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Super El Niño Peaks as Climate Cults and Corporate Denial Stall Action

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As a projected 'Super El Niño' threatens global fishing stocks and agricultural yields, the vacuum left by institutional paralysis is being filled by Silicon Valley's techno-optimism and coordinated disinformation campaigns from groups like AllatRa. While Indigenous stewards in Canada and elsewhere offer models of ecological resilience, the legacy of Exxon-era denialism continues to fragment the public's ability to confront the material reality of heatwaves and food insecurity. This collision of extreme weather and epistemic sabotage forces a choice between community-led agroecology and a future dictated by the narrow interests of the data-center elite.

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    The looming Super El Nino

    Al Jazeera English2026-06-21

    A powerful El Nino is expected to peak in November that could threaten food supply and increase extreme weather events.

    • geopolitics
    • structural power
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    The End of the Future

    Foreign Policy2026-06-15

    Only Silicon Valley looks ahead now.

    • geopolitics
    • structural power
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    When climate pressures deepen, the fight against violence becomes harder

    The Conversation2026-06-22

    Andrzej Kubik/Shutterstock Climate-induced crop failures, death of livestock and water shortages increase food insecurity and malnutrition. This makes it harder for families to maintain stable incomes and consistent supplies of food. Climate-induced drought and flooding make agriculturally dependant…

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    Summer’s silent killer: why the world’s heatwaves are a global health emergency

    The Conversation2026-06-22

    Studio Nut/Shutterstock Heat is no longer a future climate risk. It is already here. Across continents, high temperatures are being pushed higher by forces acting at once: human-caused warming, very warm oceans, dry soils, slow-moving high-pressure weather systems and El Niño conditions that have no…

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    Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders

    openDemocracy2026-06-19

    In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis

    • structural power
    • geopolitics
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    Indigenous ingenuity can empower climate action and reconciliation

    Canada's National Observer2026-06-20

    This Indigenous Peoples Day, we will take the time to honour the enduring spirit of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples in the face of climate change and colonial policy. The climate leadership of Indigenous Peoples — longstanding stewards of the land — is needed now more than ever.

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    Longtime Exxon CEO Lee Raymond’s legacy of climate denial and misinformation lives on – a psychologist offers ways to counter it

    The Conversation2026-06-22

    ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, left, and other oil company heads testify about energy pricing and profits at a Congressional hearing in November 2005. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images When the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989, Exxon Presid…

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    A ‘super’ El Niño has the power to devastate fishing – and leave seals and sea lions starving

    The Conversation2026-06-17

    Many sea lions died in previous super El Niño. wildestanimal/Shutterstock There is a more than 60% chance that a “super” El Niño will develop by the end of this year. This is defined as the strongest El Niño event you can get, and happens when sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean r…

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    Climate of Denial

    Canada's National Observer2026-06-22

    Most people accept that climate change is real. So why is it still so difficult to fully confront what it means? In this episode, host Amy Romer explores the first stage of grief: denial.