@fmkdejong
Physical oceanographer at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Measuring the North Atlantic Ocean circulation. Interested in ocean, climate, diversity, sailing, creativity. Views my own. Posts in English and Dutch
67 years ago today, march 11 1959, an audience at the Royal Society of Arts in London is warned abt sea-level rise in a warmer world…
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Graphic showing a polar stereographic map of February 2026's Arctic sea ice concentration anomalies with departures from -50% in red shading to +50% in blue shading.
Aside from areas in the eastern Bering Sea and Greenland Sea, nearly all locations along the outer edge observed less sea ice compared to average in February 2026. This is a pretty common story nowadays during winter due to long-term climate change.
Another view: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Every spring, thousands of fish swim through the Oudegracht in Utrecht, looking for a place to lay their eggs. But the Weerdsluis is often closed. The Fish Doorbell helps. When you spot a fish on the livestream, press the doorbell. The lock keeper will check to see if the lock can be opened.
#Vismigratie | 2 maart gaat de #Visdeurbel weer van start 💧Info & journaal: visdeurbel.nl Fan-account: @visdeurbel.bsky.social
Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act
Cutting the National Center for Atmospheric Research is partisan and short-sighted when the US — like all countries — is confronting accelerating climate change. Fortunately, the US alone can’t reverse the global trend for increasing climate science capacity.
The report urges policymakers to act based on cautionary principles
EXTEND MAXIMUM EFFORTS TO PREVENT
INVEST IN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
PLAN FOR MULTIPLE FUTURES
ACT NOW
Presented today.
The report “A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping” reviews the current state of science on the impacts of potential Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapse and provides recommendations for policy actions.
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There was an Nordic AMOC tipping workshop in Helsinki in October 2025 following out of this letter and a report would go to Nordic ministries
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Als Nederland overschakelt op duurzame energie stijgen de energiekosten 80% minder bij een nieuwe ‘Oekraïnecrisis’ dan in 2022. Dat blijkt uit een studie van TNO. Het energiesysteem is dan veel minder kwetsbaar voor plotselinge prijsstijgingen van olie, gas en kolen.
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www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/gove...
Judge orders Dutch government to protect people of Bonaire against climate change and do more in term of CO2 emission reductions
Screenshot tabel: Rang Aantal % bevolking Naam petitie (jaar einde) 58 120.736 0,7% Een 1,5meter wet NEE !! (2020) 59 120.559 0,7% Dierenrechten in de Grondwet (2018) 60 119.944 0,7% Stop de Amerikaanse overname van DigiD (2025) 61 118.233 0,7% Stem voor post-COVID-klinieken (2024) 62 114.338 0,7% Tegen het op corona testen van kinderen op school (2021)
De petitie voor stop Amerikaanse overname DigiD is toegevoegd aan de lijst met Nederlandse petities met meer dan 100.000 handtekeningen.
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SUMMER IN WINTER IN GREENLAND
Crazy Temperatures tonight up to +9C (above summer average),persisting during the day.
24 stations at low elevations out of 31 above freezing today.
Kitsissorsuit is chasing the WORLD RECORD of the highest monthly temperature anomaly. >+14C !
Mooi stuk. Onze maatschappij is hier zo niet op ingericht. Lange wachtlijsten, geen steun en weinig begrip. Mantelzorgen voor iemand die depressief en suicidaal is is mentaal zwaar, ook al doen we het met liefde
Deze column van Ellen Deckwitz in NRC is mij uit het hart gegrepen. Drie jaar geleden zat ik in exact deze situatie en ik heb pas achteraf beseft wat dit met me heeft gedaan en hoe diep de angst en stress zich hadden genesteld in mijn gestel. Leestip!
'De media zijn een grotere bedreiging dan de fossiele brandstofindustrie.' Klimaatactivist George Monbiot hekelt de houding van media die liever hun kop in het zand steken als het gaat om de klimaatcrisis. (Jan 2024)
There was that whole study saying use of gAI resulted in an average of a 19% increase in time cost (link to follow)
NCAR models help forecast tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, drought and the potential for wildfires. "NCAR science and models have been part of bringing that warning to the people who need to hear it," @weatherwest.bsky.social told @livescience.com
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Accounting for ocean impacts nearly doubles the social cost of carbon www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
From “Environmental and Societal Consequences of an Increase in Atmospheric CO2”, a summary by Roger Revelle of the DoE-AAAS Workshop held at Annapolis, Maryland on April 26, 1979 “The dominant concerns of the panel on the ocean and the cryosphere were the impacts on fisheries of a global atmospheric warming and a possible disintegration of the West Antarctic ice cap. . . . A slackening in average wind speeds could be expected…. with a concomitant larger decrease in wind stress on the surface ocean waters. This could result in a diminution in upwelling and vertical convection and correspondingly in nutrient recycling and primary organic production in the ocean At the same time, the pH of the waters near the surface might become significantly lower, with pronounced effects on the ecology and species composition of plankton communities… “Major changes in the distribution and species composition of terrestrial and fresh~water ecosystems could occur… “Changes in the distribution of food resources on a global scale are to be expected, with significant social, institutional, economic, and political ramifications.”
Through 2026 I will be posting all 18 issues of the astoundingly prescient "CO2 Newsletter", published from 1979 to 1982 by the late William Barbat.
Here's a clipping from Vol 1, No 2 (Dec-1979)
Can't say we weren't warned, eh?
Only the computer program got out of hand and the generated news got weirder and weirder. Nobody seemed to catch on, they didn’t realize what had happened. Meanwhile folks who did were desperately trying to fix things
This was 2020. Didn’t have time to write it. Now it seems like I’m living it 🫣😵💫
Years ago I had a plot idea for a short fantasy story
Through some mysterious accident everyone in government had disappeared. To keep people from worrying this was kept a secret. A computer program was set up to generate news that looked like everyone was still there and it was business as usual….
Aan het eind van het jaar voegen we traditiegetrouw een nieuw streepje toe aan de klimaatstreepjescode: de reeks gekleurde lijnen die laat zien hoe de temperatuur in Nederland sinds 1901 is veranderd. De streep van 2025 kleurt donkerrood.
Not new, but still so very recognizable 😣
Make a Bond movie academic
The funding is not enough
It's unreasonable to ask or demand of a nervous system that has developed specific defenses for specific reasons, to "just be normal."
We didn't develop these patterns just for the hell of it, & easing out of them is going to require us to acknowledge & respect why they exist.
This is one of our favorites!
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild
- whale
- polar bear
- dolphin
- orca
- flying fish
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
