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“HISTORIC HEAT IN THE ARCTIC. We are witnessing something extraordinary.
“Both Canada and Russia Arctic are with historic heat waves shattering records. 25.2C/77F yesterday at Coral Harbour; it destroys the June record. In RUSSIA we will see 35/95F in the Arctic with 75F at night!” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069811597044772868
“Arctic sea ice in the Barents Sea is a record low for this time of year and potentially on its way to the earliest melt-out on record for the summer season.
“There is an area with sharply declining ice cover for long-term trends too.”
[Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3moxekaryas2t
“China Prepares Second LNG Terminal to Receive Arctic LNG 2 Cargoes…
“The addition of Longkou marks a potentially significant logistical improvement for Arctic LNG 2 cargoes arriving via Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR), the seasonal Arctic shipping corridor that links northern Russia with Asian markets.”
“Farmers criticise government plan to counter threats to UK food security.
“…farmers criticised the plan, which outlines for the first time the government’s vision for the long-term direction of farming, for failing to adequately fund a response to this threat to the UK’s food security… “The Treasury is conspicuously absent in this plan. Instead, it tips the balance of risk even more on to the shoulders of farmers,” Bradshaw said.”
“The new June temperature record for the UK of 36.1C was provisionally set on Wednesday afternoon in Gosport, Hampshire.
“But, that could be broken for the second day in a row as temperatures soar again on Thursday, potentially reaching 37 or 38C.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cqj1ek2zpyxo
“‘It’s dangerous’: how schools, care homes and other UK workplaces are coping in searing heat…
“Care homes are expected to deploy fans and air conditioners, paddling pools and supplies of ice lollies and cold fruit. Designated cool rooms may be on offer, as well as increased monitoring of residents. Outdoor trips may be cancelled.”
“The United Kingdom is breaking humidity records.
“On Tuesday, London recorded its highest humidity level on record when the dew point reached 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius).” [Ben Noll]… “Cardiff, Wales just hit a 73°F (23°C) dew point, the exact same as Fort Lauderdale, Florida right now.” [Colin McCarthy]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2069392651544314258
“Hottest night on Dutch records expected tomorrow…
“The KNMI expects the night from Thursday to Friday to be the warmest ever recorded in the Netherlands, with temperatures not dropping below 24 [75.2F] degrees at the national weather station in De Bilt. A code orange warning for extreme heat takes effect at noon.”
“EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE – PART #1 BENELUX:
“RECORDS EVERYWHERE – NETHERLANDS: 36.1 [96.8F] Woensdrecht, 36.0 Ell, 35.8 Gilze-Rijen, 35.7 Westdorpe, 35.7 Eindhoven, 35.3 Rotterdam, 35.3 Vlissingen, 34.5 Amsterdam… BELGIUM: 36.8 Chievres, 36.4 Kleine, 35.9 Zeebrugge, 35.7 Charleroi, 35.1 Oostende, 35.1 Antwerpen.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069859768148148426
“EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE- #2 …GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND:
Few examples of THOUSANDS of records – SWITZERLAND: 36.8 [98.2F] Visp, 36.2 Buchs, 35.6 Nyon; GERMANY: 35.6 Saarbrucken, 35.6 Berus, 35.2 Tholey.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069863193648791830
“It’s melting at an apocalyptic pace the ice from 0 to 4500 meters altitude… Over 30 degrees at 1000m altitude, 40C [104F] in Annecy [France].
“Mont Blanc and its glaciers are dripping away. We’re losing our drinking water. A third heatwave is looming and all they talk about is air conditioning.” [Valerie Paumier présidente de RESILIENCE MONTAGNE]
https://x.com/Valerie_Paumier/status/2069863872664584422
“France records hottest day ever as Europe suffers brutal heat wave…
“The record of 29.8 C for France’s national thermal indicator — an average of day and nighttime temperatures measured at 30 weather stations — was only the latest in a series of never-before-registered highs heaped on Europe in this latest heat wave.”
“France has just lived the most insane extraordinary event in WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY… (2019 events are zeroes compared to this).
“Over 41C [105.8F] in The Brittany lighthouses, all time highs shattered by 6/7C… THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS >44.5C. This is INSANE! 42.2c Paris,41.1C in The Yeu Island!!!” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069865218478375135
“France recorded a high of 44.6°C [112.3F] today [Bordeaux].
