The #AMOC by 2100 will thus be so weak (~8 Sv) that it is very likely on the way to full shutdown, as our study last year showed: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
In my view, this now makes a full #AMOC shutdown more likely than not. Definitely not a low likelihood risk, as we used to think.
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CO2 Newsletter vol. 1 no 6 page 1
Vol. 1, no. 6 of the CO2 Newsletter, Aug-Sep 1980, is now downloadable.
Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each issue was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles.
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Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam!
This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.
Sounds like the stuff of an 18th-century luna-theological argument for the existence of a divine architect.
We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum
Six days left to apply for this very cool #envhist postdoc with us here @greenhouseuis.net - it's a great opportunity to join a vibrant and active research environment with much support for career development and a good community.
The Wayback Machine archive is, like Wikipedia, one of the last corners of the internet that hasn't been killed by greed & slop. That ... may not last long.
The stupidest tool from the box.
Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦
“The “methodological blind spot” that she and Minderhoud have uncovered went undetected for so long in part because geoid estimates are most accurate in Europe and the eastern seaboard of North America, where the majority of published researchers are based.” e360.yale.edu/features/sea...
Hoi Nederland. Jetten en de rechtse horde kunnen wel met vlaggetjes wapperen maar zonder radicaal klimaatbeleid is het enkel demagogie
Probably going to have to flesh out the traditional dismissal of Great Man Theory in first-year historiography lectures now it turns out that two to three deranged geriatrics actually can slingshot the entire planet into the sun
... by the increase of the fields.” Humanist scholars can hardly be accused of deep geological or ecological literacy, but such remarks reflect explicitly on the effects of man-made change over many centuries.
... which the Rhine, spreading out over the fields and pastures, used to deposit, enrich, and raise in height; … bringing yearly a kind of dunging of slime to the lands. Indeed, they think that the inconvenience and loss of a few years would easily have been compensated ...
Keep finding these remarkable discussions of Holland's geomorphology in antiquarian works like Hadrianus Junius' 'Batavia' of 1588: "many are persuaded of this: that our ancestors took too little care of their own affairs when they shut out—by opposing embankments and dikes—the mud ...
Fascinating 1627 painting, in the style of Jan van Goyen, depicting the excavation (and antiquarian finds) of the Roman ruins of 'Brittenburg' on the Dutch coast: odd contrast between the naturalist style of the landscape and the illustrative quality of the antiquarian finds.
Ahead of new print alert! You can now read @mathijsboom.bsky.social and Jip van Besouw's "Rising Seas, Sinking Lands: Reckoning with Local and Global Sea Level in the Early Modern Netherlands" from the January 2026 issue. #envhist #envhum
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Early career historians (< 3 year post PhD) of science, art and ideas: the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Foundation awards one three-month visiting fellowship annually, hosted by our department @huygensknaw.bsky.social. Deadline for the 2027 fellowship is 15 May: www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/open-call...
We've thought about this case study partly as a contribution to historiographies of scaling and environmental reflexivity taken up by Lydia Barnett, Deborah Coen, and Wilko von Hardenberg. Curious to see what others will make of it. 8/8
The 1731 manuscript also offers a unique window into thinking across different scales in time and space: from the governmental scale of Delfland, to the planetary scale of rising sea levels; and from the ancient past of the second century BCE to the near future. 7/8
What made Cruquius’ theory so interesting? Like many contemporaries, he combined naturalist and antiquarian methods—including such historical maps—to make sense of histories of the Earth and particular geographies. Boundaries between disciplines were often porous (although not absent). 6/8
Cruquius' 1731 theory had a specific goal: to convince the Delfland water board to intervene at the Hoek of Holland, where a shifting sand dune appeared poised to block off the mouth of the river Meuse, as seen in another map made by Cruquius. 5/8
I'd dealt with the latter in my dissertation. Jip had worked on the practices undergirding Cruquius' much-celebrated map of the river Merwede; a map which pioneered the usage of depth contour lines. (doi.org/10.1086/730416) 4/8
Cruquius theory predicted sea level rise, using naturalist and antiquarian methods. Making sense of Cruquius' argument requires a dive into technical debates about water management as well as seventeenth-century antiquarian debates about the changing nature of Holland's geography. 3/8
We began with a 1731 report by hydraulic expert and surveyor Nicolaas Kruik, beter known as Cruquius (1678-1754). In this report for the water board of Delfland, Cruquius developed a theory about the past, present and future of the Dutch river landscapes and coasts, as well as global sea level. 2/8
Finally out in Environmental History! In this article with Jip van Besouw, we explore notions of global sea level rise from the vantage of the 18th-century Dutch Republic. Here are a few of our finds. 1/8 doi.org/10.1086/738533
Gister een draadje over Galileo, vandaag de polders.
Na mijn promotie in 2020 ben ik qua onderzoek best een andere weg ingeslagen. Met 2 beurzen kon ik 3 jaar naar het buitenland (Los Angeles en Cambridge) om daar nieuw onderzoek op te zetten, naar 17e eeuwse inpolderingsprojecten dus.
From the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument”
by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’