El Niño forms in Pacific as experts say it will likely turbocharge extreme weather | Meteorologists predict it will be the strongest of century, UN secretary-general calls it ‘urgent climate warning’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/el-nino-forms-historic-strength
22 Comments
phtheven@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 63d
At which point do we rename it to El Hombre
Bentdreadnot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 63d
My outdated gender stereotypes suggest la mujer goes first
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 4 pts · 63d
And after El hombre you can elevate to la Doña Elena
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 63d
Beware her most powerful weapon: La Chancla
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 62d
That would be better for La Niña wouldn't it?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 62d
Trying to blame women for the world's problems, eh?
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 34 pts · 63d
Anyone else notice that recently once in a century events happen every season?
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 63d
We'll simply borrow future centuries as needed for each one. Duh.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 63d
Yeah but there are hundreds, if not thousands of things that happen once in a century.
It's when you start running into the same thing over and over again.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 63d
Alright, who used plastic straws this time?
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 63d
"Urgent climate warning"
Warnings are useless if you don't heed them, take some fucking action ffs
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 63d
I did. I stopped using plastic straws and I don't use hairspray and I don't commute to work and I recycle... You know, I just can't shake the guilt of my actions. I just need to do more. If I had a private jet, I would stop flying on it.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 63d
Buy one and don't fly it.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 62d
Do you eat meat?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 62d
Only free-range billionaire meat.
MML@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 63d
Maybe we should bomb an oil refinery
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 62d
Bomb the billionaires. Far less collateral effects, far more effective for sustained change.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 62d
That causes a lot of local harm. You get a wide variety of oil byproducts dumped on all the people within a few miles of the refinery and if it used HF as a catalyst, you may immediately kill a huge number of people. Graceful shutdown is far preferable
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 62d
To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There's a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 62d
We've been trying to gracefully shut them down for 50 years.
I think the short term consequences outweigh the long term consequences of not doing it.
But it probably makes more sense to target the boats trying to pickup the oil from the refineries, while they're empty. Yemen and Iran have shown the efficacy of underwater suicide drones.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 62d
Good thing NOAA has sensors in the ocean to track and study these things.
flowershop@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 61d
Yeah, would be a shame to stop it... they wouldn't ... right?