Simon Schulte
@simschul.bsky.social
Researcher at University of Aalborg. Researching the uncertainty of GHG footprints. Contributing to BONSAI, an open-source climate footprint database.
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
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The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Central Committee of the Communist Party lays out the key directions and priorities for China for the next five years. It reaffirms the importance of clean energy for China's energy, economic and industrial policy, but raises concerns about commitment to 2030 climate targets.
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Big China electricity&industial data update🧵for September:
➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year.
➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.
➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year.
➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Big China electricity&industial data update🧵for September:
➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year.
➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.
➡️Power generation from coal and gas dropped 5%, for a 1.2% fall in the first nine months of the year.
➡️Crude steel production fell by 5% and cement output by 9% in Sep, accelerating from 3% and 5% drops year-to-date.
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Personally I think it would be hard to steal a wind farm.
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Personally I think it would be hard to steal a wind farm.
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💡 Came across this nice tool today:
🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz
JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz
JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone
Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936
joss.theoj.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
💡 Came across this nice tool today:
🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz
JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz
JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
www.netzeropolicylab.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #EnergySky
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa | Ember
There has been a major pick-up in solar panel imports into Africa over the last 12 months - a shift that is likely to impact almost every country on the continent.
ember-energy.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation" #EnergySky
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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German Chancellor Merz today in parliament on climate policy.
The media is already heralding this as a radical new course in climate policy, but really it's just one of the most trite "discourses of climate delay": whataboutism.
The media is already heralding this as a radical new course in climate policy, but really it's just one of the most trite "discourses of climate delay": whataboutism.
July 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
German Chancellor Merz today in parliament on climate policy.
The media is already heralding this as a radical new course in climate policy, but really it's just one of the most trite "discourses of climate delay": whataboutism.
The media is already heralding this as a radical new course in climate policy, but really it's just one of the most trite "discourses of climate delay": whataboutism.
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An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
🧵
www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Mit der Aussage, dass ein klimaneutrales Deutschland bis 2045 mit der derzeitigen Politik nicht realistisch ist, hat Friedrich Merz ja völlig recht.
Aber das Ziel aufzugeben, ist ja nicht die einzige Konsequenz, die man aus dieser Erkenntnis ziehen kann.
Aber das Ziel aufzugeben, ist ja nicht die einzige Konsequenz, die man aus dieser Erkenntnis ziehen kann.
July 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Mit der Aussage, dass ein klimaneutrales Deutschland bis 2045 mit der derzeitigen Politik nicht realistisch ist, hat Friedrich Merz ja völlig recht.
Aber das Ziel aufzugeben, ist ja nicht die einzige Konsequenz, die man aus dieser Erkenntnis ziehen kann.
Aber das Ziel aufzugeben, ist ja nicht die einzige Konsequenz, die man aus dieser Erkenntnis ziehen kann.
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“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz
“Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
“Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
June 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“ This bill will raise your electricity costs and cook the planet to give tax cuts to the richest people ever.” - Sen Schatz
“Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
“Trump is jamming through a bill that rips away health care, closes hospitals, raises grocery and utility bills to give tax breaks to billionaires.” - Sen Warren
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Chinese companies installed 93 GW of solar and 27 GW of wind in a single month in May. That's about 230 million solar panels and 5300 wind turbines. That's almost 100 solar panels every second, and a wind turbine every 10 minutes.
June 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Chinese companies installed 93 GW of solar and 27 GW of wind in a single month in May. That's about 230 million solar panels and 5300 wind turbines. That's almost 100 solar panels every second, and a wind turbine every 10 minutes.
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We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as:
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
June 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as:
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
-Poland
-Sweden
-Norway
-the UAE
-North Carolina&Maryland or
-Washington&Wyoming
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NEW – Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities | @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social Kostantsa Rangelova
Read here: buff.ly/QqxebJM
Read here: buff.ly/QqxebJM
June 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEW – Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities | @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social Kostantsa Rangelova
Read here: buff.ly/QqxebJM
Read here: buff.ly/QqxebJM
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Gibt es durch das neue Sondervermögen tatsächlich zusätzliches Geld für den Klimaschutz? Das Aufstellungsschreiben zum Haushalt 2025, das das @bmf-bund.de gestern verschickt hat, lässt Zweifel daran aufkommen. (1/x)
May 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Gibt es durch das neue Sondervermögen tatsächlich zusätzliches Geld für den Klimaschutz? Das Aufstellungsschreiben zum Haushalt 2025, das das @bmf-bund.de gestern verschickt hat, lässt Zweifel daran aufkommen. (1/x)
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Just released: Huge revision in Germany's official estimates of emissions/uptake from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector, now reflecting the spruce bark beetle outbreaks that started in 2018. 1/2
April 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Just released: Huge revision in Germany's official estimates of emissions/uptake from the land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector, now reflecting the spruce bark beetle outbreaks that started in 2018. 1/2
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Today I'll be more provocative. If we put meaningless modeling results into reports like IPCCs and position them as scientific findings, how can we expect people to trust the other findings, that are based on very good science, in these same reports?
rdcu.be/ecSMX
rdcu.be/ecSMX
March 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Today I'll be more provocative. If we put meaningless modeling results into reports like IPCCs and position them as scientific findings, how can we expect people to trust the other findings, that are based on very good science, in these same reports?
rdcu.be/ecSMX
rdcu.be/ecSMX
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Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
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Das ist spannend: "Free our Feeds" will auf Grundlage von Blueskys AT Protocol ein offenes Social-Media-Ökosystem bauen, das sicher vor der Einflussnahme von Milliardären ist (auch Bluesky ist ein privates Unternehmen). Die Initiatorinnen und Unterstützer klingen vielversprechend.
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Das ist spannend: "Free our Feeds" will auf Grundlage von Blueskys AT Protocol ein offenes Social-Media-Ökosystem bauen, das sicher vor der Einflussnahme von Milliardären ist (auch Bluesky ist ein privates Unternehmen). Die Initiatorinnen und Unterstützer klingen vielversprechend.
freeourfeeds.com
freeourfeeds.com