Moritz Schwarz
@moritzpschwarz.bsky.social
Climate Economist 🇪🇺🇦🇹
Working on all things Carbon Pricing, Econometrics and Measuring the Impact of Climate Change and Climate Policies
Post-Doc @ TU Berlin and PIK
DPhil from Oxford with @ClimateMetrics.bsky.social
#rstats | #mufc
Working on all things Carbon Pricing, Econometrics and Measuring the Impact of Climate Change and Climate Policies
Post-Doc @ TU Berlin and PIK
DPhil from Oxford with @ClimateMetrics.bsky.social
#rstats | #mufc
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
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PyPSA v1.0 is officially here - 10 years and 2 days since the first git commit. This milestone release brings major new features, completely new documentation, and a fresh landing page - congratulations to all the PyPSA team! 🎉
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PyPSA v1.0 is officially here - 10 years and 2 days since the first git commit. This milestone release brings major new features, completely new documentation, and a fresh landing page - congratulations to all the PyPSA team! 🎉
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org
🔗 New Documentation: docs.pypsa.org
🔗 New Landing Page: pypsa.org
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💰👇 Who really decides where federal money goes? A new study uncovers how seats on the Bundestag’s budget committee can make all the difference.
📑 Anina Harter @hertieschool.bsky.social
🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
#politicaleconomy #publicspending
📑 Anina Harter @hertieschool.bsky.social
🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
#politicaleconomy #publicspending
October 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
💰👇 Who really decides where federal money goes? A new study uncovers how seats on the Bundestag’s budget committee can make all the difference.
📑 Anina Harter @hertieschool.bsky.social
🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
#politicaleconomy #publicspending
📑 Anina Harter @hertieschool.bsky.social
🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
#politicaleconomy #publicspending
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Useful comparison
October 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Useful comparison
Läuft noch nicht so mit der Digitalisierung am Amt in Österreich...
October 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Läuft noch nicht so mit der Digitalisierung am Amt in Österreich...
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🚨 Big News! Die Förderung für den Ersatz von Öl- und Gasheizungen kommt wieder!
Maximale Bundesförderungen für Ein-/Zweifamilienhaus:
🌡️ Fernwärme: 6.500 €
♨️ Wärmepumpe: 7.500 €
🪵 Biomasse: 8.500 €
Zusatzboni für Solarthermie (2.500 €) und Tiefenbohrung bei Erdwärmepumpen (5.000 €).
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Maximale Bundesförderungen für Ein-/Zweifamilienhaus:
🌡️ Fernwärme: 6.500 €
♨️ Wärmepumpe: 7.500 €
🪵 Biomasse: 8.500 €
Zusatzboni für Solarthermie (2.500 €) und Tiefenbohrung bei Erdwärmepumpen (5.000 €).
/1
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🚨 Big News! Die Förderung für den Ersatz von Öl- und Gasheizungen kommt wieder!
Maximale Bundesförderungen für Ein-/Zweifamilienhaus:
🌡️ Fernwärme: 6.500 €
♨️ Wärmepumpe: 7.500 €
🪵 Biomasse: 8.500 €
Zusatzboni für Solarthermie (2.500 €) und Tiefenbohrung bei Erdwärmepumpen (5.000 €).
/1
Maximale Bundesförderungen für Ein-/Zweifamilienhaus:
🌡️ Fernwärme: 6.500 €
♨️ Wärmepumpe: 7.500 €
🪵 Biomasse: 8.500 €
Zusatzboni für Solarthermie (2.500 €) und Tiefenbohrung bei Erdwärmepumpen (5.000 €).
/1
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"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"
Imagine having cheaper power
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Imagine having cheaper power
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices
Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.
www.bloomberg.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"
Imagine having cheaper power
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Imagine having cheaper power
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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Was Hannah Arendt sagte über die deutsche Gesellschaft, die sich dem #Rechtsextremismus der Nazis ergeben hatte.
Hannah Arendt über die Gleichschaltung.
"Das persönliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten."
"Das persönliche Problem war doch nicht etwa, was unsere Feinde taten, sondern was unsere Freunde taten."
September 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Was Hannah Arendt sagte über die deutsche Gesellschaft, die sich dem #Rechtsextremismus der Nazis ergeben hatte.
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This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India to Spend $570 Million to Help Steel Companies Decarbonize
India plans to roll out a 50 billion rupee ($570 million) program to encourage steel producers to cut emissions, a top government official said.
www.bloomberg.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This is a direct result of EU's carbon tariffs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In the lead up to the Overshoot Conference @iiasa.ac.at Sep 30-Oct 2, the organizers had a fantastic nerdy idea to get the leading experts in their fields share their perspectives on the key themes. Highly recommend for your daily commute, background to cooking etc.: open.spotify.com/show/5MpXqh1...
Episode 2: Highest Possible Ambition under Overshoot with Joeri Rogelj
open.spotify.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
In the lead up to the Overshoot Conference @iiasa.ac.at Sep 30-Oct 2, the organizers had a fantastic nerdy idea to get the leading experts in their fields share their perspectives on the key themes. Highly recommend for your daily commute, background to cooking etc.: open.spotify.com/show/5MpXqh1...
