2026 will set many more climate records than any year before it—by larger margins, faster, and across a wider range of areas. Most heat, storms, fires, rainbombs, floods, droughts, and cold spells will intensify, disrupting daily life, straining infrastructure, and raising operational costs for nearly everyone. Our 11th annual climate change forecast, below, highlights the many ways in which climate change in 2026 will further destabilize the local and global economy.

Last updated 1.5.26. (G) The materials on this page are not intended for individuals under 16 years of age. They are too complex and upsetting for children under 16 to comprehend or manage in a healthy, rational manner.

To get you started quickly, below is a summary of this critical article. Think of it as an uncensored guide to the climate change reality of 2026. Further down this page, you will find full explanations of each of the summary overview points below.

Why This Page Exists

This page is written for people who value accurate science over comforting myths. It exists to counter decades of fossil-fuel-funded misinformation and to provide a clear, honest picture of what accelerating climate change means for your life, finances, health, and future—starting now.

Job One for Humanity is a 100% publicly funded, independent nonprofit climate think tank. We publish forecasts that are often 30–60% more severe than government or media projections because we include factors that others often omit: tipping points, feedback loops, and real-world system failures already underway.

What the 2026 Climate Forecast Covers

1. The Reality of 2026

2026 will set many more climate records than any year before it—by larger margins, faster, and across a wider area. Heat, storms, fires, floods, droughts, and cold extremes will intensify, disrupting daily life, straining infrastructure, and raising costs for nearly everyone.

2. Why Where You Live Matters

Climate impacts are not evenly distributed. Latitude, elevation, water access, and proximity to coasts now strongly determine how severe, frequent, and costly climate consequences will be—making location one of the most important survival factors this decade.

3. The Consequences Most People Don’t Expect

Climate change doesn’t unfold smoothly. It arrives in waves—record-breaking extremes followed by temporary calm. These lulls create false confidence, masking the long-term trend of worsening conditions and leaving people unprepared for the next surge.

4. The Climate Forces to Watch Closely

The page highlights the most dangerous accelerators of climate change in 2026, especially:

• • Methane feedback loops

  • Arctic summer sea ice loss

  • Drying of major rivers
    Crossing these thresholds can push climate impacts from severe to near-exponential.

5. How Climate Change Is Reshaping Everyday Life

The forecast details how climate change increasingly affects:

• • Health and mental well-being

  • Food availability and rising prices

  • Insurance cancellations and soaring premiums

  • Power outages and infrastructure failures

  • Business disruption, travel delays, and job instability

For many households and businesses, insurance and energy costs will be the earliest and most painful wake-up calls.

6. The Insurance and Financial Tipping Point

Insurance and reinsurance systems are breaking down in medium- and high-risk areas. As coverage disappears or becomes unaffordable, real estate values, mortgages, and entire local economies begin to unravel—often forcing relocation long before physical destruction does.

7. Political and Social Fallout

As climate costs rise and governments struggle to respond, expect:

• • More emergency declarations

  • Increased migration pressures

  • Rising authoritarianism

  • Cuts to social programs

  • Growing public anxiety and unrest

Climate stress is already destabilizing political systems worldwide.

8. Why Government Action Is Falling Short

Despite worsening impacts, many governments are retreating from meaningful climate action—cutting green energy support while quietly preparing for instability. This page explains why official responses lag reality and what that means for the public.

9. What You Can Still Do

Preparation is not surrender—it is survival with dignity. The page outlines:

• • How to prepare, adapt, and build resilience

  • When relocation may be the rational choice

  • How informed action reduces future harm

  • Why early movers fare far better than late responders

10. Why This Information Is Often Suppressed

Much of what you read here is missing from mainstream coverage because it threatens powerful financial interests. This page explains how and why accurate climate information is filtered, delayed, or softened—and why independent public funding matters.

11. A Narrow but Real Window of Hope

If humanity acts decisively—especially by rapidly cutting fossil fuel use—we can still save many lives, reduce suffering, and preserve the foundations of a future recovery. Delay sharply narrows those options.

12. How This Forecast Has Proven Accurate

Job One’s annual forecasts have been updated for over a decade and are widely shared because they consistently anticipate trends years before they become obvious.

13. Why Your Support Matters

This work remains free, uncensored, and accessible only because of public support. Donations directly fund independent research, public education, and practical guidance that helps people prepare—not panic.

In One Sentence

This page is a clear-eyed map of the climate reality now unfolding, paired with practical guidance for protecting yourself, your family, and the future—while there is still time to act.

Prologue

This website is for intelligent, mature, and rational individuals who rely on good science and accurate data to manage their lives and businesses. This website counterbalances and corrects the tremendous disinformation and misinformation campaign carried on by the global fossil fuel cartel over the last five decades concerning accurate climate change data. You will find this notice only on website pages that may be especially upsetting regarding current climate change facts, consequences, and timelines.

Our organization is currently focused on educating people about climate change emergency preparation, adaptation, resilience building, and, where necessary, migration. This is because many of the serious consequences of climate change are now unavoidable due to a 60-year delay in addressing this emergency. Reading the rest of this page will clarify the seriousness of those consequences and the short timelines involved.

If you are unsure about the causes of climate change, we suggest starting with Learn pull-down top link called, What Climate Change Is and Does" rather than the materials below. The climate change facts below are uncensored as compared to what you have been hearing from your government, the media, and even many environmental groups.

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If you are curious about (or doubt) the consequence severity, time frames, or solutions in any of our climate change forecasts, which are often about 30 to 60% worse than what you are hearing from your government, the media or the United Nations IPCC, please click here for the science.

The 2026 climate change forecast sections below are broken into the following areas for easy reading:

Part 1: The climate change consequence forecast for 2026.

Part 2: In 2026, where you live will determine the severity, frequency, and scale of climate change's increasing consequences.

Part 3: The most significant climate change tipping points, feedback loops, and disaster warning signs to monitor in 2026.

Part 4: How intensifying 2026 climate change consequences will affect your life will not be how most people expect.

Part 5: How will the new US Government White House administration, with the latest 47th US president, affect the consequences of climate change?

Part 6: What you can do to protect yourself, your family, or your business from climate change consequences in 2026 and beyond. Near the bottom of this page, you will discover how to prepare, adapt, build climate change resilience, and help reduce the adverse consequences of climate change. You will also learn the many benefits humanity will reap if we address the climate crisis.

The links at the bottom of the page also provide forecasts of climate change impacts for 2026-2031 and 2032-2050.

Introduction 

Our 100% publicly funded think tank has prepared the following uncensored climate change forecast. It is the most comprehensive list of climate change-related consequences forecast for 2026 currently available on the Internet. As you review the 2026 climate change forecast below, we believe many of you may be surprised to discover the following climate change patterns:

1. More extreme weather records will be broken IN 2026. These new extreme weather records will be broken by larger and larger amounts at even faster rates, covering larger and larger areas. This is the single most important thing to watch for in 2026 in your area and globally to validate our 2026 forecast below.

