“Severe Climate System Eruption…
“It’s almost like the planet is regurgitating the anthropogenic (human) input of the past couple hundred years within two years, the biggest planetary vomit of all time.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/13/severe-climate-system-eruption/
“Britain’s most iconic fish nears breaking point…
“Consumers in the U.K. are being warned to “completely avoid” all home-caught cod by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). The nation’s cod stocks have declined over the last decade, driven by overfishing and sea temperature changes, warns the environmental charity.”
https://mronline.org/2026/04/12/britains-most-iconic-fish-nears-breaking-point/
“Floods in Angola wash away railways, hindering critical mineral exports from the Lobito Corridor.
“…this corridor connects the mining areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Atlantic port of Lobito, mainly transporting copper, cobalt, and auxiliary materials needed for mining, making it a key supply chain for the global metals market.”
https://www.bitget.com/amp/news/detail/12560605362374
“Severe Floods in Yemen Cause Heavy Losses, Prompt Emergency Response.
“…the floods inflicted heavy damage on electricity networks, water supply systems, communications, and transport, while destroying thousands of homes and temporary shelters for displaced families.”
https://yemenonline.info/special-reports/12292
“India Predicts Below-Normal Monsoon, Threatening Crop Production.
“India is likely to witness a below-average monsoon this year, adding pressure on farmers who are already facing higher input costs following the Middle East conflict.”
“The Indo-Gangetic Plain’s heat crisis is a governance failure, not just a climate one.
“As the northern plains bake under record-breaking heat, the real emergency is not the temperature on the thermometer — it is the institutional vacuum beneath it.”
“Bangkok authorities have issued a warning that the heat index has reached a “dangerous” level.
“The warning is specifically directed at large crowds participating in outdoor Songkran festival celebrations. The extreme heat poses significant health risks, including dizziness, fatigue, and heatstroke.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40064999
“Severe Storms Batter Eastern China; Hail And Floods Hit Jiangxi, Fujian.
“A powerful storm system has unleashed chaos across Chongqing and Hunan in China, bringing level 13 wind gusts, massive hailstones, and extreme flooding. Trucks were blown away, monorail trains were flooded, and entire streets turned into rivers within minutes.”
“Waist-deep floodwaters force hundreds to evacuate Java, Indonesia.
“Hundreds of houses were affected in Indonesia’s West Java due to flooding from heavy rainfall. Key transportation routes were cut off after the Citarum River overflowed from the floods.”
“11 killed as Tropical Cyclone Maila batters Papua New Guinea.
“Maila reached Category 5 strength in Solomon Sea and caused major flooding and destruction across eastern Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.”
“Hurricanes are slowing down – and dumping far more rain than before.
“A new study suggests that rapid ocean warming isn’t just making tropical cyclones dump more rain. It may also be slowing some of them down while they’re still in their tropical phase, which is basically the worst combo if you’re on the coast or anywhere downstream.”
https://www.earth.com/news/hurricanes-are-slowing-down-and-dumping-far-more-rain-than-before/
“Cat 5 Super Typhoon Sinlaku the 2nd-strongest typhoon so early in the year…
“Tropical Cyclone Sinlaku put on a spectacular display of rapid intensification over the warm Pacific waters southeast of Guam… Update: JTWC has upgraded the winds that occurred at Sinlaku’s peak intensity to 185 mph (300 km/hr).”
“A glacier disappeared in Colombia: a critical sign of climate change advancing in mountain ecosystems.
“The disappearance of the glacier in the Cerros de la Plaza marks an environmental milestone in Colombia. In March 2026, satellite measurements confirmed that its surface area was reduced to 0 km².”
“Earth’s glaciers are on the verge of COLLAPSING: Ominous study reveals masses are shrinking at ‘alarming rates’ – with 408 gigatonnes of ice lost in 2025 alone…
“Last year was the fourth year in a row that all 19 major glacier regions across the globe experienced ice loss, it reveals.”
“HISTORIC HEAT IN COSTA RICA/Tiquicia:
“Crazy MINIMUM 29.8C at Puntarenas HOTTEST NIGHT IN COSTA RICAN HISTORY. Records of High Minimums also broken in Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. And we have no Nino – imagine what will 2027 be like.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2043310771288064245
“Florida wildfires shattering records amid long drought…
“Local fire officials and Florida’s Forest Service, which responds to fires statewide, say more than three times the fires have ignited this year versus the same period last year. And the blazes have been more severe and burned longer…”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/weather/2026/04/13/florida-wildfire-firefigher-burn-ban-drones/
“EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER NIGHT: “HISTORIC MINIMUMS 70s in nearly 2 dozens States
HUNDREDS of stations had their April Highest Minimums in history and Many more will fall next 6 days. It’s one of the most record breaking events in history.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2043741218631495929
“Wyoming – ‘It’s incredibly bad’: No end in sight to Colorado River water crisis.
“Emergency drawdown of Flaming Gorge is imminent, officials say. The water situation is crashing so rapidly that authorities can’t confidently track the extent of it.”
“Snowpack hits record-low levels across Montana.
“With dismal snowpack accumulations at mid- and low- elevations, the summertime outlook is bleak for Montana rivers and streams. That’s according to the April Water Supply Outlook the Natural Resources Conservation Service released on Tuesday.”
https://www.explorebigsky.com/snowpack-hits-record-low-levels-across-montana/170206
“No snow, no water: East Idaho’s warmest winter ever signals a desperate summer ahead.
“The numbers don’t lie — and right now they’re terrifying.
