscientific ideas that would upend the livelihoods of American farmers, increase food prices for American consumers, and compromise the competitiveness of U.S. agriculture globally" as @tednordhaus.bsky.social told the Hagstrom Report.
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This sucks. The Breakthrough Institute’s ag program is terrific, someone needs to fund it. @tednordhaus.bsky.social @danbr.bsky.social
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“If confirmed, Kennedy would undermine decades of progress in agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability, and food security.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/belt...
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RFK Jr. wants to ‘go wild’ on agriculture. That’s a big problem - Washington Examiner
With the Senate now considering the nomination, we all need to take a hard look at Kennedy’s fringe points of view, including on agriculture.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Missed this piece from Vijaya Ramachandran and @tednordhaus.bsky.social when it came out. I have some disagreements with it but it's interesting and worth reading for those of us working on development and international climate policy foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/06/t...
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Trump Is Quitting the Paris Agreement. Poor Countries Should, Too.
Decades of hypocritical climate policies have failed the global south.
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Angelica Oung @angelicaoung.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
“Energy Austerity for thee but not for me.” COP is a bad deal for developing countries says @tednordhaus.bsky.social and they should quit. It’s supposed to be a deal: developing countries leapfrog fossil fuels with aid. But the deal isn’t working. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/06/t...
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Trump Is Quitting the Paris Agreement. Poor Countries Should, Too.
Decades of hypocritical climate policies have failed the global south.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"There are, in short, no global energy transitions, only local and national transitions. Skeptics who argue that the world has never undergone an energy transition make the same mistake as proponents who claim that the world is in the midst of one." www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/has-there-...
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Has There Really Never Been An Energy Transition?
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Courageous essay from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social in NYT. Kudos to Mike for writing it and NYT for publishing it. nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Congrats to Matthew Marzano on confirmation to NRC by vote of 50-45. Manchin yes. Sinema no. Multiple R Senators out. I sincerely hope he is better commissioner than I have feared and will work to advance the far reaching modernization that we need. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Senate confirms Nuclear Regulatory Commission nominee
Matthew Marzano’s approval secures a Democratic majority on the panel.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nice David Wallace Wells write up of BTI's @patricktbrown31.bsky.social report on the massive cost of CA wildfires and massive benefits of fuel reduction. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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Opinion | Reckoning With the Scale of California Wildfires
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I KNEW we weren’t getting out of this without a manifesto.
The man detained in the McDonald's had written a "manifesto," according to two law enforcement officials.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"The groups" are anti-abundance. Alex Trembath on the backlash from progressives and environmentalists against the abundance movement. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/progressiv...
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Progressives Against Abundance?
No Representation Without Differentiation
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I'm featured in @gbrumfiel.bsky.social @npr.org All Things Considered this morning talking about nuclear and AI. Long story short, net-zero commitments X 24 hour clean energy matching don't leave many options for firm generation. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...
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Artificial Intelligence wants to go nuclear. Will it work?
The nuclear industry and big tech companies think they can solve each other's problems, but critics are skeptical the marriage can last.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In recent years, there's been a push to do 24/7 matching of demand with clean energy supply. @tednordhaus.bsky.social says that change has forced companies to think about non-GHG sources of energy differently. Solar and wind just aren't running enough to match demand day and night.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Having witnessed aftermath of Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire at my family's ranch, I can attest these forests hadn't burned for 120+ years. Fire was intense. Damage extensive. @hannahnordhaus.bsky.social wrote about it in @nationalgeographic.bsky.social. www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...
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Their house has stood for 130 years. A new wildfire era may change that.
Three wildfires skirted the author’s Boulder home. Then two more converged on her ancestral house in New Mexico. In the drying West, people must now keep their "head on a swivel."
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wait… what???
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is the key tell in the endless debate around the trade offs between mitigating short term forcings like methane and carbon. If the trade off requires use of 20 year warming values to justify, it is not a serious climate mitigation action.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
20 year warming value is either appropriate in eyes of climate movement if justifying natural gas phaseouts and bans or inappropriate if justifying mitigation. thebulletin.org/2023/12/mass...
