El Nino is here and scientists fear it'll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

Experts said the #ElNiño, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from #FossilFuel pollution and will likely turbocharge #ExtremeWeather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast it will rival—or exceed—a record El Niño that began in 1997 and helped trigger billions of dollars in damage from #HeatWaves, #floods, #droughts, #tornadoes and #wildfires.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially confirmed the existence of the El Niño, which is a warming of the #Pacific near the equator that affects weather patterns across the globe. #NOAA's announcement said there's a 63% chance that the El Niño will get so intense this late fall and early winter that it "would rank among the largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950."

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-el-nino-scientists-itll-big.html

#ClimateScience
#ClimateCrisis

Can't fight progress any more than you can fight nature* —
"For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal"

*You can but you're not going to win.
https://grist.org/solutions/for-first-time-americans-are-getting-more-of-their-electricity-from-solar-than-coal/
#Solar #coal #renewables #FossilFuel #GoodNews

When #reform or #ukconservatives say they want to open the North sea for drilling do they just want to give the oil to #shell and #bp ??

Or with they establish a national oil company?

All good promising the price of Shell of BP oil might fall when more operations are established.... but is that really good enough?!?

"Oo look more supply so we better reduce prices per litre immediately for the British citizens" .... is that realistic?

#oil #petrol #fossilfuels #fossilfuel