Surviving the 21st Century - Julian Cribb
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If you thought 2025 was hot, wait till you hit 2027. With a resurgent El Nino, global temperature is predicted to reach +1.7 degrees Celsius above the 1880-1920 average.
That’s according to US climatologist Jim Hansen, the man who put global heating on the world map (back in the 1980s) and who has since been uncannily accurate in predicting what lies ahead.
Hansen says that 2025 will go out as the second hottest year on record, as El Nino slides into its La Nina phase. The three-year average, 2023-25, already smashed the Paris Accord target of +1.5 degrees. Peak heat coincides with peak El Nino. A small dip coinciding with the La Nina phase in early 2026 is likely to be succeeded by a new heat high in 2027 as El Nino resumes, he projects.
Meanwhile back in the USA, home of the rich and easily-fooled, Donald Trump has sought to drive yet another dagger into the heart of climate science by moving to close down the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of America’s leading climate research agencies, adding another 750 scientists to the country’s swelling unemployed.
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| Figure 1. Global surface temperature. Source: Hansen J et al, Dec 2025 |
“The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full-on denial of reality.” fumes Professor Stephan Rahmstorf, Head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute.
Since his rambling tirade to the United Nations General Assembly back in September 2025, where he branded climate science a “con job” and “a hoax made up by people with evil intentions”, green energy “a scam” promoted by environmentalists who “want to kill all the cows”, Trump has doubled down on wild assertions about what is really happening with climate.
Unfortunately for Trump – and fortunately for the rest of humanity – thermometers do not lie. They show his blatherings on climate to be without factual basis. Around the planet, average temperatures have risen steadily for a century – and Hansen’s projections now show they are accelerating.
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| Figure 2. Accelerated global warming: Source Hansen J et al. 2025. |
According to these latest forecasts, global heating will be in the range of +2-2.5 degrees by mid Century - up to half a degree hotter than previously predicted. They show unmistakably that the climate is getting out of hand – and well beyond the point where humans have much ability to influence the trend, as the Earth itself starts to vent more carbon as it heats.
Two degrees plus begin to push various regions beyond the tolerance levels for human life, especially those closer to the Equator. And they also begin to push world agriculture and the food system it supplies closer to collapse. Such temperatures were not expected to occur until late in the century. Now, it seems, they are on our immediate horizon.
They are also pushing Donald Trump into pole position as Big Oil’s champion liar and spreader of doubt and disinformation. Having already taken over and disabled the UN climate conference (COP) the fossil sector is seeking fresh advocates to cement its plans to destroy human civilisation for money – and in the US President has found its perfect ‘useful fool’.
To quote UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, “This toxic cover-up could push our world over the climate cliff. The sham must end. ”
Meanwhile the heat continues to rise, for everyone.
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