East Idaho just endured the warmest winter and early spring on record. Not one of the warmest. The warmest. Ever. Since record-keeping began in 1895. And the consequences are coming.”
“Dormant oil and gas wells in Canada release microbe-made methane at rates about 1,000 times higher than past estimates, according to new research…
“The study shows that some wells can keep feeding the atmosphere long after the oil or gas they were drilled for is gone.”
https://www.earth.com/news/dormant-oil-wells-leak-1000-times-more-methane-than-expected/
“Global warming is changing the hatching of bees and wasps.
“A large-scale experiment shows that warmth brings bees and wasps out of hibernation earlier—leaving some of them with poorer starting conditions. This is particularly true for species in cooler regions that emerge during spring.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-global-hatching-bees-wasps.html
“Collapse of key ocean current may release billions of tonnes of carbon.
“If the AMOC collapsed entirely, it could release massive amounts of carbon from the deep Southern Ocean into the atmosphere, a feedback that would warm the Earth even more.”
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Wow, what a list. 2026, the year it all came crashing down. Meh…
The first article from Counterpunch (Robert Hunziker) nails it: “the evidence over the past 24 months shows that every aspect of the climate system is already flying off the handle, and quickly.”
Don’t worry. There’s always AI.
Which will tell us that if we hadn’t devoted all that land, energy, political power, military power, and fake money to it and the tech bros, it wouldn’t have all crashed down quite as soon or as quickly.
True. Although humans’ use of land, energy, political power, military power and fake money was probably inevitable given the maximum power principle. For us idealists, however, it cuts deep and breaks our hearts.
The average American worker wastes 7.9 hrs a week on digital friction- multi factor authentication tasks, switching between work apps and devices, checking push notifications, updates, help line, whatever. It’s impacting work flow and flow state. I feel this is a factor in diminishing productivity; wasting 1 work day a week on digital friction. By 2028 it’ll be 2 days a week. This is a rough indication that digital friction is heading for 100%. AI has been touted as the big fix for diminishing productivity. Pretty soon the town will be burning down and everyone will be on a device trying to figure out what to do. It’s quite pathetic. 30 years ago we did this job with flip phones and fax machines five days a week and had zero digital friction. I quite like some elements of IT but it breached law of diminishing marginal productivity ages ago. At best AI does ok at light clerical. If you want to get a last minute bid in on a project it’ll throw together a decent basic level health and safety manual. It’ll pass first muster if that’s what you need.
Is it a Kali selection filter or reality being finally accepted that means the inane last paragraph hopium and “all we need to do is …” cobblers seems to have all but disappeared in today’s picks?
George, I am pretty sure Panopticon’s hopium links are his contribution to doomer humor i.e. he knows full well they are inane. They sure do leave us shaking our heads, don’t they?!
I wasn’t referring to the last link that Mr. P. often adds, but to each of the articles linked above – for the ones I could open there are no last paragraph messages of hope. Not so long ago there would be a guaranteed “but it’s not too late …” or “the window is rapidly closing but …”.
Oh!!!! I understand now. Interesting!!! Reality starting to dawn on more of the mainstream.
And greentopians still hang on to the comically vainglorious cope that “we” are “harming” Mother Nature, “destroying the planet”, “killing life”… HAH!
Life on earth will exist hundreds of millions years from now.
The planet is doing fantastic and will continue to for an inconceivable length of time.
We are no one’s children. The natural world, which includes us, is no one’s mother. All we ever had was each other – our paradoxical species-being, the capacity to relate to each other and the rest of nature not as individual members of a species but as social individuals who actively mediate and transform those relationships beyond the tyranny of the species and of primitive needs. We pissed it all away.
“Life on earth will exist hundreds of millions years from now.” I think so, probably. However probably not much like its current configuration of species. So “We pissed it all away” – yes, this ecosystem as we have known and loved it (even as we trashed it). 🙁
Sure, but the totality of life, the planet or nature itself doesn’t share our love for the current, or any, ecosystem. Mourning it’s destruction is, ironically, just as anthropocentric as the most myopic forms of techno-shamanism. Point being, this talk about destroying the planet is less about being emotionally attached to natural phenomena, and more about diluting our fear of collapse by conceiving of it in abstract terms.
I guess you were speaking for yourself (“our fear”). As for me, my mourning is anthropocentric. I’m a human after all. I got attached to natural phenomenon since I was very young as I was lucky enough to have parents who took us away from IC as much as possible, frequently. Personally although I know actual full blown collapse will be horrible from my human perspective, I’m not afraid of it and I actually welcome it for obvious reasons. So please don’t piss on my grief. It’s very real and not an abstraction.
We are all emotionally attached to natural phenomena because that covers everything including industrial civ. The abstraction I’m referring to is that of the specific things we are in fact attached to, not grief or fear over their correctly foreseen loss. We are the ones who shall lose them and that matters to us for our own reasons that are accountable to other people, not any supra-human ethics wherein burning fossil fuels is bad because unnatural. Just like you held me – not “nature” – accountable for pissing on your grief, which I most certainly did not. Despite the fact both of us are parts of nature like everything else.
“Save the Planet”, one of my favorite nonsensical rostrums. We can’t even save ourselves.
Sure as shit, a million years will pass and we’ll be less than forgotten.
Super Duper El Niño
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/Super-Duper%20El%20Nino.2026.04.15.pdf
There’s no time to waste being concerned about global warming, we’ve got blood to spill. There’s nothing like killing each other in extreme heat & failing water sources.
I probably wouldn’t make as a content creator; people don’t subscribe to reality or truth? I might have tens & tens of likes. 😉