Jonas Waack
@jonaswaack.bsky.social
Tiere, Pflanzen, Volkswirtschaften. Klima-Redakteur @taz.de. ausgebildet an der DJS.
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Jonas Waack
@jonaswaack.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Ich bin ab heute Klima-Redakteur der @taz.de und freue mich ganz unheimlich darüber. Wer mal einen Kaffee trinken möchte, Ideen oder Pitches hat: jonas.waack@taz.de oder hier per DM.
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Oil companies are suing each other in the Permian basin as their greed driven drilling and water disposal practices are damaging reserves.
Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts.
And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing.
The infighting will get vicious.
Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts.
And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing.
The infighting will get vicious.
The German long term partners of Venture Global (ie SEFE & EnBW) should better pay attention!
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
@tadziomueller.bsky.social @betterbayou.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @caneurope.org
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
@tadziomueller.bsky.social @betterbayou.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @caneurope.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oil companies are suing each other in the Permian basin as their greed driven drilling and water disposal practices are damaging reserves.
Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts.
And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing.
The infighting will get vicious.
Oil and gas companies are suing each other of LNG contracts.
And this is while oil and gas demand is still growing.
The infighting will get vicious.
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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Since Trump took office, the US has killed 70 people in its campaign to allegedly defend the border from narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean. Over 28 years, the Berlin Wall caused 140 deaths taking into account not just the shootings but also the accidents, drownings and borders guard deaths.
Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Since Trump took office, the US has killed 70 people in its campaign to allegedly defend the border from narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean. Over 28 years, the Berlin Wall caused 140 deaths taking into account not just the shootings but also the accidents, drownings and borders guard deaths.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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Fascinating.
The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians.
And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.
The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians.
And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Fascinating.
The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians.
And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.
The bluffers guide to the railway bubble vs the actual historians.
And why Britain has such a lousy railway system.
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Als Geschichtswissenschaftler buchstabierte Rödder am englischen Beispiel die Plausibilität eines anti-reaktionären Liberalkonservatismus der Vermittlung aus, der Akzeptanz für Veränderungen organisiert. Wie wurde er als Staatsbürger zum Polarisierungsunternehmer? 8/12
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Als Geschichtswissenschaftler buchstabierte Rödder am englischen Beispiel die Plausibilität eines anti-reaktionären Liberalkonservatismus der Vermittlung aus, der Akzeptanz für Veränderungen organisiert. Wie wurde er als Staatsbürger zum Polarisierungsunternehmer? 8/12
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Seit Jahren wird über Dimes Square berichtet, eine Straßenkreuzung mit vielen Bars in Manhattan, wo sich während der Lockdowns einige Artists und solche, die es sein wollten, trafen. Doch existierte diese Szene wirklich als die kulturelle Avantgarde, zu der sie von Medien weltweit gemacht wurde?
New York: Wie einflussreich war der antiwoke Dimes Square wirklich?
Die neurechte Avantgarde, die keine war: Vor wenigen Jahren machte Dimes Square weltweit Schlagzeilen. Ausgerechnet im liberalen New York hatte sich eine antiwoke Avantgarde gefunden. Was ist daraus g...
www.faz.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Seit Jahren wird über Dimes Square berichtet, eine Straßenkreuzung mit vielen Bars in Manhattan, wo sich während der Lockdowns einige Artists und solche, die es sein wollten, trafen. Doch existierte diese Szene wirklich als die kulturelle Avantgarde, zu der sie von Medien weltweit gemacht wurde?
