Patrick Flamm

Was Palantir lieber nicht in der Zeitung gelesen hätte: Schweizer Armee evaluiert das System und entscheidet dagegen. Sie „fürchtete, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den Palantir-Systemen hin zu US-amerikanischen Geheimdiensten wie CIA und NSA technisch nicht verhindert werden könne.“

Especially important in light of today's EPA news.

On how the privatization of climate data is creating a world where the best understanding of risk lives inside corporations, while the institutions of democracy increasingly struggle to insist upon full data and understanding. Essential reading.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

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Between Deterrence and Storytelling: Visual Strategies at the Edge of Deep Time In the early 1990s, two teams were tasked with designing a warning meant to last ten thousand years. One pursued deterrence through design, the other knowledge transfer through storytelling and astron...

“In the early 1990s, two teams were tasked with designing a warning meant to last ten thousand years. One pursued deterrence through design, the other knowledge transfer through storytelling and astronomy. Their split reveals different visual strategies at the edge of deep time.”

Norway defence chief says Russia could invade to protect nuclear assets Exclusive: Eirik Kristoffersen, who served in Afghanistan, rejects Trump’s claim that Nato troops stayed off frontlines

“He said Russian actions in the far north had generally been less aggressive than those in the Baltic Sea.
“So far, what we have seen of airspace violation in our area has been misunderstandings. Russia is conducting a lot of [GPS] jamming, and we think that the jamming also affects their aircraft.”

Wann die Bewohner zurückkehren können, steht nicht fest. Es regnet weiter und Experten schließen nicht aus, dass das Gelände nachgibt und sich riesige Senklöcher auftun.”

Spanien, Portugal, Marokko: Der Süden steht unter Wasser Im westlichen Mittelmeerraum müssen wegen Überschwemmungen ganze Dörfer evakuiert werden. In Portugal sind sogar die Präsidentschaftswahlen betroffen.

“Auf Straßen und in den Häusern öffnen sich Löcher. Selbst aus den Wänden der Häuser sprudelt es. Bewohner berichten von starkem Lärm, ein Grollen im Untergrund. Es ist das Wasser, das sich dort seinen Weg bahnt. Grazalema wurde komplett evakuiert.

Europeans should pay more attention to this absolutely crucial aspect of Trump's efforts & plan for it.
Were this to go through (likely meaning conditional phasing out of US sanctions) this would be absolute dynamite for European unity with huge divisions likely to emerge.

“Die tiefe Überzeugung…, dass es hirnrissig ist, den Mächtigen in den Arm zu fallen; dass der Schwache alles hinzunehmen hat. Dass es schon immer Kriege gab und der Mensch halt so veranlagt ist. Schlau ist der Schwache, der sich so arrangiert, dass am Ende ein bisschen was für ihn selbst abfällt.”

Contemporary Security Policy Defence and climate change. Volume 47, Issue 1 of Contemporary Security Policy

Our @cspjournal.bsky.social special issue on Defence & Climate Change has papers on Defence's climate obligations, the politics of disaster relief, seapower & climate change, securing 'buy-in' from Defence, distinct national approaches & dangers of securitization www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcsp20/4...

Climate risk becomes a matter of security The destabilisation of the #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson and I outline actions to tackle this thre...

Once a distant climate risk, the destabilisation of the Atlantic Ocean circulation (#AMOC) is becoming a real security concern. PIK director Johan Rockström and Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson outline what can be done about it.
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

and is the best achievable starting point to ensure the region does not threaten U.S. geopolitical interests in the coming years.”

The United States Staying the Course in Antarctica | Polar Journal Three recent actions should cool speculation that the United States would significantly change its approach towards Antarctica.

“These actions by Congress and the State Department demonstrate that the United States believes that the Antarctic Treaty system continues to advance U.S. geopolitical interests as it has done for decades …

A new study by the AWI, the University of Oldenburg and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory shows that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could influence algae growth, which could affect the ability of the Southern Ocean to store CO₂.

