Matthias Cuntz
@mcuntz.bsky.social
Ecophysiologist measuring and modelling land surface fluxes @INRAE Nancy, France.
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All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
All you need to know about Bill Gates' long-standing and misguided take on climate change.
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
'The solution to the climate crisis isn’t going to come from the fairy-dust-sprinkled flying unicorns that are the “benevolent plutocrats.” They don’t exist.'
thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
gmd.copernicus.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
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Une France soi-disant sans immigrés mais surtout sans biodiversité, surement sans stratégie forestière climatique crédible, et pleine de pesticides. Le bonheur est pour demain...🤢 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Dans le contre-budget du RN, des coupes sans précédent dans la politique environnementale de la France
L’écologie serait, avec les immigrés, la première victime des propositions budgétaires formulées par l’extrême droite, jeudi 23 octobre.
www.lemonde.fr
October 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Une France soi-disant sans immigrés mais surtout sans biodiversité, surement sans stratégie forestière climatique crédible, et pleine de pesticides. Le bonheur est pour demain...🤢 www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.
And you're cutting... the sleeper?
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction.
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
September 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
L’effet Matilda n’est pas une fiction.
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
Il est inscrit dans l’histoire scientifique.
Il a éclipsé des femmes comme Marthe Gautier, née il y a cent ans, pionnière oubliée de la trisomie 21.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1LI
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@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime
thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
October 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
@bioclimatology.bsky.social hosted a fascinating workshop on fluxes anywhere and anytime
thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
thanks to all the old and new friends from across the German speaking parts of Europe for attending. here is a list of talks and speakers. and thanks to the Goettingen team for hosting
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- Most offset programs overestimate their impact by a factor of 5, 10 or +
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...
www.annualreviews.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
- Most offset programs overestimate their impact by a factor of 5, 10 or +
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
- Credit quality is a problem despite efforts to address additionality, leakage, double counting, injustice, verification and permanence
- Overcrediting an intractable problem
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
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First day of the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. More than 40 scientists are discussing fluxes anywhere and anytime. Great atmosphere!
October 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
First day of the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. More than 40 scientists are discussing fluxes anywhere and anytime. Great atmosphere!
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Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
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Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all.
That's fascism and unAmerican.
"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
That's fascism and unAmerican.
"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all.
That's fascism and unAmerican.
"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
That's fascism and unAmerican.
"Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words"
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
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@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne
Signez la pétition maintenant !
agir.greenvoice.fr
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@egu.eu community please consider signing this petition to try and save the nightjet to Vienna🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
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“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF
The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.
www.msf.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.
Just like me: I am also normally right about everything.
Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions.
“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”
www.eenews.net/articles/con...
“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”
www.eenews.net/articles/con...
‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate
The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.
www.eenews.net
September 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just like me: I am also normally right about everything.
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À l’AGNU, juste avant l’entrée de Trump, un discours anti-impérial a électrisé la salle : Lula a défendu la renaissance du multilatéralisme depuis un continent sans armes de destruction massive, bâti sur l’aspiration à la paix.
Nous le traduisons.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...
Nous le traduisons.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...
Contre les «forces antidémocratiques» : le discours de Lula à l'ONU
Dans un discours historique et anti-impérial qui a électrisé la salle de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies avant l’entrée en scène de Donald Trump, Lula s’en est pris à l’ingérence américaine en ...
legrandcontinent.eu
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
À l’AGNU, juste avant l’entrée de Trump, un discours anti-impérial a électrisé la salle : Lula a défendu la renaissance du multilatéralisme depuis un continent sans armes de destruction massive, bâti sur l’aspiration à la paix.
Nous le traduisons.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...
Nous le traduisons.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2...
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Mentors matter—especially in challenging times.
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.
Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.
Check 👇
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.
Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.
Check 👇
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
Women in Hydrology – The Story of a Special Issue
It was 2021, and we were not feeling good. COVID-19 was in full force. Personally we were experiencing lockdown conditions, disruptions to our work, schooling and childcare arrangements. Our social...
blogs.egu.eu
September 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Mentors matter—especially in challenging times.
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.
Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.
Check 👇
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path.
Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience.
Check 👇
blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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„Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate.“
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.
"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...
Antiscience Is an Existential Threat
The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.
time.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
„Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate.“
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.
And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.
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ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Great honour for ETH climate researcher Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Professor Sonia Seneviratne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. The climate researcher shares ...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
ETH Zurich climate scientist @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social is the first Swiss citizen to receive the prestigious German Environmental Award bestowed by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Congratulations for receiving this award for outstanding research!
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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September 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Italian astrophotographer Marcella Julia Pace spent 10 years capturing these 48 colors of the Moon.
January 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Italian astrophotographer Marcella Julia Pace spent 10 years capturing these 48 colors of the Moon.
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An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects
Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...
www.frontiersin.org
September 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
🌊🧪
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Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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