Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 29^th, 2026 at 3:27pm:



So you think 162 arsonists is no big deal? But it does show it is not climate change causing the fires.

Record El Niño to bake Australia after extreme heat and fires across Europe and North America


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nsw-el-nino-weather-extreme-heat-australi...

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 31^st, 2026 at 9:18am:



And then According to BoM, who they cite, but carefully don't quote. -
"Our long-range forecasts are most reliable up to 3 months ahead. For July to September the forecast issued on 11 June showed:

    rainfall is likely to be below average across parts of southern and eastern Australia
    temperatures are likely to be above average in most areas, except parts of the north.

...

Will this year be extra hot?

Most of the southern half of Australia has had above average temperatures so far this year. But it's too soon to know how 2026 will play out.

The additional heat in the tropical Pacific that emerges during El Niño events typically boosts global temperatures in the following year.

The long-term warming trend has significantly increased the likelihood of warmer than average years. Australia has had 14 of its 15 warmest years on record since the year 2000.
Does El Niño increase drought risk?

El Niño can contribute to dry conditions, but it is only one factor.

Since January 2026, it has been drier than average in:

    north-eastern New South Wales into southern Queensland
    southern Victoria
    western and northern Tasmania
    parts of Western Australia including the south-western corner.

We publish a monthly Drought Statement to track areas with serious or severe rainfall deficiencies."

Anything more than 3 months (spring weather) is hyperbole.

And the El Nino has only recently been declared, too early for the Europe and American fires.


Interestingly, the 30 day temperatures are showing to be starting from way behind the grid in your infographic.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/we-will-not-yield-an-inch-meloni-threatens-...

So that's why Africans are hot-footing it to Europe unannounced. 49,000 of them.

"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned her country could suspend the Schengen Agreement with Spain after hundreds of migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in chaotic scenes on Thursday.

Footage showed migrants swimming across from the Moroccan side using inflatable tubes and flotation devices, while others broke through a gate in the border fence and ran into the city."

An impenetrable steel ‘Black Box’ will record ‘every step’ humanity takes toward catastrophe


https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/climate/earths-black-box-humanity-apocalypse-tasm...


A disused airport on Tasmania’s rugged West Coast will soon be home to an angular steel structure with a haunting purpose: to record “every step” humanity takes toward “catastrophe.”

The striking monolith, known as “Earth’s Black Box,” will be perched on the granite landscape of western Tasmania — an island about 150 miles off the Australian mainland — and will be up and running by the end of the year, if all goes to plan.

The box’s design is imposing. Roughly the size of a city bus and made of 3-inch-thick steel, it will be surrounded by concrete panels and covered by a roof of tough glass with solar panels underneath.

It’s all to protect and power what’s happening inside. The box will record hundreds of climate data points and pieces of contextual information, everything from temperatures and sea level rise to political speeches and climate reports. It’s “essentially an indestructible, self-powered data-recording device,” said Rob Beamish, founder and creative director of the environmental communications agency Rouser Lab, one of the organisations behind the project.

Thousands ordered to flee homes as fast-moving wildfire grows in Spokane County, Washington


https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/01/us/spokane-washington-wildfire-old-trails

Thousands of families have been ordered to flee their homes as a fast-moving wildfire grows in Spokane County, Washington, filling the skies with thick smoke and backing up traffic on some roads while state officials warn of an incredibly dangerous situation on the ground.

The Old Trails Fire – fueled by extreme fire weather conditions – has burned nearly 3,000 acres, Washington State Forester George Geissler said at a news conference Saturday, adding about 4,000 buildings are threatened in the area.

The full extent of the damage is not yet clear, but officials said the fire is impacting structures.

“When the sun sets and the sun rises in the morning, I think we’re going to be in shock to see some of the scenes that emerge out of there,” Washington National Guard Maj. Gen. Gent Welsh said.

The highest level of evacuation order, Level 3, was issued for several areas in the Spokane area due to the Old Trails Fire, local emergency management officials said, urging residents to “leave now due to the life-threatening conditions.” An evacuation shelter was opened at a community college for residents fleeing their homes.

Across the state, more than 200,000 acres are burning from 12 large fires, the governor’s office said. The Old Trails Fire is one of multiple blazes burning in Spokane County, where several thousand homes were under evacuation orders, emergency management officials told CNN.

On April 8, 2026, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) declared a statewide drought emergency. It is the fourth year in a row that part or all of Washington has been in drought, and the fourth statewide emergency since 2015.10.


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The Colorado River is drying up due to a severe, long-term megadrought and climate-driven aridification, shrinking headwaters in the Rocky Mountains, dropping major reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell to record lows, and threatening water supplies for 40 million people and millions of acres of farmland

This year’s devastating snow drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin was made 14 times more likely by years of global climate change, according to a new study by Colorado School of Mines researchers, who are increasingly linking short-term weather disasters to decades of warming.

Low snow years have always been possible in the West, the researchers said, but climate change is making it more frequent and more devastating.

By the 2050s, their modelling shows, snowpack drought like the states west of the Continental Divide experienced this past winter will be happening more than three of every 10 years, and nearly nine of every 10 years by the 2090s.

https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/22/colorado-drought-increasingly-linked-to-long-...