Flowering Atacama and the coming El Niño: what the climate story leaves out
The 2025 flowering of the Atacama desert signals an intense El Niño that will fuel record temperatures, but the debate over CO2 saturation and the…
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Blooming Atacama, El Niño and physics: what the climate narrative omits
The Atacama desert has bloomed this autumn of 2025, a sign of an El Niño that promises to be intense. The event, which is cyclical, contrasts with the narrative of linear warming that dominates the media. The history of the greenhouse effect, from Fourier (1824) to Eunice Foote (1856), shows that science has been tied to ideological debates from the start — Foote was a feminist and her discovery was linked to social movements. On the technical side, CO2 forcing is logarithmic: each additional molecule warms less than the previous one. The 15-micron band is nearly saturated at ground level, but the Earth emits from different altitudes, leaving room for further warming. The 2025 El Niño will serve as a pretext for apocalyptic headlines, but the data analysis suggests the physics is not as simple as the official dogma.
The Atacama desert has bloomed this autumn of 2025, a sign of an El Niño that promises to be intense. The event, which is cyclical, contrasts with the narrative of linear warming that dominates the media. The history of the greenhouse effect, from Fourier (1824) to Eunice Foote (1856), shows that science has been tied to ideological debates from the start — Foote was a feminist and her discovery was linked to social movements. On the technical side, CO2 forcing is logarithmic: each additional molecule warms less than the previous one. The 15-micron band is nearly saturated at ground level, but the Earth emits from different altitudes, leaving room for further warming. The 2025 El Niño will serve as a pretext for apocalyptic headlines, but the data analysis suggests the physics is not as simple as the official dogma.
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