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Ziga Zaplotnik

@zigazaplotnik.bsky.social
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Research scientist at ECMWF. President of the Climate Council of Slovenia. Asst. Prof. of meteorology at University of Ljubljana. zaplotnik.github.io

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Vladimir Neskovic Kesma @kesma.wtf · 11/08/2026
Ravnokar poteka novinarska konferenca ARSO, ki govori tudi o sušah. Na podnebnik.org/ali-je-vroce/ so ti podatki skoz na voljo za zgodovino od l.1950 za 18 lokacij v Sloveniji
Huda suša v LJ v juliju 2026
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have been told so many times on this here internet that Germany is suffering because it invested in renewables. The fossil fuel fan Boyz and girlz love this argument. Looks horrible having such low prices. The batteries will follow quickly. They are money makers.
renewables cover most of Germany's power demand
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Agencija RS za okolje @arso-vreme.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🌬️ V severni polovici Slovenije piha močan severni veter. Najmočnejši je na območju Posočja in Karavank, lokalno pa tudi drugod. 🌬️ Ponekod pod Karavankami in v Posočju sunki vetra precej presegajo 100 km/h. 🌬️ Predvidoma se bo veter proti jutru še nekoliko okrepil. #sunkivetra
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/02/2026
NEW: UK's "AR7" renewable auction was the biggest ever – more than 50% larger than 2024's record AR7 = enough electricity to offset 3/4 of UK LNG imports Labour's AR6+AR7, combined, contracted more GW than all other rounds put together More: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Primer Svedske kaze, da je za nadaljnjo rast deleza EV med novimi registriranimi vozili kljucno ohranjati subvencijo. Svedska jo je ukinila novembra 2022 ("Klimatbonus") in delez EV med novoprodanimi avtomobili je kar 3 leta stagniral. Kljucno je, da subvencije ostanejo - visje za cenejse avte.
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Taborjeva @taborjeva.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Dajmo malo več optimizma vložit v te volitve. Poklapanost že pred volitvami ne koristi nikomur. Mene ne zanima, kaj nekdo ni naredil v tem mandatu, ampak kaj je kdo naredil. To naj bo vodilo. Koristi pa tole:
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Agencija RS za okolje @arso-vreme.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
💧 Vodnatost slovenskih rek je bila januarja za dobrih 10% manjša od običajne januarske vodnatosti primerjalnega obdobja 1991–2020. Najmanj vodnati sta bili povirji Soče in Save. Podpovprečno vodnati sta bili tudi Sava in Soča vzdolž celotnega toka ter Savinja, Drava in Mura.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Izjemno zanimiv, a tudi nepresenetljiv rezultat. Delež gospodinjstev, ki menijo, da je problem podnebnih sprememb zelo resen. Le zakaj je ta najvišji na Koroškem in Savinjskem? Vir: kazalci.arso.gov.si/sl/content/o...
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
In 2025, global sea ice extent saw a record low: In February, combined Arctic + Antarctic sea ice extents fell to the lowest level in the satellite records. @ecmwf.int ⬇️
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Bernie Bastien-Olvera @bbastien.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Social Cost of Carbon for the Oceans is out today in Nature Climate Change. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Until now, ocean damages have been largely missing from SCC estimates used in climate policy.
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Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon - Nature Climate Change
Oceans provide essential ecosystem services to human society, yet the climate impacts on blue capital have long been ignored. Incorporating the latest works on ocean science and economics, researchers...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?
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Nataša Briški @dc43.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Tole, serija Svet podnebnih sprememb, je precej legit zadeva. Iz različnih kotov, what it takes in zakaj ni črno belo. Sedmega od skupaj desetih delov smo ravno objavili metinalista.si/tag/serija-s...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Vizualizacijo podatkov, ki kazejo, kako zelo so se zmanjsali ponori evrospkih gozdov, lahko najdete na strani: robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou... Pripenjam primere Nemcijo, Finsko in Svedsko, tudi na ravni EU je trend slab. www.rtvslo.si/evropska-uni...
