Declassified US Navy File Predicts 4°C Warming Within 17 Years

Last Week in Collapse is a new weekly round-up, bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse. <a href="https://lastweekincollapse.substack.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Get LWIC delivered directly to your email inbox for free</a>. <h1>Climate</h1> This <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/166shzh/in_1990_the_us_navy_predicted_that_the_earth/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">decade-old declassified file</a> from 2013 is an <a href="https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/weather/climatechange/globalclimatechange-navy.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">87-page document</a> containing a prediction by the United States Navy that humans would achieve 4 °C warming by 2040. You already know many of the security threats of a hotter future: forcible migration, damage to global ports, changing ocean currents, drought/flooding, stronger storms. There is only a <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/8f8c64d0-65db-42e7-8d81-071c5aba7da1?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“tiny window” of hope remaining</a> to prevent climate Collapse, and experts say we are entering “a new age of devastation” as El Niño pushes already-record temperatures even higher. Parts of Texas <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/67cc6d17-dc78-4928-9125-a4381076e242?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">hit record highs</a> and Phoenix <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ac3ad9cd-5bf8-430b-9184-cde4cc8c4b12?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">hit a record</a> high temperature for August: 117 °F (47 °C). Other scientists admit <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/3c97b816-f2ae-44f6-be4d-4d6bf997e2a9?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">there is no stopping this</a>. At least 20 people have died in wildfires in Greece, near the border of Bulgaria and Türkiye. The blazes still rage, and they have <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/09ccbcb6-de70-4563-9a50-c3e90a9f8e5f?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">become the EU’s largest wildfire</a> ever. Dozens of people <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/4c965f7c-8fbb-454c-95e5-8fe979ffd80c?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">were arrested</a> for arson, but it remains unclear how the blaze really began. <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/5cb890b2-29c8-4f1e-bdeb-a4977df67f52?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">This visual guide</a> is a quick summary of Greece’s wildfires. Scientists know that <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/886b66d5-1767-4ecd-8fc4-49128bdd157b?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wildfires are becoming more intense</a> and widespread. The Lower Darling — Australia’s 3rd longest river — has practically <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/98e1ce5e-988f-429d-9b14-1a4b4e7ad9b5?j=eyJ1IjoiNmUyMWYifQ.hWb8E1j5SUAt4TMItpbf98mYLTjX7otw4nW0Cc136Bo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">run out of Murray cod</a>, a native fish whose population crashed after a terrible drought several years ago. Efforts to repopulate the species failed. <a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/declassified-us-navy-file-predicts-4-c-warming-within-17-years-37deffc3aeab">Visit Now</a>