“That’s so far beyond anything seen in the historical record, a 4.2 sigma deviation from the norm that it gives a return period of 87 thousand years. It’s really difficult to convey just how utterly extreme this is.” [Met4CastUK]
https://x.com/Met4CastUK/status/2069506780040761686
“Paris rooftops become hot deathtraps during France’s historic heatwave…
“Many of Paris’ buildings that look so picturesque from the outside are proving to be hostile, even dangerous for health, during the unrelenting record heat that is turning both the long summer days and short sweaty nights into battles.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-heatwave-france-deaths-europe-b3002698.html
“HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT IN SPAIN HISTORY (except Canary Islands).
“MINIMUM 31.5C Cabo de Gata. 3 consecutive Minimums >30C [86F]. Absolute insanity, never happened anything like this.”
[Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069477133370507520
“Italy: Powerful Downburst Caught on Camera Felling Tree in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
“A powerful supercell storm swept through the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy on Monday evening, June 22, generating downbursts and tornadoes that unroofed homes in Basiliano, uprooted trees in Tavagnacco, and knocked out power across Codroipo…”
“A torrential rain blocked Craiova, the second day in a row / Dozens of cars were stuck in water of more than one meter, on several streets [Romania].
“”Over 100 liters per sqm, until this hour, according to CAO estimates, after the red rainfall code. We had 24 streets flooded and four fallen trees. All the teams from the CAO are in the field, but no sewerage in the world can cope with this amount of rain…”
“Greece’s Heatwaves: 5 Times More Frequent, 7 Times Longer…
“The Greek summer is not what it was. Climate change has changed it irrevocably. This time around, Greece has escaped the brutal heatwave bearing down on Western Europe, but scientists are sounding the alarm. Over the past few decades, the country’s heatwaves have changed shape entirely…”
https://www.tovima.com/climate/greeces-heatwaves-5-times-more-frequent-7-times-longer/amp/
“Hundreds Displaced as Floods Ravage Communities in Western Ghana.
“Officials from the National Disaster Management Organisation reported that the floods have submerged homes, farmlands, roads, and public facilities, leaving families homeless and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.”
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00097213.html
“Karoo farmers thrive after record rainfall boosts grazing [South Africa]…
“In the Karoo region, we saw excessive rainfall in the Koup region (Beaufort-West, Laingsburg), in the Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg area, while the upper Karoo from Britstown to Carnarvon and Victoria-West has also been blessed with record rainfall.”
https://wandile.substack.com/p/karoo-farmers-thrive-after-record
“Wildfires Engulf Wheat Fields Across Syria.
“Raging wildfires tear through Syria’s northeastern countryside, forcing desperate residents and local farmers onto the front lines to protect what remains of their harvest. Armed only with water hoses and clothing, locals struggle to contain the advancing flames before the nation’s critical wheat fields are entirely consumed.”
https://www.wionews.com/videos/wildfires-engulf-wheat-fields-across-syria-1782287829731/amp
“EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN WEST ASIA:
“51.1C [124F] Bostan, IRAN – world highest this month; min 36.5C KUWAIT AP HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT EVER; Insane heat in UZBEKISTAN – MIN 32.2 Tamdy June record destroyed; 3 CONSECUTIVE mins >32C in Central Asia: CRAZY. Next days much worse: records all over.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069457675151110173
“Extreme Fire Alert in East Kazakhstan as Temperatures Near 50°C [122F].
“East Kazakhstan has declared the highest level of fire danger after weeks of scorching heat and virtually no rainfall, raising fears of large-scale wildfires across the region. Authorities have placed the region under Class 5 fire danger, the maximum risk category…”
https://caspianpost.com/kazakhstan/extreme-fire-alert-in-east-kazakhstan-as-temperatures-near-50-c
“India rejects Pakistan’s war threat over Indus Waters Treaty.
“India hits back: MEA called Pakistan’s war remarks over the Indus Waters Treaty a desperate attempt to hide internal failures and human rights abuses. Treaty in abeyance: India suspended the 1960 treaty in 2025 after the Pahalgam terror attack…”
“India’s driest June in over a century puts kharif season at risk.
“A year after early rains lifted planting, the 2026 monsoon has opened about a third below normal, leaving all nine major kharif states short of rain just as sowing should be gathering pace.”
“Massive dust storm hits Gurugram, Delhi, Noida; IMD issues red alert for parts of NCR.
“A dust storm swept through Haryana’s Gurugram and then proceeded to hit parts of Delhi as well a Uttar Pradesh’s Noida on Tuesday, prompting the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to issue a red alert for Delhi-NCR, forecasting rain and strong winds across the region.”
