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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Without doubt the best car ad of all times! And based on a true story. With repect to German Reunification Day, one should remember what risk people took to leave the GDR. To put it politely, I find it irritating that nowadays some prefer to follow Putin's rat-catchers. youtu.be/v9iME5dvgAQ?...

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The Small Escape

YouTube video by BMW USA

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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2026 has likely finished with 85 days exceeding 25C at #London Heathrow Airport this is a staggering 25 days above next highest year, 2018. We've never known anything like it.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Aus gegebenem Anlass, wieder mal.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ab sofort in meinen Wortschatz aufgenommen.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For 30. år i træk har Grønlands indlandsis mistet mere is, end den har fået tilført. Det viser den seneste opgørelse over Indlandsisens totale massebalance fra GEUS og DMI. 30 år med samme tendens understreger, at det er klimaet, der er under forandring. De årlige forskelle - det er vejret.

Siden 1997 har Indlandsisens totale massebalance været negativ hvert eneste år – 30 år i træk. Figuren viser, hvor meget masse Grønlands Indlandsis samlet set har vundet eller tabt hvert år, opgjort i milliarder ton (Gt) de seneste 40 år. Positive værdier viser år med nettotilvækst, mens negative værdier viser år med massetab.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For the first time in several weeks, there is a certain probability for a westerly flow (NAO+, blue). But the probability for some kind of disturbed flow due to blocking (red), NAO- (green) or an Atlantic ridge (purple) remains much larger. The summer isn't over yet.

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Weather regimes probabilities - Sub-seasonal range forecast

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 seen from Copenhagen

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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My books will be on my shelves where they belong. A few friends used to laugh at me for keeping what they called obsolete things like vinyl records and old books. They all agree it was a good idea now.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

...so that surface anomalies near 5°C at the end of the year do not appear completely unimaginable, and huge amounts of heat will be released to the atmosphere. In this case, the 2026/27 El Niño would even be stronger than the "super" El Niño of 1877/78. Credit: cyclonicwx.com.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Time series of daily values of subsurface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific, starting on 1 May 2026. It shows that the thermocline has lowered by ~50 m, creating an enormous heat source which we can't (yet) see at the surface. Subsurface T anomalies are up to 9°C,...

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Left: "traditional" Niño 3.4 SST anomalies since 1 January - much larger than in any other year. Right: "relative Niño index", made by subtracting the mean tropical SST anomaly shows that 2026 is similar to 1997. The coming record temperatures are thus due to global warming. Source: cyclonicwx.com.

"Traditional" Niño 3.4 index (SST anomalies for 5°N-5°S, 120°W-170°W) for selected years. 2026 is clearly warmest.

"Relative Niño index" for the same region and years. Relative Niño indices are created by taking the mean SST anomaly in the region, subtracting the mean SST anomaly of the 20°N-20°S tropical band, and multiplying by a scaling factor derived from observed SSTs to ensure the resulting value has a similar amplitude to the corresponding traditional Niño index. This index therefore shows the relative El Niño strength without the increased background temperature due to global warming.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The late onset is probably related to the heat waves over large parts of Europe at the end of May and June. These heat waves were related to the so-called Omega blocking circulation anomaly resembling the capital Greek letter Ω. Greenland was "outside" the Ω in rather cold air.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Arguably, the strongest heatwave ever observed in Europe. The map shows maximum temperatures in Denmark on Saturday, 27 June 2026. New all-time records in Ødum and Odense (37.0°C), shattering the old June record (35.5°C, 1947) as well as the old all-time record (36.4°C, 1975). Map: meteorolog.dk.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A tropical night (minimum temperature above 20°C) rarely occurs at low altitude stations in central Europe, but for Sněžka / Śnieżka (Schneekoppe), at 1603 m the highest mountain in the Sudetes on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, it is truly extreme! Forecast by the German model.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Schwätzer, die beiden. "Und?" - "Muss ja." hätte es auch getan.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Animated forecast from @ecmwf.int showing 500 hPa geopotential anomalies for the next 15 days. Very stable Ω blocking over central Europe with "cold feet" west and east of it. For large parts of Europe this means a strong heat wave over the next two weeks.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Apropos "remove" - the Britons had a number of argument boosters, as you can see (description in Alt-text)

C.A. Lorentzen (1807)
Den rædsomste nat: Kongens Nytorv under bombardementet natten mellem 4. og 5. september 1807
The most terrible night: Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen during the English bombardment at night between 4 and 5 September 1807

Christian Mølsted (1919):
Flåden forlader havnen for sidste gang, 21. oktober 1807
The Fleet leaves for the last time, 21 October 1807

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yes, we're on it. Waiting for a reply from them any minute. We'll hopefully make that a cornerstone of Ropewalk 2.

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Yeah he sure does spew a whole lotta nasty, hateful, disgusting crap each and every day. 🙄🤮🤬 Artist: Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Polar Portal @polarportal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The onset of the melting season in Greenland is defined as the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The median over the period 1981-2026 is on 27 May. This year, the melting onset was 9 days late, on 5 June, which is the fifth latest.

Melt area over the Greenland Ice Sheet on 5 June 2026, which was the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the area. The median over the period 1981-2026 is 27 May, and this year's value is the fifth latest in that period.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today 177 years ago Denmark got a democratic constitution. Please, all, remember that we have something worth to defend! Now more than ever. Side note: arguably, Germans don't have many things to be proud of. I NEVER understood why Constitution Day is not a public holiday in Germany.

Danish flags on the tower of Christiansborg Castle on Constitution Day.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Found my error. You are of course right. Thanks.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

There's an easy way to find out if this is blasphemy or not. Crucify him and have a look on the third day.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A heart-breaking moment captured in an SS photograph of a group of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in or around May 1944. A child found a flower & is giving or showing it to an older boy. All the people in the picture were murdered in a gas chamber moments later. #YomHaShoah

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

And the second strongest typhoon so early in the year.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Jeg blev født, da CO₂-koncentrationen var 317 ppm (parts per million). I dag er det 426 ppm.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

From the coming weekend, winter is over in central Europe.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Come on. Do you really believe there will be fair midterms?!

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well, I've seen the aurora in Greenland, Svalbard and Alaska, but never before in Copenhagen (even though I tried at least 30 times). But tonight, I was lucky. Between 22.15 and 22.30 not to the north, but rather almost above me.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit pigaat (Greenland is the property of the Greenlanders)

Demonstration against Trump's imperialism in Copenhagen on 17 January 2026.

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Polar Portal @polarportal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The #PolarPortal seasonal report for 2024/2025 can now be downloaded. As always, in English, Danish and Greenlandic! See polarportal.dk/en/news/tran.... (Photo credit: @ruthmottram.bsky.social, DMI)

Fishing boats returning in the open water in front of the village of Qaanaaq, north-west Greenland, 25 May 2025. This is the earliest date in the record for this event. Credit: Ruth Mottram, DMI

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Cold winter weather in Europe is coming to an end on Monday.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New podcast: Why does America want Greenland? Resources, strategy and network cities with @ruthmottram.bsky.social, @martinstendel.bsky.social, and Greenlander Anne Merrild open.spotify.com/episode/66gW...

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Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound

Spotify video

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Den grønlandske regering har ikke brug for rådgivning, heller ikke fra mig. Men ville man spørge mig alligevel, ville jeg anbefale at parkere en tankvogn fyldt med kerosin midt på runway i Nuuk hver nat. En flyver med marines, og det hele er forbi, før vi kan sige "f*ck, hvad er det?".

News from the Danish public service station DR about Maduro (headlines, in Danish).

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

To cite the president whose name I cannot remember, closing down NCAR will be yet another step towards the United Sh*tholes of America.

Mesa Laboratory at NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Loop Images/Contributor via Getty Images

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Finally, here it is. Also this year, I have together with @ruthmottram.bsky.social commented on the fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thanks for your patience, @carbonbrief.org. One of the highlights: 2024/25 was the 29th year in a row with net mass loss. See www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

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Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025 - Carbon Brief

Guest authors explore how Greenland’s ice sheets fared over the 12 months, including the evidence that the territory’s summer melting season is lengthening.

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Africa seen by African journalists. Highly recommended!

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