The @IEA produces detailed, global energy and climate data.

But its funders – the energy ministries – force it behind paywalls.

Now @chrismatisch built a site in which you can write to your minister to ask them to make this data public.

It takes 1 minute.
This is the email template.

For some countries the email template is in the country's language and addressed to the minister (as in my screenshot for the US minister).

For other countries I'm sure @chrismatisch would appreciate a translation if you speak the country's language. Image
Here is the website: free-iea-data.com
If you want more context on why this is an important goal –– and very much an achievable goal.

The email links to the explanation that I wrote with Hannah Ritchie: ourworldindata.org/iea-open-data

And to the article in @Nature that Hannah wrote: nature.com/articles/d4158…

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2 Nov
The first "major outcome" of #COP26 is that the politicians made the promise "to end and reverse deforestation" by 2030 and allocate $14 billion to this: bbc.com/news/science-e…

Is this realistic? Here is the long-term perspective on global deforestation:
ourworldindata.org/global-defores… Image
The @OurWorldInData text I linked above is @_HannahRitchie's summary of the history of deforestation.

Deforestation peaked in the 80s and has slowed down since, but is still very large.
If we want to end deforestation – as now declared at COP – we need to understand the drivers of deforestation.

Here is Hannah's text on that: ourworldindata.org/what-are-drive…
Read 4 tweets
12 Oct
Ich denke die Journalisten die ständig darauf abzielen vermeintliches Versagen in den Vordergrund zu stellen, sind Teil der Antwort warum sich nicht mehr Menschen in Deutschland impfen lassen.

Unverantwortlich jedenfalls vom Spiegel diese Schlagzeile abzudrucken.

1/n
Wie weiter unten im Artikel erklärt wird, ist ein Anstieg der Impfdurchbrüche logischerweise die Konsequenz wenn mehr Menschen geimpft sind.

Der Anstieg der Impfdurchbrüche ist die Folge einer positiven Entwicklung. (Wären 100% geimpft, dann wären alle Infektionen Durchbrüche!)
Die Statistik die aussagekräftig ist, ist der *Vergleich* zwischen Geimpften und Ungeimpften.
Und der macht sehr klar wie gut uns die Impfung schützt.
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9 Oct
It is not 'incoherent' to rely on GDP.

GDP per capita is a measure of average income.

If you want to know several other things about our world, you can look at other measures.

[↓ a thread with some thoughts]
For some reason journalists copy this lazy 'criticism' of GDP from each other.
Yes, we want to know many things, but it's nonsense to criticize one metric for not being all the other metrics.

Child mortality also doesn't tell us about environmental degradation. That's fine too.
If you want to know about environmental degradation then look at measures of environmenal degradation.

You find it all on @OurWorldInData – and elsewhere.
Read 7 tweets
7 Oct
My new post with ⁦@_HannahRitchie⁩ is out.

We are trying to improve the situation of the @IEA.

The title is: ‘The IEA publishes the detailed, global energy data we all need, but its funders force it behind paywalls. Let’s ask them to change it.’ ourworldindata.org/iea-open-data
As we explained in that post, it’s the energy ministers who are responsible. They could change it and make this data and research available to the public.

If you want to help, you can write to them and tell them that the public needs this data
The prices for access to some of the @iea's datasets are incredibly high. For example a single license for this dataset costs €1400.
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10 Sep
When I make data visualizations I use the software @Tableau.

It is great, though very expensive ($70 per month) – but amazingly, if you are a student, professor, or academic they make it available to you for free.

You can apply for a license here: tableau.com/community/acad…
@tableau All interactive visualizations on @OurWorldInData – for example our COVID Data Explorer ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da… – are built by us with software that we produce in our team.

We call it Our World in Data Grapher and it’s available open source here github.com/owid/
@tableau @OurWorldInData Non-interactive visualizations – one-off visualizations that are a bit more unusual – I almost always start in @tableau.

I load the data, explore it and build the basic visualization there.

Tableau is super powerful and you can do all kinds of things.
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4 Sep
@JKSteinberger @musta_joutsen @_HannahRitchie Hi Julia. I’ve been thinking about this paper after I read it last weekend and I I just can’t understand how you possibly wrote this paper.

I don’t understand how you ever thought it was reasonable to think of measuring human needs with a poverty line of $3.20?
@JKSteinberger @musta_joutsen @_HannahRitchie It’s good to hear that you now agree that $3.20 is the “wrong” poverty line.

But the fact that you relied on this extreme poverty line in your research paper is not a minor thing in this paper. It is what is driving your main result.
@JKSteinberger @musta_joutsen @_HannahRitchie If you would have relied on any reasonable poverty line – $20, $30, $40 a day – you would have obviously found that *the world needs very, very large growth to end poverty*.
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