“Mumbai battered by over 300 mm [12 inches] overnight rain; traffic and trains hit.
“Mumbai woke up to flooded roads, severe traffic snarls, and disrupted train services Wednesday after an intense overnight spell of rain dumped more than 300 mm across several parts of the city…”
“It seems to me that the storms in India this season have become more intense than before in terms of wind strength.
“A man struggles to stay on his feet after fierce winds nearly swept him away during a powerful storm that struck the Indian city of Kolkata.” [Arab Storms]
https://x.com/Arab_Storms/status/2069810635416977657
“Cloudbursts: The new Himalayan nightmare.
“In the last few years alone, Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed repeated cloudbursts and extreme rainfall events, particularly in vulnerable districts such as Ramban, Kishtwar, Doda, Reasi, Kathua and parts of north and south Kashmir. Roads have been swept away, villages buried under debris and families displaced…”
https://risingkashmir.com/top-stories/cloudbursts-the-new-himalayan-nightmare-12070155
“Flash floods hit six districts in Arunachal; one dead, four missing.
“A person was killed, four others reported missing, and six districts were cut off after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods and landslides in Arunachal Pradesh, officials in the State’s Keyi Panyor district said on Wednesday.”
“Drowning desert: how Xinjiang’s infrastructure could fail under record rain [NW China].
“Rare but intense rainfall in China’s biggest desert that triggered flooding – and damage – across parts of Xinjiang has underscored the growing risks posed by extreme weather in the country’s arid northwest.”
“The Longgang River in Huangshi, Hubei Province [central China], surged 6.5 meters due to torrential rain.
“This broke the historical record for water level, turning streets into rivers.”
[Jim Yang]
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/2069787872811741243
“China has recently experienced abundant rainfall, with heat only occurring in the southernmost parts of China.
“Today, 3 stations broke their June hottest records, Chengmai reached 40.9C [105.6F], breaking Hainan province’s highest record; 1 station broke hottest Tmin record.” [Jim Yang]
https://x.com/yangyubin1998/status/2069408375084032276
“Heavy rain floods roads and halts Shinkansen services in Japan…
“Authorities reported rainfall exceeding 108 millimetres [4.3 inches] per hour as linear rain bands developed over southern Kyushu.The severe weather also led to the suspension of Kyushu Shinkansen services between Kagoshima-Chuo and Kumamoto.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/heavy-rain-floods-roads-halts-124723887.html
“Heavy rains from nearby typhoon pound Taiwan, 200 to be evacuated on east coast.
“Heavy rains from a passing typhoon caused localised flooding in Taipei and parts of southern Taiwan on Thursday, while more than 200 people on the east coast will be evacuated ahead of a possible breach of a barrier lake in the mountains.”
“SE Asia is living its most extreme June heat event in history.
“Hundreds of records are being brutalized in pieces all over the area in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam… Even all time highs are falling like 40.1C at Ding’An… Crazy MINIMUM 33.0 [91.4F] Vinh is VIETNAM HOTTEST JUNE NIGHT EVER… Heat index up to 55C!” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069814319093567937
“Hundreds mobilised overnight to contain forest fire in Central Vietnam.
“Hundreds of military personnel, police officers, forest rangers and local residents worked through the night to contain a forest fire that broke out in Nghe An province, central Vietnam, as extreme heat and strong winds fueled the spread of the blaze.”
“Papua New Guinea at risk of food shortages as El Niño brings frost and drought.
“Families across Papua New Guinea’s Highlands are facing depleted harvests and the threat of hunger after the El Niño weather pattern brought frost and prolonged dry conditions that have destroyed food gardens providing sustenance and income for thousands of households.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/el-nino-pacific-papua-new-guinea-png-food-shortages
“Think it’s hot [in Europe]? The Antarctic Peninsula is unusually warm too.
“As extreme summer heat causes disruption across the UK and Europe this week, Midwinter at Antarctica’s Rothera Research Station is becoming increasingly unrecognisable… This year marks the third time in the last four years that Rothera has had no sea ice present at midwinter.”
https://www.bas.ac.uk/news/think-its-hot-here-the-antarctic-peninsula-is-unusually-warm-too/
“June has featured record-breaking westerly wind bursts in the Pacific.
“This is causing new Kelvin wave activity that will shift more warm water toward the eastern Pacific, probably culminating in the strongest El Niño on record this year — possibly by a wide margin.” [Ben Noll]
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2069427759668228499
“Breaking News! Code: Yay!
