Moritz Schwarz
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Moritz Schwarz
@moritzpschwarz.bsky.social
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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
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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 🎁🔗
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
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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
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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
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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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"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...
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
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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"
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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."
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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
Yay, finally able to save posts in #bsky - thanks @bsky.app ❤️
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Achtung. Laut MSN ist es heute dezent kalt in Wien
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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
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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...
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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.
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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...
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"MASSIVE SLOWDOWN IN CHINA'S SOLAR IN JUNE"

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?
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...
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
Congratulations Jan, amazing news and a great day for Oxford ☺️
Ah damn, so close and yet so far!
Genieß es!!
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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 📈