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The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

NPR: The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

News from Helsinki, Finland which recently became coal-free when the last two coal plants closed. The local government just released a statement that the coal exit led to very clear air quality improvements. Can you spot the coal exit in the graph of SO2 concentrations?

‘Nothing is sacred to them’: the race to save rare plants as Russian troops advance With some of Ukraine’s most valuable biodiversity sites and science facilities under occupation, experts at Sofiyivka Park in Uman are struggling to preserve the country’s natural history

#Ukraine's scientists are working under enormously difficult conditions to conserve nature, even as the war overtakes protected areas and vital research facilities and staff are called up to fight www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“while interest in the Northern Sea Route is growing, it is set to remain a niche corridor, one that the world’s largest and most risk-averse container operators are choosing to leave off their maps.”

In response, other countries should introduce mandatory vaccination requirements for US citizens, to reduce the risk of them spreading diseases to the rest of the world

Russia's decommissioned Olimp signals intelligence satellite, abandoned in the GEO graveyard orbit region in Oct 2025, has apparently disintegrated - possibly due to a debris hit since internal energy sources should have been vented when it was retired

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

Silicon Valley Wants to Make Greenland a Libertarian Dystopia Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland has alienated many longtime allies. But it has tantalized a cohort of tech billionaires who see the island as a potential laboratory for “freedom cities,” or p...

Was reading this really insightful piece about the tech obsession with Greenland and the network state, then find myself quoted at the end! jacobin.com/2026/01/gree...

"Über den Wind oder den Regen sind Pestizidreste wanderfähig. Flächendeckend in ganz Europa, wo sie - auch in sehr geringer Konzentration - die Bodengesundheit verändern, wie die neue Studie belege."

"Wir sehen eigentlich, wie wenig wir bisher verstehen beim Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln."
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Stromausfälle in Kyjiw: Für Freiheit frieren In der Eiseskälte nahezu vergessen: ein Hilferuf unserer Korrespondentin Olivia Kortas aus Kyjiw

„In diesen Tagen, in denen das sonst so hartnäckige Kyjiw in Teilen kollabiert, wächst in mir die Furcht, dass die Worte, die wir aus der Ukraine in den Westen schicken, verhallen.“

@oliviakortas.bsky.social mit einem Hilferuf, der hoffentlich gehört wird.

Perception of the Holocaust reshaped by AI-generated images | The Jerusalem Post For some time now, AI-generated Holocaust images have been flooding social media.

«What historians call the ‹perpetrator perspective,› evident in many Nazi photos and films, simply cannot be generated by AI. Instead, these images reveal the prompt behind them: visualizations of generic descriptions.» #GenericPastness www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Europe must stop ‘dreaming’ about defence without US, Rutte warns [FREE TO READ] Nato chief says continent cannot afford to replace American security umbrella

It is not dreaming, but drawing conclusions due to a rapidly changing world. I call this strategic imagination—something Europeans really need to develop.

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The amount of stuff up there is constantly growing with no idea what to responsibly do when it reaches its end of service….

#cleanspace #spacesustainability
#atmosphereblindness

Complex mesoscale landscapes beneath Antarctica mapped from space The landscape shrouded by the Antarctic Ice Sheet provides important insights into its history and influences the ice response to climate forcing. However, knowledge of this critical boundary has depe...

Researchers in Science have mapped Antarctica’s hidden subglacial bedrock landscape—one of the Solar System’s least mapped planetary surfaces—in unprecedented detail, revealing previously unseen geological structures shaping the ice sheet from below. https://scim.ag/4sNqQgf

Der grönländische Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen hat in seiner Pressekonferenz übrigens gesagt, dass er keine Informationen über den "Deal von Trump/Rutte hat.
Medien, die diesen "Deal" in Beiträgen nicht kritisch und mit Grönländischem Input einordnen, reproduzieren imperiale und koloniale Gewalt.