“I finally figured out how to extract the text data from CFSv2 “nc” files. Here is my re-do of the NOAA graphic for Wednesday, June 24th [Nino 3.4 Region sea surface anomalies] using all the available data for 40 model runs.”
[Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/2069798876316610838
“Fire surge threatens Indigenous livelihoods and isolated peoples in Brazil.
“In 2025, fires caused a significant spike in forest loss in Indigenous territories in Brazil that are home to peoples living in voluntary isolation: Alto Turiaçu, Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, and Apiaká do Pontal e Isolados.”
“Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems.
“The rising global popularity of ayahuasca, driven by religious, therapeutic, and tourism purposes, has increased pressure on the Amazonian plant species used in its preparation, with reports of growing scarcity in some parts of the rainforest.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN THE CARIBBEAN. Caribbean has been smashing every record every day for months.
“Yesterday Las Americas Airport in DOMINICAN REPUBLIC rose to 35.9C [96.6F] pulverizing its record of June highest temperature in history. Every tropical country is smashing records.” [Extreme Temps]
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/2069696719051162070
“Utah officials warn of ‘totally unprecedented’ water shortages as towns run dry…
“While streams and wells run low or dry across the state, Lake Powell and other major Colorado River reservoirs are also dropping towards record low levels. Meanwhile, states still can’t agree on how to share the river during dry years after current interim guidelines expire this year.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/06/24/unprecedented-water-cuts-hit-utah/
“As Colorado River States Struggle to Reach Agreement, New Mexico Brings on a Fresh Voice…
“But Trujillo’s message of collaboration quickly collided with the intense political, economic and environmental pain brought on by decades of overallocation of the river’s water supply and poor hydrology.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23062026/tanya-trujillo-upper-colorado-river-commission/
“The concern following a record dry winter and above average temperatures in the Great Basin is coming a reality…
“Multiple intense wildfires are burning in Nevada and Utah, producing thick smoke plumes on visible satellite tonight.” [Collin Gross]
https://x.com/CollinGrossWx/status/2069602375489176035
“Boston’s record-dry start to 2026 could have bigger consequences later this year…
“We desperately needed our recent blast of rain, but I’m afraid we face bigger problems. Greater Boston and much of coastal and southern New England face the risk of wells running dry, extensive water bans, and brush fires.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/24/metro/new-england-boston-rain-deficit/
“This June has already had the most tornado reports since 1998 with another active week left in the tank.
“June-sanity (esp in IL) has been ridiculous this year.” [Eric Webb]
https://x.com/webberweather/status/2069779578344677519
“Regina hail storm going down as one of SGI’s largest in history [Saskatchewan].
“The insurance claims just keep piling up from the recent hailstorm that hit Regina two weeks ago. “It’s shaping up to be one of our largest hailstorms in history, unfortunately,” said Penny McCune, president and CEO of SGI, at a media conference in Saskatoon.”
“Uninsured losses from natural disasters and rising sea levels could cost the global economy up to $41.4t over the next two decades.
“According to a new report by Moody’s, it warned that a widening “insurance protection gap”—the shortfall between total economic damage and what insurance companies actually pay out—now poses a systemic risk to global stability.“
https://insuranceasia.com/insurance/news/uninsured-climate-losses-could-hit-414t-moodys
“Hedge Fund Targets $500 Million for El Niño Crop Risk Trade.
“The growing threat posed by a so-called “super El Niño” to global food supplies is spurring the creation of a new commodities fund. …“We think it’s going to be a dramatic reshaping of the global food situation,” Finemore said in a video interview from Mexico City. “We feel like today the market is seriously mis-pricing that risk.”“
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Warm and muggy everywhere… sigh.
I’ll be hooo-oome for chwis-mwaaas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBfjcyEQe4
Ahh, the crisp chill of a December morning sounds good right about now, Jupiviv.
Temps were only 23C / 73.4F here on Islay today but this house is designed to maximise heat retention and humidity has been up around 90%. 🫠
Unrelated, but Lionel Richie was discussed in yesterday’s comments section thanks to Rob’s splendid pastiche of “All Night Long”. He has taken ill, unfortunately. I hope it is not too serious:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lionel-richie-minnesota-show-ill-on-stage-1235583728/
Earthquakes in Venezuala: https://www.reuters.com/world/venezuela-earthquake-live-high-casualties-likely-after-two-strong-quakes-2026-06-25/
I’m sure the USA will be there to help any damaged oil infrastructure get back on it’s feet…meh.