2. Accelerating climate change consequences will affect most of our lives in the following areas (and many other areas described below this Introduction): 

increasing heat, humidity, wind, and rain bombs,

more wildfires and wildfire smoke events,

increasing drought,

extreme cold spells and snow bombs,

expanding property and mortgage insurance cancellations or massive rate increases for homes, businesses, and farms,

rapidly increasing electric bills and rates,

increased health costs, personal costs, and business costs,

extreme weather-related travel delays and cancellations, and increased airline flight turbulence,

reduced food production, less food availability, increased food prices, and food distribution costs,

increase world starvation,

worsening environmental conditions,

regional infrastructure destruction,

increased political turmoil and

miscellaneous other factors.

3. Worsening climate change consequences will increasingly consume your time and finances and reduce your quality of life.

Part 1: The Direct and Indirect Climate Change Consequences that Will Most Affect You, Your Family, Your Business, and Your Nation in 2026.

People ignore one or two climate consequences they may experience or see in the news. When they finally see or experience many of the climate change consequences listed below, they begin to understand the severity of the situation, but they generally do not yet grasp the extent to which things will worsen. Only after experiencing numerous intense or worsening consequences of climate change do most people recognize that we are facing an escalating climate change emergency.

The saddest thing about the list of climate consequences you're about to read is that they are getting worse mainly because our political leaders have not yet enforced the honest 2025-26 required global fossil fuel reductions needed to prevent climate change consequences from getting worse and threatening your home, business, or farm, and the eventual survival of humanity. 

It is also essential to recognize that, because no government has effectively slowed the acceleration of climate change over the last 60+ years, no government or governments can legitimately claim to adequately control or minimize the consequences listed below. Many of these consequences are already baked in and unavoidable because of your government's 60+ years of climate change denial, ineffective action, or no action. As long as humanity continues to release more carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide (the three leading greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, the consequences of climate change below will continue to intensify. 

Unfortunately, many of the 70+ climate change consequences below are also aggressively being used by insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide to re-evaluate home, business, and farm property and mortgage insurance policies, raise their rates in medium to high-risk climate change areas, or cancel risky home, business, and farm climate-related property insurance and mortgage policies altogether. In many cases, the climate change consequence that will hit many people and businesses the hardest and the soonest will be the soaring costs or cancellation of their home, business, or farm property or mortgage insurance (on a new purchase) because of the climate change-related shake-up in the insurance, mortgage, and reinsurance industries.)

Finally, when viewing the 2026 climate change consequence lists below, remember that science can now attribute a reliable percentage of climate change-related factors as the direct or contributing cause of extreme weather events or climate disasters. (Please note that our recent significant climate disasters have been climate change-driven, and you can learn more about these climate change attribution studies by clicking here.)

Heat-Related

Increasing heat and longer heatwaves, heat domes, and considerably more days with temperatures of 100 degrees or higher annually. (More 100 degrees + days during the growing season means more crop failures and lower yields.)

In the US alone, we predict between 2,000 to 3,000 people will die directly because of extreme heat-related causes. Worldwide, we predict several hundred thousand people will die from extreme heat-related causes. Expect these death totals to rise dramatically each year in lockstep with rising global temperatures.

The intervals between extreme weather patterns will shorten, and the differences in types of extreme weather will become more pronounced. For example, droughts will take less time to turn into rain bombs, and snow will quickly turn into rain and ice. Calm days will quickly turn into intense wind gusts. Much of this will happen because the atmosphere is heating up like a pressure cooker. The contents of that pressure cooker (our atmosphere) are churning and accelerating as global temperatures rise.

Despite typical El Niño and La Niña temperature variations, we forecast that, as in 2024, 2026 will be the warmest year on record. It will break the temperature record again (despite the change from La Niña to El Niño) because we continue to release ever more carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from our ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. Not only are we releasing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but we are also doing so at an increasingly rapid rate. Add to that nightmare the additional triggering of climate-change feedbacks and the crossing of more tipping points, and you have the perfect recipe for ongoing global heating.

Globally, climate change led to an average of 57 additional days of dangerous heat in 2026, posing a significant threat to public health. We expect that number to rise significantly in 2026. 

Increasing heat and longer heatwaves, and heat domes, are also causing more asphalt and concrete roads to buckle and become impassable, disrupting transportation and business operations. It is not just the roads that are being trapped in the increasing heat. Railroads built long before climate change became a problem are experiencing slowdowns and delays during intense heat waves because the tracks warp, preventing trains from running on the older, pre-climate-change rails.

Outdoor work will become more and more challenging as nations around the world experience increasingly hot weather, longer heat waves, and heat domes.

Humidity-Related 

Due to global heat-related evaporation, atmospheric water content will increase significantly. With every one-degree Celsius increase in temperature, atmospheric water vapor increases by 7%. This increase in water vapor results in a substantial rise in global humidity.

When heat, temperature, and humidity are combined into a single measurement, the result is called a wet-bulb temperature. Even heat-adapted individuals cannot engage in normal outdoor activities beyond a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F).

A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure. A wet bulb temperature of 35° see is generally considered the death zone

In 2024-25, parts of the Iranian desert reached 73 °C (163°F). 

Higher temperatures increase heat-related deaths. High humidity is particularly deadly for the very old and very young when combined with high temperatures.

High humidity and temperatures combined will significantly depress outdoor labor productivity and safety.

Eventually, rising temperatures and humidity will drive millions of people in the tropics to migrate, as living and working conditions become unbearable and unsustainable. Rising global humidity, driven by climate change, will become one of humanity's most significant challenges to productivity and survival.

Wind-Related

Rising temperatures will increase wind and wind speeds almost everywhere. Our atmosphere will increasingly "boil and churn" as it continues to warm each year, much like water boiling and churning under a pressure cooker as the heat increases. This "pressure cooker" wind-increasing effect occurs because the top layer of Earth's atmosphere acts like a pressure cooker lid, trapping most of the warming from climate change in Earth's lower atmosphere. 

Flyers will experience significantly increased air turbulence, as reported by airlines and passengers. More flights are expected to be delayed or canceled due to high winds and extreme weather conditions. More airplanes will also experience more emergency landings or crashes due to climate-related extreme weather. 

Increasing winds worldwide will eventually become one of climate change's most damaging and consistent consequences. (For example, the western coast of the United States will experience significantly increased wind events of 70-100 miles per hour. Worldwide, tornadoes and Derechos will occur in places they have not previously occurred, and they will become more frequent in areas where they have occurred previously.) Higher winds will down trees and power lines, block roads, and destroy crops.

