Thomas Wittig

#Digital l #Growth | #SystemDynamics | #environment #economics

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

El Niño is born! Destined to be the biggest in 150 years +??
NOAA declares: El Niño Advisory
This morning conditions in the Eastern Pacific met the criteria for El Niño. This means Sea Surface Temps reached a certain level above normal, and the ocean and atmosphere “coupled” meaning they are now working in tandem to produce impacts. This event is widely advertised by models to be potentially the strongest on record. El Niño takes very hot water stored in the deep tropical west Pacific, pushing it east and up to the surface, lofting that heat into the atmosphere, which supercharges weather events and throws the climate off-kilter. This typical means more intense heatwaves & floods, but also it restrains the Atlantic hurricane season. So its impacts are both good and bad. One thing seems virtually certain: the heat released into the atmosphere will make for some unprecedented events through 2027, and on top of longterm warming, the hottest global temperatures in many tens of 1000s of years. #ElNino #florida #storm #heatwave #flood #drought

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

HUMAN RADIATIVE (HEAT) FORCING IN 2025 RECORD 3.1 Wm-2
2025 Record high, and accelerating human radiative forcing
Large increase from 2024.
Catastrophic global heating, of 3.1 Wm-2 is above 2°C equilibrium warming. Forster, April 2026 Indicator update.
https://t.co/y98MWlrpl4 #climatechange #globalwarming

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary.
He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a few minutes, were thought by Einstein to revitalize his mental energy and creative thinking.

He felt that these short periods of rest gave him a renewed viewpoint to solve intricate scientific challenges.

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

"Economics has always been preoccupied with equilibrium. That’s like analyzing how a car works by studying a parked vehicle."

-Jay Forrester

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

Bonjour Mercosur. Effective today 1st of May 2026. https://t.co/5HjvqgSROO #economy

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

European State of the Climate Report
👉 https://t.co/aUBFIacQrt

[World Meteorological Organization @WMO]

Europe is warming >2x as fast as the global average, reducing snow & ice cover. High air temperatures, drought, heatwaves & record ocean temperatures affect regions from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.

European State of Climate #ESOTC2025 out now. ➡️https://t.co/ZpuYXBirKi

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

According to this study, earth’s caryring capacity is 2.5 billion people and maximum capacity reached at 12 billion in 2060’s. Probably sooner imho. #climate #systemdynamics https://t.co/SfvDPznqsI

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

The shock is traveling through the supply chain towards a plate near you. #foodsecurity https://t.co/tZ6Prk2C0x

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

One of our main German climate deceivers, Fritz Vahrenholt, actually has predicted cooling in a 2012 book - see the blue curve. He worked for RWE, the largest CO2 emitter of Europe.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

If only people understood what this graph shows...

It's a failure of education and media.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Citadel Securities published this graph showing a strange phenomenon.

Job postings for software engineers are actually seeing a massive spike.

Classic example of the Jevons paradox. When AI makes coding cheaper, companies actually may need a lot more software engineers, not fewer.

When software is cheaper to build, companies naturally want to build a lot more of it. Businesses are now putting software into industries and tools where it was simply too expensive before.

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Chart from

citadelsecurities .com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK @PIK_Climate]

🆕Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @OregonState, @IIASAVienna, PIK. https://t.co/oAxgJrk5kp

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement https://t.co/ZQegyJGP2L

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

#climate #economy https://t.co/JWJ3xZiO9U

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 https://t.co/dCfJXD3AMy #environment

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

#Amazon aims to “…return more water than it uses by 2030…” How does the miraculous multiplication of water work? Turning wine into water?
https://t.co/CAEe06ANLp #warer #sustainability #systemdynamics

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

Rating Agency Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration; revises outlook to 'stable' https://t.co/KnT2343dfS

[Thomas Wittig @thwittig]

New Version of the Bear Game Released. #systemdynamics #beergame https://t.co/L1OGtXSAg8