El Nino (Dutch for ‘draughty watering can’, I think, though you might want to check that) is brewing and would seem to have some terrible plans. According to the woke soy boys down at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), there’s an 80% chance that the thuggish weather system will develop between June and August – and unleash a trail of mayhem across the earth.

And that’s not all. The already troublesome weather beast has been exacerbated by climate change (working in league they are, brothers in arms, conspiring like a Thailand-based crypto-billionaire and a celebrity race-baiter) and the likely result of their union is devastation in South America, Central America, Australia, bits of Central Asia, and probably Europe. What kind of devastation? Oh, merely powerful heatwaves, massive disruption to food production, threat to human life, etc.

Consequently, the WMO is warning that 2027 is on track to become the hottest year on record – a record that goes all the way back to 2024! But. 2027? That’s a long way off, isn’t it? Maybe everything will be fixed by then.

Antonio Navarra, who runs things down at Italy’s Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, isn’t, to judge by his words, exactly full of optimism: “Because the water in the Pacific will be much warmer, there will be a much more favourable environment for the formation of tropical cyclones…. El Nino will input an enormous amount of energy into the system, so everything will be more intense.”

But what does he know? Other views are available! Not everybody has to go to college/university/undertake vast amounts of research/gain essential knowledge from working for years in their chosen field to have an opinion. That would be communist.

See here: Suffolk County Council came under the control of the far-right Reform party in last month’s elections, and the new administration has wasted little time in abolishing the previous regime’s climate change emergency declaration – and will have a jolly good hard look into the local authority’s environmental projects to boot!

The council’s new leader, Michael Hadwen, bawled that he had “inherited a catalogue of expensive, headline-grabbing environmental schemes,” while Reform’s job is to “spend Suffolk taxpayers’ money wisely and deliver real results for our residents”. Will be interesting to see how that pans out, won’t it.

Incidentally, Reform has received £24 million (over two thirds of its income) from fossil fuel interests. Funny that, isn’t it? Isn’t it funny? Go on, laugh. Treat yourself: have a good, hard, deep laugh. Immigrants, windfarms and the NHS out: oil, gas and crypto in.

Meanwhile, across the increasingly warming ocean, the Trump administration, possibly inspired by Suffolk County Council, is continuing its campaign to take apart all things that observe, mitigate or even mention climate change.

Installed 10 years ago, the National Science Foundation’s $370 million sea-floor observatory network has been gathering critical data on coastal environments, marine ecosystems and ocean currents. But it’s now pulling over 900 detectors from the waters, by order of the regime.

See, this is a major part of the problem: if you don’t talk about, say, malaria, it’s almost like it’s not there; it could conceivably go away entirely. Words help to shape reality, and Trump and his henchmen are, dimly, aware that reality can be enormously troublesome.

Anyhow, John P Abraham, professor of engineering at the University of St Thomas, reckons: “The US government wants to save less than a billion in sensors, which are the eyes and ears of the ocean. We have hundreds of billions in climate costs per year. The cost of the observation system is a fraction of the climate costs from hurricanes and storms that hit the US.”

Ok, what next? Shall we go to Ireland? I don’t think we’ve been to Ireland before.

Like much of the rest of Europe, the country has just experienced its hottest ever May, with the previous record, set in 1997, smashed by over two degrees.

Dr Claire Bergin, a researcher at the Icarus Climate Research Centre at Maynooth University, said: “What splendid weather for May! I pray for more.”

No, she didn’t. She actually said: “While this may come as a welcome few days by the beach for some, the fact is these record-breaking May temperatures were not possible without human-caused global warming. It is downright alarming to break 30 degrees in May in Ireland.”

But maybe she’s just being hysterical, allowing her education to shape her thoughts? It’s worth considering.

Anyway, that’ll do. Let’s do this again another time.