More intense or more frequent hurricanes, Derechos, cyclones, tornadoes, and extreme wind events are expected. Worldwide, we can expect to see more Category 5 and 6 hurricanes and cyclones. The new category six hurricanes and typhoons will occur due to the extra global warming-caused heating in our atmosphere and oceans. (The category six hurricane level begins with maximum sustained winds of 182 MPH. (Just two category six hurricanes have been recorded: Patricia and Wilma. Current construction standards will not survive a category six hurricane, much less more frequent category five hurricanes.)

Due to increased wind and worsening drought, expect more frequent and larger dust storms worldwide. Across Florida and the southern US these are often called Haboobs. These dust storms come across the Atlantic Ocean, all the way from the desert of Africa. As climate change consequences intensify, a new Dust Bowl could emerge across the crop-growing areas of the United States and other regions of the world.

Rain-Related

Due to global heat-related evaporation, atmospheric water vapor will increase significantly. For every 1 °C increase in temperature, atmospheric water vapor increases by 7%.

There will be a lot more rain bombs. (Rain bombs are where a week, month, or season's worth of rain falls in a few hours or days.)

You will see rain bombs approaching 30 inches of rain in one or two days, becoming more common. You will also see rain bombs occur in locations that have never experienced them before, due to changes in the jet stream and atmosphere.

Large rain bombs of 20 to 30 inches or more will cause enormous and sudden surges in river flooding. Many rivers will rise by 10 to as much as 30 feet in a matter of hours. This will cause many more deaths around the world. In some areas, these massive rainfalls and river rises will cause local lakes to also rise and flood the homes, businesses, and utilities surrounding them.

Rain bombs and other climate-related flooding will cause city and home sewers to back up. Raw human and industrial sewage will be more frequently dumped into homes, streets, businesses, rivers, lakes, bays, and coastal waters.

Due to rain bombs and flooding, there will be significantly more water treatment plant purification problems and disruptions.

Increased water vapor also means even more snow bombs.

There will be more atmospheric rivers in existing and new locations, where rainstorms after rainstorms pummel an area with little time between each new storm.

Due to warmer temperatures, earlier spring rains are anticipated, resulting in smaller mountain snowpacks and significantly faster spring snowmelt. This faster runoff will lead to more frequent record-breaking flash flooding downstream and reduce the water available from the annual snowpack for crops and other uses.

There has already been a 45% increase in extreme rain occurrences in the United States since 1950.

Significantly increased global rainfall will require costly adaptations, including the construction of new flood drainage and sewer systems and the replacement of high-capacity sump pumps, for businesses and homes in flood-prone areas.

More areas will experience more frequent winter rain and heat waves, even when they normally do not receive rain or reach high temperatures. By 2050, there will be a 50% reduction in spring water runoff critical to farmers, as winter rains and heatwaves will melt the snowpack needed later in the growing season, resulting in slower runoff.

Drought-Related

There will be more droughts. (We are currently experiencing global warming-aggravated mega-droughts that have lasted one or more decades in the US Southwest, West Africa, and Australia.)

Monsoons in Asia are expected to become shorter and more intense, leading to more severe droughts. This will result in more intense monsoon flooding at levels never previously seen.

There will be more desertification: more land will be in drought and unusable.

Droughts will wreck coastal fisheries, especially salmon (which spawn in drought-ravaged rivers). Government departments managing fisheries will shorten fishing seasons more frequently, delay them, or cancel specific seasons for 1 year or more.

As climate change intensifies heat and leads to more prolonged droughts affecting larger areas, traditional legal water rights for nations, states, regions, and individuals will be increasingly challenged in the courts, renegotiated, and altered. This global reallocation of water rights and changes to existing legal water rights will be required and encouraged to address today's harsh climate realities and our improved understanding of climate change and hydrology (the study of water, including water conservation). There will be increased government enforcement of new rights, which will take away existing water rights from holders.

Increasing droughts will also drive the widespread adoption of costly water capture and recycling systems.

Increasing droughts worldwide are also causing significant declines in water levels behind dams that generate electricity. When the water level drops too low, there is no water passing through the generators inside these dams and the surrounding areas suddenly become without their electrical source.

Additionally, low water levels in reservoirs behind dams worldwide reduce downstream releases, leading to problems such as wildlife farming and other impacts.

(Please note: When you look at the steeply rising carbon (CO2) graph (above) and the carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide greenhouse gas graphs (further down the page), which are also rising steeply, two truths scream out:

1. Climate change will continue to worsen even faster because more greenhouse gases are going into the atmosphere each year, and

2. Nothing the world's governments (or environmental groups) have done since they were informed about the growing climate catastrophe over 60 years ago has been effective in any meaningful way for reducing the rising greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

The decades of rising carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide numbers do not lie. Our global efforts to reduce climate change by reducing the cause of climate change (fossil fuel emissions and greenhouse gases) have been a total, complete, and utter failure! Until we come out of this climate change denial and face these painful facts, we will never be able to reduce or avoid the escalating climate change consequences described on this page.)

Cold-Related

Despite it often being called global warming, computer modeling predicts many unseasonable and intense cold spells because the jet stream has begun to wobble and become more unstable. This extreme instability brings much colder air from the far north into areas where it would not usually occur.

There will be more sudden cold or freezing spells at times, and in some places, this should not occur. Because more of these cold and freezing spells will occur in locations where they are not typically found, there will be many frozen and burst pipes and water systems due to the water freezing inside them. Because of the jet stream and other atmospheric disturbances caused by climate change, you will also see cold or freezing spells in places where they have never experienced such weather phenomena.

As freezing winter weather gives way to warm, rainy conditions, there will be an increase in damaging and dangerous ice storms. These storms will disrupt personal and business transportation. This increase in ice storms will be particularly harsh on the airline industry, which will have to cancel many more flights due to heavily iced runways and de-icing issues.

There will be more frequent hailstorms with larger hailstones. Higher temperatures and warmer winter weather will also increase the risk of rain, freezing rain, and ice storms. These winter ice and freezing rain storms will take down power lines, and the increasing number of outages will further disrupt transportation, manufacturing, and daily life.

Just as we are already experiencing rain bombs, where weeks or months' worth of rain fall in a day or two, in 2026, the world will recognize that we are also now experiencing snow bombs. Highly disruptive snow bombs occur when about 4 to 8 feet of snow falls in an area over several days. As rain bombs increase in severity, frequency, and scale in covered areas, snow bombs will likely follow suit. This rain-to-snow bomb parallel is because snow bombs are just frozen water particles.  As global heating increases, more water vapor will be in the air, which, in some places, will cause frozen water particles to form snow.

Wildfires and Wildfire Smoke-Related

Larger fires will spread faster due to predicted higher-velocity winds, increased heat, and droughts. As temperatures rise, the number of wildfires worldwide is expected to increase, with greater severity, frequency, and area affected. These wildfires will also lead to increased temporary and permanent evacuations and relocations.

