Merijn Knibbe

@[email protected]
109 Followers
117 Following
199 Posts
Economic historian and statistician, recently suffering from a 'You Can't Make This Up' crisis.
Merijn KnibbeMay 30, 2023
Ingwar PerowanowitschMay 29, 2023
Grünflächen zwischen Steinen können die Bodentemperatur um 30 Grad senken. Dieses Wärmebild zeigt das perfekt. Wir brauchen dringend eine Entsiegelungoffensive, um uns vor Hitze zu schützen. Grüne Parks und Plätze, statt graue Parkplätze. Das sollte das Ziel jeder Kommune sein!
Show threadMerijn KnibbeMay 26, 2023
Point is: I can use these data to splice two series, constructing a dataset for Friesland for 1817-1914 and combined with data on prices and data based on accounts and diaries and the like as well as with the data from the first cadastral survey of around 1830 (which by now is available in a GIS format) and much more.
Merijn KnibbeMay 26, 2023
History of hay. Hay was the most important crop in the Netherlands. Less hay meant less cows, dairy, food and less income for farmers. But we know preciously little about yields. I've been investigating insurance data on stocks as well as data from the yearly provincial reports which are supposed to be notoriously undependable. Guess what... Note the variability.
Show threadMerijn KnibbeMay 20, 2023
* Most recent unexpected find (I love the archives): data on the seasonal level of canals and sluices(reminder: Friesland is *flat*, often differences of 10 centimeters matter) in combination with remarks that water control is much better than it used to be, boosting the output of, especially, haylands (which were 10 to 20 centimeters lower, really, this matters)
Merijn KnibbeMay 20, 2023

For too long I didn't post about my Hay and history project. Where am I?

* Lots of information about individual farms (example added)
* After1851 I can add this to provincial data, if it matches, to predict the hay harvest back to about 1817
* Important as in enables us to gauge agricultural production (livestock)
* But is also enables us (together with the Hellema dairy 1817-1857) to describe farmers reactions to plenty and scarcity: micro + macro.

Merijn KnibbeMay 2, 2023
MastodonMay 1, 2023
You asked for it, and it’s coming. Quote posts, search, and groups are on their way. In the meantime, check out the new onboarding experience launching today. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Today we’re making signing up on Mastodon easier than ever before. We understand that deciding which Mastodon service provider to kick off your experience with can be confusing. We know this is a completely new concept for many people, since traditionally the platform and the service provider are one and the same. This choice is what makes Mastodon different from existing social networks, but it also presents a unique onboarding challenge. To make this step easier, we now have a default sign-up option that works with a server we operate. If you wish to leave or join a different server, you can do so at any time.

Mastodon Blog
Merijn KnibbeApr 27, 2023
Frank JotzoApr 27, 2023
RT @JorritGosens: Harvesting time at what used to be Kowen Forest. About one third of it ripped out.
Not sure how this pine wood is even worth the diesel and labour, fairly certain this does not make sense after acct for wider ecosystem services, like recreation, and carbon sink etc https://t.co/mzQp49D2W9
Jorrit Gosens on Twitter

“Harvesting time at what used to be Kowen Forest. About one third of it ripped out. Not sure how this pine wood is even worth the diesel and labour, fairly certain this does not make sense after acct for wider ecosystem services, like recreation, and carbon sink etc”

Twitter
Merijn KnibbeApr 24, 2023
UnionWatchApr 24, 2023

Nachts kein Wasser mehr.

Im Norden #Spanien's nimmt die Dürre besorgniserregende Ausmaße an.
Als Notmaßnahme hat jetzt die erste Kleinstadt in der Nähe von Barcelona das Wasser nachts abgestellt.
/PM

Merijn KnibbeApr 20, 2023
TobeBApr 20, 2023

Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that Greenland's melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years. Greenland's average annual melt from 2017 to 2020 was 20% more a year than at the beginning of the decade and more than seven times higher than its annual shrinkage in the early 1990s.

The new figures "are pretty disastrous really," said study co-author Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute. "We're losing more and more ice from Greenland."

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-devastating-greenland-antarctic-ice-sheets.html

'Devastating' melt of Greenland, Antarctic ice sheets found

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study.

Phys.org
Merijn KnibbeApr 17, 2023
Peter GleickApr 17, 2023

Amidst the drumbeat of bad news, this is great news. Malaria is one of the world’s leading killers. A successful vaccine would save many, many lives.

Ghana first to approve 'world-changer' malaria vaccine - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65252511

Ghana first to approve 'world-changer' malaria vaccine

The vaccine - R21 - was up to 80% effective in early-stage clinical trials.

BBC News