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Published: January 17, 2026 17:16

Breaking News! CERES just released the "Earth Energy" data for November, 2025, and there was a new record low for the 36-month running average for Earth albedo, now down to 28.682%. "Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable..." - Indigo Girls Data:…

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Published: January 17, 2026 14:05

Your 'hope porn quote' for today: "We have the tools (nonviolence chief among them) to allow us to stand up to the powerful and the reckless, and we have the fundamental idea of human solidarity that we could take as our guide." …

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Published: January 17, 2026 00:28

This is the part of the hero's journey when the hero realizes he doesn't have the special power after all, and the villain wins. Only the villain failed to realize that everyone is f%^ked so winning is meaningless.

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Published: January 16, 2026 00:31

I take some comfort in knowing that in a 3°C world that fascist governments, corrupt politicians, evil billionaires, lying media and dehumanizing corporations will no longer exist. I just wish that were the case in a 1.5°C world. Patience.

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Published: January 15, 2026 16:35

According to the latest CERES data just released yesterday for October, 2025, the current rate of planetary heating is about 10.28 Hiroshimas per second. This equals 37,000 Hiroshimas per hour, 890,000 per day, and about 324 million Hiroshimas in…

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Published: January 15, 2026 00:21

Breaking News! Code Yikes! The Earth energy data just came in from CERES for October, 2025, and guess what? Right. A new record low for the 36-month running average for Earth albedo, now down to 28.689%. The Climate 8-Ball says, "fewer clouds, less ice,…

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Published: January 14, 2026 22:21

My latest: "Assuming accelerating warming, the global temperature anomaly with respect to the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline as of January 1, 2026 is 1.45°C." https://climatecasino.net/2026/01/taking-the-planets-temperature-2026-edition/

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Published: January 14, 2026 16:12

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: In other words, about 8 billion Hiroshimas worth of heating. "Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s." …

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Published: January 14, 2026 14:36

Your 'hope porn quote' for today: "Climate change stands between us and a breathtaking, exhilarating future. We cannot afford to be paralyzed by fear or shame. We must act, with power, love and a sound mind. Together, we can save ourselves." …

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Published: January 14, 2026 14:26

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 14, 2026 ~ This year! "Current rates of heating could breach the Paris agreement limit of 1.5C (2.7F) – which is measured over 30 years to iron out natural fluctuations – before the end of the decade..." …

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Published: January 13, 2026 14:18

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 13, 2026 ~ Lernaean Hydra "Higher temperatures accelerate evaporation from soil, vegetation and inland waters ... At the same time, warmer air can hold more moisture, which increases the potential for intense rainfall." …

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Published: January 13, 2026 13:47

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests." …

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Published: January 12, 2026 13:43

Your 'doom quote' for today: “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” …

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Published: January 11, 2026 14:28

Your 'doom quote' for today: "After economic catastrophe and climate change came famine, the great migration, and the civil war. Society collapsed. ... America built walls around itself and its cities." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6143568/

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Published: January 10, 2026 14:44

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 10, 2026 ~ Or even worse than that. "... we can expect more of the same. And by more of the same, I mean more record breaking temperatures, disasters and destruction." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACNGTHVF2o

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Published: January 9, 2026 14:29

Breaking News! Code Yikes! December's data just came in and "Global Total Column Precipitable Water" once again set a new record high for the 36-month running average. In other words, when it rains, it pours! Data:…

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Published: January 9, 2026 13:52

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The temperatures climbed. The vast fields of ice at its poles melted and the oceans rose. Centuries later, few people remain on this planet once called Earth." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/

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Published: January 8, 2026 15:46

Breaking News! Code Yikes! The January, 2026, ENSO update was just released this morning and it now shows a better than 60% chance of an El Nino developing by early Fall, and a 50% chance by mid-Summer. The Climate 8-Ball is in hiding. …

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Published: January 8, 2026 15:39

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: CO2 is plant food? "Increased temperatures have emerged as the most powerful factor. Tree mortality has climbed fastest in hot, dry regions and dense forests, where trees compete intensely for water and light." …

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Published: January 8, 2026 15:03

Breaking News! Code Yikes! In the depths of La Nina the planet is still breaking temperature records: January 6th was the hottest on record for the date since 1940, at 1.65°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline. The next El Nino is going to be…

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Published: January 8, 2026 14:32

Your 'doom quote' for today: “If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security... and if the natural world can no longer support the most basic of our needs, then much of the rest of civilization will…

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Published: January 7, 2026 14:16

Your 'doom quote' for today: "Bright green environmentalism has gained popularity because it tells a lot of people what they want to hear: that you can have industrial civilization and a planet, too." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14306648/

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Published: January 7, 2026 14:08

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 7, 2026 ~ Plastisphere. "Microplastics disrupt marine life, weaken the 'biological carbon pump,' and even release greenhouse gases as they degrade." https://phys.org/news/2026-01-oceans-struggle-absorb-earth-carbon.html

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Published: January 7, 2026 13:50

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The latest CO2-e (CO2 equivalent, combining all greenhouse gases into a single number) is 539 ppm for 2024, up 5 ppm. This number does not include water vapor, which is not directly emitted, but is a secondary ghg. …

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Published: January 6, 2026 16:22

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 6, 2026 ~ Just getting started. "More than half of Australia is set to swelter in blistering temperatures in what is expected to be the worst heatwave since the devastating black summer bushfires." …

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Published: January 6, 2026 15:10

The latest methane data from NOAA for September, 2025 was just released. The good news? There is definite progress towards reaching the Glasgow Methane Pact goal of reducing human methane sources 30% by 2030. We're now on track to reach this goal before…

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Published: January 6, 2026 14:57

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic ... was because most of it ends up in an ocean-fill." https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-world-without-us-by-alan-weisman/247504/item/7480598/

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Published: January 6, 2026 14:48

Breaking News! Code Yikes! The latest CO2 data just came in from Mauna Loa and the 3-year rate of CO2 growth just hit a new record high, now growing at a rate of 7.97 ppm per 3 years. (That dip in the mid-1990's is Mt. Pinatubo. Google is your friend.)

https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3mbr5gwmuck2h

Published: January 6, 2026 14:18

Here's a graph of monthly Arctic sea-ice *thickness* from January, 1979 through December, 2025, with the 12-month running average in black. Note the record low monthly thickness set just this last October (in red).

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Published: January 6, 2026 03:03

Here's another view of December's record low Arctic sea-ice volume. "Paleo Arctic sea-ice extent records, reconstructed from proxies like sediment cores, reveal that the dramatic decline in recent decades is unprecedented over at least the last 1,500…

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Published: January 5, 2026 13:44

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 5, 2026 ~ Turned up to 11. "This is not fiction or poetic exaggeration; it is the lived reality in many parts of the world. The Earth's thermostat has been reset, and humanity is struggling to adjust." …

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Published: January 5, 2026 13:37

Because of La Nina and the mid-year dip in 2025, the Climate Casino expects the 365-day running average to fall for the first part of this year, possibly getting as low as 1.40°C by July before rebounding sharply with the onset of the expected El Nino. …

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Published: January 5, 2026 12:57

Today's 'doom quote': "What we are looking at now is not an extinction event, but an extermination event, because it's not planetary forces that are precipitating this, it's us, our one species are driving all of these other species to extinction." …