Due to increased droughts and heat, wildfires are expected to occur more frequently in forests worldwide, particularly in the northern United States, Canada, northern Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. Due to recurring, prolonged droughts, wildfires are also expected to increase in the Amazon rainforest.

With wildfires come wildfire smoke. Wildfire smoke contains dangerous PM2.5 particles and other highly toxic materials from homes and other buildings being burned. PM2.5 and other harmful particles emitted by wildfires have significant health impacts on affected populations. It is estimated that in California alone, from 2018 to 2022, approximately 50,000 people died from the PM 2.5 and other toxic effects of wildfire smoke. 

Southern California is a prime example of what is likely to happen in many parts of the world regarding wildfires and smoke. Southern California will experience alternating periods of climate change-driven higher annual rainfall, one year or one season, followed by periods of extended and increasing drought the next year or season. When excessive annual or seasonal rainfall and subsequent drought are combined with rising global temperatures, local winds will intensify. In Southern California, these intensifying winds are known as the periodic Santa Ana winds.

Due to accelerating climate change, Southern California will continue to experience excessive rainfall in one year or season, followed by severe droughts in the next. More specifically, this is dangerous because additional plant growth will occur during the increased rainfall period, and this growth will dry out during the extended drought periods. This will provide ever-increasing dry wildfire fuel, resulting in ever larger, more intense, and more frequent wildfires and emergency wildfire evacuations in Southern California (especially during periods of the Santa Anna winds). Accelerating climate change will make rebuilding in medium- to high-risk wildfire areas of southern California (or anywhere in the world) increasingly unwise and all but impossible to ensure at a reasonable cost.

Increasing wildfires worldwide also release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, creating a triple disaster: increased atmospheric carbon levels from soot and smoke contribute to rising average global temperatures and exacerbate respiratory and other health problems, especially for the young and the elderly.

Season-Related

Normal seasonal weather patterns will become less stable and predictable. Significant unseasonable changes like rain and warm weather during winter, followed quickly by severe cold spells, then back to warm or rain, then cold again in winter and summer. These rapid changes in warm-to-cold and wet-to-dry weather are due to the jet stream wobbling and becoming more unstable.

There will be significantly more crop failures and yield losses due to climate change-driven abnormal seasonal variations, such as essential weather conditions appearing at the wrong time of the season for crop survival, e.g., rain bombs during spring planting, high wind Derechos at harvest time, etc. Seasons that do not begin or end when they usually do will be especially dangerous for crops and gardens.

We will also experience more incidents of freezing rain, ice storms, and damaging large hail in non-winter seasons, which can lower food production or destroy entire crops.

Food-Related

Food prices will rise year after year to compensate for climate change-related:

a. Farmer food crop losses (low crop yields and crop failures)

b. Increased plant feed costs to food animal producers.

c. Warming waters are causing increasingly dwindling fish stocks.

These increases will be considerably more than the typical cost-of-living increases. We estimate that, due to the accelerating impacts of climate change, food prices will rise by at least 2% to 5% annually, and potentially more, for many food items. This 2-5% is in addition to your nation's annual inflation rate.

Expect to see significant product shortages and price spikes in products produced in areas closest to the equator initially, as they will generally suffer more intense heat, drought, and wildfire-related consequences. Products that will be in short supply early in the shortage and price spike cycle include chocolate, coffee, mangoes, and various spices. Generally, any food product that depends on highly stable traditional growing-season weather conditions will become more vulnerable to failure and low yields due to accelerating climate change. Commodity brokers who understand the escalating impact of climate change, as described on this website, are already adjusting their buy and sell portfolios to the new reality of more frequent and severe crop failures and low crop yields.

Animal food prices (cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens, and products from these animals) will also be subject to steadily higher price increases because most animal feed is grown as a crop, and climate change reduces crop yields. Additionally, animal herds will starve more, die, and suffer from other diseases worldwide as more intense climate change consequences occur.

You will begin to see more dynamic electronic pricing in grocery stores. This dynamic pricing will enable grocery stores to adjust any price on any shelf item with a few keystrokes on a computer. Dynamic pricing will be crucial for food stores to thrive in the new reality of rapidly evolving food prices, driven by low crop and animal yields, failed crop and animal production, and disrupted or lost food distribution due to climate change, extreme weather, or disasters.

As climate change intensifies, more insects, animals, and humans will contract new diseases and microbes as they migrate to new locations. These migrations will introduce more insect and animal diseases to new, unprepared areas. These new diseases and microbes will cause many more "new" diseases to emerge in food plant production and livestock in locations never seen before. These "new" migration-driven diseases will cause significant, periodic losses in plant food and livestock production. These losses will cause temporary, steep, or long-lasting price increases in food plant production or livestock affected by these new diseases. (In many cases, with animal livestock affected by these "new" migration-related diseases, these animal livestock will have to be killed, resulting in steep food price increases. In the following health section, more will be said about how this climate change-driven migration of insects, animals, and humans will affect human health.)

Due to the various climate change-related consequences, there will be increased food shortages, leading to rapid, temporary, or sustained spikes in food prices.

Climate change will lead to increased global starvation. 

No matter what governments worldwide do, say, or promise, they cannot reduce their nations' rising food costs due to the global escalation of crop failures and low crop yields, directly caused by the effects of climate change. Until your government takes action to reverse climate change, food prices will continue to rise. (See the Cost section below for specifics on increasing food costs.)

Health-Related

More individuals will experience an unexpressed generalized or openly expressed climate change-related anxiety, anger, or sadness of various intensity levels, from light to disabling. These emotions create ongoing stress, which is harmful to health. For some, these feelings of anxiety, anger, or sadness may be consciously expressed. For many others, even those who deny climate change, these feelings may be expressed in a generalized, subconscious, or even instinctual, peripheral awareness of a growing danger to their lives. Worldwide, particularly among younger generations, there is growing, serious anxiety about the climate crisis.

Allergies will worsen significantly in many areas and spread to places where they have not previously been present. This rising allergy problem is expected to be caused by climate change-driven increases in temperature, higher carbon levels in the atmosphere, and other changing conditions that will lead to plant migrations and the proliferation of certain plants. Many individuals will experience allergies for the first time or more intensely as weather and growing patterns change worldwide, and more carbon dioxide, which is good for plants, enters the atmosphere.

Wildfire smoke incidents will increase. The dense smoke events contained dangerous PM 2.5 particles and other highly toxic materials from the homes and buildings being burned. PM2.5 and other harmful particles emitted by wildfires have significant health impacts on affected populations. It is estimated that in California alone, from 2018 to 2022, approximately 50,000 people died from the PM 2.5 and other toxic effects of wildfire smoke. 

As climate change intensifies, heat and drought will increase insect, animal, and human migration to new locations, carrying with them new diseases and microbes. These migrations will bring more insect, animal, and human diseases to the populations in the areas experiencing the migration, and many of those new disease locations will be poorly or unprepared. 

