Niet vergeten: de regen van vandaag is het kraantjeswater (en bier 😉) van morgen, volgend jaar, binnen 10 jaar, binnen 50 jaar, ...

Changes in global temperature (1850-2022)

The Warming Stripes are a popular visual way of highlighting the observed rise in global temperatures since 1850. #ShowYourStripes But, the concept can also be used in different ways for different purposes... a thread🧵

Arctic sea ice underwent a regime shift between 2005 and 2007, becoming thinner and more uniform, according to a study published in nature. The fraction of thick, deformed ice has reduced by about half since this shift and has not recovered. go.nature.com/3YM5AHD

“Yes, we’ve made amazing strides in human well-being, but we now have very large, very novel problems to tackle: environmental ones. Sticking with what got us here won’t solve those,” writes Hannah Ritchie. trib.al/3YMpGGs

Interview met de staatssecretaris Belastingdienst door ⁦Derk Stokmans⁩ en ⁦Stefan Vermeulen⁩ zit vol antwoorden waar je de stand van politiek Nederland aan afleest…. nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/03…

New World Weather Attribution confirms again just how much of game changer climate change is when it comes to extreme heat - April heat in the Mediterranean would have been almost impossible to occur without climate change. worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-april-…

Bit late to the party maar dit was een leerzaam en onderhoudend gesprek met @W_Delforterie over Bos 🌳 🌲

This is absolutely bananas. There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable. But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages? Nope.

New 2023 World highest temperature was set yesterday in Iran: 51.8C at Shahdad ,Kerman Province, in the Dash-el-Lut desert. Next days more countries can reach 50C in the Middle East and possibly Mexico. Stay tuned.

Amsterdam: knip in de Weesperstraat! Rusland: hold my vodka!

NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat". This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

The Mediterranean Sea is heading into uncharted territory. The recent powerful “heat dome” over southern Europe has led to an extremely rapid warming of the waters in the western part of the bassin, with SSTs now exceeding 30°C off the coast of southern Italy. A short thread.

Twitter's iconic bird isn't the only one disappearing. 👉 Today, one in eight bird species are at risk of extinction. But we can save them and their habitats – benefiting people and nature across the globe. RT to spread the word! #TwitterX #TwitterLogo

This is the hottest we have ever observed. The Mediterranean is now completely outside all previous records. We have never measured this level of heat across the basin at any time of year. It is only July. We usually see the annual maximum in August.

🦇 Het is Halloween, maar hoe gaat het met de vleermuis? Het is vannacht de Nacht van de Nacht. Met dit evenement vragen de milieuorganisaties aandacht voor lichtvervuiling. In dit artikel o.a. meer over lichtvervuiling en het beschermen van het donker. buienradar.nl/nederland/weer…

🌍#Biodiversity loss and #ClimateChange are interconnected crises both driven by human economic activities and mutually reinforcing each other.🚢 Tackling both together is crucial.🌡️🦋💡 #ForNature