Ruben van der Laan

It was great to help the PN a few steps further #facilitation

Poll time: In 2030 greenhouse gas emissions will be:

Wow, fascinerend

It is #ShowYourStripes day next Wednesday 21st June! We encourage everyone to get involved, share your stripes on social media, or in any other way you like, and start a climate conversation. Download the graphics for your own country, state or city: ShowYourStripes.info

This might be the year everything changes, as those who don't count joules and radiative fluxes are too starting to feel the heat from reducing air-pollution. Many great scientists have tried to inform on this in the past decades (e.g. James Hansen, James Lovelock, Paul Crutzen and Veerabhadran Ramanathan). Policy makers and media have paid very little attention so far. This was the reason for me to start using my largely dormant Twitter account 3.5 years ago. To create awareness about rapid warming from rapidly reducing air pollution. There's mainly been a small crowd of 'climate doomers' and slightly anoyed climate scientists to interact with. In the past months this changed, as the additional accumulating heat is starting to surface. My amount of followers has tripled, the graphs we make receive millions of views and media around the world are paying attention. This is bigger than any one of us. We need specialized scientists to assess what this means for changes to monsoon systems, others that look at how ocean and atmospheric currents (might) change and how that could impact melting ice and sea level rise. We need politicians, legal experts and social scientists to learn what is at stake and debate the effects of unintentional and intentional emissions on climate, not just health and the environment. There are no easy choices in this. How much warming will the world except? And how fast can the rate of warming be until we are unable to adapt? When will we learn how high our dikes really need to be? How extreme will droughts get? How many people will lose their homes and need to move to greener pastures? Be it a locally overflowing refugee camp or to another country? Will we have the stability of global governance to face these accumulating challenges? Uncertainties are very large, which might be the main problem. We don't know how bad it will get, and anyone who tells you one way or another is lying. The precautionary principle tells us we have the duty to act. For ourselves, for our children and for strangers we will never meet. We are the most adaptable species known to ever have existed. I believe that with a more thorough understanding of our planet, humanity could become a beneficial force to life on Earth. If we soon aquire collective will to do so.

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

Nice quote, and yes agree! The impossible will be possible in good and bad ways

The renewables revolution is unfolding live, fast and furiously. "It's exponential, global, and this decade": look at the data and do the math THREAD

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@HenkvanTroje Zonder deze dozen was het feest veeeel minder geweest

Onderweg naar Amsterdam. We vieren vandaag 25 jaar Troje. En deze doos is tamelijk cruciaal in t feestgebeuren.

To all my CDR friends out there. You don't need to tell me that "we need to invest now so we have CDR at scale in 2050" or "investments in reductions currently completely dominate CDR investments" or ... [You know I know that, & that is not what I am talking about] 5/5

#ClimateChange denial has turned nasty. Instead of just denying the science, they try to delay meaningful action to reduce carbon emissions This is despite the evidence that going #NetZero would save lives, & make people safer, healthier and wealthier cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Troje bestaat vandaag, 1 april 2023, precies 25 jaar! We gaan dat deze maand stevig vieren. En ik schreef er al iets over op LinkedIn (3 GEHEIMEN voor goede samenwerking ;) ). linkedin.com/posts/henk-van…

➡️Let´s share what we have and how we work⬅️ @rubenvanderlaan #Inclusiveness2023 #StrongerTogether #WorkingBetterTogether @EU_Partnerships

🙌Thank you @rubenvanderlaan @presenteercoach for facilitating! And online➕in-present participants for: ✔️contributing ✔️brainstorming ✔️discussing on technical and financial cooperation. #Inclusiveness2023 #StrongerTogether

It relates to my musings on the Climate Apocalypse we're facing but takes a more academic approach. #ClimateApocalypse medium.com/climate-consci…

Just reading this article from already a year ago, but we definitely still need to think more thoroughly about the extreme scenario's of climate change. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Community Based Processes Forum 2023 ongoing. First day recap👇 @RwandaInfra @Uni_Rwanda @urcst @umunkozi @EnabelinUganda @EnabelauBurundi @RwandaLocalGov @Rwanda_Housing @BelgiumRwanda @Enabel_Belgium #EnablingChange #CBPForumKigali