Patrick Flamm

A view of Paris from an airline: one can see the Eiffel Tower and La Defense in the distance.

A fountain inside a waiting hall at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris.

On the home stretch now, finally. Got stranded in Paris somehow but managed to get on one of the last flights out. Bag is still in Iceland though and this national carrier hasn’t exactly excelled in all of this… not keen on airports for a little while I think.

EU President Von Der Leyen: "Arctic At Center of European Security and Independence" European Commission President von der Leyen squarely moved the Arctic to the heart of European security during a speech in Stockholm. “As the ice retreats, the Arctic is moving ever closer to the cent...

European Commission President von der Leyen squarely moved the Arctic to the heart of European security during a speech in Stockholm. “As the ice retreats, the Arctic is moving ever closer to the centre of global geopolitics,” she said.

#EU #Arctic #Security

A snowy street lamp lit street leading up to Hallgrímskirkja.

A car parked at the side of the road with a lot of snow on the roof and around.

Hallgrímskirkja lit with some pink lights, as seen from the side behind snowy trees.

Hallgrímskirkja in all its snowy and pinkly lit glory from the front.

Spent a long day waiting for various other things in various other queues. Finally transferred to a lovely hotel in the middle of Reykjavik and went for a very refreshing evening walk. Fingers crossed I’ll make it to the European mainland tomorrow.

It’s just absolutely mind boggling whats possible with science and what can be learned from Antarctica!

PNAS: Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth via our NSF COLDEX & US Antarctic Program. ❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain

Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest. - Newsroom Pro - $

The view from inside a plane through a window is impaired by snow on the outside.

On the way back from Greenland, currently snowed in at Keflavik Airport in Iceland.

Watched a film on the plane while it was waiting to be de-iced, only to be asked to leave the plane after 2 hours. At least I finished the film, it was good.

Unusual aircraft activity at Novaya Zemlya linked to Burevestnik testing It's been a busy week at the Rogachevo air base as Russia's testing of the nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik is underway. On Friday, Vladimir Putin allegedly met with the designers of the ter...

A nuclear capable cruise missile powered by a small nuclear reactor that discharges radioactive exhaust gases.

The design has been described as "uniquely stupid" and it appears that Russia is about to begin a new round of testing. www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/unu... 1/2

Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors

ICYMI last week retired senior military personnel call for spending renewable energy to be counted as defence expenditure under the NATO GDP spending pledges. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

450 meter nede i klippegrunden mener de, at de har løst atomkraftens største problem | Klima | DR I Finland er de efter årtier snart færdige med verdens første permanente deponi af højradioaktivt affald.

Onkalo, the Finnish solution for radioactive waste is finally taking the first nuclear byproducts.
Fascinating piece. I first heard about this back in 2008 when they were studying ice sheet effects on geology in Greenland. Because it has to be secure for 100,000 years..
www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...

A report out today in the AFR suggests that “Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter, Tomago, has started a consultation process with employees on the plant’s potential closure".

The reason for the possible closure? Energy prices and it's electricity supply contract.

@thepointau.bsky.social #auspol

Germany to ramp up aerial surveillance of Russian subs – DW – 10/25/2025 Germany is set to acquire advanced reconnaissance aircraft to join the UK and other NATO members track Russian submarines in the north Atlantic. Submarine activity has increased in recent years, exper...

“Germany is set to acquire advanced reconnaissance aircraft to join the UK and other NATO members track Russian submarines in the north Atlantic.”

British Defense Secretary John Healey And his German counterpart Borius Pistorius took a ride in one.

Our #RussianSecrets investigation is finally out. It shows that Russia is protecting its nuclear weapons in the Arctic with Western technology. To this end, an underwater listening system called Harmony has been created in recent years. THREAD

This is indeed a crucial and so far largely neglected aspect about all types of geoengineering: the necessary politics for an ethical governance to govern the deployment of these technologies is not there. If they were, climate governance wouldn’t be the mess it is.

This is not good at all.