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Achtung. Laut MSN ist es heute dezent kalt in Wien
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Achtung. Laut MSN ist es heute dezent kalt in Wien
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This paper synthesizes both successes and challenges in the implementation of renewable energy auctions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Policy relevant lessons from research on renewable energy auctions
Renewable energy auctions have emerged globally as a primary tool for promoting electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E) by awarding operatio…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This paper synthesizes both successes and challenges in the implementation of renewable energy auctions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
![Running dbreg::dbreg() on a full year of NYC taxi data... and it takes less than 2 seconds.
dbreg(
tip_amount ~ fare_amount + passenger_count | month + vendor_name,
path = "read_parquet('nyc-taxi/**/*.parquet')", ## path to hive-partitioned dataset
vcov = "hc1"
)
#> [dbreg] Estimating compression ratio...
#> [dbreg] Data has 178,544,324 rows and 24 unique FE groups.
#> [dbreg] Using strategy: compress
#> [dbreg] Executing compress strategy SQL
#>
#> Compressed OLS estimation, Dep. Var.: tip_amount
#> Observations.: 178,544,324 (original) | 70,782 (compressed)
#> Standard Errors: Heteroskedasticity-robust
#> Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> fare_amount 0.106744 0.000068 1564.742 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> passenger_count -0.029086 0.000106 -273.866 < 2.2e-16 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qww63z2t5rrhniusz5x7gk23/bafkreiajmnp6jiaycebutwid2lxx57hrz3zc3qp2p5ijnoqiyqag34xpe4@jpeg)
August 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯
This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.
#rstats #econsky
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BNetzA: Statistik zur Stromerzeugungsleistung ausgewählter erneuerbarer Energieträger – Juli 2025 [Stand 13. Aug. 2025]
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
August 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
BNetzA: Statistik zur Stromerzeugungsleistung ausgewählter erneuerbarer Energieträger – Juli 2025 [Stand 13. Aug. 2025]
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachtheme...
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Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.
August 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.
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Only a couple days left to register to the Tilburg Replication Games on August 21. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
July 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Only a couple days left to register to the Tilburg Replication Games on August 21. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...
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"MASSIVE SLOWDOWN IN CHINA'S SOLAR IN JUNE"
Context:😶😂
Context:😶😂
July 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"MASSIVE SLOWDOWN IN CHINA'S SOLAR IN JUNE"
Context:😶😂
Context:😶😂
Hinkley Point C now over £45bn. Sizewell C - which was supposed to be much cheaper based on the experiences of HP-C - now at £38bn...
Maybe, and hear me out here, new-built nuclear power is a tiny bit more expensive than renewables... 👀
Who could have known?
Maybe, and hear me out here, new-built nuclear power is a tiny bit more expensive than renewables... 👀
Who could have known?
when the FT revealed in January that the cost of building the Sizewell C nuclear plant had risen to around £40bn they all denied it
now we can reveal the actual price tag - to be announced this week - and it is £38bn
www.ft.com/content/d431...
now we can reveal the actual price tag - to be announced this week - and it is £38bn
www.ft.com/content/d431...
Ministers set to admit Sizewell C nuclear plant pricetag has soared to £38bn
New official estimate reflects surging construction inflation and contingency costs
www.ft.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hinkley Point C now over £45bn. Sizewell C - which was supposed to be much cheaper based on the experiences of HP-C - now at £38bn...
Maybe, and hear me out here, new-built nuclear power is a tiny bit more expensive than renewables... 👀
Who could have known?
Maybe, and hear me out here, new-built nuclear power is a tiny bit more expensive than renewables... 👀
Who could have known?
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📣 I will be sharing my teaching materials & work on #geospatial #datascience and interactive #dataviz.
This is my presentation on ⚡ Spatial Data Science with R ⚡
👉 www.paulamoraga.com/presentation...
#rstats 💻 #rspatial 🌍 #gischat 🗺️ #health ⚕️ #diseasesurveillance 📈
This is my presentation on ⚡ Spatial Data Science with R ⚡
👉 www.paulamoraga.com/presentation...
#rstats 💻 #rspatial 🌍 #gischat 🗺️ #health ⚕️ #diseasesurveillance 📈
November 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
📣 I will be sharing my teaching materials & work on #geospatial #datascience and interactive #dataviz.
This is my presentation on ⚡ Spatial Data Science with R ⚡
👉 www.paulamoraga.com/presentation...
#rstats 💻 #rspatial 🌍 #gischat 🗺️ #health ⚕️ #diseasesurveillance 📈
This is my presentation on ⚡ Spatial Data Science with R ⚡
👉 www.paulamoraga.com/presentation...
#rstats 💻 #rspatial 🌍 #gischat 🗺️ #health ⚕️ #diseasesurveillance 📈
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I've written a simple guide to the new Positron IDE for #rstats and #python programming. I think that RStudio is still the most thoughtfully designed IDE for R programming but Positron is very useful if you also code a lot in Python.
github.com/erikaduan/r_...
github.com/erikaduan/r_...
github.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I've written a simple guide to the new Positron IDE for #rstats and #python programming. I think that RStudio is still the most thoughtfully designed IDE for R programming but Positron is very useful if you also code a lot in Python.
github.com/erikaduan/r_...
github.com/erikaduan/r_...
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About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
July 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...