In areas of rapidly melting tundra and permafrost, long-dormant viruses and bacteria that humanity hasn't seen in almost 1 million years, or has never seen, will circulate again. These will cause new and existing diseases to emerge in areas where permafrost and tundra are melting. For example, Russia has already experienced several outbreaks of natural anthrax, originating from animal carcasses thawing in the melting tundra. These climate-consequence-driven new and recurring disease outbreaks will lead to price spikes and prolonged increases in health care costs.

In California, Arizona, the Southwest United States, and other regions worldwide, Valley Fever incidence will increase. Valley Fever is usually caused by wet winters and very dry summers, which help disperse the spores that cause Valley Fever to different areas.

As climate change intensifies, Valley Fever cases in California and Arizona have increased from 4 to 5 per year to 4 to 500 per year. Valley fever is now appearing in Washington state and other areas where it has not been previously reported. In some people, it causes death, and in others, it causes them to be involved in a lifelong treatment program.

There will be more new epidemics and more COVID-like pandemics. AIDS, MERS, SARS, Swine flu, and Avian bird flu (and COVID-19's new variants) are zoonotic viral diseases that have been transmitted to humans from animals or insects. This zoological disease crossover effect is fueled by the loss of natural animal habitats, increased consumption of wild animals, overcrowding, which leads to more human-animal interactions, less resilient health systems, mass climate change-driven migrations of insects, animals, and humans, and the melting of permafrost, releasing ancient viral and bacterial pathogens.

Air pollution, directly or indirectly, accounts for approximately 11-13% of global deaths each year. That is about one out of every eight global deaths, or roughly 10 million people a year!

Increased toxic fossil fuel-burning-related air pollution will cause millions of additional global cases of childhood asthma and other respiratory ailments. 

More people will experience serious health problems after climate change catastrophes and stresses (such as respiratory problems from wildfire smoke and other health issues from climate change-driven flooding due to chemicals, sewage, and mold in floodwaters).

The ongoing, sudden, and unpredictable changes in extreme weather events, occurring one after another or on a regular basis, will increase stress on the general population. This increased climate-related stress is likely to lead to more illnesses and mental health issues.

Far more people will suffer and die in 2026 because of direct and indirect climate change-related consequences than in any previous year. The number of people worldwide who will die from the direct and indirect effects of the primary and secondary climate change consequences will increase to around 120-160 million. 

Filling the atmosphere with increasing amounts of carbon and methane, in many more ways than described in this article, will not be good for humanity's lifespan or quality of life.

Cost-Related

Food costs will likely remain high if climate change continues to intensify. Due to climate consequences, farmers will increasingly experience lower crop yields or complete crop failures. Fisheries will suffer from warming waters and other climate-related impacts. The price of livestock for food will also continue to rise due to rising temperatures, drought, and other climate-related factors. Additionally, the plant feed used to feed domestic animals will be subject to low crop yields and crop failures. Both food plants and livestock will also suffer from more diseases and insect infestations due to increased migration of pathogens and insects into warmer climates where they have not previously occurred. These food production challenges and costs are also expected to increase year over year as temperatures continue to rise.

In 2026, because of the many accelerating consequences of climate change listed above and below, which directly and indirectly affect all categories of food prices, expect your food bill to go up by 2 to 4 percent more than the previous average food inflation rate. This increase in food prices will also include higher food distribution costs and increased labor costs, as the consequences of climate change are expected to drive higher expenses.

This will devastate low-income families and put paycheck-to-paycheck middle-class families under much higher stress. We estimate that low-income families will spend 15% of their income on food. Middle-class families will spend less of their total income, but there will still be a significant increase of several percent. Food prices are expected to increase by a greater percentage and as a larger proportion of total household income in Phases 2 and 3 of climate change, as described further below.

As the impacts of climate change intensify, homeowners and business owners will be particularly hard hit by unpredictable, near-continuous increases in property insurance costs. Over the past seven years, property insurance has risen 30% in the US alone. In high-risk areas for climate change, where property insurance is still available, the average cost of an insurance policy has increased by 50%.

Uncertainty and rate increases in property insurance will devastate new and existing home and business owners, as well as home and business sales, because their monthly or annual overhead related to property insurance will continue to rise beyond their control. Unpredictable, climate-change-driven property insurance rate increases are the most challenging for first-time homebuyers, as they often spend every penny they have to move in. This will make it impossible for many first-time homeowners to remain in their homes as climate change worsens and climate-related property insurance costs continue to rise with the acceleration of the climate crisis. (A recent New York Times article estimated that one in ten homes in the US would soon become financially uninsurable because of accelerating climate change.)

Colossal increases in home and business property insurance will hit the real estate and business sales markets the hardest. Savvy new buyers will likely factor in accelerating property insurance rates when making every home or business purchase decision. Within 5-10 years, states will require full disclosure of climate change risks and projected property insurance costs for all residential and commercial property sales. (More about this is in the insurance section below.)

Home and business expenses will increase significantly for individuals and businesses that choose to relocate out of medium— to high-risk climate-change areas and start anew elsewhere. They will make this decision because continual rebuilding will be too expensive, and ever-increasing property insurance will make living in those homes or operating those businesses financially unviable sooner rather than later. Additionally, the psychological and emotional stress of continuing to rebuild while climate change is projected to worsen at an even faster rate for many decades is unsustainable and irrational.

In 2026, expect more sudden and temporary severe spikes in prices for your energy bills and other critical commodities because of the sudden changes in climate change-driven extreme weather consequences. Unprecedented weather extremes will significantly affect product distribution and prices across energy (electric, gasoline, home heating oil, diesel) and other critical commodity inventories, reserves, and transportation.

As temperatures and heat deaths continue to rise, more states and nations will require energy-efficient air conditioning in all new homes, businesses, and even many older homes.

Taxes will increase worldwide due to rapidly rising costs of city, county, state, and national governments related to repairs and rebuilding required by the increasing frequency, severity, and scale of climate change disasters.

City, county, state, and national deficits will increase not only in underdeveloped nations but also in developed nations. These rising deficits will result from climate change costs increasing dramatically faster than in previous years. Very few cities, counties, states, or nations are budgeting anywhere close to the actual cost of mitigating the impacts of climate change in their annual budgets. This denial of the actual costs of climate change will drive ever-larger deficits at the city, county, state, and national levels as the climate emergency intensifies. No city, county, state, or national government is discussing the projected 3%-5% or more of total GDP that accelerating climate change consequences will soon cost.

More people are falling deeper into debt and experiencing bill-paying problems after being impacted by climate change-driven extreme weather events, especially since most of the damages will no longer be covered by government emergency relief organizations, as the sheer number and severity of these climate catastrophes continue to rise.

