The above image of a table was posted on Reddit on June 11th 2025. Listing supposedly rather conservative ❲*❳ forecasts, it has us reach 4 °C warming since pre-industrial times by 2090 – in a best-case scenario. Way off plan and much agreement, no matter how firmly 🥂 agreed upon at many such an agreement.
't Is like 39.2 °F. 4 °C? If you care to know —
“There is no "adaptation" to such steep warming.
We must stop pandering to special interests” 🤔
❲*❳ Shaking off this misguided inclination toward the conservative, there
are
were
😔 people like Richard Crim ❲and what if it were a pseudonym?❳
enlightening us with his “Crisis Reports” on Substack as
well as Reddit posts
like this one
from July 5th, which prompted me to write the below. Some would dismiss, or grossly underappreciate,
the information he's was trying to get across merely because he "writes wrote funny" or
has had no platform or weather-related education; but if it weren't for him, I wouldn't have
known of many basic concepts like
Earth's energy imbalance — the
💤 ZJs
of energy the oceans are absorbing as we speak and as they have been doing for
quite a while now.. Saving for a rainy day, like.
To put a joule in perspective: a bit of sunshine makes for ~1400 joules per second per square metre. To put a zettajoule in perspective: humanity's annual energy consumption is about half a ZJ. Then to put into perspective the zettajoules our oceans absorb, there is the Hiro ❲**❳ for a unit: the energy carried by the infamous atomic bomb. The asteroid that killed most all 🐦 dinosaurs released an estimated 10 billion Hiros into the climate system in one day; and in 2023 – somewhere at the end of the not-so-curvy Keeling Curve shown below – about 471 million Hiros went into the oceans. 🫠
¶
❲**❳ For an April 30th year/Lord 2026 insert:
¶
In memory of all the smug conceited willingly complacent
people thinking of “the bigger picture” or casually trusting “we'll just
tech our way out of the mess like we've always done”,
let's wrap this page up with the below image I done took from the rocket scientists at
NASA, to put in perspective the
10,000 years of CO₂ pictured above:
Technology won't save us, either — what convinced you so?
I could have made the effort of adding a sort of YOU ARE HERE
pale blue dot someplace at the bottom
right of that last chart, to mark out the 10K out of a 100, but it'd be nothing
the aforementioned Al Gore didn't come up with already, some literal two decades ago
(June 30th, 2006/384), in the movie film
An Inconvenient Truth, not soberingly
prescient enough.
¶
So not just for now, but once and for all..
🧊 once and for all !
..let's keep on living in the precious now, which, after all, 🐠 iss..
“all
we can do”, innit.
Tom,
6/7/25
“But if the political mood has darkened, one last data point shines out to me like a beacon: in 2026, the world may well spend more on green energy in total than it devotes to military spending.”
🎼 ..look on the brii-iight 🎶 si-ide of life, we always could, I suppose. All the same –
“There will be no negotiation, no discussion, no nothing.”
But then why worry now.
“I’ll reserve worrying for when this comes true. Nothing to do about it in the short term, lots to do in the long term, and it’s not like far out ENSO predictions have less than a 50% accuracy or anything.”
Could be quoting here all day, so why not just, 'till the end of it all. 😒 About the Zuck and other aberrant humans building bunkers perhaps:
“Instead of leveraging their wealth and power to make the world a better place, they are choosing to accelerate the destruction so they can die alone in a nice tomb.”
Or about, ut supra, the weird $9 trillion collapse machine that is “AI”, hubris and money and destruction of the physical, tangible, most basic of conditions that make life possible:
“The tech billionaires talk excitedly about "existential risk," but it is abundantly clear that none of them has any conception of systemic risk.”
For an April 2026 PS aside: elsewhere or two I lamented the fate of
Aptenodytes forsteri, 🐧 the emperor penguin. A prominent
victim of what we Homo sapiens have brought upon the world, collateral damage
of our splendid accomplishment: a highly photogenic icon of nature's
random splendour poised to leave disappear from this world not by its own
volition or way of life, just casually obliviously snuffed out by our mostly just as
oblivious gluttony.
Not colouring meself surprised, then, to read, halfway said April 2026 AD, that those imperial penguins have, indeed, made it onto some Red List. 😔 The game is closed – has been for at least half a century. Ever more of us will notice, or shall realise, all farrr too late to change❲, of❳ course, too.
🥀 Coldly then will the moon shine upon our nightmare. 🌝 And who will be there to remember how the end came to pass. Not with.. but a whimper.
🫥
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