It's not perplexing. The worst of humanity — the criminals, the psychopaths, the sociopaths, the pedophiles, the corrupt — are all attracted to positions of wealth and power.

Ethics and morality are complex/expensive. They can only exist in an environment of abundance. The only thing separating us from cavemen is education; the ability to document and transfer information across generations; the ability to produce excess resources than we need to survive. Self-sacrifice is basically rejecting those baser survival instincts of physical pleasure and worldly possessions for some ephemeral concept of "the greater good". That's what we need right now, but capitalism explicitly rewards the baser instinct of selfishness and greed with wealth and power, so the most greedy and selfish of humanity prevail.

It doesn't matter than civilization was built on cooperation or collective effort, or that selfishness and greed are a regressive, unproductive, dead end that will doom us all. Selfishness and greed only need to prevail long enough to destroy the foundations of civilization, like a stable climate and agriculture. Once those are gone, abundance ends, and we're back to focusing on our survival in hourly/daily increments.

Don't Look Up made so angry when watching it, because all of it was true. Everything the movie shows is true. I couldn't even laugh at the jokes.

We're crashing out. It's common knowledge at this point.

This isn't even my final form-kind of vibes.

Super el niño is +1.5°C, this one will be around 3-4

It's one of those things where some agencies count it as "average surface temp" over weeks, while others count the average over weeks. So maybe Australia called it the biggest El Nino several weeks ago, but now some other country is able to agree because more weeks have elapsed.

Its a gradual process. Its not due to reach its peak for another few months afaik.

La Chancla

wow, look at that, I know Spanish!

We'll make it through 2026 and not even get a chance to come up for air. Of course. 🫩

End of days party at my house. Come on over.

and respect the browser settings, not making me go change the mode manually (I know I know, compared to this new it's kinda minor, but after El'nino people there will burn their eyes without dark mode associated to the complete blackout !)

I'm numb to the "once in a lifetime" crises at this point.

It's not always that simple. Warmer atmosphere also makes stronger wind, and the wind shear makes it harder for hurricanes to organize into strong cyclones. Traditionally, El Niño years make stronger Pacific cyclones but weaker Atlantic ones.