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'Mass delusion and wishful thinking': Why everything you think you know about methane is probably wrong
What’s really damaging is fooling yourself into thinking that eliminating methane has as big an impact as eliminating carbon dioxide.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There is no statutory prohibition against @NRCgov "promotion" of nuclear energy. Even were there, accounting for benefits of nuclear to society in mission and regulatory proceedings isn't promotion. Important new whitepaper from @TheBTI @Dr_A_Stein . thebreakthrough.imgix.net/NRC-Mission-...
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Nominating junior Senate staffer who has worked as policymaker for three scant years and has no senior management experience in the industry, is an insult to women in the sector." Brooke Morrison has had enough of the gaslighting from Marzano supporters. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/gender-equ...
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Gender Equity at the NRC Should Not Be Optional
A guest essay from Brooke Morrison
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Two good papers in response to my question suggest that calling it a climate crisis or emergency does not increase concern or urgency and leads readers to view news sources as less credible. Thanks @revkin.bsky.social @brossard.bsky.social
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
According to the ClearSky app, almost 50% of active accounts on Bluesky are blocked by at least one other account and 40% of active accounts block at least one account. Seems remarkable. A function allowing users to block any account that blocked them could be the end of the entire platform...
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Left critics of abundance brand it as neoliberal. Right critics brand it as communist. As I wrote a couple of months ago, what is disruptive about abundance movement is it cuts across both party coalitions, comprising upwing factions in both parties. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/will-the-c...
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wondering if anyone on here is aware of any research that has tested whether use of the term “climate crisis” by scientists, journalists, and other experts leads people to perceive claims that they make as more or less credible?
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
When folks like @climatebrad.hillheat.com create climate moderation lists blocking veteran climate scholars like @thehonestbroker.bsky.social they are shrinking the climate tent just when it needs to be broadened. (an excerpt from this #sustainwhat chat: revkin.substack.com/p/exploring-...) 1/
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
As someone who appears on some of these lists, I endorse. If folks want to block me they should by all means do so but creating tools to allow people to blindly block hundreds or thousands of users at once, and anyone who interacts with them, is a choice that this platform has made.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
As expected, Tom Carper's zombie NRC confirmation marches on with party line vote in Senate EPW. Hopefully Schumer will allow it to quietly die in full Senate. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...
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POLITICO Pro: Senate EPW committee narrowly advances Biden NRC pick
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"Young companies are now challenging incumbents in classic metal-bashing industries like automobiles, space, and defense." This @amcafee82.bsky.social post should be required reading for nuclear peeps who believe Westinghouse (founded 1886) is future of nuclear. geekway.substack.com/p/the-long-g...
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The Long Goodbye? Incumbent Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Beer Leagues and Green Bubbles
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is a really devastating condemnation of Marzano nomination from Brooke Morrison on LinkedIn. Happy to see more folks in nuclear saying publicly what many more have been asking privately since Matthew Marzano was nominated. www.linkedin.com/posts/brooke...
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"The dangers to the future of nuclear energy and the nation’s health, environment, and energy security of going too slow on modernization and reform are far greater than going too fast." Why Senate Democrats should abandon Marzano NRC confirmation. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/time-for-d...
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Time for Democrats to Move on From Marzano Nomination
Why Continuing A Zombie Confirmation Effort Will Undermine Regulatory Modernization
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Also on the board of Oklo.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“The scientific community must also better recognize that it may not be helpful to emphasize consensus in policy reports’ recommendations when the underlying values are not universally shared.” More of this please…
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"Even after the shock of the first Trump election, when he had failed to win the popular vote and was still seen as alien even to much of his own party, we all, ultimately, went back to work." Too true, this.
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Ted Nordhaus @tednordhaus.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The morning after Trump’s Muslim ban, I walked out of a speech I was giving at World Bank to join protests at White House. But nobody was there. Everyone had gone back to work. My thoughts on what went wrong with the resistance and what to do now. www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/we-have-ne...
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We Have Never Been Normal
Reckoning with the MAGA Majority and WEIRD Progressives
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