More frequent and severe weather-related temporary and long-term evacuations from affected areas are expected. These ordered evacuations will cause significant hardship and substantial costs to those affected.

The fossil fuel industries will continue to export and shift the above-listed financial costs and losses for the damages and suffering their products unfairly cause to citizens of every nation. You will pay higher local, state, and national taxes, as well as higher insurance rates. Because of the above climate change effects, you will also have to pay personally for any climate-related damages and losses not covered fully by your insurance.

The most expensive single-incident global climate change disaster in 2026 is expected to cost at least $300 billion. The total cost of global climate change-related damages will significantly exceed $1- $ 2 trillion. In 2026, the US and many other countries will be required to allocate 3%-5% of their total gross domestic product (GDP) to address climate change-related impacts, both directly and indirectly. These escalating climate-damage costs have not been factored into any national budget we are aware of. (The current US GDP is just over 30 trillion dollars.)

More individuals and businesses will be compelled to invest in expensive backup generator systems and other power sources as the frequency of extreme-weather-caused power outages increases. Extreme weather-related power outages are expected to increase significantly, potentially compromising individual lives and business operations without a reliable backup power source.

The disabled and less affluent will suffer disproportionately more because of the costs of climate change consequences.

In 2026, the total cost of all climate change-related consequences in the US will exceed $300 billion. Worldwide, the total cost is expected to exceed several trillion dollars. No nation on Earth has yet established a climate change damage budget to accelerate the costs associated with climate change. This means that nations will continue to face surprisingly large annual budget deficits as the climate change emergency accelerates.

In 2026, you will hear the term Managed Retreat more often in the media. To be politically correct, this is the term politicians will use instead of saying climate change-related relocation,  even though more people will be choosing to relocate or be forced to relocate because they have run out of repair and rebuilding money or the current government emergency programs, or the insurance companies refuse to rebuild their homes, businesses, or farms the second or third time. Paradoxically, voluntary or Managed Retreat relocation will cause a crash in home, business, and farm prices (70-90+%) in medium- to high-risk climate-change areas. This will create numerous new homes, businesses, and farm ownership opportunities for low-income individuals willing to purchase these properties at drastically reduced prices, allowing them to live or conduct business without the need for property insurance. Ironically, the climate change emergency will create more low-income housing, low-income business, and low-income farm opportunities that would've never been possible in the current market had not many individuals continued to deny the obvious and accelerating climate change reality and consequences and then waited too long to relocate out of medium to high-risk climate change areas, which had become uninsurable at viable insurance rates.

One of the most severe economic consequences of accelerating climate change will be its impact on national and global inflation rates. Because of increasing low crop yields, crop failures, increasing property insurance (in medium to high-risk climate change areas,) as well as the continually rising costs of repairing and rebuilding necessary government and private infrastructure after climate change disaster after climate change disaster (described in this page), no government or state will be able to lower its inflation rates no matter how they try. Inflation rates are expected to remain high and continue rising in many areas.

Whether or not budgeted, government deficits will continue to rise steeply as the costs of climate change impacts and critical infrastructure repairs nationally and globally continue to increase. This will force governments to raise taxes to cover the ever-increasing costs of climate change disasters.

Federal Reserve Banks worldwide will have significant difficulty controlling national inflation rates. This is due to the spontaneous, unpredictable, and ever-increasing costs of accelerating climate change. As temperatures continue to rise and exacerbate climate-related consequences, unbudgeted national costs will increase, leading to higher inflation. Climate change-driven costs and inflation are expected to rise dramatically after 2026.

One of the worst cost-related developments in 2026 and beyond is that reinsurance companies (those that insure individual insurers to spread and share their risks) will begin canceling reinsurance coverage for the insurers they insure that also hold property insurance in medium— to high-risk climate-change areas. This will make it impossible for insurance companies to carry even the most expensive property insurance for homes and businesses in these areas.

When reinsurance companies cancel the property insurance coverage of insurance companies, no government will be able to force any individual insurance company into carrying property insurance in medium to high-risk climate change areas, because they will have to assume all of the risk themselves individually, and put their insurance company at risk of sudden bankruptcy as climate change consequences continue to accelerate.  Insurance companies must follow suit, as more global reinsurers decline to cover policies with medium to high climate change risk. What will follow is a decline in the availability of affordable home, business, and farm insurance worldwide. This will eventually lead to a crash in home, business, and farm prices worldwide in medium- to high-risk areas with climate change consequences, due to their uninsurability.

As more and more home and property insurance rates skyrocket or are canceled, it may turn out that nothing may be more powerful to end global and national climate change denial and begin honest climate change reduction than the costs and problems of having home or business property insurance become so expensive (or be canceled) causing homeowners and business owners into unsustainable and unviable financial hardships including eventual relocations. Sooner or later, the increasingly loud and painful complaints of homeowners and business owners (and the industries that serve them, such as realtors) will be so powerful that even the most climate change-denying politicians will be compelled to change course.

In 2026, we estimate that the total cost of climate change impacts in the US alone will exceed $300 billion. The US government, US businesses, and individual families will not plan for or budget for most of these costs. Climate change will become a more prominent, largely unaddressed, and financially undermanaged cause of increasing national, business, and personal financial losses and deficits. The cost consequences of accelerating climate change will become the most often hidden and unmanageable source of inflation. 

(If you value what you are discovering, please share this page with your friends because much of this uncensored climate change information is actively being censored by the media and even by many environmental groups due to its highly unsettling nature.)

Infrastructure-Related

You will begin to hear about more highways and railways buckling and crumbling, becoming temporarily or permanently unusable as new, higher temperatures are reached that exceed their original design specifications. This will slow or stop the distribution of critical materials on highways and railways.

More infrastructure, such as dams and bridges, will catastrophically fail worldwide because it was designed to withstand 100-year extreme weather events, not the record-breaking 1,000-year or 10,000-year climate-change-driven extreme weather events that are already here and will continue to worsen.

More home and building construction companies will begin promoting and offering more climate-resilient features. These will be features like fire-resistant walls and roofs, heating and cooling systems that use the ambient temperature of the ground four feet under the home to cool the home in the summer and heat the home in the winter, extra heavy-duty basement sump pumps, two or three times the current size to remove rising and more frequent rain bomb flooding from home and business basements, wind reinforcement, and wind resilience features (like angled or round walls) to combat rising wind storms and wind speeds. As both wind and heat will become more deadly, destructive, and expensive as the climate change emergency accelerates, you will also see more home and business construction companies offering radical new covered earth and other designs created to allow homes and businesses to survive the radical climate changes coming over the next 6 to 20 years.

In 2026 and beyond, China plans to build or expand existing dams and reservoirs in Tibet to mitigate the global-warming-driven increase in spring flood runoff, which is expected to worsen as climate change accelerates. These new or expanded dams and reservoirs will also be crucial in preserving the water that flows out of Tibet after the melting of the Tibetan glaciers. China's intelligence agencies do not deny the reality of impending climate change catastrophes. They are wisely preparing for them. They preserve as much of the precious water resources necessary to secure Tibetan water in China's agricultural future.