German foreign minister's China trip cancelled, spokesperson says BERLIN () -A China trip by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul to China that was originally planned for Sunday will not take place, a spokesperson for his ministry said on Friday. "We are postponing the journey to a later time," the spokesperson told a regular news conference, adding that it had been impossible to garner enough meetings in China to justify the trip.

Wow - German foreign minister's trip to China on Sunday is off, with the spokesperson saying it had been "impossible to garner enough meetings in China to justify the trip", per Reuters

Won't say who cancelled it...

Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030 A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...

Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:

Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.

heatmap.news/climate-tech...

One of them is even here: thanks a lot Rasmus @rasmusleander.bsky.social!

A few of the Old Town of Nuuk from Myggedalen. In the distance there is the Sermitsiaq mountain. In the little bay in the front there are white sea ice pieces or little icebergs visible.

The Kaassassuk sculpture in front of Nuuk Centre and the parliament.

A piece of art hanging from the walls in the conference area of the Hotel Hans Egede.

Floating pieces of glacial ice at the shore in the middle of Nuuk.

A privilege to be able to attend the Polar Law Symposium in Nuuk: there is a lot going on in both polar regions, it is very insightful & exciting to exchange views & arguments with colleagues. And our hosts from the Uni of Greenland are doing a splendid job welcoming us to their home city! Qujanaq.

New study by Falkena et al. shows that most climate models
don’t capture the established key mechanism that can destabilize the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Those models that get it predict abrupt subpolar gyre changes in coming decades 😳.

@swinda.bsky.social

esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

Loughborough expert warns UK military must prepare for the possibility of “low-carbon warfare” A small ‘vanguard’ group inside the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been trying to develop a new vision of ‘low-carbon warfare’ in response to emerging climate and energy transition risks, according to ...

Whether they like it or not, militaries face a future of low carbon warfare, and without change, they risk being locked into outdated technologies even as global energy systems shift, argues @duncandepledge.bsky.social. 🦕
www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Nexperia effect.
Volkswagen prepares stopping production of Golf and Tiguan in Wolfsburg as of next week.
It will likely run out of chips by the end of the week.
www.bild.de/geld/wirtsch...

Major German Maritime Live-Fire Exercise off Andøya, Northern Norway Ten German naval vessels are now practicing live-fire with missiles, torpedoes, and artillery off the coast of Andøya in Northern Norway. This is the German Navy's largest firing exercise in decades.

Ten #German naval vessels are now practicing live-fire with missiles, torpedoes, and artillery off the coast of #Andøya in #NorthernNorway. This is the German Navy's #largest #firing #exercise in decades.

#HighNorth #Arctic

A starfield image from a professional telescope, divided up into many rectangles. There are lots of bright diagonal lines across the starfield, those are from satellites that flew through while the image was being taken.

Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

“The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), co-owned by the Nordic and Baltic countries, has historically focused on climate, innovation and productivity projects. But after a board decision last year, it is now redirecting part of its €36 billion portfolio into security and defense.”

That’s a very interesting postdoc position in one of the best cities!

Russia's illegal incarceration of leading Ukrainian scientist specialising in Antarctica Addressing the annual international meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, Ukraine's Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand Vasyl Myro...

Addressing the annual international meeting of the #CCAMLR in Hobart, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand Vasyl Myroshnychenko condemned Russia’s illegal incarceration of Dr Leonid Pshenichnov, a leading Ukrainian scientist specialising in #Antarctica.

“When the aircraft moves to Wellington in December, it will complete a number of flights between Wellington and Blenheim, between the south of the North Island and north of the South Island.”

In Bassis’ view, “Whether it’s with marine ice cliff instability or marine ice sheet instability, it’s a bit of a distraction. By 2100, we will be talking about a coastline radically different than what I grew up with.”

Pistorius sieht Island als Logistik-Basis für die Marine Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius und die isländische Außenministerin Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir haben gestern in Reykjavik eine Absichtserklärung

Deutschland will Island als Logistik-Basis für die Marine nutzen.

www.hartpunkt.de/pistorius-si...