4-year postdoctoral fellowships for women @univie.ac.at
The application consists of a short (3-page) research statement only.
Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested or would like to discuss potential projects.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
China's wind and solar capacity additions rebounded in October after the predictable slump over the summer. 14 GW solar and 9 GW wind was added to the grid, after an average of 9 GW solar and 3 GW wind per month in the past three months.
NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.
The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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China's clean energy technology exports continued strong growth in August, increasing 33% in dollar value year-on-year, with EVs +58%, solar +18%, wind +15% and batteries +23%. Exports grew to all regions except North America, evidencing strong demand.
James Hansen photo by Don J Usner
This is the #1 climatologist in the world: James Hansen.
He’s spent 50 years studying what humans are doing to the climate.
He's gone out on a limb time and time again - and been proven right.
His message? It’s far worse than they’re telling you. 🧵
Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes.
elpais.com/economia/202...
This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.
#Solar has taken off in US red states. #Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“It’s a moonshot.”
Vienna has a $21 billion plan to end its dependence on imported fossil gas with heat pumps, boreholes and energy efficiency.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Just out: Solar power additions in China in 2024 exceeded expectations, again, with a whopping 277 GW installed in just one year! This was up 28% on the already towering 217 GW added in 2023.
Wind power made a new record as well, with 79 GW added to the grid, up 5% on year.
Nach BDEW-Zahlen war der Strompreis für die nicht-energieintensive Industrie 2024 inflationsbereinigt *niedriger* als zu irgendeinem Zeitpunkt seit 2015.
Wenn es der deutschen Industrie schlecht geht, dann wohl nicht wegen hoher Strompreise.
Bring it on... I am game!
How is China's EV boom affecting gasoline demand and electricity demand? It has been hard to find precise data on this so here's a thread working out some numbers.
Last week we had a chat with Empowered Futures alumni, Dr. Harald Grabher (@soecoharry.bsky.social), who recently defended his PhD in Social Ecology at BOKU, Vienna, about his research on the multifaceted benefits of biomass combustion in rural Ethiopian households and his journey with EF. 🌍🔥
Just days after scoring a win at COP29, Saudi Arabia, along with Russia and Iran, is at it again trying to weaken the global plastics treaty.
www.climatechangenews.com/2024/11/27/g...
'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations'
our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends.
@iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social
New article! Zhengli Huang, Meseret Desta and I argue that the drive to generate property ownership in urban Ethiopia has actually undermined homeownership:
'Homeownership and tenure (in)security in fractured urban peripheries: Ethiopia’s mass housing programme'
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Highly recommended insights on the progress of China's energy transitions, as always with an amazing depth and expertise! Not to be missed...
Even if CO₂ emissions decreased as much as it did during COVID every year until 2030, we would still miss the 1.5°C target (emissions of 20 GtCO₂/yr by 2023) by a lot.
Musk is one of the worst bullies on the planet. He disproportionately targets women and people of colour. He is beyond nasty.
edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
Perfect, thanks! Could you pls add me?
An ERA5 animation showing the unprecedented November 2024 Typhoon outbreak in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Just incredible.
Important new study shows that current climate models underestimate the human-caused slowing of the #AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), because they neglect freshwater influx from Greenland melt and other sources. /1 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yep, feel i belong. Pls add.
In this article, I argue that what we're seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised, hierarchical societies. This is the way they were run for centuries. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction
Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
