Patrick Flamm

„Es wird viel darüber gesprochen, dass es die Partei zerreißen könnte, (…) Die andere Möglichkeit ist, dass es die CDU nicht zerreißt, nur tiefer in den Strudel aus Lebenslügen und Widersprüchen zieht, in dem sie seit einigen Jahren gefangen ist und der sie dahin gebracht hat, wo sie gerade steht.“

Möchte ja schon noch mal daran erinnern, dass die Berliner CDU die Bekämpfung von Antisemitismus so wenig ernst genommen hat, dass sie unter Verzicht auf jede inhaltliche Prüfung Projekte von Parteifreunden gefördert hat, die es offenbar nicht einmal gibt.

Und wenn Union und Springer-Presse es nicht zur Kenntnis nehmen, verraten sie damit, wie ernst sie in Wahrheit die Bekämpfung des Antisemitismus nehmen.

Was die Fälle Hanning und Schröder verbindet. Beide haben einen Eid auf unser Land geschworen. Beide beziehen von diesem Land eine sehr auskömmliche Pension. Und beide hat das nicht gehindert, ihren Namen, Erfahrung und ihre Netzwerke an die höchsten Bieter zu verkaufen.

Das kann doch wohl nicht wahr sein. Im SZ-Interview verbreitet Wirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche schon wieder die Falschbehauptung, dass Wärmepumpen mit 12 Milliarden Euro im Jahr gefördert werden. Tatsächlich ist es weniger als die Hälfte.

🚨🚨A #climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale. www.politico.eu/article/clim...

Wir dürfen die Realität nicht ausblenden.

Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.

In Oleschky, im Süden der Ukraine, entwickelt sich eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Eine junge Frau, die noch in der Stadt ist, schreibt der ARD in einer SMS: „Ich esse nur einmal, am Abend. Fladenbrot mit gesalzener Tomate, dazu Tee.“ Wichtiger Beitrag von Florian Kellermann.

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whenever I'm briefed by people working in the European oil sector, their assessments of just how bad the last 12 months have been for Russia's oil sector consistently exceed those reported in public news. And it's just going to get worse from here.

How can science shape Arctic governance? In a new post, @itsbrett.bsky.social explores the #MOSAiC expedition & how #Arctic science diplomacy creates space for contesting norms, advancing environmental stewardship & broadening influence beyond states 🚢 🤝 www.arctic-relations.info/connected-no...

Now on #PRIFblog: A just world map?🌍 The UN has adopted a resolution recognizing the distortions inherent to the Mercator projection, encouraging member states to use area-preserving maps. Myriel Mathez, Sarah McKee, Sophia Birchinger and Frederik Schissler on the vote's background and implications:

It’s harvest season in Ukraine, but in the first two weeks of August, Ukrainian grain exports were down 75% from the same period last year. Russia’s military blockade has effectively cut off Ukrainian ports from the Black Sea.🧵

“The way maps are drawn shapes how we understand a war. Four years on, that argument has migrated from territory to money. Cartographic absence was once a tactical asset. In a reconstruction economy, it is a liability.”

Auch so eine Zeitenwende: Zwei Drittel der ersten Finanzen-Seite @faznet.bsky.social über Bestäubung, Grundwasser, Bodenerosion und Notenbanken. Und mein Kommentar zu Chancen und Grenzen, Ökosystemleistungen zu bepreisen. zeitung.faz.net/data/948/rea...

A marine bacterium which disrupted Israel’s desalination plants has prompted the government to increase freshwater pumping from the Sea of Galilee and aquifers.

“Five of Israel’s six desalination plants along the Mediterranean coast remained out of operation Tuesday morning because of unusually high seawater turbidity, which researchers believe may have been caused by a microalgae bloom originating near Egypt’s Nile Delta.”

Given falling oil demand, continued decline in real-estate construction and slower growth for coal-chemicals, China's emissions could still fall this year. The emission trend remains a race between energy demand growth and clean-energy growth, both of which have slowed down.

