ADAM TOOZE

Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounts for c. 19 % of global potential of solar electricity. In Sahel and Horn of Africa… https://t.co/SZ0EHu7mgG

Trade war on? Trade war off? What to make of the Trump tantrums? I did a piece for the @nytimes on occasion of @wef… https://t.co/2JJgx47tgL

It is estimated that more than 40 million work-years are spent annually in Africa on fuelwood gathering and slow bi… https://t.co/ai0XfMsWaE

An estimated 5.1 trillion cubic feet of gas was flared world-wide in 2018, according to The World Bank—equivalent t… https://t.co/cSyYQoniyY

Turkey’s current account, after swinging into surplus as the economy contracted and imports collapsed, is now back… https://t.co/K4NV8vcYKS

The amazing story of London Zoo’s Bauhaus-influenced penguin pool, designed by Berthold Lubetkin with advice from J… https://t.co/pXeXRNc0mG

"Curvilinear Bauhaus trellis by Gustav Hassenpflug, fashioned for a 1935 flower show in Berlin. Snaking leaves spil… https://t.co/immvMNfGWf

The Green New Deal in US/UK made the historical period from Great Depression, FDR, through to WWII and Marshall Pla… https://t.co/oMbfzW4zaf

"Exports from the Middle East and North Africa accounted for 38% of the oil moved around the world in 2018, down fr… https://t.co/fAlChHYRGQ

America’s unemployment rate is at all time lows, but blue collar wages have actually been declining since the summe… https://t.co/RtJ5UMy2Q1

@kestontnt Actually that is a key point ….so long as China counts.

The T-34 is often presented as a disposable object, but they were very long lasting tanks. Many early models not on… https://t.co/sOAH3XTMr0

@adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy @tedfertik ⬆Yet another product of splendid "Global Green New Deal " Johns Hopkins works… https://t.co/2jRxJn8Tzf

Two cities this obscenely wealthy this distance apart should be served by an HSR departure every 15-20 minutes. The… https://t.co/mWZC75YESw

⁦@TheEconomist⁩ puts its finger on it. Big Oil has a do-or-die decade ahead because of climate change | Business |… https://t.co/OmYI4sA74w

India has a lot of backup generators but they are far less significant in relation to grid power supply than in Wes… https://t.co/5Y6aPtnM4Z

@davidrkadler Credit where credit is due … you have won me over on this.

China is the fundamental question for a left politics on climate change. Or at least so I argue in this… https://t.co/tk8HXPoWGn

In the absence of an effective electricity grid Nigeria and Angola lead Africa in reliance on inefficient diesel-po… https://t.co/V5KvGQfyBJ

When the grid fail, u resort to backup generator -> worldwide installed capacity = 350- 500 GW = 700-1000 large coa… https://t.co/NSkHSZbKBX

For the cost of one Virginia class submarine, a nation could purchase 17,500 underwater autonomous drones that can… https://t.co/tkzz9yGoMD

#GreenNewDeal needs Realpolitik. "The West is a junior partner in whatever collective climate solution Beijing & th… https://t.co/nTaTAZ3mBU

@adam_tooze @ForeignPolicy @tedfertik Fantastic piece. Those interested in US climate Left's realpolitik, here's Se… https://t.co/0CLlJlW6Tu

“dirty work of winning the war against Nazi Germany was done by the Soviet Union and its Stalinist regime at a cost… https://t.co/pbda5PkgyF

“Rabbit-hutch” Britain? @AntBreach on how real estate inflation, regulations, office-conversion and growing student… https://t.co/vW1Lx5qD2d

Landmarks in “unmanned” travel II: In 2009 the first underwater glider crossed the Atlantic unfueled, relying on na… https://t.co/a9QC2gjGeI

Pyrocumulonimbus is the fire-breathing dragon of clouds. It contains so much energy that it may be alble to breach… https://t.co/9FjZr83uHI

We know the names of the great early aviators. I didnt know that the first autonomous drone crossed the Atlantic in… https://t.co/HYxP2NTs0u

I did a piece on the trans-Atlantic left and the Green New Deal for @ForeignPolicy Perhaps of interest to… https://t.co/UW7vPeUTxx

Climate-related risks took the five top spots in the @wef risk ranking this year. First time a single issue had don… https://t.co/kh6enI0PoW

German deal to exit coal holds up BUT horribly slow timeline confirmed. RWE’s dividend will be unaffected.… https://t.co/87WlDfmLIn

The anti-coal campaign in the West is laudable. But we have to keep its likely impact in perspective. There is a (b… https://t.co/rihVw4NqC0

3 Germanies: The politics of Berlin concentrates attention on a housing market where rents are rising more rapidly… https://t.co/NY4MIFfOmH

Nigeria's economy is a miracle of improvisation: 200 m people, GDP $1.1 trillion PPP but only 5.3 GW of large scale… https://t.co/D8VQpEql2h