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Last Notes npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The probability that the upcoming El Niño event will be a strong one is increasing. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The Dutch tax authority, after advice by McKinsey, is in the process of outsourcing the collection of VAT (€1.5 billion per week) - a core activity - to a US company called Fast Enterprises, handing the Trump regime another unique tool to apply pressure. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Italy Sets Jet Fuel Limits at Some Airports on Supply Shortage - npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The two Dutch gas storages of NAM, operated by Gasterra (Shell/Exxon/Dutch government) are now completely empty: filling level 0.00%. The reason given is the winding down of Gasterra, which used to sell the Groningen gas. But one would say that a new operator could have bought the remaining gas. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Ha @nprofile…dq8h npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Ha @nprofile…z3qs , npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 25% of global gas liquefaction capacity (LNG production) is now out of operation. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Bizarre kop, @nprofile…4nnr. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun It took the oil market 4 days to realise that Trump's 'talks' with Iran didn't happen. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun So German parliament spent their time on this. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Top climate scientist leaves NASA, because telling the truth there has become difficult. Sad. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The Netherlands gas storages are at a historically low filling level of 6%. The largest one Norg, used for "L-gas", the type which households use, is completely empty now: 0.00%. The other L-gas one at Grijpskerk is down to 1.81% and could be empty within days, too. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun And there we are. Trump is already blackmailing Europe with 'his' LNG. We urgently need to reduce our natural gas consumption by speeding up the energy transition: focus on energy efficiency, electrification, and scaling up EU production of biomethane, developing way too slow to meet its 2030 target. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Paris has just elected another bike-friendly mayor! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Gas and LNG expert Anne-Sophie Corbeau: "People really need to turn down their thermostats. We're heading for the Mother of all energy crises. Refilling Europe's gas storages could become the drama of the year." npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun European natural gas price just jumped another 27% to 70 €/MWh, after Israel attacked a major Iran/Qatar gas field in the Gulf. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Confirmed: the February average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 429.35 ppm, that's 2.26 ppm higher than last year. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dear @nprofile…l7qw and @nprofile…rm8q , can the EC please take tough measures against this member state for seizing money from and blackmailing a European partner country under attack by Russia? npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun After hitting $115 this night, the oil price is now at $103 per barrel, up from around $65 before the US-Israeli attack on Iran. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun OK, so I got myself a @nprofile…850x mail account. Bit of work ahead to fully move from Gmail, but worth the trouble. Back to Europe! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Two weeks after becoming PM of the Netherlands, Rob Jetten visits Ukraine and president Zelensky to show his support. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Professor in international law Marieke de Hoon: when Greenland was threatened, Europe emphasised territorial integrity. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun European electricity prices are not immune to the gas price shock, since in many hours of the year, gas-fired power plants set the price, as the marginal producers. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun NATO SG Rutte praises the end of international law as we knew it. Attack any country that does stuff you don't like, and never mind the democratic process in your own country! https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/natos-rutte-praises-us-israeli-military-action-against-iran-says-alliance-wont-2026-03-02/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun European gas price now up 48% since Friday! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Nasty shock to European gas price in response to Trump's war: +21% compared to last Friday! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In the Netherlands, this winter was 'mild': average 4.7°C versus a 'normal' of 3.9°C. But that's comparing to the already warmed 1991-2020 average. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Last Tuesday, a spokesman of Dutch state-owned Gasunie said that the historical low in gas storage filling (11% of capacity) was no problem. But, he added, 'we wouldn't want a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz'. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Pahlavi family hoping to be brought to power by the US for a second time. First time was 1953, over oil interests. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Given how little he cares about Americans, the chance that Trump gives a shit about the Iranian people is zero. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun International law, 2026 revision: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Clear message from the Trump regime to European clients* dependent on US tech companies: those will be brought under control. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The decision (already mid-2022) to opt for buying software from an external supplier instead of continuing the internal effort by the tax authority was based on advice by McKinsey: https://www.computable.nl/2026/02/24/digitale-autonomie-en-de-uitbesteding-applicatiediensten-omzetbelasting-door-de-staat/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch tax authority wants to transfer full IT control on VAT collection to an American company. Smart move 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun At least 22 dead after record rainfall triggers floods and landslides in Minas Gerais, Brazil. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 4 years into Russia's full-scale brutal invasion and bombing of Ukraine today. The way to shorten it is to double our support to Ukraine. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch right-wing newspaper Telegraaf headline: Aid organisation OxfamNovib linked to Hamas. Solely based on an accusation by a Jerusalem-based, Israeli government-linked organisation, which says Palestinian fighters can hide behind trees irrigated with help of Oxfam. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun UK's Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to €56 billion*, i.e. €17,500 per kW. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The part of the Epstein files we've seen makes it possible to reconstruct Trump's probable orders to his servants at DOJ. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Finally, airlines have to pay for the CO2 emissions of their flights within Europe. Until now, they got a 50% discount. And they still don't pay for the indirect global warming effects they cause, which probably double the total damage done. https://nos.nl/l/2602799 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun NS Dutch Railways transfers part of its ICT from a Dutch supplier to an American-owned company, which offered a low price. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun After receiving 1,300 mm of rain within ten days (more than our record *annual* amount here in central NL, 2023), Grazalema faced a mandatory evacuation: https://www.thespanisheye.com/2026/02/05/in-videos-army-evacuates-whole-of-grazalema-ground-zero-of-storm-leonardo-is-at-serious-risk-of-deadly-landslides/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/02/06/grazalema-sufrio-el-segundo-dia-mas-lluvioso-jamas-registrado-en-espana-segun-la-aemet/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun It's shocking how easily Trump's billionaire tech oligarchs could buy Twitter and the Washington Post and destroy them. Who cares about a couple of billion if the regime enables you to claw back much more than that? npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun There's a reason that the Trump regime still hasn't published all the #Epstein files. And by now, it's abundantly clear that it's not to protect the victims. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In our village (pop. 7,000) near Utrecht, the Netherlands, you can't get gasoline or diesel anymore; the last fuel station closed years ago. But for EV drivers, there's around 45 public charging posts, and a bunch of Tesla fast-chargers at the edge of the village, near the highway. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The gender balance in aggressive climate deniers seems slightly skewed. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Forget all their talk about birds, radar, 'the sun doesn't shine at night' etc. etc. All because 'we'd burn less fossil fuels' doesn't sell very well. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The main problem Trump and his backers have with renewable energy: we'll need less fossil fuels. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun One winter night in the Netherlands, 2025... npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun @nprofile…lxup I remember seeing a DC ICE train at St Pancras, with announcement that DB would start a Rotterdam-London service soon. That's ages ago. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In the middle of its Gaza genocide (and West Bank terror), Israel is not excluded from the @eurovision.tv Song Contest, so now the Netherlands withdraws. Good. https://nos.nl/l/2593199 npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun On the intimate contacts between Putin's 'peace negotiator' Dmitriev and Trump's son-in-law Kushner, since the day after Trump was elected in 2016. Known since the Mueller report. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The right and far-right (VVD, BBB, Ja21, FvD) voted against high flight taxes for private jets. https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/kamer-grijpt-in-bij-benzineaccijns-en-box-3-en-stemt-voor-hoge-vliegtax-privejets~b245bd1a/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun From 2030*, passengers of private jets departing from the Netherlands will pay a flight tax of €420 to €2,100, depending on distance. So far, they only paid €29.40, just like ordinary airline passengers. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/bill-gates-donated-climate-denier-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Everyone in the Netherlands knows the Wadden Sea, and we love it. Its tidal flats attract millions of birds, and tourists too. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Another big jump in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the October average was ~425.0 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun China added as much solar PV capacity (256 GW) in just the first half of this year as the US installed in all of its solar history. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Dutch elections: first exit poll shows heavy losses for Wilders' right-far-right coalition. From 88 out of 150 seats two years ago to just 52 now. End of an experiment, fortunately. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The worst possible scenario for Jamaica came true: climate-fueled hurricane #Melissa just made landfall at its strongest. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, and the world lets it happen. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun From the WaPo, I think: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The destruction of the White House East Wing, sponsored by Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Meta, Microsoft, T-Mobile, and other companies near you. