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Jan Overwijk @jloverwijk.bsky.social · 2d

Geen verkiezingsthema.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report. The report from scientists and conservationists warns the world is also “on the brink” of reaching other tipping points, including the dieback of the Amazon, the collapse of major ocean currents and the loss of ice sheets. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...

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Dr. Twila Moon @drtwilamoon.bsky.social · 1d

Just arriving here. Let the adventure begin.

Expect: ice, climate science, quirky notes and insights.

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 11d

Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social Tak! 🙏

New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica

Readcube pdf: rdcu.be/eJiqJ

The Greenlandification of Antarctica | Nature Geoscience

Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.

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Achterhoeker @antonius007.bsky.social · 29d

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Caring Doctors @caringdoctors.bsky.social · 29d

Door klimaatontkenner president Trump werd de populaire climate.gov-website gesloten. Nu hebben ontslagen wetenschappers en experts een onafhankelijke opvolger gelanceerd. Ze zeggen dat klimaat voorlichting belangrijk is in de oorlog van Trump en andere populisten tegen de wetenschap. www.climate.us

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · 29d

So will we. She was outstanding for her relatively small size. We hope the new vessel will be even better 🤞

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · 29d

Next month we’ll say goodbye to Pelagia, but for now we can still enjoy the view (just focus on the ships and ignore the rain)

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · 29d

On the Texel ferry with a few of RV Pelagia

Photo of a rainy and cloudy Marsdiep with a vessel in the back. It is supposed to say “sea research” on the side of the vessel, but you can’t read it from here

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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · Sep 14

NOS maakt een zakelijk maar woestmakend overzichtje van de afbraak van klimaatbeleid door @vvdonline.bsky.social. Dit kabinet heeft - doelbewust - 2 cruciale jaren om onze economie te hervormen grotendeels verprutst.

NOS @nieuws.nos.nl · Sep 14

Deadline klimaatdoelen komt dichterbij, maar veel klimaatbeleid geschrapt

In aanloop naar Prinsjesdag neemt de NOS het klimaatbeleid van het - inmiddels demissionaire - kabinet van het afgelopen jaar onder de loep.

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Sep 11

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Esther @thelifeofesther.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hahahaha!

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 29

Precies. Het is waar je als vrouw rekening mee houdt als je ‘s avonds de straat op gaat. Pak ik de fiets of toch maar veilig in de auto

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Monique van Munster 🍋 🔻 @moniquenwerk.bsky.social · Aug 29

yep, de man die je voor laat gaan de lift in en zich daarna tegen je aanduwt, in een volle trein in het gangpad tegen je aan gaan staan met graaiende handen....

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lastig gevallen bij de bushalte, nageroepen op de fiets, bedreigd op straat, een man die zich naast je aftrekt in de trein en boos is als je ervandoor gaat, aangerand op kamp

En als je daarvan alert en voorzichtig bent geworden ben je een preutse trut #sexueelgeweld #WijEisenDeNachtTerug

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Esther Glas @glaswerkt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Schuine moppen, koren ‘daar moet een piemel in’, de uitspraak ‘ik werk in een mannenwereld en moet me er niet teveel van aantrekken’, grapjes thuis waarbij in humor vrouwen worden terecht gewezen, aannames en invullingen, ze helpen allemaal mee in grensverleggen #seksueel #ongewenstgedrag #geweld

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 26

We hebben decaden van bewijs dat het ontkennen van het probleem en op de lange baan schuiven van actie niet helpt. Laten we daar nu eens van gaan leren

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 26

Op het land wordt klimaatrecord na record gebroken. Temperatuur, overstromingen, droogte, bosbranden. Het is onvermijdelijk dat klimaatverandering ook consequenties voor de oceaancirculatie heeft. Maar klimaatverandering zelf is niet onvermijdelijk. Elke vermindering van CO2 uitstoot helpt!

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 26

Mijn werk bestaat uit het meten en begrijpen van dit systeem. Deze studie is niet het definitieve antwoord op de vraag of en wanneer een afname gaat gebeuren, maar meer en meer onderzoeken wijzen erop dat het echt de verkeerde kant uit gaat en dat is zorgwekkend

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 26

Opnieuw een studie die waarschuwt dat een mogelijke sterke afname van de Atlantische Oceaan circulatie mogelijk dichtbij is. Omdat het klimaatsysteem gevoelig is en omdat we geen actie ondernemen om de gevolgen te verhinderen

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Gevreesd kantelpunt in de Golfstroom mogelijk al halverwege deze eeuw bereikt

De Golfstroom, het systeem van zeestromingen dat een cruciale rol speelt in het klimaat, stort mogelijk al vanaf halverwege deze eeuw in.

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 20

The PhD in the Netherlands takes four years (no classes, primarily research). Pay is according to the national labor agreement, including vacation days, pension and benefits

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 20

Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...

We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

NIOZ - PhD-position "Overturning the ocean''

The department of Ocean Systems (OCS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to work on the exchange of lighter and denser

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Bianca @biancagoesbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 13

We doen het nog slechter dan Amerika.

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Femke de Jong @fmkdejong.bsky.social · Aug 11

Tiredness comes not from doing physical things, but from sensory overwhelm especially sound. Having breakfast with noise cancelling headphones on during a windy day because the noise of the wind wears you out 😖. I used to love that sound 😢

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