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PIK studies global change, #climate & #sustainability issues. Tweets from the comms team. GERMAN: @PIK_Klima . Bsky:

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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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#YouTuber @rezomusik did remarkable research for this video, talking to scientists and - really - checking out the insights provided by @IPCC_CH new #climate report. #rezo has strong views, but he's basing them on sound evidence. Sorry, this is in German:
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"If we go past 2°C of #globalwarming , we will enter completely unknown terrain, a #planet that is not even resembling our own planet, a place we haven't been in for the past 3 million years." PIK Director @jrockstrom in @UNFCCC podcast, tune in! 👂👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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All #PlanetaryBoundaries mapped out, six of nine crossed: For the first time, a team of scientists is able to provide a full picture of planetary resilience. Pressure in all those boundary processes is increasing, newly published research shows:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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38 trillion dollars in damages each year: World economy already committed to income reduction of 19 % due to climate change. 👉New PIK paper in @Nature by @KotzMaximilian , @Leonie_Climate , @ALevermann , Image: Kotz et al., Nature
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“It’s a really bleak moment, not only because of the reports showing that emissions are still rising (...), but we also have so much scientific evidence that we are very, very close to irreversible changes." PIK Director @jrockstrom in @guardianeco .
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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It's time to #FacetheClimateEmergency : In a letter to EU leaders, 150 scientists from all over the world, including PIK's @rahmstorf #Schellnhuber and more, call to politics to take action against climate destabilisation
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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500+ pages, 200+ researchers: The most comprehensive review to date on #TippingPoints in the Earth System is out, with @UniofExeter . The Global Tipping Points report delivers a comprehensive assessment of tipping point risks & societal opportunities.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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As PIK scientist @rahmstorf put it well: You too must watch at least the first 3 minutes of this event at #WEF23 , with PIK Director @jrockstrom . 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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#BREAKING PIK Director @jrockstrom is on the 2023 #TIME100 list! His work is described as “crucial to understanding the crises facing our planet & shaping the path forward, guiding leaders on how to turn complex science into clear, quantifiable actions.”
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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📝 4 years of research. 🔎 50+ world experts from social + natural sciences. 🌍 safe and just boundaries to help us create a #SafeAndJust future. Explore #EarthSystemBoundaries with #PIK director @jrockstrom published today in @Nature
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“The signs of destabilisation being visible already is something that I wouldn’t have expected and that I find scary,” said PIKs Niklas Boers @guardian , “It’s something you just can’t [allow to] happen.” #climate Thorough read by @dpcarrington
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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#UkraineUnderAtta сk will spur a #FoodCrisis . Next Monday, EU's agri ministers will meet. Today, #science is calling for demand-side action: less animal products, less #waste & greening 🇪🇺agricultural policy. Read the statement of >180 scientists here:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Scientifically, this is not a climate crisis, but something deeper: We are facing mass extinction, air pollution (...), we are putting humanity's future at risk. This is a planetary crisis." PIK Director @jrockstrom with Joyeeta Gupta at @wef . 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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To maintain liveable conditions on Earth, protect people from rising extremes, and enable stable societies, we must do everything possible to prevent crossing dangerous tipping points. Every 10th of a degree counts - @jrockstrom on latest paper in Science:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“The world’s remaining #carbon budget is running out so fast that we will soon have no scientific chance of keeping to the 1.5C warming target.” Clear words by PIKs @jrockstrom on #G7GER & the possible creation of a climate club.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“Our only chance for a save landing on the #climatecrisis is not only to phase out #coal , #oil and natural #gas , we also need to secure the health of the #soils .” PIK Director @jrockstrom on healthy #soil as a carbon sink.
