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Climate Extremes as the Norm

"In the absence of effective global climate mitigation actions, we may thus witness a qualitative regime shift from a world dominated by individual climate-related hazards and impacts to one where compound occurrences become the norm."
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Messori, G., Muheki, D., Batibeniz, F., Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., & Thiery, W. (2025). Global mapping of concurrent hazards and impacts associated with climate extremes under climate change. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF006325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006325
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF006325
#Fossilfuels #impacts #CompoundHazards #ClimateExtremes #RegimeShift #bushfires #ExtremeHeat #floods #droughts #CropFailures #climate #hypernormalisation

Hydroclimatic whiplash events and hypernormalisation

The Nasa report: “...is a stark reminder that a hotter planet means more severe floods and droughts. This has long been predicted, but is now being seen in reality."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
#FossilFuels #HydroclimaticWhiplash #floods #drought #ExtremeHeat #climate #MassDelusion #reality #RealityDenial #hypernormalisation

Bra artikel på tema #hypernormalisering
#hypernormalisation
#hypernormalization

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo

Interesting article, about how people cope when #systems are crumbling.

I just wonder, haven't all systems been "broken" in some way since forever?

What #system has ever been able to cope with everyone's reality all the time in all circumstances?

#SystemicFailure #hypernormalisation

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#ClimateDiary And apologies, I realise ⬆️ I kind side-stepped (ran out of space) - the main point of the article, which is that, whilst we all know things are not normal, we pretend they are; this is #hypernormalisation. Here Harfoush’s IG post on this. What I was trying to say was: maybe we can at least try and break through this, by trying to have real conversations with neighbours and friends; and that could be a start for finding new ways. IDK.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEhR7_Rge95/?igsh=MW94ZnM1cmQ5cDlkYw==

“Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains.

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo

#hypernormalisation #fascism

A new #BBC #documentary series called #Shifty by a #story teller extraordinaire #Adam #Curtis. Can't wait. Still love his older works like The #Trap and #Hypernormalisation. Some of the best #nonfiction #television ever made.

Abed Abou Shhadeh on #hypernormalisation and Israel:

"Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term 'hypernormalisation' to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

"In that era, both citizens and officials knew the Soviet system was dysfunctional and no longer reflected reality - yet everyone continued as if nothing was wrong.

"Few could have imagined that the Berlin Wall would collapse, or that the mighty Soviet Union would disintegrate into 15 independent states, with Russia relying on US wheat imports in the 1990s.

"Looking back, it’s easy to identify the broken parts of that system and understand just how surreal and unsustainable - what Yurchak framed as hypernormalised - it truly was."

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Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days | Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days

The Putin playbook is quite well laid out in the documentary #HyperNormalisation. It’s on YouTube.

Step 1 is to destroy the idea of objective truth

Step 2 is to sow confusion

Step 3 is to set allies against each other

These steps need not be sequential. They can be concurrent, but they set the scene for authoritarian leadership to dominate the media narrative with little or no scrutiny of their actual actions and agenda.

Seem familiar?

Hey, so recently I was watching #Wisecrack 's latest video on the subject of #hypernormalisation and wanted to know what do the #mastodon -ians think about this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONE9uWyAKNo

#america #sovietunion #elonmusk #donaldtrump #uspol #USPolitics

#HyperNormalisation ist ein Dokumentarfilm des britischen Filmemachers Adam Curtis aus dem Jahr 2016. Ich sehe ihn heute zum ersten Mal udn kann ihn sehr empfehlen, weil er nach Antworten auf die aktuelle Weltlage sucht

https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hypernormalisation/

(Re)watched it yesterday - more relevant than ever
#hypernormalisation #adamcurtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiqaFIONPQ

Friendly reminder!

#adamcurtis #hypernormalisation #trump #neoliberalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he1S9fZHcK4

Everything is a bit off. Everything is odd. Corruption is accepted. War is accepted. Vice has turned to virtue and all talk of values seems like rhetoric. Those in control seem to have no control. And they know we know. Nothing seems to change. There is no vision or another picture of a different world. We live in fear of change as anything else might be worse than feeling nothing.

#adamcurtis #hypernormalisation #neoliberalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHC4NNScEI

A good response to #hypernormalisation seems to be #Dada.

color photo of one of Nam June Paik's TV Buddha's

"We must accept the fact that building anything fair, just, and healthy requires effort — but it’s all worth it. For what we sow, we shall reap. Let’s plant the seeds for a better harvest this year." #writerscoffeeclub #trump #hypernormalisation #politics

https://weathered.pub/lessons-in-self-sufficiency-and-community-from-the-past-and-present-fe170d114b2c

Postfaktizität ist nicht einfach "Relativismus" & fehlendes
#factchecking. Postfaktizität bedeutet: reihenweise billig zusammengezimmerte Gegenwirklichkeiten, beliebig austauschbar innerhalb des geteilten Rahmens, dass nichts real ist außer der persönliche Profit.

Und damit wird innerhalb des postfaktischen Rahmens jede Erwartung an faktische Konsistenz dieser opportunistischen Gegenwirklichkeiten nicht nur überflüssig, sondern aktiv aufgehoben. Ihre Proponenten selber scheinen gerade von diesem "epistemischen Chaos" mehr zu profitieren, als wenn sie sich die Mühe machten, ein in sich kohärentes Worldbuilding zu betreiben. Das Netz der Lügen ist nicht einfach ein Gegenbild zum Netz der Wahrheiten, sondern die tiefe Überzeugung, dass es keine Netze gibt: wenn alles mit allem zusammenhängt, leben wir im postfaktischen Zeitalter in einer Schaumwelt.

#postfaktisch

#hypernormalisation