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Dominik Wiedenhofer
@dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social
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Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Climate Change Mitigation. Senior Scientist & Lecturer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Born at 344ppm.

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · Feb 25
Understanding #Transformation pathways complying with climate targets requires model-based insights. Herein, we review studies modeling industry in low energy & material demand futures and find large mitigation potentials, but also crucial limitations of existing models. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios | Annual Reviews
Developing transformative pathways for industry's compliance with international climate targets requires model-based insights into how supply- and demand-side measures affect industry, material c...
doi.org

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 7d
For a decade, the Shared Socioeconomics Pathways #SSP are used for scenario research related to climate change mitigation.

Now, GDP & population projections were updated by @iiasa.ac.at & the team at the #OECD, and the #ScenarioServices team set up a new interactive app to explore the scenarios!
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways | Scenario Explorer hosted by IIASA
The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are a set of scenarios that describe potential future developments in society, economics, and demographics until the end of the 21st century. This Explorer pre...
ssp.apps.ece.iiasa.ac.at

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Stephen D. Murphy

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 11d
Disastrous consequences: shortcomings of resiliency strategies for coping with accelerating environmental change
Allen+
doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...

contrasts risks of government focus on resiliency
vs. need to also plan and prepare for adaptation and transformation
Ecology & Society: Disastrous consequences: shortcomings of resiliency strategies for coping with accelerating environmental change
Natural disasters driven by climate change have increased in frequency, intensity, and scale. The consequences of these disasters include the loss of human lives, property damage, increased economic ...
doi.org

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 12d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, John Kennedy , and 8 more

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 12d
New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.
How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?
Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...
essd.copernicus.org

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · 13d
The world faces multiple crises and disruptions, such as climate impacts, pandemics, geopolitical tension and competition, conflicts, and wars.

Here, we discuss how social metabolism research can address these pressing issues.

@bokuvienna.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Resilience and malleability: New directions for socio-metabolic research in times of multiple crises
The world faces multiple crises and disruptions, such as climate impacts, pandemics, geopolitical tension and competition, conflicts, and wars. Socio-…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Margot C. Finn

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 18d
It is universally acknowledged in academia that the world needs fewer better papers -- fewer inconsequential micro-advances where the aim is to help careers, not society.

How do we solve this collective action problem?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
richardtol.substack.com/p/quality-vs...
I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too
If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19d
I didn't know who @polphilpod.bsky.social was before this year, but he's rapidly become one of the few writers who consistently makes sense to me. Feels like stumbling on a oasis in the desert.

Anyway, I strongly endorse every word of this piece:
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com

Reposted by Valerie M. Delmotte, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz @dianaurge.bsky.social · 19d
New paper out in Nature Clean Technology: renewables are growing fast, but rising energy demand—especially from data centers & cooling—risks slowing fossil fuel phase-out. AI can help climate solutions, but only with strong demand-side policies. 🌍⚡️

Reposted by Jennifer Bussell, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Stacie B. Dusetzina , and 3 more

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20d
This is so grim. Science isn’t just something nerds do, but the foundation of the modern world. What the Trump regime has done to US science will harm Americans for generations.
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · 20d
Podiumsveranstaltung: Netto Null – wie kommen wir auf Kurs?
Dienstag, 27. Jänner 2026, 18 Uhr
BOKU Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, Wilhelm-Exner Haus (HS01)
➡️ Livestream auf www.youtube.com/live/BEqUqQR...
Energiecluster: Netto Null – wie kommen wir auf Kurs?
YouTube video by BOKU University
www.youtube.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 24d
Fascinating historical analysis finds that higher local circulation of a popular witch-hunting manual increased a city's likelihood of holding its first witch trial by about 30%. An early, quantifiable example of the harmful impact of fake news!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ideational diffusion and the great witch hunt in Central Europe - Theory and Society
The great upsurge of witch trials in early modern Europe remains a historical puzzle. Popularly known as the “witch craze”, this eruption of persecution is puzzling because belief in witchcraft had ex...
link.springer.com

Reposted by Christopher Wright, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24d
The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
e360.yale.edu

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Koen Van den Eeckhout @vandeneeckhoutkoen.bsky.social · 25d
...are making it harder and harder to extract the necessary information.

