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Femke de Jong
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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
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williamripple.bsky.social
In our State of the Climate Report, my coauthors and start by saying: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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wmo-global.bsky.social
🌀 #HurricaneMelissa has intensified to Cat. 5 strength in the Caribbean.

WMO and its partners are working together to support countries in the path of the storm.

Keep up to date:

🔗 hurricanes.gov
🔗 https://metservice.gov.jm/

Credit: @noaa.gov
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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ericmahieu.nl
Waanzin dit. Omgekeerde wereld.

De opbrengst van de boetes zouden juist toegevoegd moeten worden aan het klimaatfonds.
frietema.bsky.social Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 17d
Wat Wiersma deed met stikstofcrisis voor Big Agro, deed Hermans met klimaatcrisis voor Big Industry:

Niets
Nada
Noppes
Niente

“Dankzij het beleid van de regering-Schoof is het halen van de klimaatdoelen voor 2030 praktisch onmogelijk gemaakt, concludeerde @leefomgeving.bsky.social recent.”
Klimaatboete voor de staat? Die betalen we uit het klimaatfonds, zeggen ambtenaren
Heel veel cynischer gaat het klimaatbeleid van het demissionaire kabinet Schoof niet worden vandaag. Ambtenaren van het ministerie van Financiën stellen in interne stukken voor dat als de overheid doo...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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marckonijn.bsky.social
*PUBLICATIE*

Het klimaat rampt op de deur met een moker, maar politici en journalisten blijven doof.

En dus trekken acht experts aan de alarmbel. Het geluid is oorverdovend, want natuur en klimaat zakken door hun hoeven.

Hier een bloemlezing uit hun betoog

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'Als we de natuur blijven vernietigen, vernietigen we uiteindelijk onszelf' - Reporters Online
De opwarming versnelt, en de aarde kraakt in al zijn voegen. En toch reppen politiek en media  in aanloop naar de verkiezingen nauwelijks een woord over de klimaatcrisis. Acht deskundigen en wetenscha...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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o-snap.org
🌊 #Postdoc position available

📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras

Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP).

Requirements
✅ PhD in physical #oceanography

To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
Postdoctoral Investigator – Physical Oceanography
Job Summary The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) in observational physical oceanography under the supervision of Dr. Isabela Le Br...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
fmkdejong.bsky.social
Today we said goodbye and thank to our research vessel Pelagia. She has taken oceanographers around the oceans since 1991. She isn’t huge, but she and her crew sure were dedicated and not easily daunted. Many old collegues and many memories today 💙 🌊 ⚒️
Photo of research vessel Pelagia in the NIOZ harbour.
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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knmi.nl
Tien jaar na het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs is duidelijk dat de aarde nog steeds opwarmt. Hittegolven zijn warmer en komen vaker voor, en het aantal warme dagen neemt wereldwijd toe.
Tien jaar na het Parijsakkoord: opwarming stopt niet
Tien jaar na het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs is duidelijk dat de aarde nog steeds opwarmt. Hittegolven zijn warmer en komen vaker voor, en het aantal warme dagen neemt wereldwijd toe. Mede dankzij het P
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October 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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jloverwijk.bsky.social
Geen verkiezingsthema.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29d
Coral reefs, ice sheets and Amazon rainforest approaching a tipping point due to global heating, report says
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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October 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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drtwilamoon.bsky.social
Just arriving here. Let the adventure begin.

Expect: ice, climate science, quirky notes and insights.
October 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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ruthmottram.bsky.social
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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October 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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antonius007.bsky.social
Delen delen
caringdoctors.bsky.social Caring Doctors @caringdoctors.bsky.social · Sep 16
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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September 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
fmkdejong.bsky.social
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
September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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frietema.bsky.social
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.
September 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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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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mylordshesacactus 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.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Hahahaha!
September 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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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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August 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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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....
August 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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glaswerkt.bsky.social
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
August 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
fmkdejong.bsky.social
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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August 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
fmkdejong.bsky.social
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
workingat.nioz.nl
August 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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biancagoesbluesky.bsky.social
We doen het nog slechter dan Amerika.
August 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com.

"The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."
Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide
OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM