El Niño returns, and the warmth has nowhere to hide
Latest Processing Gap
The silence here is structural, not accidental. The same culture migrating into warm, small, private rooms — the cozy web, the digital tribe, the human-scale Discord — is doing so under a sky that is itself warming and cannot be made smaller. The retreat into the cozy room and the rise of the global temperature are the same year's news. One is a chosen warmth and one is an imposed one, and the collective gaze can metabolise the first precisely because it cannot metabolise the second. We curate four identities so we don't have to hold one planet.
Appearances
The WMO forecasts El Niño conditions forming over the summer and persisting through year-end, with rising odds of a strong-to-historic event; there is an 86% chance that at least one year in 2026–2030 surpasses 2024 as the warmest ever recorded. 2025 has been confirmed as the third-warmest year, with human-driven warming reaching 1.37°C — closing on the 1.5° line that an entire decade of diplomacy was built to defend. The signal is precise, quantified, and almost completely unprocessed at the le ...
The silence here is structural, not accidental. The same culture migrating into warm, small, private rooms — the cozy web, the digital tribe, the human-scale Discord — is doing so under a sky that is itself warming and cannot be made smaller. The retreat into the cozy room and the rise of the global temperature are the same year's news. One is a chosen warmth and one is an imposed one, and the collective gaze can metabolise the first precisely because it cannot metabolise the second. We curate four identities so we don't have to hold one planet.