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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2d

“Bivalve records are really amazing. They are like the tree rings of the sea. They offer a continuous, annually resolved record of ocean conditions.”
New study finds #AMOC destabilization since 1950 "suggesting that the region is moving toward a tipping point."🌊
insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate - Inside Climate News

Clam shell growth rings contain clues about the looming potential for a tipping point into climate collapse.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 5d

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.”

Dr. Jane Goodall

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7d

“If we continue, however, with the policies that we have out there, we are clearly on a pathway now of 2.7 degrees or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore. This is just what it is. We cannot protect Amsterdam from sea level rise of 3m. This is just not doable,” Thallinger said.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 11d

Vandaag staat mijn visie als hypothetische minister van Landbouw, Natuur, en Stikstof in dit prachtige artikel in @volkskrant.nl
Dat stuk is natuurlijk erg kort en simpel, daarom hier een 🧵 van mijn hoofdpunten met wat meer onderbouwing!
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Analyse Wonen, stikstof, migratie: deze wetenschappers weten wél hoe je dat oplost

Hoe zouden wetenschappelijke experts omgaan met de vele uitdagingen waarvoor Nederland staat? De uitkomsten zijn opvallend eenduidig – en hoopgevend.

www.volkskrant.nl

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Vincent Luyendijk @vincentluyendijk.bsky.social · 25d

De natuur stuurt geen factuur.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26d

This is a nice illustration of how waste powers production.

The idea of single-use, discardable plastic 'filling up landfills' was magic for producers.

This is the same principle behind fossil fuel companies producing energy, and the tech companies that waste it

www.jasontreat.com/plastic-1

a chart showing the rising amount of plastic consumption from 1950 to 2000 and 15, with most of the rise attributable to packaging where plastic is only used for about six months. Most of it is never recycled or incinerated

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Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · 27d

Interesting new study! They attributed heatwaves🔥 to emissions of individual companies. Companies that emit a lot of CO2 contribute to climate change, making heatwaves more intense. Can this help in pushing them to reduce emissions and hold them accountable for the damage?

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

www.nature.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27d

Wow. The US Energy Department has withdrawn its scam climate report and disbanded its „Climate Working Group“ in order to dodge a law suit against the scam.
They must have realized that this scam report by a few „climate skeptics“ is indefensible nonsense.

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POLITICO Pro: DOE says it dissolved research group that wrote its controversial climate report

The department said the end of the Climate Working Group means environmental groups' complaint over alleged Federal Advisory Committee Act violations is no longer valid.

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Cody Hochstenbach @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social · 28d

VVD partij ideoloog en wetenschappelijk directeur trekt de hele klimaatwetenschap in twijfel. Dan snap ik wel dat je niet met GL-PvdA wil, maar liever met PVV

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International Cryosphere Climate Initiative @iccinet.bsky.social · 29d

An authoritative group of #climate scientists have reviewed 5 prominent ideas to #geoengineer the polar regions.

They conclude that these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous & have major governance & ethics issues.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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Frontiers | Safeguarding the polar regions from dangerous geoengineering: a critical assessment of proposed concepts and future prospects

Fossil-fuel burning is heating the planet with catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends. Halti...

www.frontiersin.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29d

Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582

Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...

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Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Sep 8

Preprints available here:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Sep 8

It was a pleasure giving a seminar at the VU today in the Water & Climate Risk group. I enjoyed the great questions and discussion, given me lots of new ideas :)

I discussed subpolar gyre variability mechanisms, links with the AMOC and impacts of an AMOC collapse on European precipitation.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here is the starter pack you have all been waiting for:

IPCC AR7 Scientists

(the scientists that will write the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the next few years)

Thanks @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Centre for Complex Systems Studies @ccss-uu.bsky.social · Sep 4

CCSS Lunch Meeting #75: Tipping Behavior in Complex Systems - an introduction.

🗓️🕛Thu 11 Sept. 12:00-13:00.

Dr. Robbin Bastiaansen will give the kick-off talk of the new CCSS meetings topic: Tipping behavior in Natural and Societal Systems.

Please sign up 👇 for free 🥪
www.uu.nl/en/events/cc...

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Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢New preprint out! We study the interaction between slowly varying weather regimes and storm tracks, deriving a Rossby wave breaking recipe for how regimes are linked to wave breaking events.

In short, given the regime, we can anticipate where storms likely develop.

doi.org/10.22541/ess...

On storm tracks, weather regimes, and a wave breaking recipe

The atmospheric circulation is often described as a combination of low-frequency variability, such as weather regimes that can persist for weeks, and high-frequency variability, including synoptic sys...

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · Sep 2

Warme oceanen nemen minder CO2 op, droge bossen nemen minder CO2 op, natuurbranden zorgen voor uitstoot van CO2. Klimaatverandering versterkt klimaatverandering.

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

The ocean carbon sink is ailing

Measurements analysed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023.

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Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Sep 1

Trust in conclusions drawn from research by others and how politicians translate that into policy is substantially lower though. But then trust in the government is 4,3 (compared to 7,5 for scientists). How does this affect how we as a society act on scientific results?

Swinda Falkena @swinda.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do people trust science? In the Netherlands the answer is yes, trust even increased.

However, the mean hides a change in the distribution, with both high trust (8+) and low trust (5-) increasing. Medical science is trusted most at 74%, climate science around 55%.

www.rathenau.nl/nl/werking-v...

Vertrouwen in de wetenschap 2025 | Rathenau Instituut

Sinds 2012 vraagt het Rathenau Instituut ongeveer elke drie jaar aan een grote, representatieve groep Nederlanders hoeveel vertrouwen zij hebben in de wetenschap en verschillende aspecten ervan. We vr...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 30

We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia.
That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of #globalwarming.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here is a reminder that already last year 44 experts directed a powerful warning to policy makers about the risk of #AMOC shutdown. What more can we do to get heard?
It’s like the saying that every disaster movie starts with scientists warning and being ignored.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Oct 20

44 experts from 15 countries issued a stark warning about the dangers of crossing an ocean circulation tipping point. I had the honor to present it to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson yesterday. #AMOC
Full letter with signatories: en.vedur.is/media/ads_in...

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you think that dramatic spikes in ocean temperatures aren’t much of a concern, it’s time to think again.

There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #heatwave #ClimateBreakdown

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 28

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

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De Speld @speld.nl · Aug 27

WNF komt met schattige knuffel van Atlantische Golfstroom - 'Red Goffer het Golfstroompje’

WNF komt met schattige knuffel van Atlantische Golfstroom

Uit een nieuw groot wetenschappelijk onderzoek is gebleken dat de gevolgen van het instorten van de Atlantische Golfstroom tot nu toe ‘zwaar zijn onderschat’. Het Wereld Natuur Fonds komt daarom met een schattige knuffel: ‘Red Goffer het Golfstroompje!’

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