Retired professor of mathematics and computer science, casino consultant, author of 4 books: 3 on casino games & 1 poetry book. Now I volunteer, walk a lot & feed local critters.
Climate blog: climatecasino.net
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
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Nino region 3.4 SST update for June 8.
By year's end: a global temperature spike, record floods & droughts, massive heatwaves & storms, global crop failures & famine, wildfires, dead coral and other marine life, inflation and infrasructure collapse.
Your mileage may vary.
Prof. Eliot Jacobson
Normalcy bias alert!
I'm looking at forecasts for the coming El Nino, and it's like a fucking comet coming right at us. I've been trying to write about it, but I can't find the words. Maybe tomorrow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalc...
My latest on substack:
climatecasino.substack.com/p/the-start-...
An updated forecast for the coming El Nino.
Your thoughts?
Your 'doom quote' for today:
“We are heading for an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”
www.nytimes.com/1982/05/11/w...
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
The latest data for "Total Column Precipitable Water" was just posted by ECMWF, and the 36-month running mean for the Northern mid-latitudes, where over 50% of humans live, set yet another new record high.
More car soup!
Your 'moment of doom' for June 9, 2026 ~ Optimism bias.
"The number of annual heat-related emergency department visits or hospitalizations across the US are set to rise from about 109,000 cases a year to as many as 237,000 cases by 2040..."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Your 'hope porn' quote for today:
"One way or another, let’s bust open our collective imagination, so we can resolve to meet the emergencies we face, and mobilize around solutions as big as the crises we confront."
energymixweekender.substack.com/p/3-steps-to...
Your 'moment of doom' for June 10, 2026 ~ Godzilla!
"these impacts reveal not just a climate event, but a global system in which environmental shocks are transmitted through supply chains, unequal trade and energy provision and consumption..."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2026 ~ Willfull ignorance.
"A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations"
The vast majority of us know climate change is an emergency. A great many of us aren’t so sure what to do about it. Seth Klein says it begins with imagining something better.
