Faster than expected
The End Times Earth
VOL.I...No.1 July 27, 2023 Cost: depression

While you weren't looking, climate collapse started

Trio of Unprecedented Records Spells Disaster

On July 4th, major news outlets breathlessly reported that the Earth had broken a temperature record set only the day before, soaring to levels not seen in at least 100,000 years.

Nearly a month later, that's old news. Average global 2-meter air temperature has remained above the previous record, set July 24th last year, to this day.

Even this dire warning, though, is merely one note in the catalysmic chord being struck at this moment.

A deadly heat dome resulting from global heat has introduced the term wet-bulb temperature to many previously lucky enough not to have known it, and the livability of parts of the Southwest, always precarious, is threatened. In Maricopa County, Arizona, hospitals have seen an influx of patients burned from falls , with one hospital reporting one third of its burn center beds, and portions of its ICU, filled with such cases.

To clarify, that means people fell on the ground and got burned so badly they needed to go to a hospital.

Both of these phenomena are linked to the late-June collapse of the Earth's jet streams, air currents responsible for the stable weather patterns Continued on page 2

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Grieving? Afraid? You're Not Alone

Simply by living at this time in the world, we are exposed to a dizzying amount of bad news. Some of us start more keyed-in than others, but dread seems to slowly come for us all.

The question is, what do you do when you feel overwhelmed? For some, the answer is a support group held monthly at The Good Work Institute in Kingston. Held the first Thursday of every month, 4:30-6:30PM, these climate grief conversations offer an opportunity to share your fears in a supportive environment.

If you want to talk without worrying about being offputting, consider coming to the next session, held on August 3rd.

Energy Imbalance Reaches New Highs

Light from the Sun constantly warms the Earth, but our planet also radiates heat into space.

Unfortunately the basic gist of this is that we are FUCKED

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Climate Collapse Goes Global — Faster Than Expected

Antartic sea ice (bottom dashed), which should be forming rapidly as the Southern winter reaches its peak, is struggling to form, deviating far below all other years. (source)
North Atlantic sea surface temperature has gone off the rails. Top line is 2023; dashed lines indicate +/- two SD from norm. Grey lines are every single other year we have data for. (source)
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we're used to, into chaotic swirls. Climatologist Michael Mann described the resulting global patterns as looking like a Van Gogh.

Those global air temperature records are accompanied by unpleasant numbers coming from the world's oceans. Crucial Antarctic sea ice is struggling to form, in the middle of what should be a period of deep freeze for the Southern hemisphere. Nothing of the sort has been seen since data collection began in 1978. In statistics jargon: the standard deviation has exceeded six-sigma. In plain English, that means that, prior to global warming, we might have expected to see this happen

Global 2-meter air temperatures first exceeded the previous record on July 3rd, and have remained above that level since. This is likely the warmest the planet has been in more than 100,000 years.
once in a billion years.

The stark difference has scientists concerned. Will Hobbs, a sea ice scientist at the University of Tasmania, told the Guardian that the situation was very much outside our understanding of this system, and added that we need to start considering the possibility of a functional collapse of the system before it sneaks up on us.

North Atlantic water temperatures are also far beyond the anything seen since data collection began, in this case 1981. The previous record, set last year, has already been exceeded — even though peak temperatures usually occur in late August or early September.

It remains to be seen how those temperatures will impact Artic sea ice going into the late Summer, when the ice is at its lowest. Even before this year, the data suggested we could see a so-called blue ocean event within the decade (see page TODO).

Losing ice coverage at either pole means amplified warming, accelerating an already vicious cycle.

Summer Reading for the End Times

All this bad news got you down? Not to worry: our editors have three picks for your Summer reading list, each providing its own unique salve for the hurt we all share.
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The End Times Book Review

All this bad news got you down? Not to worry: our editors have three picks for your Summer reading list, each providing its own unique salve for the hurt we all share.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm
Mandela formed an army. Why haven't we?

If the environmental movement wants to accomplish anything, destructive action is off the table — or so goes the mainstream narrative.

Even after three decades of peaceful protest have failed to prevent accelerating ecological collapse, everyone from the DNC to Extinction Rebellion still stands ready to condemn any escalation beyond roadblocks and bank lobby sit-ins — claiming, of course, the mantle of such legendary leaders as MLK, Jr. or Nelson Mandela. Simple, right? Not so fast, says Malm.

Pipeline lays out the history regularly ignored by those mainstream actors; for example, King capitalized on violent unrest rather than condeming it, and Mandela formed an armed group specifically to go after infrastructure.

Laid out this clearly, it's hard not to see the real reason we're so obviously losing the future: we're not even fighting yet. Malm's instant classic will leave you enraged, yet energized.

The Solutions Are Already Here

Peter Gelderloos