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Conscious Planet #SaveSoil
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Respected Swedish scientist Johan Rockström @jrockstrom , Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research @PIK_Climate , talks about the science of soil and the undisputed effectiveness of healthy soil as a carbon sink. #SaveSoil @SadhguruJV
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"The world needs to cut global #emissions by 50% in 7 years’ time. At #COP27 , we were still battling over whether we are phasing down / out #coal , and were not willing to talk about #fossilfuels . The mismatch could not be wider," says PIK's @jrockstrom . 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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We have a #climate crisis and a weak planet. This is not a very good place to be in. So we really need rapid action." @CNN interview with PIK Director @jrockstromon on #planetaryboundaries & latest study update that finds 6 / 9 boundaries transgressed.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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A grim 6/10: The sixth planetary boundary has found crossed in a new #study . It's that of freshwater. The reason: Plants are suffering from dramatic changes to the global water cycle, leaving parts of the #Amazon to dry out. @sthlmresilience @lan_wang
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Food matters: A global shift to a healthier, more sustainable diet could be a huge lever to limit global warming to 1.5°C, PIK researchers find. Results of the new study @ScienceAdvances indicate that a shift in diets could make a considerable difference:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Very little room for anything but a total phase-out of #fossilfuels " state PIK Director @jrockstrom & @PFriedling @UniofExeter in note to @UNFCCC . Rich countries would need to stop coal by 2030, oil & gas by 2040, poorer nations following a decade behind.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Merz? Laschet? Röttgen? Klima!": @zeitonline mit nachdenklichem Text von @rezomusik (ja, der mit den blauen Haaren) über @CDU Vorsitz-Kandidaten und #Klimawandel , auch mit Bezug zu @alevermann @PIK_Klima Studie (). Wochenendlektüre:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Studies show that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has already weakened as a result of anthropogenic climate change and is possible moving towards a tipping point. 👉New overview article by PIK scientist @rahmstorf :
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Heute wieder #fridaysforfuture : Jugendprotest für #Klima -Lösungen. Die Wissenschaft zeigt, dass die Forderungen berechtigt sind. Letzten Freitag waren @GretaThunberg & @Luisamneubauer bei @jrockstrom & #Edenhofer @PIK_Klima zu Gespräch über Forschungsstand
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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In an open letter, 500 scientists (including PIK researcher Wolfgang Lucht) are urging world leaders to end government subsidies for cutting and burning wood for industrial energy production: #biomass
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Our children are looking with disbelief at our inability to deviate away from potentially catastrophic risks." In his visually stunning @TEDCountdown talk, PIK Director @jrockstrom presents a plan for putting the planet back on the path of #sustainability
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“If you want to have security, prosperity and equity for humanity on Earth, you have to come back into the safe space and we’re not seeing that progress currently in the world”, says the study's co-author PIK-director Johan Rockström: #PlanetaryBoundaries
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Weil wegen #coronavirus die #Schulen zu sind, bieten wir als kleinen Beitrag zu #homeschooling extra Vorlesungen für Kinder & Jugendliche. Hier ein erstes Video: Forscher @rahmstorf mit Grundlagenwissen #Klimawandel , für 7.-10. Klasse. Viel Spaß! #Bildung
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Those who set climate targets are responsible for meeting them." - Read the statements by PIK directors Ottmar Edenhofer and @jrockstrom on today's groundbreaking rulings by @ECHR_CEDH in 3 climate cases. 👇 #climatechange #ECHR
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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While #COP15 in #Montreal is still running, #PIKs @jrockstrom pledges for a #ParisMoment for #biodiversity : similar to the global climate agreement to hold #globalwarming below 2C & aim for 1.5C, governments at COP15 need to set a limit to #nature destruction. #naturepositive
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"We are at the beginning of the end of the #fossilfuel driven world economy. There’s no going back any more. The question is will we do it fast enough?” PIK Director @jrockstrom in @guardian on #COP27
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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🆕2.7 °C of #globalwarming could lead to more than 1/5 of the global population being exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by the end of the century, pushing them outside their original climate niche.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered #GlobalCommons , researchers argue in a new paper. To limit risks for human societies & secure critical Earth system functions they propose a new framework of #PlanetaryCommons :
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Key is to do the math of disaster, in order to avoid it" - brand new #research by PIK's @jrockstrom , #Schellnhuber , @Cambridge_Uni et al on low probability but very high risk climate impacts. Brace for this extremely inconvenient truth 🌩️
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Such flooding incidents are happening “more often and more intensely” due to #climatechange , says PIK scientist Fred Hattermann in @washingtonpost about the flooding in the western parts of Germany.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“A rise of 1.5C is not an arbitrary number, it is not a political number. It is a #planetaryboundary . Every fraction of a degree more is dangerous,” says PIK Director @jrockstrom about #COP26 & the struggle to stay within the 1.5C limit. Via @guardian
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“The sheer sum of acute & chronic #water stress symptoms – which now affect large parts of the #Earth & the life of billions of people – leads us to the brink of a global #watercrisis .” PIKs Dieter Gerten on new @WorldResources report, via @CNN .
