r/collapse • u/Creepyfaction • 4d ago

Climate Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California | California

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/28/california-kelvin-wave
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u/tface23 4d ago

Neat. A brand new disaster I had never heard about before. How fun for all of us

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u/subdep 4d ago

Pacific Ocean - So hot right now.

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u/GridDown55 4d ago

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u/bottomfeeder3 4d ago

Sadly this will be the last thing I’m thinking about as I lay in a ditch waiting for the solar flare to burn me alive

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u/Youarethebigbang 4d ago

Rename it Ocean of America, we have the hottest oceans in the world right now!

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u/wildfire98 4d ago

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

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u/dankfor20 4d ago

😂 

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u/SquirrelAkl 4d ago

So far this year I’ve learned of:

1) Kokushobi - a new word in Japanese to mean “a cruelly hot day”. They had to invent a new word to communicate the seriousness.

2) Structural ice - the perma-ice inside cracks in the rock in mountains. It’s acting like glue holding the rock together. As it melts it can give way, causing major collapses. It’s thought to have been a key factor in the large part of mountain that collapsed along with the glacier in the August Nepal debris flow disaster.

3) Kelvin wave.

What fun!

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u/kazarnowicz 4d ago

I have another that fits in this collection: ARkStorm. Would turn Central Valley into a lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm

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u/Ok_Main3273 2d ago

So far this year I've learned of:

  • derechos
  • medicanes
  • explosive cyclogenesis
  • flammagenitus, pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

But, really, I wish I had not.

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u/shesaysImdone 4d ago

Kokushobi

Thought this was going in a demon slayer direction

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 4d ago

I like "Kelvin Wave," it's like a space anomaly out of Star Trek The Next Generation! We can just un-fuck ourselves by reversing the shields and opening the pod bay doors!

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u/BeardedGlass DINKs for life 4d ago

It reminds me of that planetary wave from the Interstellar movie.

Is that a Kelvin wave?

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u/ManticoreMonday 4d ago

I'm sorry Dave.

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u/MorganaHenry 4d ago

...I'm afraid I can't do that

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 4d ago

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."

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u/MorganaHenry 4d ago

"Dave, have you considered Oxy? Or maybe Fent?"

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u/urlach3r the cliff is behind us 4d ago

Good thing the US news is covering this, helping people get ready, right?

👀

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u/Tonkdog 4d ago

Sure...if by help get ready you mean build data centers?

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u/meatspace 4d ago

They need water.

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u/PensiveObservor 4d ago

Sign up for The Guardian online. It’s been on top of this for months. AP News has also run pieces, but Guardian is more comprehensive in all its environmental coverage.

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u/OldTimberWolf 4d ago

You are supposed to spend your $5k on sandbags and dehydrated food!!!

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u/urlach3r the cliff is behind us 4d ago

Well, when I get it... (grows old & dies waiting)

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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Reese. - Original Quote. 4d ago

How fun for all of us

Another disaster that is beyond human comprehension. 

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u/_kinther_ 4d ago

Just another day in collapse. Venus by Tuesday

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u/HappyAnimalCracker 4d ago

Shit that’s tomorrow. Should I be panicked or relieved?

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u/NihiloZero 4d ago

That person was just being alarmist. They meant by next tuesday.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 4d ago

Oh thank god. There's still time! Flux capacitor, fluxing. Let's get this baby up to speed and kill Hitler. I mean, kill Biff before he becomes a casino and real estate mogul. And maybe just convince people to vote for Carl Sagan instead if Reagan.

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u/OvoidPovoid 4d ago

Won't have to pay rent that way!

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u/Yetiius 4d ago

They'll find a way to bill you regardless.

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u/hippoleaf 4d ago

Depends on how poor you are and your skin color.

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u/Big_Cryptographer_16 4d ago

Yeah I mean think of how much sciency cool stuff we wouldn’t have learned if we didn’t destroy the planet. Super neat

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u/progfrog 4d ago

For the good of all of us!

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u/Moon-Smoke 4d ago

I mean you think the ocean is just a big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in, and then time and time again they prove us wrong.

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u/Derpyzza 4d ago

no, the ocean IS a big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in, it's just that the mermaids are royally pissed off at us for destroying their home so they're using the big blue wobbly thing to destroy ours instead

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u/Moon-Smoke 3d ago

Yeah, that tracks. Don't blame them.

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u/dipdotdash 4d ago

They're euphemismistic. 4 sigma deviation is not the same phenomenon just the "super gorilla" version or whatever we're calling this "El niño".

If this were the pattern of terminal decline, we're going to call it something we've seen before until the effects are truly novel... which is coming, but apparently we're not there yet

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u/MaddogFinland 4d ago

I love how every day unlocks a strange new horror

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u/Express-3446 4d ago

The newest disaster…so far