The ecological acceleration

Ocean heat reached record levels in 2025. Methane surged faster than ever in the early 2020s. Forests are becoming more uniform, dominated by fast-growing "sprinter" trees. Floods in Brazil killed 40 this week. Pumas returning to Patagonia are killing penguins that evolved without land predators. The system is accelerating. The processing is almost entirely divorced from the signal. Climate appears in media as individual disasters—a flood here, a storm there—never as the integrated system state ...