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Quick analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data for the deadly #wildfires in Turkey🇹🇷 show 2025 year-to-date total estimated intensity/emissions to be the highest of the 23 years of the dataset up to 24 July ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/07/2025
This is a pretty alarming new study out today (doi.org/10.1126/scia... - read the abstract) and here are some great visuals and highlights from it by @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/wate... "Since 2002, 75% of the population lives in 101 countries that have been losing freshwater water"
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
V zadnjih 10 letih imamo v povprecju okrog 45% letno rast BEV med vsemi registriranimi osebnimi vozili. Kdaj bomo dosegli 10% delez ? Po trenutnih izgledih ob koncu 2028/zacetku 2029. Podatek bo na voljo v prvih mesecih leta 2029. 1/2
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Odlicna novica! www.rtvslo.si/okolje/vlada...
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Vlada vendarle potrdila podnebni zakon
Vlada je potrdila predlog podnebnega zakona, ki ga je pred mesecem dni tik pred zdajci umaknila iz obravnave. Zakon med drugim predstavlja pravno podlago za črpanje sredstev iz podnebnega in socialneg...
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Professor Matthew England FAA @profmattengland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is not the actual cover of Nature, just shown here for illustrative purposes. We did submit this figure for consideration for their cover. Print run in two weeks, we'll know by then if it gets used.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 15/05/2025
Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970. A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes. It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Emisijski podatki za Slovenijo do vkljucno leta 2023. Padec emisij v 2023 predvsem na racun zmanjsanja CO2 na enoto proizvedene energije. Priporocam! robbieandrew.github.io/country/?cou...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 28/03/2025
Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... C1/
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Baterijski hranilniki v Kaliforniji zagotavljajo vedno vecji delez energije v nocnem casu in pocasi a vztrajno odzirajo delez plinu...
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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Red mediterranean sea! The last year the #Mediterranean recorded its highest temperature, according to #Copernicus #ECMWF Data. The last August surpassed the record of July 2023. The image shows the annual anomaly of sea surface temperature in 2024. #ClimateEmergency #esotc2024
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW DATA: 46.9% of EU electricity in 2024 came from renewables says @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link 🏆 Top performers: 🇩🇰 Denmark – 88.4% (mostly wind) 🇵🇹 Portugal – 87.5% (wind + hydro) 🇭🇷 Croatia – 73.7% (mostly hydro) ⬇ Lowest shares: 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – 5.1% 🇲🇹 Malta – 15.1% 🇨🇿 Czechia – 15.9%
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 28/03/2025
Norway Is Uprooting Its Fuel Pumps as Electric Cars Take Over “We are looking to build a bridge from traditional gas & diesel bizz,” Ole J Tonnessen, Uno-X Mobility Norway’s COO, said during a recent visit to Furuset. “We have gone from the traditional, to targeting the future.” #alwaysbecharging
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
3 charts based on #CopernicusAtmosphere data you shouldn’t miss this month: 📉 Very low total ozone over the Arctic through Jan-March – CAMS 📉 Surface PM concentration caused by the #Saharandust over Italy – @adamplatform.bsky.social 📉 Dust concentration forecast for Greece – AtmoHub
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Kanadski gozdovi so v zadnjih letih nenadoma postali izjemen vir emisij CO2, skoraj izkljucno zaradi obseznih pozarov. Te so v letu 2023 predstavljale skoraj 3% svetovnih emisij.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Zaenkrat niti ni jasno, ali obramba proti toci deluje (dokazov ni nikakrsnih), se manj, kako obsezna bi morala biti. Jasno pa je, da temperaturna razlika med jutrom in popoldnevom ne doloca vertikalnih gibanj in ni glavni faktor za nastanek toce. www.rtvslo.si/rtv365/arhiv...
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Ministrstvo objavilo razpis za obrambo proti toči
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Bistroumen argument predstavnika AMZS: "Znizanje omejitve hitrosti ne bi bistveno vplivalo na doseganje okoljskih ciljev... nenazadnje imajo tovornjaki ze sedaj imajo nizjo omejitev hitrosti, pa so izpusti visji kot pri avtomobilih." www.24ur.com/novice/slove...
