Super El Niño continues to strengthen as new forecasts push toward record levels, with Fall and Winter 2026/2027 impacts emerging across the United States, Canada, and Europe
I’m not saying it isn’t valid asking about the consequences for one’s own inhabiting geographic region. It’s quite expected as we experience the physical objective reality from inside each one of our subjective perspectives. And, to a certain extent, knowing about the consequences expected for one’s own country (e.g. Germany) even helps building climate awareness (i.e. so we get to be aware of how it’s not something distant from where we’re currently breathing and how it’s gonna affect each one of us).
What I’m trying to say, however, is that we shouldn’t ignore the fact that this is far from a localized matter.
It’s a global matter.
Mother Nature doesn’t even remotely take our political borders into Her considerations. She doesn’t care about how we had split the surface of Planet Earth into 2x2 hemispheres, 24 “time zones” and hundreds of so-called “countries” and “economic blocs”. Birds migrate and fly across hemispheres regardless of our migratory and passport/visa bureaucracies, viruses and pathogens will reach places as remote as Kiribati (see COVID-19 and H1N1, for example; needless to say, climate change leads to increased likelihood of pandemic events)…
When I hear about the typhoons striking China, or the simultaneous drought-flood that happened in Africa, or the heat wave striking Europe, I’m aware of how is connected with mechanisms (including, but not limited to, a supercharged ENSO) that will also affect the state of Minas Gerais where I’m currently sat down to write this reply, no matter how these places are dozens of thousands of kilometers away from me, and I’m aware how those phenomena will take place geographically closer to me as well, and how indeed it already happened when towns within “Interior paulista” (regions within the Brazilian state of São Paulo) recently got practically destroyed by a storm.
See, Earth is this hermetically-enclosed cosmic Petri dish wandering through the void veil of Laniakea Supercluster as She (Earth) revolves around a G2-type star. All the fauna (including this species self-labeled “Homo sapiens”) and flora living inside it have no means of resorting to other Petri dish (despite the fever dream of “colonizing Mars” from a specific wannabe-god Homo sapiens individual) if it’s rendered unable to sustain life due to a broken ecosystem, and a broken ecosystem isn’t limited to Germany or other European countries, or USA, or Canada, or China, or India, or Kenya, or Moçambique, or Brazil, or Kiribati… a broken ecosystem means a broken ecosystem everywhere. This is a fact, a fact we must consider as we get faced by more frequent and harsher ecological catastrophes leading to ever-higher death tolls; hence my earlier reply about this interconnectedness and the need to try and not miss the forest for the trees.
It’s worth mentioning, this community is “World news” and even the linked article, despite being focused on the Northern Hemisphere, mentions how it’s an ongoing phenomenon with worldwide reaches (e.g. “This circulation change affects the global atmosphere”). The emphasis on the global aspects of those phenomena is, thus, a must.
I’m not saying it isn’t valid asking about the consequences for one’s own inhabiting geographic region. It’s quite expected as we experience the physical objective reality from inside each one of our subjective perspectives. And, to a certain extent, knowing about the consequences expected for one’s own country (e.g. Germany) even helps building climate awareness (i.e. so we get to be aware of how it’s not something distant from where we’re currently breathing and how it’s gonna affect each one of us).
What I’m trying to say, however, is that we shouldn’t ignore the fact that this is far from a localized matter.
It’s a global matter.
Mother Nature doesn’t even remotely take our political borders into Her considerations. She doesn’t care about how we had split the surface of Planet Earth into 2x2 hemispheres, 24 “time zones” and hundreds of so-called “countries” and “economic blocs”. Birds migrate and fly across hemispheres regardless of our migratory and passport/visa bureaucracies, viruses and pathogens will reach places as remote as Kiribati (see COVID-19 and H1N1, for example; needless to say, climate change leads to increased likelihood of pandemic events)…
When I hear about the typhoons striking China, or the simultaneous drought-flood that happened in Africa, or the heat wave striking Europe, I’m aware of how is connected with mechanisms (including, but not limited to, a supercharged ENSO) that will also affect the state of Minas Gerais where I’m currently sat down to write this reply, no matter how these places are dozens of thousands of kilometers away from me, and I’m aware how those phenomena will take place geographically closer to me as well, and how indeed it already happened when towns within “Interior paulista” (regions within the Brazilian state of São Paulo) recently got practically destroyed by a storm.
See, Earth is this hermetically-enclosed cosmic Petri dish wandering through the void veil of Laniakea Supercluster as She (Earth) revolves around a G2-type star. All the fauna (including this species self-labeled “Homo sapiens”) and flora living inside it have no means of resorting to other Petri dish (despite the fever dream of “colonizing Mars” from a specific wannabe-god Homo sapiens individual) if it’s rendered unable to sustain life due to a broken ecosystem, and a broken ecosystem isn’t limited to Germany or other European countries, or USA, or Canada, or China, or India, or Kenya, or Moçambique, or Brazil, or Kiribati… a broken ecosystem means a broken ecosystem everywhere. This is a fact, a fact we must consider as we get faced by more frequent and harsher ecological catastrophes leading to ever-higher death tolls; hence my earlier reply about this interconnectedness and the need to try and not miss the forest for the trees.
It’s worth mentioning, this community is “World news” and even the linked article, despite being focused on the Northern Hemisphere, mentions how it’s an ongoing phenomenon with worldwide reaches (e.g. “This circulation change affects the global atmosphere”). The emphasis on the global aspects of those phenomena is, thus, a must.
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