Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope you're having a lovely Doomer Day. It's December 27th, and I wanted to focus on a publication written in Wired magazine, online edition from Bill McGuire. For the record, I just wanted to read this. William J. McGuire's volcanologist and Emeritus professor of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at the University of College London. His main interests include volcano instability and lateral collapse. The nature and impact of geophysical events and the effects of climate change on geological hazards. He's 68 years old. He's produced several pieces of literature, most recently a book entitled Hot House Earth and Inhabitants Guide. You can all imagine what that's about. So for today's video, I just want to primarily focus on this one article written, though I'm certain many of my subscribers have already seen it, I'm just going to read it. The headline is as follows. El Nino is coming and the world isn't prepared. Global heating will set the stage for extreme weather everywhere in 2023. The consequences are likely to be cataclysmic from the top. In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue bringing ever more disruptive weather that is signature calling card of accelerating climate breakdown. According to NASA, 2022 was hottest years ever recorded on Earth. This is extraordinary because the recurrent climate patterns across the tropical Pacific, known as Inso El Nino Southern Oscillation, was in its cool phase during this phase called La Nina. The waters of the equatorial Pacific are noticeably cooler than normal, which influences weather patterns around the world. One consequence of La Nina is that it helps keep me a lid on global temperatures. This means that despite the recent widespread heat waves while the virus droughts, we have actually been spared the worst. The scary thing is that La Nina will end and eventually transition into better known El Nino, which sees the waters of the equatorial Pacific becoming much warmer. When it does the extreme weather that has rampaged across our planet in 2021 and 2022, will pale into insignificance. But forecast suggests that La Nina will continue into early 2023 making it. For two it is sleep for us one of the longest on record. It began in spring 2020. Then the equatorial Pacific will move to warm again. Whether or not it becomes hot enough for fully fledged El Nino develop, 2023 has a very good chance. Without the cooling influence of La Nina, of being the hottest year on record. A global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is widely regarded as marking a guard rail beyond which climate breakdown becomes dangerous. Above this figure our one stable climate will begin to collapse and earnest, becoming all pervasive affecting everyone and insulating itself into every aspect of our lives. In 2021 the figure compared to the 1850 to 1900 base average was 1.2 degrees Celsius while in 2019 before the development of the latest La Nina, it was a worryingly 1.36 degrees Celsius. As the heat builds again in 2023, it is perfectly possible that we will touch or even exceed 1.5 C for the first time. But what does all this mean exactly? I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the record for the highest temperature recorded. Currently in death California's death valley, 129 degrees Fahrenheit shattered. This could well happen somewhere in the Middle East or South Asia where temperatures could climb above 55 degrees Celsius. The heat could exceed the blistering 40 degrees Celsius mark again in the UK and for the first time top 50 degrees Celsius and parts of Europe. Inevitably higher temperatures will mean that severe drought will continue to be the order of the day, slashing crop yields in many parts of the world. In 2022 extreme weather resulted in reduced harvets in China, India, South America, and Europe increasing food insecurity. Stocks are likely to be lower than normal going into 2023. So another round of poor harvests could be devastating. Resulting food shortages in most countries could drive civil unrest while rising prices and developed countries will continue to stoke inflation in the cost of living crisis. One of the worst affected regions will be the Southwest United States. Here the longest drought in at least 1200 years is persisted for 22 years so far reducing the lake level of lake mead and the Colorado River, so much of the power generation capacity at the Hoover Dam has fallen by almost half. The Glen Canyon Dam on the rapidly shrinking Lake Powell is forecast to stop generating power in 2023 if the drought continues. The Hoover Dam could follow suit in 2024. Together these lakes and dams provide water and power for millions of people in seven states including California. The breakdown of this supply would be catastrophic for agriculture industry and populations right across the region. La Nina tends to limit hurricane development in the Atlantic. So as it begins to fade hurricane activity can be expected to pick up. The higher global temperatures expected in 2023 could see extreme heating of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico's surface waters. These could favor the formation of persistent super hurricanes powering winds and storm surges capable of wiping out a major U.S. city. Should they strike land? Direct hits rather than a glancing blow or rarer the closest in recent decades it being Hurricane Andrew in 1992 which may landfall me at least south Miami obliterating more than 60,000 homes and damaging 125,000 more. Mountains today are both more powerful in wetter so that the consequences of city getting in the way of super storm in 2023 would be cataclysmic. These are just a few of the knockoff effects should we enter El Nino which at this rate is considered a greater than 50% probability. And we're already breaching the 1.5 degree Paris agreement. How does this go in six or seven years if we're going at this rate? How do we not keep pumping out enormous amounts of greenhouse gases with our globalized industrial civilization? Yes, my subscribers are very privy to this information so I don't need to reiterate it much more but given that countries are shooting missiles and flying drones over each other's airspace hint-hint-wink-wink North Korea, I don't see how this is going to have a peaceful resolve with climate scratching every surface of land obliterating our resources. It will be as Bill McGuire puts out, puts it cataclysmic. Alrighty if you like this content hit like and subscribe. I appreciate you, doomers. I'll talk to you later. Have a lovely Doomer Day. See ya.