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Nižje omejitve na slovenskih cestah: kakšni bi bili pozitivni učinki? | 24ur.com
V zadnjih letih so številna evropska mesta začela zniževati omejitve hitrosti, pri čemer postajajo cone s hitrostjo 30 km/h vse bolj pravilo kot izjema. Takšni ukrepi so del širših prizadevanj za večj...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/03/2025
Here's something funny: - By distance travelled, pure-electric cars make up ~22% of total in 2023 in Norway - By *amount of energy consumed*, it's like, maybe 5% ish This is bc electricity is ridiculously more efficient than fossil or bio :) robbieandrew.github.io/EV/
a chart showing the proportion of electric distance in norwaya chart showing the proportion of electric energy in norway
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Temni časi. Observatorij izvaja najdaljše kontinuirane meritve koncentracije CO2 v ozračju.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Ali vec elektrike iz sonca in vetra pomeni drazjo elektriko? Teza, ki jo vztrajno ponavljajo energetski x-perti z navajanjem Kalifornije kot vzorcnega primera, torej vsaj za ZDA ne drzi. www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/us-states-...
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Do US states with more renewable energy have more expensive electricity?
Despite California being the poster child of high prices, the data suggests no.
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 06/03/2025
Latest @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social data shows One of the consequences of a warmer world is melting sea ice. 📉 Daily global sea ice extent reached a new all-time minimum 🌡️ February 2025 was 3rd warmest February globally, 1.59°C above the 1850-1900 average 🌍🛰️🌡️⚒️🧪🌊 #ClimateAction
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Prof Paul Williams @profpaul.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Powerful words from the American Geophysical Union.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 03/03/2025
While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible. Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Delez elektricnih mestnih avtobusov. Slovenija visoko na lestvici.
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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is usually the coldest time of the year ❄️ Now we have positive degrees and rain 🌡️ In mid-winter, just 700 miles from the North Pole 😰 Svalbard is the fastest warming place on Earth, 7 times the global average 🌎 & catastrophic for ecosystems, infrastructure, Arctic communities & the planet 😢
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Priporocam! n1info.si/poglobljeno/...
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Cona 30 kot pravilo, ne izjema – boj za znižanje omejitve hitrosti v naseljih
Vse več evropskih mest se odloča za znižanje omejitve hitrosti na 30 km/h. Cone 30 niso več izjema, temveč pravilo. In Slovenija?
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Projekcije klimatskih modelov temeljijo na emisijskih scenarijih. Ti vsebujejo predpostavke o prihodnji demografiji, GDPju, o energetiki itd. Zanimivo je videti, kako je vecina emisijskih scenarijev za AR6 podcenila padec cene solarnih panelov. Vir: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ziga Zaplotnik @zigazaplotnik.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Zunanji stroski prometa so izjemni. V Sloveniji so na 4.5% BDP. Druzbeno-ekonomski stroski prometnih nesrec so v 2023 ocenjeni na 2 mrd € oz. priblizno 3% BDPja.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Good morning with good news: Global share of RE & nuclear generation is forecast to increase from 41% in 2024 to 47% in 2027! How? Solar generation grew 30% in 2024! RE generation is forecast to rise 10%/yr & nuclear 2.3%/yr from 2025-2027. #energysky iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/e54b8...
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I believe!
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 06/02/2025
Latest data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows: January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record 🌡️ 1.75ºC above pre-industrial level 🌊 Second highest global SST, 0.19°C below January 2024  #ClimateAction 🧪⚒️🌍
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Wetter or drier than average? January 2025 brought significant global hydrological shifts with heavy rainfall and flooding in some areas and dry periods in others. Discover the analysis in the January 2025 Hydrology Climate Bulletin from #C3S bit.ly/4aUi5J2
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NOAA Communications @noaacomms.noaa.gov · 22/01/2025
Please note: This event has been *canceled* due to the recent announcement of a federal hiring freeze: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Interested in how climate model projections have matched up to reality? RealClimate: Comparison Update 2024 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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Comparison Update 2024
One more dot on the graphs for our annual model-observations comparisons updates. Given how extraordinary the last two years have been, there are a few highlights to note. First, we have updated...
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