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If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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I’m sorry but can we all admit climate scientists have Streisand effect-ed this Bill Gates thing to the moon? Do not yell at me. Do not yell at me in the replies
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m sorry but can we all admit climate scientists have Streisand effect-ed this Bill Gates thing to the moon? Do not yell at me. Do not yell at me in the replies
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these people obviously have not read the Gates memo
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
these people obviously have not read the Gates memo
Wirklich spannend, wie es Trumps Koalition bei den Zöllen so zerreißt - anders als bei staatlichen Terroranschlägen und rassistischer Polizeigewalt. The business of business etc, aber vllt ist das der Punkt wo ihnen die Vorteile eines Rechtsstaates deutlich werden?
on.ft.com/4hBsYm6
on.ft.com/4hBsYm6
Businesses press Supreme Court to strike down Donald Trump’s emergency tariff power
About 40 briefs have been filed challenging signature policy ahead of showpiece hearing
on.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Wirklich spannend, wie es Trumps Koalition bei den Zöllen so zerreißt - anders als bei staatlichen Terroranschlägen und rassistischer Polizeigewalt. The business of business etc, aber vllt ist das der Punkt wo ihnen die Vorteile eines Rechtsstaates deutlich werden?
on.ft.com/4hBsYm6
on.ft.com/4hBsYm6
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When Napoleon said, “Let China sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” he was talking about the USDCNY fix.
PBOC sets the yuan’s daily midpoint at 7.0867 per dollar, up from 7.1200 at last close.
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When Napoleon said, “Let China sleep for when she wakes, she will shake the world,” he was talking about the USDCNY fix.
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NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
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His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
Obama and Bill Gates to Launch Clean Energy Initiative
President Barack Obama and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will launch a multi-billion-dollar initiative Monday to accelerate clean-energy research and development as part of a global effort to fight ...
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
His worst offense was reorienting the entire Paris agreement away from affordability toward innovation through his Mission Innovation side show in 2015. China went the route of deployment, we decided that we needed to focus on innovation instead.
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
www.wsj.com/articles/oba...
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Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
You are terrifying
and strange and
beautiful,
something not
everyone knows how
to love.
-Warsan Shire
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So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
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Tl;dr: the fact we were dealing with Hurricane Melissa is probably "more climate change than not," but the component of the storm that is the "climate part" of it is non-trivial but not massive, and the event could definitely have happened anyway. That's not how people are talking about it on here!
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Tl;dr: the fact we were dealing with Hurricane Melissa is probably "more climate change than not," but the component of the storm that is the "climate part" of it is non-trivial but not massive, and the event could definitely have happened anyway. That's not how people are talking about it on here!
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The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.
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For discussion later via @subletteweather.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For discussion later via @subletteweather.com
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You know how sometimes you watch a sci fi movie and they’re on an alien planet and it’s got like the Big Wall of Storm advancing rapidly and messing with your sense of Euclidean geometry? I just think we should all remember that’s also this planet, and we keep choosing to piss it off for some reason
From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
You know how sometimes you watch a sci fi movie and they’re on an alien planet and it’s got like the Big Wall of Storm advancing rapidly and messing with your sense of Euclidean geometry? I just think we should all remember that’s also this planet, and we keep choosing to piss it off for some reason
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Crazy days... who would have thought that there would be a day when I mention Tuffi, the circus elephant who famously jumped out of Wuppertal's suspension monorail in 1950 when a PR stunt went wrong, and roman emperor Nero in the very same FT article?
www.ft.com/content/0400...
www.ft.com/content/0400...
Germany shelves commemorative coins over surging silver price
Value of precious metal exceeds face value of €20 and €25 collectibles
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Crazy days... who would have thought that there would be a day when I mention Tuffi, the circus elephant who famously jumped out of Wuppertal's suspension monorail in 1950 when a PR stunt went wrong, and roman emperor Nero in the very same FT article?
www.ft.com/content/0400...
www.ft.com/content/0400...
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New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends:
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New data from our Global #CoalPlant Tracker is out. A few key trends:
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
📉 Countries w/coal power under dev't hit a record low — only 33 remain since the Paris Agreement.
📉 New proposals fell below 2 GW in Q3 2025 — 85% below recent averages.
Explore the data ⤵️
globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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China's coal imports fell 3% in September, and are down 11% year-to-date. Fossil gas imports fell 8% in September, -6% year-to-date. Net oil imports are up 2% year-to-date, 3% in September, and oil product exports are rising fast in October, indicating easing demand.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
China's coal imports fell 3% in September, and are down 11% year-to-date. Fossil gas imports fell 8% in September, -6% year-to-date. Net oil imports are up 2% year-to-date, 3% in September, and oil product exports are rising fast in October, indicating easing demand.