We’re a stupid species
No Smarter than Yeast
Don’t compliment this species, it’s ego is already to large. 😉
>>> Multiple intense wildfires are burning in Nevada and Utah, producing thick smoke plumes on visible satellite tonight.
Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Wildfires in Canada and the USA:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-maps.html
“Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Wednesday that winds and extraordinarily dry trees are fueling a wildfire in southwest Utah burning so hot and fast that “there’s no end in sight.”
““There’s a very good chance that this is already the most destructive fire in the state’s history,” Cox said of the Cottonwood Fire burning 230 miles south of Salt Lake City.”
https://dailydispatch.com/fire-news/utah/cox-says-theres-no-end-in-sight-to-wildfire-that-could-be-utahs-most-destructive-ever/
India bans sugar exports .
” India is running low on sugar reserves, and the 2026 monsoon has started on a weak note.
That combination could become a major inflation risk.
🌧️ Weak rains → lower sugarcane yields
📉 Tight sugar stocks → reduced supply
☕ Higher sugar prices → costlier chai, sweets, beverages, and processed foods
India is the world’s second-largest sugar producer, so any significant production shortfall doesn’t just impact consumers—it can ripple through food inflation and global sugar markets.
The next few weeks of monsoon rainfall are now critical.
If rains don’t improve, your morning cup of chai may be the first place where the impact becomes visible.
Will the monsoon recover in time, or is another food inflation cycle already underway?
The rice crop is decimated . 43% rain deficit . This is average . In the bread basket region it is 65-75 % .
“https://scroll.in/latest/1093790/43-rain-deficit-so-far-kharif-crops-likely-to-be-hit-centre% rain deficit so far, kharif crops likely to be hit: Centre .”
https://scroll.in/latest/1093790/43-rain-deficit-so-far-kharif-crops-likely-to-be-hit-centre
Thank you for those updates, Ravi.
“…it can ripple through food inflation and global sugar markets.”
Global food price inflation is an absolute given next year when the lagging effects of the current fertilizer shortage and El Nino hit. That is going to be very destabilising, especially in countries where households spend half their budget on food, which is a good chunk of the Global South. Governments lose legitimacy rapidly under that kind of duress, as they did in the Arab Spring.
Are Europeans so bent on suffering they actually always hang out half naked in the blazing mid-day sun, or is it just mad Englishmen?
These heatwave stories ought to feature cattle sweltering in the shade of a lone tree, surrounded by swaths of bare hot fields. Or a shot of liquid tarmac. How are we to survive with no imagination?
Ah, there’s one. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260625-latest-developments-in-europe-s-heatwave caption is “People have taken to the shade to try to beat the heatwave in France.”
Followed by headlines:
France shuts nuclear reactors
Another child dies in France
Scores of heat deaths in Spain
101 million face +35C
UN blames fossil fuel pollution (as if anyone with a five cent brain disagrees)
Heat is dangerous, even deadly. So get out there and have fun!
Shane, the editorial choice of using frivolous pictures of people enjoying the sun to illustrate articles about dangerous heatwaves has long been a bête noire of climate realists.
I don’t feel strongly either way, tbh. Here in the UK, where aircon is limited in homes and work-places, it makes sense for people to seek out a cooling sea-breeze or body of water to jump in.
I did spot a rather good picture of an electric London bus erupting in flames yesterday but alas not in time to include it in the thread:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bus-fire-westbourne-park-london-depot-b1287521.html
Yes, more burning buses sounds right! Let me say Pan I am so amazed at the visuals you come up with here. Sometimes I wonder if you are tapped into cell phones around the world. “Flooding in Quzhou? We got your photo!” As for water sports, I understand the benefits, and I did enjoy these in a younger age, but I’ve come to love shade more and more.
Holy alpaca lips . . .
An original exclamation there, Mike! 💋
This seems very trivial compared to today’s climate feed. Here in northern Maine thunder storms have traditionally been very unusual. We had our 4th yesterday. Incredibally powerful and it is just June.
One of the valuable things about the comments here is local reporting, so thanks for sharing that. I encourage everyone to weigh in about their locale, when it makes sense.
Agreed! South Ontario is having a cooler and wetter June than normal, which is pleasant TBH, but a few T-storms are earlier than is typical. Blueberry season is almost upon us, but a farmer told me she lost half her plants due to early winter onset last November (the leaves didn’t have time to drop, which was apparently fatal). Damn, they’re my favourite.