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“The global food system holds the future of humanity on Earth in its hand.” PIK director @jrockstrom in @guardian on new @FSECommission study that shows how current food systems destroy more value than they create due to hidden medical&environmental costs.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the #Gulfstream belongs, might be approaching a critical threshold - a potential collapse could have severe consequences. New study in @NatureClimate by Niklas Boers: Link to study: !B
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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The window for meeting the 1.5°C target is closing, but: "If all climate #mitigation levers are pulled, it may still be possible to limit #globalwarming to 1.5°C in line with the #ParisAgreement ," says PIK lead author Lila Warszawski. 👉new PIK study:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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New @IPCC_CH report on #climateimpacts , assessment by PIK Director @jrockstrom .
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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The first complete Earth “health check” shows 6 of 9 planetary boundaries are currently being transgressed. Transgression does not mean that drastic changes happen overnight, yet it marks a critical threshold for increasing risk, says PIKs @jrockstrom . 👉
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Congrats to PIK Director @jrockstrom , who will be awarded with the 2024 @TylerPrize for Environmental Achievement for his pioneering work on the #PlanetaryBoundaries framework. 🎉- "An invaluable contribution to our planet’s welfare.":
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Temporarily #overshooting the #climate targets of 1.5-2C could increase the #tippingrisk of several Earth system elements by more than 70%. PIK scientist Nico Wunderling explains key finding of new #tippingpoints study short & to the point.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Out today: @GretaThunberg 's Climate Book on the reality of the #ClimateCrisis . With contributions by PIKs @jrockstrom , @rahmstorf , @Ricarda_Climate , Alexander Popp and many more.
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Greta Thunberg
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Today The Climate Book is finally released in many parts of the world! I want to use my platform to share the reality of the climate crisis – to communicate a holistic picture of how the world is changing and what we need to do about it. That is why I created this book. 1/4
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New study: Too #dry , too #hot , or too #wet . "In Europe alone, about 70% of the land area is already affected by more persistent #weather situations,” says PIK scientist Peter Hoffmann. 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“We are pushing our planet too close to #tippingpoints . A solution is to scientifically define #safe & #just targets for human development on a stable & resilient planet. @SafeJustPlanet addresses exactly this.” @jrockstrom in new paper @EarthsFutureEiC
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Impressive video by @nasaclimatechange showing the increase in global temperatures from 1880-2022. Whites / blues indicate cooler temperatures, oranges / reds show warmer temperatures. #globalwarming #climatechange
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Dangerously close to the tipping point at which the flow becomes unstable.” Never before in over 1000 years the #Gulfstream System has been as weak as in the last decades. New study by Levke Caesar & @rahmstorf et al:
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"It is not enough to decarbonize the global energy system. The other #planetaryboundaries on land, biodiversity, nutrients, water & pollutants can on their own make us crash through the 1.5°C limit." PIKs @jrockstrom about the state of our planet in @TIME :
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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🆕Worse than #diesel & #gasoline ? #Bioenergy as bad as #FossilFuels if there is no pricing of #CO2 #emissions from land-use change, shows new study with PIK scientists @MerfortLeon , @NB_pik , @GunnarLuderer et al. 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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2023 has been a year of record #weatherextremes for now: The impacts of #globalwarming have been severe, finds new report with PIK Director @jrockstrom & @WilliamJRipple et al. Read more about the latest update of planetary vital signs:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“Climate science shows: if we don’t have action by the global community now, we will shut the window for a liveable future for humanity on earth.” PIK Director @jrockstrom spoke at #ITB about #climatechange & its effect on the #HospitalityIndustry .
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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The @nytimes covers our latest PIK study about the #Amazon being less able to recover from droughts and logging!
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: The Amazon is less able to recover from droughts and land-use changes, a study found, moving the region closer to becoming largely grasslands.