Vinoy presents some reasons for this evolution, but also some potential countermeasures.

www.scicomm.be/post/the-lin...

#scicomm #informationdesign
The linguistic wall
On April 25, 1953, a short paper appeared in the journal Nature that changed the world.1 It was barely a page long and contained a single, simple diagram. But what stands out today isn’t just the…
www.scicomm.be

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jan 10
1/ Yes the globally wealthy have outsized emissions, and yes that’s a massive problem

But it’s actually only a small part of their devastating influence on the conditions that support life
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jan 9
Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.
What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?
I talk to Eavor’s Jeanine Vany and Mark Fitzgerald about the engineering breakthroughs that could finally make geothermal geography-agnostic.
www.volts.wtf

Reposted by Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · Jan 8
Chinas Urbanisierung fordert Klima und Ressourcen.
Eine Studie mit Beteiligung der BOKU University zeigt, wie stark Chinas Gebäudebestand seit 2000 gewachsen ist.
@bokusec.bsky.social @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social
➡️: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com

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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · Jan 7
🦠 New study along the coast of Central Java, Indonesia, finds more #microplastics (10–42 particles/L) than plankton (13–15 ind/L) at all sites! We urgently need better governance to combat #plastic pollution!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Abundance and characteristics of plankton and microplastics along the northern coastline of Central Java, Indonesia
This study aimed to characterize microplastics (MPs) and analyze the composition of plankton in the coastal waters of Central Java's North Coast. The …
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Benjamin Braun, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Els Torreele , and 2 more

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Jan 7
With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 4
"We show that the AI server industry is unlikely to meet its net-zero aspirations by 2030 without substantial reliance on highly uncertain carbon offset and water restoration mechanisms"

An annual additional 24-44 megatonnes of CO2 per year to 2030, from AI in the US alone ->
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · Jan 2
China experienced unprecedented scale and speed of urbanization - here we map these dynamics at 30m resolution for the past 20 years to understand implications for reaching #climate targets and a more #CircularEconomy

@BOKUvienna @bokusec.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Building material stock drives embodied carbon emissions and risks future climate goals in China - Nature Climate Change
Reducing the embodied carbon emissions of building material stock is essential for mitigation. Using a high-resolution multiyear dataset in China, researchers show the historically massive contributio...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · Dec 26
www.iiss.org/research-pap...
The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
This IISS paper assesses Russia’s unconventional war on Europe, focusing on sabotage of critical infrastructure, from military sites and energy grids to communications and undersea cables, testing the resilience of European governments and societies and challenging NATO/EU deterrence.
www.iiss.org

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte , and 22 more

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 18
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · Dec 16
"Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from drained peatlands account for about 7% of the total anthropogenic GHG emissions in the European Union (EU). [...] Four main emission hotspots emerge: the North Sea region, eastern Germany, the Baltics together with eastern Poland, and north Ireland."
Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union - Nature Communications
An EU-wide analysis shows that drained peatlands are major, underreported sources of greenhouse gases. By mapping emission hotspots, the study provides guidance for targeted rewetting and strengthens ...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Dec 16
New research: The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression
This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparat...
www.tandfonline.com

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Dec 12
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Dec 8
The Google Gemini3 LLM is remarkably excellent at reading weather observations from handwritten logbooks.

Example of recovering hourly pressure observations taken in Oxford in December 1883 and January 1884, compared to human-keyed data from relatively nearby sites.

Climate data rescue solved?
Example daily page from Oxford weather logbooks Hourly pressure data from 3 sites - Oxford, Falmouth and Kew. Oxford transcribed with Gemini3, the others done by humans.

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · Dec 8
In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
doi.org

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler , and 8 more

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · Dec 5
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Dec 5
“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification”

I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology:

eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Heather Shearer @heather-sea55.bsky.social · Nov 27
🧪“…destabilizes ecosystem function because relatively few additional extinctions lead to accelerated losses of functional diversity, particularly in trophic groups that deliver important ecological services such as seed dispersal and insect predation.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature
Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.
www.nature.com