Great story in Weitzman School of Design at Penn news about the Penn Aimation as Research Lab & the latest Poldergeist video. Josh explains why we our videos are hand-drawn: "The finished animations retain the energy of this urge to share an idea." design.upenn.edu/post/animating…

Fun graphic for a talk about climate disinformation at #SEJ2024 with Prof Michael E. Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson with APPC Penn

TFW a photo of Patrick Nederkoorn & me lands in every U Penn affiliated inbox. Penn Today profiled Maria Kolossa's documentary "A New Peace of Münster" about our project on future climate migration along the Dutch-German border. Penn premiere tomorrow. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/moving-al…

In a new documentary co-produced and co-starring Simon Richter, Simon Richter, the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German asks viewers to imagine what might happen if sea-level rise requires the Dutch to move toward Germany. bit.ly/3TNVOUT

Amazing news! We just heard that "A New Peace of Münster" was selected by @festivalclimate via FilmFreeway.com! -

That awkward but ultimately joyful moment when you randomly run into one of your fellow UPenn carbon warriors on a bus in Utrecht. Benjamin has moved mountains to help Penn offset all travel such as ours responsibly.

Ocean heat waves are causing mass deaths of marine species and contribute to intense tropical storms and deadly algae blooms, leading to eco-grief among marine scientists: ow.ly/JhCf50Rwvit

Het team van Simon Richter weet ons, de polderwezens die we zijn, goed te prikkelen door ons een spiegel voor te houden. Kijk zeker deze "Hoe wapent Nederland zich tegen klimaatverandering?" op YouTube terug 👉youtu.be/nK4ldKz0eTU?si…

Sigmund Freud and the Enclosure Dam of the Mind: A new Dr. Poldergeist video flows.hypotheses.org/13146 via Hypotheses

where Simon Richter shares the backstage of his latest video and his recipe for #water policy advocacy and critique through humor. Don't miss it on IHE Delft 💧 Institute for Water Education Water Governance blog FLOWs! 👇

"Environmental advocates & experts say Louisiana’s new Republican governor is undermining its coastal protection agency — the state’s first & strongest line of defense against climate change-induced sea level rise." wapo.st/3wWjlLW

Who will next minister of infra & water in NL be? The new right/extreme right gov has lots to say about building dikes & barriers against immigrants, refugees & English language, but its climate adaptation plans for SLR are minimal: Recalibrate the high water protection plan.

New Dutch cabinet. Barry Madlener (Wilders' PVV) for Infrastructure (& Waterstaat); Sophie Hermans (VVD) for Energy (formerly Energy & Climate). How are you feeling about this?

Check out my latest article: How Green is Your Bathtub? Making Sense of the Fourth Consortium in the Kennisprogramma Zeespiegelstijging linkedin.com/pulse/how-gree… via LinkedIn

Tell me again that #ClimateChange won't affect economic growth.

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I am, to say the least, not the first person to note this, but: it is really, really wild to contemplate a) modern advances in science, which sound like sci-fi, unfolding next to b) a global reactionary backlash that rejects science & openly pines for medieval hierarchies.

How democracy becomes autocracy: a transactional law-breaker runs for president, and billionaires think buying him is a good deal. Which it is; they make hundreds of billions just by corrupting the tax code and paying no taxes. forbes.com/sites/brianbus…

Thanks to Perry World House for this convo about A New Peace of Münster, a doc by Maria Kolossa, co-produced by Patrick Nederkoorn & me. About how humor can help advance difficult conversations such as contemplating eventual retreat from low-lying regions. youtu.be/_kIg7-usaQY?si…

Presenting the new Climate Week at Penn video! @penn_environment instagram.com/reel/C-qpQ3xiq…