About 79 metric megatons of carbon dioxide were emitted by wildfires in the Arctic Circle in July 2019, smashing the previous record set in July 2004. Read more via Science News bit.ly/2T8ciHJ #Heat #Arctic

ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/turbo-… 🥰

Excellent The Atlantic article on the exposés we've been publishing about Bolsonaro's Minister of Justice, the corrupted investigation he led that resulted in Lula's removal from the election, and the fallout in Brazil from our reporting, by Vincent Bevins: theatlantic.com/international/…

"Staggering number of fires ravaging Amazon rainforest" | Tonight's NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas segment w/ correspondent Anne Thompson. Includes brief comments by yours truly (don't blink!): nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v…

New research with Stefan Pfenninger and @JLilliestam: in which European countries, regions, and municipalities would renewable electricity autarky be possible? Read about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.…

OK comparison of travel option emisisons, but misses the key point: flying accelerates emissions by its very high emission intensity/time. U could never do 4 intercontinental car trips a year. "Flying is the fastest way to cook your children" BBC News (UK) bbc.com/news/science-e…

Can ☀️ and 💨 provide all electricity needed in your European country, region, or municipality? Find out using our new, interactive map timtroendle.github.io/possibility-fo…

Hey The New Yorker, I fixed the headline for you: "What if we stopped pretending that false prophecies of unavoidable doom are anything other than crypto-denialist narratives that favor an agenda of inaction?" (see: washingtonpost.com/opinions/dooms…) newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Phlippe Tulkens (EU Commission, DG RTD) at the Emp-E conference: "Black box models are no longer science. Science need to be accountable, verifiabe by scientific peers". Good to heat that #OpenSource and #OpenData for energy models will be part the next Horizon programme

We know how to save the climate in mathematical models but is it possible in the real world? Aleh Cherp 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 & I propose a new method to explore feasibility of climate mitigation Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews bit.ly/2rsBfE1, a sequel to my exchange w/ Kevin Anderson go.nature.com/2qE2zie. /1

Not good. Clearly those subsidies have to go.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 I’m looking for a Research Associate to work with amazing colleagues from all over Europe building and testing the next generation of energy system models for the European Commission! Up to £47k in the amazing Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial at Imperial College London imperial.ac.uk/jobs/descripti…

TIMES (The Integrated MARKAL-EFOM System) is now available as Open Source Software under a GNU General Public License v.3.0. Check ETSAP website for details iea-etsap.org/index.php/etsa…

Thread and new research on whether Europe would be better off building renewables locally everywhere, or only in the best locations and then providing more interconnection capacity. TLDR: could do it either way, costs not vastly different, think about resilience.

Planning highly renewable power systems involves compromise across diverse stakeholders. Is it possible to balance techno-economic feasibility with social and political goals? Read our new Joule study w Bryn Pickering Emanuela Colombo Stefan Pfenninger 👇 bit.ly/2QkEBSL

Calliope version 0.6.6 is now available! Check it out 👉 callio.pe/news/2020/10/r… Development is accelerating thanks to users getting involved. Big shout out to Suvayu 🐧, Stefan Pfenninger, Francesco Lombardi, and @AdriaanHilbers 👏 #opensource #Python #energymodel

A new paper in One Earth provides wider context to our recent #SPORES paper (tinyurl.com/y5vyekcl). I thank a lot V.M. Nick and A.T.D. Perera for this very welcome discussion of our findings! -->

New exciting #PhD position in our group at TU Delft about energy system modelling and weather-dependent variability, with great flexibility in deciding the specific research direction autonomously (1/n)

Explore 100s of options for European carbon neutrality & energy self-sufficiency in our recent paper led by Bryn Pickering - see his nice thread, and the TU Delft news story: tudelft.nl/en/2022/tu-del…. Want to do work like this? We are hiring a PhD student: tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/…

We are hiring for an exciting #PhD position on developing and applying novel energy system modelling methods. Join our lively and diverse group at TU Delft to work on accelerating the energy transition! academictransfer.com/en/318633/phd-…