Originally published Sep 6, 2023. Edited 17 October 2026 without changing the content, except for this: Doomers don’t like being right about the future, but we are a strange lot. We know what is coming and are calm in the face of complete erasure of all that we know. Some of us prepare, but it’s probably a futile exercise in this climate flux and the Pyrocene.
The Age of Fire
The Northern Boreal Forests are on fire; there are wildfires across southern Europe, Tenerife, South America & Hawaii.
These fires are driven by climate change and global heating and are now being referred to by the UN as Global Boiling.
The planet’s rising temperatures are driven by population growth, mass consumption, overshoot, and increased burning of Fossil Fuels. We know, but the fossil fuel companies suppressed the information in exchange for profit & extinction.
I know some preppers will read this and just say it’s bullshit and then interchange weather with climate and say things like the climate and weather change all the time. The 1st problem is that weather is not climate, and the second is that for the last 8- 10,000 years the climate has been stable, with minor fluctuations caused by Milankovitch cycles, El Niño & La Niña, and volcanic events. It has been at least 12,000 years since the last Earth impact event which affected the global climate, possibly ending the last ice age. Climate change typically occurs over geologic timescales.
Today, we are in the midst of abrupt and irreversible climate change. Its onset now is rapid & this is what is driving the 6th mass extinction. Glaciers and ice sheets across the globe are melting at astonishing and alarming rates. This is catastrophic for some species like Emperor Penguins now, and most of the rest of all life on Earth.
“Emperor penguin colonies experienced unprecedented breeding failure in a region of Antarctica where there was total sea ice loss in 2022. The discovery supports predictions that over 90% of emperor penguin colonies will be quasi-extinct by the end of the century, based on current global warming trends”
The Dangers of High Temperatures & Humidity for Humans, Other Animals & Agriculture
Rising temperatures are affecting harvests and creating uncertainty in agricultural futures.
Know, it’s a left-wing paper, but the right-wing press don’t want you to know that climate change is a problem, that it could result in famine, drought, pandemic, mass internal and external refugees, and civilisation collapse.
Periods of severe heat turn nature into a tinderbox. Putting plants under severe stress. The Northern Boreal Forests are burning! Increased temperatures have thawed the permafrost. The Boreal Forest fires are destroying the last great wildernesses. The last of Earth’s great carbon sinks is losing its carbon.
We were told 1.5°C was catastrophic; we will likely be at 1.5-1.8 by 2024. Will the story now be 1.5 is tolerable, 2°C is where we are aiming to stop. Proff James E. Hansen is probably the best authority on where Earth is headed: Global Warming in the Pipeline for Earth.
Forest animals are dying in their 1000s in these forest fires.
Human mortality from Severe Heat
“The actual death is often caused by a heart attack or organ failure.
Lee says she’s heard that people might even be filled with euphoria near the end stages of hyperthermia, like those who experience hypothermia—a loss of body heat.
For some, this process happens quickly—sometimes within two or three hours. That’s part of what makes it so lethal: You can go from feeling bothered by the heat to dead in 90 minutes.”
https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/07/14/whats-it-like-to-die-from-the-heat/#:~:text=The%20actual%20death%20is%20often,within%20two%20or%20three%20hours
When the combination of heat and humidity means a person or animal can no longer cool down naturally, such as by sweating, death can follow quickly unless you can find a way to cool down manually, like moving to cool, dense shade, drinking cold drinks and receiving first aid from a heat stroke specialist SAR.
When the temperature exceeds 27°C and humidity is high, the body loses the ability to sweat. Sweating is how the body cools itself.
A combination of heat and humidity is known as a wet-bulb temperature. The charts below may be downloaded and kept for future reference. It’s important to be able to measure temperature & humidity accurately.
Stay ahead of the curve. -/+2° accuracy
Stay hydrated, drink iced drinks, stay out of the Sun, get into a cool paddling pool, get your clothes wet, take things slow, avoid alcohol and use hydration electrolytes.
Stay safe.
Severe cold can be coped with with clothing and fire. Severe heat is a struggle for life.
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