Not at all, Duke. Storms becoming more frequent and more intense in places where they used to be rare is very much part of the story.
Islay is right in the bullseye tomorrow:
https://x.com/UKWX_/status/2070147065137504324
Oceans are now giving back the heat we have been dumping into them, suddenly it is a shock of heat waves around the globe. Who predicted this extreme speed of transformation?
Are the deniers waking up to this “new” reality? All humanity knew that was stable and predictable traded for a few generations of unsustainable consumption.
Here is the USA the 250th party is about to take over the media news cycle while many of us are grieving the loss of a livable planet. Has the epitaph been written?
Black peat, if X is anything to go by, deniers are doubling down, apparently enraged that their worldview is being challenged by immediate, real world events.
A killer thread – literally. 😱
Regarding “Hedge Fund Targets $500 Million for El Niño Crop Risk Trade”
“The growing threat posed by a so-called “super El Niño” to global food supplies is spurring the creation of a new commodities fund.
Hedge fund Moreton Capital Partners is targeting $500 million for a special-purpose vehicle to trade multiple commodities that stand to be impacted by the weather phenomenon, including South African corn, Malaysian palm oil and Australian wheat. The markets are underestimating risks, according to Moreton’s co-founder Les Finemore.”
Well placed by Pan in the sick humor/insane category he usually posts as the final article. “Let’s make money off world hunger!” Woo hoooooo!
Thanks, Cassandra.
I guess Moreton Capital Partners could come out on the wrong side of this speculation but it seems pretty solid to me. I’d be interested to know which funds are brave enough to be on the other side of these trades! This El Nino is looking worse by the day:
“Ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are already exceeding or approaching strong El Niño levels. All Niño regions are record warm except for Niño 1+2, which was warmer only at this time in 1983. These are huge anomalies for this time of year.”
https://x.com/BenNollWeather/status/2070148886161940872
As the suffering of the taxi driver with his sweltering head stuck out the cab window reminds me, since cabbies are often from foreign climes, of ICE, as in Police, while driving his ICE machine that is the main driver of ice melting from glaciers. Every thing is connected, as drivers by the millions, wiling in the heat, get into their living room-sized portable furnaces and herd together into cities that are already suffering the intense urban heat island effect. If you can’t get to the wildfires, bring the wiled fires into the hottest environment in your vicinity. Cool idea.
While wheat fields burst into flames in Syria, in the US vast corn fields are deliberately ignited under the hoods of millions of ICE machines; while India suffers from low sugar supplies, Brazil sets theirs on fire 🔥 under the hoods of millions of their own ICE machines, with AC cranked, the level of food incineration of Brazilian crops only intensifies.
This is the green solution our Corpogovernance has spawned to alleviate global warming.
People starve to feed the machines; swelter so that silicon wafers can stream YouTube videos from well-cooled server farms, whose ginormous footprints crush actual farms beneath tons of copper, steel and concrete, their cooling systems sucking the aquifers dry, using more water than the fields whose yields used to feed humanity and its domesticated animals.
There is no problem that our structure of government-for-corporate-profit can’t make exponentially worse, yet make money from, thereby calling the solution, no matter how disastrous, a resounding success. Because, in our constructed reality, as long as it is profitable, it is a success; if it generates tax revenue, what’s the problem? Look! Hundreds of billionaires! The system works!
The trillion dollar IPO of a company called SpaceX, that actually sends nothing into space; that launches a satellite network called Starlink, that has nothing to do with any star, proves how clever we are at fooling ourselves.
Rob, that is a rant with characteristic flair.
It is hard not to see the SpaceX IPO as the apogee of human hubris and excess, but no doubt some even more absurd monument to speculative mania will emerge if Ind Civ manages to squeak out a few more years.
Elon is now no longer a trillionaire, I see:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex
https://youtu.be/7x8DVjvE6MM?is=hPpHOaSrrsaDBZBp
A clip about oil traders and physical reality of the oil problems coming to the market
Thank you for this, Heather. Refreshing to hear a voice of reason amidst all the giddy relief.
We’ll be having none of that reason, logic or critical thinking on this rock. We’ve had none to this point, why start now? 😉
One of the key differences I note between wildfire crews in the 90’s (when I was working fireline) and wildfire crews today is that today’s crews are almost completely devoid of peer pressure to do a good job. Every personnel problem is the leaders problem. It’s a sloppy jobs program. If you’re waiting for these hero’s to come save your home from wildfire you’re in for a surprise. Most of them can’t name 2 trailer hitch sizes.