Farm Drainage Change | Climate Proof Water Buffer South Holland | 20231024 | 1-memo•com | Groene Hart, Holland, Autumn 2023. Drainage direction will be changed 90 degrees, requiring new underground drainage pipes, in this farm land to cope with the planned 1 feet rise of the waterway level here in the Groene Hart of Holland.
Back to the Future | Climate Proof Water Buffer South Holland | 20231023 | 1-memo•com | Groene Hart, Holland, Autumn 2023. Bringing back history in the future’s landscape of the Groene Hart of Holland, through the implementation of a water buffer system to address the water challenges posed by increased floods and droughts caused by climate change.
Leiden University Exam 1979 Böttcher | Ocean Climate Motor | 20230916 | 1-memo•com
Finally , the ocean motor driving our climate is news – cover story by Jaap Tielbeke in the dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer #35 (31 aug 2023): ‘The blue machine is malfunctioning’.
With a changing climate, that machine may perhaps stop suddenly, and result in catastrofic snowball effects, I learned ca 50 years ago , but never before noticed in the news.
The ocean motor : with the Gulf Stream bringing warm ocean water at the surface from the Caribbean to Europe – resulting in a mild climate in Europe – continuing further north the now cooled – and heavier saltier – water sinks to the bottom of the ocean , and the stream cold water returns at the bottom to the South. With higher temperatures at the North Pole and less cooling of the surface water that circulation may stop abrupt.
Already in the 70s we – biology students at the Leiden university in Holland – were told about the danger of a greenhouse effect – the effects over the next 50-100 years : the global rising temperature by 2-5 degrees Celsius / 4-9 Fahrenheit , melting of polar ice caps , rise of the sea level …. and because people in the west part of Holland are living far below the sea level – some 50% of our country vanishing in the North Sea … with the now eastern Dutch town of ‘Amersfoort’ becoming a sea-side town .. “Amersfoort on Sea”. That’s at least the take-home-message I got late 1970s from professor Frits Böttcher’s fascinating , expert , lectures at the Leiden university “Our dependence on the natural resources” that I took for my master’s study Biochemistry (B4) – a ‘caput’ lecture series in ’77/’78 with the dutch title “Natuurlijke hulpbronnen en onze afhankelijkheid ervan”. Böttcher was a co-founder of the ‘Club of Rome’ (link http://www.clubofrome.org/Index.php?s=bottcher++ ) . The image shows my exam card and mark by Böttcher in ’79.
A hypothesis in the 70s…the ocean motor may stop…now the motor has slowed down.
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Short film that I made June 8, 2016 as ‘Selfie For The Sea’ for World Oceans Day. My encounter with Sara the southern Sea lion diving in the open Caribbean Sea along the coast of Curaçao (Netherlands) was filmed by Gordy Cox in 2004.
Remastered 20230907 edition of vimeo•com/169906000 posted 20160608 . @CelebrateOceans @WorldOceansDay
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The Dutch flag, red-white-blue, hanging upside down in the Green Heart (Groene Hart) of Holland.
Protest against either province plans for a new highway crossing the Green Heart here through the small villages like Boskoop, the farmland and the new ‘nature’ zone ‘Bentwoud’ started here just a few years ago ….. and/ or protest against the government’s radical plans to cut nitrogen compound emissions by requiring farmers to reduce livestock numbers, reduce the use of fertilizer, and consequently obliterate the farmers livelyhoods in Holland.
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Male catkins and femal flowers of the common hazel in the Green Heart of Holland today.
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