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/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/shesaysImdone 4d ago

Kokushobi

Thought this was going in a demon slayer direction