Klaus Pankatz
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Klaus Pankatz
@klauspankatz.bsky.social
Climate scientist at DWD. Climate modelling; decadal climate predictions. Views are my own
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Maxima partly above 30 degree, potential for severe weather. That is sth that doesn't necessarily sound like beginning of the third decade of September. Maps look more like midsummer autumn.
September 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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One of the challenges to understanding climate change is that extremes don't necessarily change in the same way as averages.

In Western Europe, for example, the hottest day of the year is warming noticeably faster than the average summer day.
July 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Tauschen wir das Wort "Klimaschutz" doch mal gegen das aus, was es tatsächlich bedeutet: "Die Bewohnbarkeit des Planeten retten".

Dann klingen viele Aussagen von Politikern so verrückt, wie sie tatsächlich sind.

"Die Bewohnbarkeit des Planeten darf nicht auf Kosten des Wirtschaftswachstums gehen."
June 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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There's news coverage this week referring to the same shark as

"the largest shark ever"

"the largest great white shark ever"

"the largest male great white shark ever"

"the largest male great white shark in the Atlantic"

and

"the largest male great white shark ever *tagged* in the Atlantic"
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I've never seen it so well put before.
May 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The doubling of the rate of global heating in recent decades has surprised the scientific community so needs to be better understood yet our capability to measure Earth's energy imbalance is at risk: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
May 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The most important graph in the world!

Another month of NASA CERES data shows that our planet keeps getting darker as global air pollution, cloud cover and ice area continue to decrease.

A warmer planet radiates more heat to space, but our greenhouse gases now keep >4 W/m² in!
April 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Klimawandel in Deutschland weiter als gedacht

Der Temperaturanstieg ist in Deutschland stärker als angenommen, sagt der Deutsche Wetterdienst und spricht von "gravierenden" Folgen. Besonders heiße oder nasse Jahre seien ebenso normal geworden wie extreme Wetterereignisse.

www.br.de/nachrichten/...
DWD: Klimawandel in Deutschland weiter als gedacht
Der Temperaturanstieg ist in Deutschland stärker als angenommen, sagt der Deutsche Wetterdienst und spricht von "gravierenden" Folgen, schon jetzt. Besonders heiße oder nasse Jahre seien ebenso normal...
www.br.de
April 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Mal etwas Klartext: Wir leben in Zeiten des Zusammenbruchs; von allem, was vertraut und sicher war. Das neue Normal ist, dass nichts mehr normal ist; oder sicher. Das verlangt Abschied. Von Vergangenheit & Zukunft. Was dann folgt? Neue Handlungsfähigkeit! Nicht aus Hoffnung. Aber aus Menschlichkeit.
April 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Die USA sind soweit, dass Leute ohne Prozess eingesperrt werden und ganz offen Höchstgerichtsentscheidungen ignoriert werden. Das ist Autokratie. Aber wir geben uns so mittelbesorgt, anstatt das überall zur Schlagzeile zu machen. Es ist dieselbe Ignoranz wie beim Klimakollaps. Don't look up.
April 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Wahnsinn. Dieser nie dagewesene Anstieg der CO2-Konzentration in einem Jahr ist jenseits aller Erwartungen und müsste in zig Sondersendungen erörtert werden, wenn wir als Gesellschaft noch bei Trost wären. Müsste... gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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NOAA just fired us, again 🤡

Retroactive to February 🤡
April 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Ergebnisse einer Langzeitstudie zum Grundeinkommen belegen:
• alle arbeiten weiter
• mehr Jobwechsel
• mehr Zufriedenheit im Arbeitsleben
• mehr Weiterbildung
• mehr Zufriedenheit mit dem Einkommen
• Autonomieempfinden steigt signifikant, vor allem bei Frauen
• mehr Zeit durch Grundeinkommen
1/3
April 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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BREAKING: Trump has paused tariffs for 90 days. Who could have seen this coming two days ago on Bluesky?
The best case scenario is that this is a stock shorting scheme, and in a week, there will be masterful (non-existent) "dealmaking" that removes the tariffs after the billionaires buy the dip causing a massive transfer of wealth.

That's the *best* case scenario.
April 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Ein paar Leute haben eben ein riesiges Vermögen gemacht. Und andere haben Jobs und Pension verloren.

Es ist so falsch alles.
April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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🔴 Februar zu trocken
🔴 März zu trocken
🔴 April droht zu trocken zu werden

Die Folge:
▪️ Baden-Württemberg und Rheinlandpfalz warnen vor Waldbränden
▪️ Der @nabu.de ruft wegen Trockenheit in Norddeutschland zum Wassersparen auf
▪️ Es werden Ernteeinbußen erwartet
April 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Hello! The US housing market has gotten very expensive, but I still dream of one day owning a home in a walkable neighborhood. In that spirit, I'm offering my consulting services. If you support the Trump tariffs, I can help you find US suppliers. Let me show you some examples. 🧵
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I've never seen such a crass climate change signal. A heatwave up to 10C hotter because of our burning of fossil fuels hit Central Asia last month. And this is only now, with just under 1.5C global warming. www.worldweatherattribution.org/extraordinar...
April 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Probably a good time to remind y'all that Bluesky's series A was led by an org called "blockchain capital", who also invested heavily in Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning crypto scam before he pivoted to

bsky.app/profile/keta...

Bad stuff! Here's what you should do in response.....
No platform is ever truly free.

That applies whether we’re talking about TikTok, Google, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook - or Substack. And if you think to yourself, this time, it'll be different, good luck to you.

But sooner or later, you're going to get fucked.
Why I Won't Write on Substack
There is something perverse about every voice of record, every journalist with a profile, every writer with an audience abandoning ship for Substack. It's been a growing trend for the past few years, and it's getting worse. Substack has done an excellent job convincing intelligent people from legacy media backgrounds
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Ich kann es nur wiederholen, wir müssen die imperialen Absichten Trumps bezüglich Grönland, Kanada und Panama bitterernst nehmen. Das ist kein “Ablenkungsmanöver” oder “Verhandlungstrick”. Wann wird endlich ernst genommen, was diese Männer von sich geben?
Trump sent J.D. Vance out to threaten Denmark.

Vance claims Denmark is “not a good ally,” then completely dismisses Europe’s deep concerns about Greenland.

The Trump regime’s strategy to condition Americans for the U.S. takeover of Greenland continues.
March 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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🚨TARIFFS🚨
Here's a story that tells you lots about the reality of tariffs: both for those paying them & those hoping to benefit from them.
A story of ships, storms, bad luck and bad policy.
It begins a week and a bit ago, with a man frantically refreshing his web browser...
March 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Calling fentanyl a „weapon of mass destruction“ serves 2 purposes: 1) laying the groundwork to justify military operations against Canada and Mexico 2) strip language from any meaning and create an unreality where words are being used to justify every horror this administration inflicts
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM