dr. Peter Kuipers Munneke

Peter is one of the most well-known weather presenters in the Netherlands. He effortlessly engages every audience with his enthusiasm for weather and climate, and knows how to explain complex science in an understandable way for everyone.

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About Peter Kuipers Munneke

Peter is one of the most well-known weather presenters in the Netherlands. But he is also a scientist and communicator. As a university lecturer, he conducts research on climate change. He has been on scientific expeditions to Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic. There, he camped on glaciers to collect valuable measurement data. He shares his extensive knowledge about weather and climate in lectures, podcasts, theater performances, his book Everything is Melting, and he is a regular columnist for NRC.

Peter can captivatingly discuss how the climate is changing and makes it concrete what that can mean for his audience. He effortlessly engages every audience with his enthusiasm for weather and climate, and knows how to explain complex science in an understandable way for everyone. From rising sea levels to extreme weather, from drought to ocean currents, he explains it with ease. Peter can inspire others to explain complicated things in an understandable way.

Climate change presents significant challenges but also opportunities. The energy transition is unstoppable and will have a tremendous impact on our society, energy supply, and economy. With an objective yet sharp perspective, Peter takes his audience along, always based on the most recent scientific insights.

Peter studied physics at the University of Groningen and earned his PhD as a polar researcher in 2009 at Utrecht University. He currently works there as a university lecturer and leads research on the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Additionally, he delves into extreme weather, climate change, and science communication. Since 2013, he has worked as a weather presenter for NOS. In addition to the daily weather forecast, he also provides insights for NOS on news related to climate and extreme weather.

He does this for an incredibly broad audience, from Jeugdjournaal to Nieuwsuur. He produced 30 episodes of the podcast The Weatherman, and went on two major theater tours with pianist Ralph van Raat, discussing meteorology and climate even at the Concertgebouw. Every three weeks, you can read his columns in the science section of NRC Handelsblad.

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That our future energy supply will be entirely renewable is inevitable. The path towards it is bumpy, but fundamentally, renewable energy is a logical choice and the only way to secure our planet for future generations.

If we embrace renewable energy and bid farewell to fossil fuels, the Earth’s climate will have a chance to stabilise. Peter Kuipers Munneke can truly explain everything about how the climate works, how our current energy supply is driving the climate into overdrive, and what the world will look like if the energy transition succeeds.

Peter has been studying the large ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland for over 20 years, where tens of metres of sea level rise are stored in the form of ice. The future of the Netherlands is being determined in Antarctica. For this reason, Peter, along with hundreds of colleagues from both home and abroad, conducts research on these large ice caps in the inhospitable poles of our planet.

Peter Kuipers Munneke tells you everything about ice caps, expeditions to snow and ice, about how interesting and challenging scientific research is. And how we think the sea level will continue to rise in the future.

In a warming world, weather extremes are increasing exponentially. This brings significant challenges, especially in the areas of water management and spatial planning. Both the energy transition and adaptation place an ever-greater demand on the available space in our country.

Peter Kuipers Munneke can precisely explain what we can expect in the future and what that might mean for an area, your organisation, or industry. He also explains that climate adaptation is important and inevitable, but that it must always go hand in hand with policies to stop global warming.

During the day, Peter Kuipers Munneke, as a weatherman, delves into computer models, measurements, and satellite data. In the evening, on radio and TV, a story emerges without jargon. The weather forecast is so simple that you no longer realise there is a dizzying world of computer models and observations behind it.

How does meteorology actually work? And how do you translate complex, probability-based information to a broad audience? Peter is available to give a lecture, from his own meteorological perspective, on communicating complex subjects to a broad audience.

Videos

Typische weersverschijnselen oktober: Peter Kuipers Munneke

Smeltend ijs, stijgende zeeën | Dr. Peter Kuiper Munneke

Van onschatbare waarde - Peter Kuipers Munneke

Symposium Gebruikersplatform Bodemenergie | Presentatie 'Het Juiste Klimaat' Peter Kuipers Munneke

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