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Niko Kommenda

@niko_tinius

climate graphics reporter @washingtonpost | senior fellow @jschofieldtrust | alum @ft & @guardian | austrian

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Two things we keep getting consistently wrong: 1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand 2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV Love these graphics from RethinkX

Two things we keep getting consistently wrong:

1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand 

2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV

Love these graphics from <a href="/rethink_x/">RethinkX</a>
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NEW with Harry Stevens: We followed one D.C. cherry tree as it went into early bloom. See how the blossoms emerged and what the future holds for the iconic trees: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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2 weeks ago, we started photographing cherry trees by DC's Tidal Basin, thinking we had lots of time to capture the buds gradually unfold. Instead, we wound up capturing the 2nd earliest peak bloom on record. New Climate Lab column w/ Niko Kommenda: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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NEW: The Post installed cameras in one North Carolina town to capture how sea-level rise is supercharging high-tide floods washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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The latest installment of our series about fast-rising seas around the U.S. South: The Washington Post installed cameras along the main road of one N.C. town to document the many ways rising seas exacerbate high-tide flooding. Watch what our cameras captured. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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How accurate is the weather forecast in your town? Niko Kommenda and I learned that National Weather Service just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

How accurate is the weather forecast in your town?

<a href="/niko_tinius/">Niko Kommenda</a> and I learned that <a href="/NWS/">National Weather Service</a> just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp.

washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
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When Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool "hate crimes in the Liverpool area dropped by 16% compared with a synthetic control, and Liverpool fans halved their rates of posting anti-Muslim tweets relative to fans of other top-flight clubs." Paper in American Political Science Review

When Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool "hate crimes in the Liverpool area dropped by 16% compared with a synthetic control, and Liverpool fans halved their rates of posting anti-Muslim tweets relative to fans of other top-flight clubs."

Paper in American Political Science Review
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NEW: What happens when a city is hit by a heat wave and a blackout at the same time? In the southern US, all the ingredients for such a disaster are already there: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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NEW: Elon Musk was working unlawfully when he built the startup that made him a millionaire in the 1990s, according to interviews, documents and records obtained by The Washington Post. Board members found out and mobilized to fix it: "We don't want our founder being deported."🧵

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Congressional Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act two years ago. Surprisingly, red districts have emerged as the climate law’s biggest winners, Niko Kommenda, Shannon Osaka & John Muyskens report washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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