Unlike China, rampant and idiotic climate change denial in the US is preventing the US from building the required new dams and reservoirs in new locations to preserve the winter water runoff in the Rocky Mountain areas. The farmers and the ranchers in the western United States will be the pawns and victims of western water shortages and rampant political climate change denial in the United States.

As sea levels rise, saltwater intrusion into groundwater, landmasses, and waterways in coastal areas worldwide will increase. This will make an increasing share of the freshwater needed for the local population unusable due to pollution. When freshwater processing facilities are inundated by saltwater intrusion, many will need to be rebuilt from scratch at a cost of millions of dollars, relocated to sites that are not subject to future saltwater intrusion. This is already a growing problem in many coastal areas worldwide.

Sewage, water, and electrical services will go out more often nd for longer periods in the weakest areas of those systems as climate change intensifies.

Farmers worldwide are among the most vulnerable in one of the most challenging industries as climate change intensifies. Due to the reasons outlined on this page, farming will become increasingly challenging in traditional ways and locations. Early adopters, as well as some nations in the Middle East, are already conducting extensive research, testing, and development of hydroponic vertical farming in temperature- and condition-controlled buildings. As climate change accelerates, the number of locations worldwide where a normal growing season is possible will decrease. The future of food production will be vertical farming in temperature-controlled and climate-controlled buildings and facilities.

Business, School, and Work-Related

Individuals and businesses are likely to experience more climate-change-related extreme weather this year, resulting in greater inconvenience, delays, losses, and expenses. Thus, more individuals and companies will be affected by a never-ending cycle of destructive weather events. 

More individuals and businesses will lose wages, sales, and productivity due to delays or repairs required after climate-change-driven extreme weather events. (The poor and middle class will be hardest hit financially by the endless stream of accelerating climate-related disasters.)

High winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, Derechos, downed trees, fires, flooding, and other climate-related extreme weather will lead to more frequent, severe, and costly power outages that last longer and cover larger areas.

More people will experience daily commuting delays and disruptions due to climate-related extreme weather events. 

You will begin to hear about reduced transportation services due to high temperatures or flooding. In some countries, trains may not run or run slowly because their rails warp due to extreme heat.

More ports and warehouses will flood and go offline. This climate-related transportation problem will slow or halt the distribution of critical materials by highway and rail.

At some point, more individuals and businesses that repeatedly face climate-related disasters and are subsequently repaired or rebuilt will realize that they cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results. They will eventually begin moving and migrating to the limited areas where they will be significantly safer from the worst consequences of runaway global warming, at least for a while longer.

More banks will likely decline construction or remodeling loans for homes or buildings in areas at high risk of climate change.

Due to climate change-related extreme weather and its consequences, an increasing number of students will experience school absences or delays.

Farmers, fishermen, and domestic animal producers will find it increasingly difficult to remain profitable as the consequences of accelerating climate change devastate seasonal stability and drive up feed-related costs. Farmers will have low crop yields or lose crops completely. Domestic animal producers will find the plant feed needed for their livestock increasingly expensive due to droughts and other climate-change impacts, resulting in low feed-crop yields and crop failures. Governments worldwide will likely have to subsidize these industries due to ongoing climate-related losses, which will be borne by taxpayers. Worse yet, these losses will continue until climate change is reversed.

Environment-Related

More biodiversity will be lost through the extinction of animals, fish, and insects.

Rising air and water temperatures, along with various forms of human pollution, will increase the frequency of harmful algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and coastal areas. Some of these algae blooms will be toxic to both animals and humans, as is already occurring in Florida and elsewhere. This also makes the waterways and lakes where they occur unusable for human recreation or other needs.

Sea ice, ice shelves, glaciers, and snowpack will continue to shrink.

Ocean temperatures are expected to continue increasing, leading to more intense storms and declines in ocean biodiversity.

Increased ocean acidification will make it challenging for many species and fish stocks to survive.

Warmer seas and droughts will devastate coastal fisheries, particularly those of salmon (which spawn in rivers affected by drought), crab, and lobster. Government departments managing fisheries will shorten fishing seasons more frequently, delay them, or cancel specific seasons for 1 year or more.

Accelerating reef collapses worldwide will harm fish spawning and feeding grounds, undermining critical protein sources for global fish populations. This, in turn, will lead to more human starvation worldwide. 

There will be increased methane releases from melting tundra and permafrost (methane, as a heat-producing greenhouse gas, is about 80 times more potent than carbon in heating the atmosphere). Melting tundra and permafrost are releasing rapidly growing amounts of methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon. These additional greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere will further exacerbate global warming.

Ever-escalating sea-level rise and weather-induced flooding are expected to occur near coastal areas, rivers, streams, and lakes.

As climate change emergencies become more frequent, severe, and cover larger areas, there will be greater and more toxic chemical releases into the environment. These will occur from burned homes and businesses, as well as from chemical processing and transportation facilities caught in the fires.

Insurance-Related

Insurance and insurance coverage in an era of rising climate change and global warming will continue to pose significant risks to homeowners, businesses, and farmers. (Reinsurance companies insure the insurance companies against loss and bankruptcy for specified risks.) There will be a steadily increasing loss of all property and mortgage insurance covering climate change-related risks.

The accelerating consequences of climate change, along with their substantial insurance damage payouts, have thrown the global insurance and reinsurance industry into financial chaos. This economic chaos has led many state and national governments to desperately try to compel insurance and reinsurance companies to maintain coverage in medium— to high-risk areas affected by climate change. This government enforcement strategy is a flawed approach to achieving insurance justice, as it will not effectively address the underlying problem.

Forcing state and national governments to require insurance and reinsurance companies to maintain climate change-related coverage in medium to high-risk areas is a fool's errand with multiple worse outcomes. If insurance and reinsurance companies are unfairly forced by state or national governments to maintain insurance in medium to high-risk climate change areas:

1. Expect your insurance premiums to rise quickly by 100 to 300 percent or even more. Or, 

2. Expect insurance and reinsurance companies to cancel all their policies for homes, businesses, farms, autos, and crop failure in most climate change medium to high-risk areas.

Suppose state or national governments unfairly force insurance and reinsurance companies to maintain insurance in medium to high-risk climate change areas. In that case, insurance companies should and eventually will also demand the following in exchange for preserving coverage: 

1. The government guarantees that it can immediately raise its rates whenever the many different consequences of climate change increase. This would include increasing their rates as needed to cover all additional climate-change losses, plus a fair profit margin. These rates would not be raised only in medium- to high-risk climate change areas. These rate increases would apply to everyone insured by that insurer. For example, in the climate change-driven states of California and Florida, where wildfires and flooding are prevalent, do not be surprised if insurance carriers still have policies that require regular annual increases of 20 to 40% or more to cover risks in climate change areas. 

