Great question. For the past couple weeks I've seen a lot of speculation on El Ninõ and recently there was an article claiming that it's "‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching. Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/el-nino-supersizing-before-our-eyes-united-nations 🤷♂️
Remember the 1970s, when global cooling and Aerosols in the air caused the ozone layer to open up? That was a fun lie; we don't have an ozone hole anymore.
Post-War Industrialization: Rapid industrial growth and burning of fossil fuels surged aerosol emissions globally.
Global Dimming: Sulfate particles reflected incoming sunlight back into space, causing a 4–5% per decade drop in sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and masking a substantial portion of greenhouse gas warming.
Health and Environmental Toll: Severe air pollution, acid rain, and respiratory illness triggered major policy pushback.
The Turning Point and Clean Air Acts (1970s–1990s)
Legislative Action: The U.S. passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 (with vital 1977 and 1990 amendments), and European nations enacted strict pollution controls to target acid rain and smog.
Emissions Flattening: Western nations successfully curtailed sulfur and particulate matter emissions, ending the mid-century cooling trend and allowing underlying greenhouse warming to emerge.
21st Century Acceleration (2000s–Present)
Global Transition: The turning point for total anthropogenic aerosol forcing shifted from increasing to declining globally in the first decade of the 21st century as controls spread.
Unmasking Warming: Reduced aerosol "cooling" and lower cloud reflectivity unmasked trapped heat from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, measurably accelerating decadal warming rates post-2005.Co-Benefits vs.
Trade-offs: While cleaner air saves millions of human lives annually, it simultaneously removes the invisible atmospheric brake on climate change, intensifying regional heatwaves and altering tropical circulation patterns.
On Saturday, 2026 set a record for the longest a season has begun without a storm that has reached winds of 74 mph (119 kph) to qualify as a hurricane — at least in the satellite era, said Nick Novella, a meteorologist at the government’s Weather Prediction Center. Before the 1950s there were a few years where no hurricanes were recorded this late in the season, but meteorologists don’t trust those records because ocean monitoring wasn’t complete.
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“It’s really staggering, just how inhospitable the Atlantic is to anything that could form a tropical cyclone right now,” said Kristen Corbosiero, a University at Albany atmospheric science professor. “Anything that tries to form is just getting this triple whammy” of winds that decapitate a storm, dry air that starves it and downward pushing winds that basically stomp it.
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Great question. For the past couple weeks I've seen a lot of speculation on El Ninõ and recently there was an article claiming that it's "‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching. Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/el-nino-supersizing-before-our-eyes-united-nations 🤷♂️
"Climate crisis"
LOL. I've been hearing that for 30 fucking years.
Remember the 1970s, when global cooling and Aerosols in the air caused the ozone layer to open up? That was a fun lie; we don't have an ozone hole anymore.
The Rise and Peak of Aerosols (1950s–1980s)
Post-War Industrialization: Rapid industrial growth and burning of fossil fuels surged aerosol emissions globally.
Global Dimming: Sulfate particles reflected incoming sunlight back into space, causing a 4–5% per decade drop in sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and masking a substantial portion of greenhouse gas warming.
Health and Environmental Toll: Severe air pollution, acid rain, and respiratory illness triggered major policy pushback.
The Turning Point and Clean Air Acts (1970s–1990s)
Legislative Action: The U.S. passed the Clean Air Act in 1970 (with vital 1977 and 1990 amendments), and European nations enacted strict pollution controls to target acid rain and smog.
Emissions Flattening: Western nations successfully curtailed sulfur and particulate matter emissions, ending the mid-century cooling trend and allowing underlying greenhouse warming to emerge.
21st Century Acceleration (2000s–Present)
Global Transition: The turning point for total anthropogenic aerosol forcing shifted from increasing to declining globally in the first decade of the 21st century as controls spread.
Unmasking Warming: Reduced aerosol "cooling" and lower cloud reflectivity unmasked trapped heat from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, measurably accelerating decadal warming rates post-2005.Co-Benefits vs.
Trade-offs: While cleaner air saves millions of human lives annually, it simultaneously removes the invisible atmospheric brake on climate change, intensifying regional heatwaves and altering tropical circulation patterns.
The real crisis is the climate of retards.
From the article:
Wow. It's almost like climate is variable or something.
Strong El Nino.
No Atlantic hurricanes and a possible warmer than normal winter?
That's fine with me.