We are in climate overshoot, as today's UNEP report clearly documents. The gap between what needs to be done and current state of geopolitics is alarming but needs to be faced. www.unep.org/resources/li...

New study by the SCAR-Action Group “Rings” with AWI participation warns: Major gaps in knowledge along Antarctica’s coasts – where the ice sheet and the Southern Ocean interact – are now one of the biggest obstacles to reliably projecting future global sea level rise. Photo: Thomas Ronge

If you'd like to read more, we have a pre-print on what is and isn't a permafrost tipping point: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Hopefully coming soon to a journal near you...

“Heatwaves and wildfires are not just scorching forests, they are adding to the tipping point risks in the world’s vast permafrost regions, which contain three times more carbon than all the living vegetation on Earth.”

Population ecology Professor Tim Benton on why next year's El Nino could cause even more extreme weather and crop losses. He tells DW what fundamental changes are needed to make food supplies more stable and resilient in the face of geopolitical threats and increasingly extreme weather.

We're hiring a PhD student in Marburg 🔬☀️ Topic: predictive #ageing of #perovskitePV. Nobody can yet predict how long they last, and that is the challenge standing between this technology and your roof. Deadline 13 Sept. 👉 uni-marburg.de/k7ffBi More below 🧵

Europe’s seas are experiencing heat that would have been virtually impossible in a pre-industrial climate. In the Mediterranean, summer SSTs have intensified by 3°C, far exceeding global warming, destroying marine life & dramatically altering our seas. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Nearly 400 Argentine researchers have been left jobless and uncertain about their future in science after a delay in the process for securing permanent research positions in the country. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4gzFjs6

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Cascading climate risk example: "several dozen tons" of jellyfish shut down a nuclear plant in France during a heat wave. Jellyfish swarmed due to unusually warm waters.

“Rising climate costs erode sovereign creditworthiness, which in turn limits the fiscal capacity to spend on adaptation and mitigation, leading to still larger costs in future” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Climate change and nature loss are currently disrupting economically vital European ecological infrastructure www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/b...

👋 @britishacademy.bsky.social is launching a new international policy programme on ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’. 🎬 We are starting with a call for discussion papers. Proposals are welcome from practitioners, policymakers and researchers from anywhere in the world at any stage of their career

Europe experiences another record-breaking heatwave and devastating wildfires 🌡️🥵🔥. Why should we look at Antarctica now? Our YAS-Member @ptrckflmm.bsky.social shares the valuable lessons the frozen continent has to offer when we choose to listen. More about YAS: uni-freiburg.de/frias/resear...

Too much of everything. Too little of what matters. #whatthefinal

It really baffles me how very smart European colleagues can be full of Schadenfreunde over England‘s loss for reasons that have little to do with football, while they are totally blind to the nationalist jingoism and racism displayed by a large number of Argentinian football fans…

🌊 New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean – Antarctic Bottom Water, or AABW – is shrinking faster than scientists realised, with the rate of change accelerating over the past decade. This is important because we all depend on it. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-ch...

A giant has passed. Kia ora and vale. www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

📣The Antarctic Treaty has long been a model of peace, science & environmental protection. Yet, in a world of rising tensions, the system seems incapable of living up to its own commitments. On #PRIFBlog, @ptrckflmm.bsky.social asks: How can Antarctica remain a space for peaceful cooperation?

Geopolitics, it seems, is now a key consideration in the geoengineering discussion, as I try to summarise in a new online piece: Simon Dalby “Geoengineering: Infrastructures for a Global Climate?” Oxford: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society. 2026. 16pp. lnkd.in/gUebMZkY

AI infrastructure needs freshwater for cooling. As many data centers are already located in water-stressed areas, proposals to move computation into the orbit arise. However, this could risk international security, writes Sarah McKee on #PRIFblog. Read the full piece here ⬇

“The film closes with a quote from Eisenhower, who allegedly told John F. Kennedy that the Allies won the war because, "We had better meteorologists than the Germans."”