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“What right do we have to hand over a less livable world to our children than the planet that we are born on,” asks PIK Director @jrockstrom in this @TIME interview. #EarthDay2023 #healthyplanet #climatechange
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"It is a major mistake in current climate action debates, when big oil, gas & coal actors use investments in nature based solutions / CDR as 'offsets' for the inability to phase out #FossilFuels . This will not work." PIK Director @jrockstrom #Time100Voices
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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#Climatechange is likely to reduce future global income by about 19% until 2050 compared to a world with no climate change,finds new PIK study @Nature with PIK scientist @Leonie_Climate . Most strongly affected are countries like South Asia & Africa. 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Exactly when we need a resilient #biosphere , we are losing it. If we get too far from planetary boundaries, feedback from #Earth will start to amplify our trajectory irreversibly toward a 4, 5/ 6°C world,” says @jrockstrom . Recommended read. @marlowehood
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Speaks for itself:
@ScottDuncanWX
Scott Duncan
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The global temperature anomaly for every single month since 1880 updated to end of 2021.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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👏Huge congrats by PIK Directors Ottmar #Edenhofer & @jrockstrom to #climate researcher Klaus #Hasselmann to be one of three scientists to be awarded this year's #NobelPrize in Physics today. Read the full PIK statement here:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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By 2030, 30% of the planet's land & sea areas should be protected. All subsidies leading to the degradation of nature should be reallocated. These are 2 of the recommendations from the @LeibnizBiodiv " #10MustDos " in the run-up to #COP15 . #biodiversity 👉
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"A pioneer in the #economics of #ClimateChange " who "decisively influenced the discourse on financial incentives" such as pricing #CO2 : @umweltstiftung awards Ottmar Edenhofer @PIK_Climate @MCC_Berlin with most renowned German environmental prize #uwp20
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🆕Overshooting #climate targets could significantly increase risk for #tipping cascades, finds new study with PIK scientists Nico Wunderling, @JonathanDonges , @Ricarda_Climate et al. 👉
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"We have now had consecutive #droughts for the last 5 years. This year is the worst Europe-wide drought in hundreds of years," states PIK's Fred Hattermann. #Climatechange means #Europe will continue to experience more frequent & persistent droughts.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Keeping #globalwarming to to 1.5C - can we still achieve this goal? The @washingtonpost examined over 1,200 different #climatechange scenarios supported by PIK scientists @lila_warszawski & Elmar Kriegler. Have a scroll, worth it!
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Unser Kommentar zum Kohleausstiegsfahrplan: "Der #CO2Preis wirkt, und den hätte man arbeiten lassen sollen." #Edenhofer
@heutejournal
ZDF heute journal
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Deutschland hat jetzt einen konkreten Fahrplan, wie der Kohleausstieg eines ganzen Landes laufen soll. Es ist ein Plan, der weit in die Zukunft greifen muss. Aber es ist kein besonders guter Fahrplan, sagt Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, Direktor des @PIK_Klima . #kohlegipfel
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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New @Nature Commentary: #Water must be recast as a global common good. That means states establish an obligation under international law to ensure the protection of the global water cycle for all people & generations. @Andersen_LS @Mazzucato_M @jrockstrom
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"If we want to stabilize the #climate , emissions need to go down to zero" - PIK´s research domain chair @ALevermann this week at the German Bundestag (video in German)
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"Offsetting carbon emissions with forest growth at this scale is a dangerous fantasy." An international team of researchers, including @jrockstrom & @GenerationCO2 , has found serious problems with the feasibility of @Shell ’s net zero plan
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"The only chance to land at zero in 30 years time, is if we start #bendingthecurve now. We have to cut global #emissions by half over the next 10 years." PIK's @jrockstrom in interview with @NobelPrize about the upcoming #NobelPrizeSummit
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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PIK is reinventing itself – Johan @jrockstrom and Ottmar Edenhofer will become the new leadership:
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"If we phase out #fossilfuels by 2050 & stop destroying nature, it will still get worse before it gets better. We are in the pipeline of #globalwarming . It’s inevitable that we will crash through 1.5 °C, probably within 10-15 years." PIKs @jrockstrom
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"The creeping #ClimateCrisis has reached a point of a #PlanetaryEmergency . If we fail to solve it, it will pose major immediate and long-term security threats that interact with #pandemics & #conflict ,” said PIK Director @jrockstrom during #MSC2022 .
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Why can peatlands help limit #weather extremes? They store twice as much carbon as forests worldwide. Yet once drained, they emit greenhouse gases - currently double of what global air traffic emits. Breaking #climate study @PIK_Climate @FHumpenoeder et al
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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3 out of 10 papers are from PIK scientists or include their contributions!! 🥳 Proud to have such great minds in the team 👏
@CarbonBrief
Carbon Brief
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Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2022 | @rtmcswee @AyeshaTandon @altmetric Read:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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The global economy is disrupting the #water cycle, making water increasingly scarce. "In the end, we will have so much water scarcity that we will have increasing food prices"- @jrockstrom in @TIME on why a global price on #freshwater might be needed:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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"While 1.5°C is a scientific necessity and potentially physically possible, #COP27 shows that it is politically dead." PIK Director @jrockstrom after #cop27egypt came to a close last weekend. 👉Follow pik_klima on Instagram for more videos! 🎵
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Ob Bürger einer #CO2 -Bepreisung mehrheitlich zustimmen - wie jetzt bei @infratestdimap -, hängt davon ab, ob man ERKLÄRT, dass sie Teil einer Abgabenreform mit Rückerstattungen ist: #klimawandel . Mehr hier . #GroKo @CDU @spdde @fdp
@handelsblatt
Handelsblatt
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Die CDU lehnt in einer Beschlussvorlage für die Vorstandsklausur am Sonntagabend eine CO2-Steuer ab und setzt auf Innovationen wie Flugtaxis.
