Climate-Denying Preppers Want You to Believe That The El Niño is Driving the 2026 Heatwaves.
Did the El Niño drive the heatwaves in 2025? No! 3 years running, we have had heatwaves, and for 5 years running, we have had short heatwave periods. Over a period of 7 years, we have had a trend of reduced summer rain. The current trend observed in the South of England is very little rain between April and October. The Mega El Niño has been super hyped, but it isn’t driving Europe’s heat domes. In June 2026, in 1 week, 20,000 people in Europe died. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532825-june-heatwave-may-have-killed-around-20000-people-in-europe/
And now it’s wildfires across Europe, including the UK. Europe heatwave latest: Wildfires force 20,000 to flee homes in France as Spain burns in 40C heat
There is a desperation to deny the core realities of climate change from the Political Right and to some extent the Left, and for all the same reasons. Then there’s toxic Positivity and climate denial: sides of the same coin; business as usual is the central theme for both sides.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a Shamanic Practitioner putting out a message of believing you are leaving a world we can all be proud of or a prepper building your larder shelves on YouTube. Business as usual, the continuation of civilisation, and the Grift are central to the entire belief system. The expectation is that the Climate/physical world won’t change much, as the global climate goes through a phase-change from the niche climate for human civilisations to flourish, which they have, in cycles of technological advancement, built megaliths and city-states, and then collapsed. Mostly due to localised ecological. Now this GLOBAL civilisation has modified the climate from niche to an uninhabitable catastrophic ecological crisis faster than it would be expected to outside of an out-of-space collision. But some people feel they need to tell a story about the climate with no foundation in real science, but more closely aligned to their politics
Heatwaves mean Droughts and no rain in a country whose agriculture is dependent on rain. Preparedness for climate change has to be a skills, community and knowledge-based endeavour because it’s how we will live for the rest of our lives. In the new Climate changing in front of us. Water is becoming scarce from April to October, and one of the few ways to plan for this is to process shower wastewater into the garden and to harvest rainwater at scale for household use, if necessary.
Why We Don’t Understand That This Is The Post-Anthropocene: We Have Lost The Goldilocks Climate Niche For Agriculture. The world’s climate & Ecosphere is Phase-Changing.
NO Climate = No Food. Goldilocks- meaning just right. Now is the time for adaptation. Everything else is just hopium. We don’t understand it because the change is both fast and gradual enough for us not to worry too much. Social Media has made it easy to pretend through the spread of misinformation and disinformation intended to create chaos and polarisation. The Cult of ME, my opinion and offensive ideas, I’m talking mostly about magical thinking and delusions.
If you are denying the science, then of course the quack ideas fit perfectly; keep doing them, but it’s when it comes to sunscreen: it was invented 41,000 years ago. “Around 41,000 years ago the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion weakened Earth’s magnetic field to about 10 % of its normal strength, boosting UV radiation. Researchers argue that modern humans responded by applying iron‑oxide ochre and wearing tailored clothing—a prehistoric sunscreen—that may have aided their survival while Neanderthals lacked such protection, and note that the magnetic field is presently weakening again.” https://weather.com/science/news/2025-04-23-research-radiation-humans-neanderthals-sunscreen
Adaptation is Key & It’s Not Going To Be Transformative
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops. As I have already said, this isn’t the El Niño; this is anthropogenic climate change, and it has changed the climate we used to grow grain in. Adaptation is required. Adaptation requires an open mind to understand the crisis. If your fixation is on migrants or justifying the use of AI as a spiritual training bot, you have lost sight of the adaptation imperative. The foods and crops we ate are going extinct.
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe. Gardening is becoming increasingly difficult as the heat sucks moisture out of the ground, even if you are famine gardening. I will be diverting the household wastewater outlet from the sewer to directly irrigate the vegetable garden to maintain soil moisture
The post-anthropocene requires immediate adaptation because we are sleepwalking into a global famine. The Post-Anthropocene is the Neo-Pliocene epoch, the geological time period spanning from about 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago is closer to where we are now climatically, and it’s a new climate. Many of our native edible species can survive this climate because they evolved during this Pliocene.
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We Aim To Avoid The Dunning-Kruger Pitfall
“People tend to hold overly favourable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realise it.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/ That’s rather unfortunate: the same applies for the El Niño, AMOC collapse and Civilisation Collapse
