The Crisis Report — 59

I can tell you what I see when I look at the board. I can tell you what I think it means.

I started playing wargames like this at the age of 13. By the time I was 15, I was going to gaming conventions and winning tournaments. At the peak of my interest in wargaming I knew the rules to about 45 games intimately.

What you do with that information is up to you.

The rest of our lives, aren't going to be what we thought. “Certainty” has gone out the window.

Imagine this is the world. In this image the “ocean” around the island is the Earth’s Oceans. The world’s temperature is set by this ocean. If it cools, the world cools. If it warms, the world warms.

Let's talk about what's going on in our world. Right now the oceans are warming up.

Shown here are 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

2022 is the Yellow/Orange arrow, it was about +0.1°C warmer than 2021 even though it was a La Nina year. See how 2023 (Red/Orange arrow) starts at about the same temperature as 2022 but in March “jumps up” about +0.25°C and finishes the year about +0.3°C hotter than 2022.

That “jump” in 2023 represents ENERGY equivalent to 471 million Hiroshima bombs being added to the world's oceans. About 3.4 bombs worth for every square mile of open water on the planet.