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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“To keep the 1.5°C climate limit within reach, we need investments in natural climate solutions – in addition to rapidly phasing out #coal , #oil and #gas ." PIK's @jrockstrom about new Exponential Roadmap for Natural Climate Solutions. @ConservationOrg
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
3 years
Ten of the most important insights within the field of climate science 2020 are being presented right now by @UNFCCC 's Secretary @PEspinosaC and an international team of scientists including PIKs @jrockstrom . What´s on the list of must-knows? 👉👉👉
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
5 years
Summer #weather extremes 2018 linked to stalled giant waves in the jet stream: new #climate study on droughts, floods by @KKornhuber @sosprey @rahmstorf @DimCoumou @PIK_Climate @UniofOxford et al building on research by @MichaelEMann V.Petoukhov et al
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
3 years
#COP26 : “We have 30+ years of scientific advancements; 150 years of unsustainable pressures rising; now we've basically saturated the system. The only way out is 100% sustainability.”” PIK director & @CCAG member @jrockstrom . Via @Forbes
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
1 year
PIK scientist Nico Wunderling's latest study on #tippingpoints & #overshooting #climate targets is featured on the #cover of the 2023 January @NatureClimate edition - congrats 👏
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
6 months
A #NetZero world needs new institutions to build trust: @TheEconomist takes up PIK Director #Edenhofer 's concept of "a central bank for carbon to supervise the use of removals, preventing politicians from debasing the currency/breaking commitments." (€)
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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#Biodiversity is fundamental to keeping the carbon cycle & the water cycle intact,” PIK Director @jrockstrom says in @FinancialTimes about latest planetary boundaries study. “The biggest headache we have today is the #climatecrisis & biodiversity crisis.”
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
2 years
“If we go beyond 2 degrees #GlobalWarming , we really are at risk of pushing the whole planet into self-amplified warming away from manageable conditions.” PIK Director @jrockstrom in @CentreNetZero podcast with @tim_gould_ @IEA 🎙️Tune in:
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
4 months
4 of the top 10 peer-reviewed #climate science papers most referred to in news and social media in 2023 featured authors from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a ranking by @CarbonBrief based on Altmetric scores reveils:
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
2 years
Climate system stability is under threat. A 50-50 chance of planetary warming surpassing 1.5C in the next 5 years. BUT: We can still stop the #climatecrisis . Governments must provide leadership & direction, businesses must act now, writes PIKs @jrockstrom .
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
1 year
Due to #globalwarming , #flood -like #water outbursts from ice-dammed #glacial #lakes worldwide happen earlier in the year & originate from higher areas, explains PIK scientist @geoscilisa . New @Nature study, with Georg Veh from @unipotsdam ! 👉
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
3 years
1st version of Potsdam #EarthSystemModel POEM ready for use! In a first application, PIK scientists examined the possible #tippingpoint of the #Amazon forest under severe #climatechange . @VolkswagenSt @markusdrueke , @WHuiskamp , @MatthiasForkel 👉
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
2 years
“The #climatecrisis is much more urgent than assessed 10 years ago. We see that impacts are already kicking in, that they are more dramatic.” PIKs @GunnarLuderer says it very clearly: We need to do more. Tune in to our latest #SustainAbility Podcast🎙️
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
10 months
#PIK researcher @Ricarda_Climate has been appointed founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena. Congratulations! 💐💐
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
3 years
@RARohde
Dr. Robert Rohde
3 years
Many scientists on the list have fewer than 1,000 followers, but the most popular climate scientists on Twitter have more than 100,000 followers.
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
2 years
' #Climatechange has been visible for a long time, but still we seem to spew out more #greenhousegases & #pollution of all kinds than ever before', states @marlowehood . Really worth a read if you have a minute, with thoughts from PIK Director @jrockstrom , @KHayhoe and others.
@marlowehood
marlowehood
2 years
'Watching the world burn'... a personal meditation on the burden of #climate knowledge
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@PIK_Climate
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
2 years
"We, Russian scientists and science journalists, strongly protest against the military action launched by our country's armed forces in Ukraine." Brave words from our 🇷🇺 colleagues. #ScienceForUkraine #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 Full appeal here:
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