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun At the Climate March in The Hague. As the climate crisis deepens, it's not much of a theme in the Dutch election campaign. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun TIL that 'vegetarian meat' brands Vegetarische Slager ( butcher) and Vivera belong to Brazilian mega meat company JBS, accused of massive deforestation, built on bribing politicians, and brought to the stock market via a Dutch holding company. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun As climate change causes stronger storms and melts the permafrost, the Trump regime took away the funding to protect this low-income Alaska Native community against the effects. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Europe has to ramp up its military aid again. Ukraine is starting to regain territory and that progress needs to be accelerated. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In 1987, a management consultancy concluded that the Netherlands should aim for a coal economy by 2050 ('cheap and abundant'). At Ecofys, we were surprised: can't be, we'd ruin our climate. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun In the run-up to Dutch elections (29 October), it turns out that two Dutch MP's of Wilders' far-right PVV are using Sora AI to generate fake pictures of attractive blond women threatened by migrants. The prompts they used were published in this article. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun From Covid-19, we learned that a somewhat coordinated global response is (would be) required, because people travel. Forget about that under the Trump regime and his antivaxx buddy RFK jr. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Reminder: It was Netanyahu who ended the previous ceasefire, 6 months ago, presumably with Trump's permission. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Big news for the energy transition! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Another Red Line demo in Amsterdam today - in line with the Genocide Convention, protesters will demand more action by Dutch government against Israel. I'll be there. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024: npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The US Minister of War. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun 14 Russian drones entered Poland's airspace in the southeast of the country, ~250 km from Warsaw. Visible on the map are the Ukrainian cities Lviv and Lutsk. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Number of medical evacuations to some EU member states. Our Dutch government really stands out. Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs @rubenbrekelmans.bsky.social adamantly refuses to take up even a single child in need of intensive medical care. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Trump's US, 2025. Unusual, as the Seattle Times puts it. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Last-minute attempt by the Trump regime to stop 700 MW of offshore wind power from flowing into the US grid. Denmark's Ørsted in the crosshairs. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun After hardly a measure against Israel during its ongoing genocide in Gaza, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs now wanted to take some baby steps, but was blocked by coalition partners VVD and BBB, fully behind Netanyahu. Now he and colleagues of NSC (polling at 0 seats) left the caretaker government. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Daring project by my former colleague @nprofile…lp20, in his spare time: compiling a European grid capacity (scarcity) map! https://www.gridcapacitymaps.eu/ npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Tesla Cybertruck Sales Fall Dramatically To Their Lowest Level In A Year. Only 4,306 sold in Q2, that's 50% less than the year before. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun New study: 60% of the world’s land area is in a precarious state, putting at risk the ability of the plant world to acquire enough energy through photosynthesis to maintain the material flows of carbon, water and nitrogen that support the ecosystems. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun My Account Great Again. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Too many inconvenient truths coming from that. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Progress in the US becoming the 23rd Republic of Russia seems significantly higher than that of Canada becoming the 51st state of the US. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Now send more military aid to Ukraine. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun How the number of days per year that temperature exceeds 85F (29.4°C) exploded within one generation. Look at Spain, but also Italy, Greece, Bulgaria! npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun We already managed to screw up the climate of Spain, in many ways. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun The researchers found 51 types of pesticides in 10 different protected nature areas. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Employee of Dutch Butterfly Foundation @nprofile…cju0 gets death threat for sharing research findings on pesticides in protected nature areas. Foundation removes report from its website. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Just some suggestions for illustrations to go with stories on this month's deadly heatwaves around the world. npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Very hot weather in Spain today: temperatures above 44°C in five different provinces, with Badajoz at 45.5°C (114F) npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun Jellyfish managed to temporarily shut down 3.6 GW of French nuclear power generation. That's a big event in the European power system, but it probably didn't happen all of a sudden, giving some time to prepare for it. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx299eyg7qko npub163ywugm0tefe993t3czl2pxngnwtc7fjcqsq9vrurhpf3d4mr8qq0mcmff Kees van der Leun This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