2. The government guarantees that insurance and reinsurance companies can use new 1,000—and 10,000-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme weather risk charts. Independent climate change researchers would create these charts because current climate change information used by the US Geological Survey and governments around the world has been wildly distorted by the billions of dollars spent on climate change disinformation by the global fossil fuel cartel. Without further state or national approval, these new charts also enable insurance and reinsurance companies to rapidly expand the definition and scope of medium- to high-risk climate-change areas, thereby better controlling their risks and losses. 

3. The government guarantees that the state and national governments will finally do their job to enforce the correct and urgently needed fossil fuel reduction regulations on toxic carbon and methane pollution from fossil fuel use. Over the following decades, this will gradually reduce insurance and reinsurance climate change risks and losses. However, this is a slow recovery process, so coverage will be tricky for decades.

4. The government guarantees that the state or national governments will immediately establish adequate Managed Retreat, which is where state and national buyback funds, funded by taxpayer contributions, are used to purchase all homes, businesses, and farms in climate change medium to high-risk areas that will be severely damaged and destroyed repeatedly. This must be done because any insurance or reinsurance property claim payouts provided to damaged and destroyed homes, businesses, and farms in those medium to high-risk areas would be a waste of additional valuable taxpayer resources (or insurance company resources) with no discernible benefit.

Financing for Managed Retreat would shift to the full responsibility of state and national governments to make restitution for their decades of failure to protect their citizens from escalating climate change, when the horrendous consequences were well known over 60 years ago.

(Please note that in addition to a very quiet, almost secretive current process of selective government-funded Managed Retreat, there will be an ever-increasing process of organically managed retreat. Organic managed retreat is when a business, farm, or homeowner has been flooded out, burned out, drought-struck, or otherwise severely impacted to the point that they cannot undergo the emotional, psychological, and financial process of rebuilding one more time. 

They have reached the point where they no longer expect different climate change outcomes in the future, given the already severe climate change emergency in medium- to high-risk areas. They are exhausted from this repeated loss and rebuilding process, or trying to collect from insurance companies desperate to get out of the climate change business, or from dwindling government emergency relief funds with endless red tape taking years to collect.)

Without the four government guarantees above, no legal action could be sustained in court to compel insurance and reinsurance companies to act in a way that would destroy those businesses. Do not be surprised to hear soon from stockholders in these insurance and reinsurance companies demanding the firing of any senior-level executive who is not sufficiently cautious in the property insurance business, particularly when covering well-known and rapidly accelerating climate change consequences.

To exacerbate the climate change insurance and reinsurance crisis, more traditional mortgage insurers are also entering this market, adjusting their policies to exclude climate change medium- to high-risk areas or significantly increasing their mortgage rates. These related home, business, and mortgage insurance cancellations or radical rate increases will eventually result in severe real estate and business and farm losses in all climate change medium to high-risk areas because homes, buildings, or farms will be tricky to impossible to sell without being able to secure mortgage insurance or obtain home, business or farm insurance. Uninsurable homes, businesses, and farms will sell at a small fraction of their pre-cancellation value.  

Insurance and reinsurance companies are already abandoning their previous, now largely useless, 100-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme-weather risk charts. They are creating their own 1,000- and 10,000-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme-weather risk charts that better reflect current and future climate-change risks. These new 1,000- to 10,000-year charts will prompt insurance and reinsurance companies to rapidly and dramatically expand their climate-change no-insurance zones to stay ahead of the accelerating consequences of climate change.

These new 1,000- to 10,000-year risk charts are critical for protecting insurance and reinsurance companies from bankruptcy and from being unfairly required to pay for the known accelerating consequences and risks of climate change caused by the global fossil fuel cartel's toxic carbon and methane atmospheric pollution. The risk departments at insurance and reinsurance companies already know with very high certainty that the destructive impacts of climate change consequences will rise dramatically from now until 2031 and, after that, exponentially.

Additionally, insurance and reinsurance companies are legally digging in. They legally claim they did not cause the highly preventable climate change emergency if governments had done their due diligence and were not grossly negligent. They are also holding the legal position that climate change is not an act of God. They are vigorously advocating for the correct, fair, and legal position that climate change is a direct result of the long-term inaction and incompetence of state and national governments in regulating the toxic air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels.

Insurance and reinsurance companies aggressively maintain the legal position that state and national governments have failed for over 60 years to regulate the escalating toxic carbon and methane pollution of the global fossil fuel industry and manage the well-documented rising climate change risks and global warming threat. They are also claiming that because the global fossil fuel cartel has spent billions on proven global climate change disinformation and misinformation that the government has failed to manage or correct, they are not responsible for the consequences of climate change. They refuse to become the financial "fall guys" for the known and intentionally destructive acts of others. Click here to see the documentation on the massive global disinformation and misinformation program funded by the global fossil fuel cartel.

Not unlike corporations, which are held legally responsible for their negligence or harmful acts, insurance and insurance companies are taking the legal position that state and national governments (along with the global fossil fuel cartel) are also fully responsible for paying for all of the consequences of climate change because of their decades of unconscionable failure to set and enforce climate change regulations to prevent the climate consequences and losses we are now experiencing.

Suppose state and national governments continue to try to force insurance and reinsurance companies to maintain coverage in medium to high-risk climate change areas (as they are already doing in some areas). In that case, insurance and reinsurance companies will find legal and other ways to raise rates astronomically. Hence, they never lose money, regardless of how rapidly climate change accelerates. Insurance and reinsurance companies have painfully realized they have no choice but to continually increase insurance rates or rapidly cancel home, business, and farm property and mortgage policies in all climate—change medium—to—high—risk areas to prevent them from going bankrupt due to a highly predictable and preventable human-made problem.

Accelerating climate change is a known no-win crisis for global insurance and reinsurance companies. Skyrocketing insurance rates or cancellations are already causing a rapidly expanding global insurance coverage crisis. Soon, this climate change-fueled insurance crisis will also cause a real estate and business crisis.

State and national governments attempting to unfairly compel insurance companies to maintain coverage in medium- to high-risk areas affected by climate change will prove to be just another failed government policy, not unlike their failure to regulate the toxic air pollution from fossil fuel companies, which contributes to climate change.

Politicians, states, and national governments are establishing property insurance coverage for homes, businesses, and farms in medium— to high-risk areas that are likely to experience climate change-related failures.

Because many insurance and reinsurance companies globally are already refusing to cover climate change risks in medium— to high-risk areas, regardless of what the state or government threatens, many states and governments have started their own climate change-related property insurance funds. The problem with these state-run funds is that they are grossly underfunded and will never be able to keep up with the ever-rising costs of accelerating climate change consequences.

Homeowners, businesses, and farms that rely on and pay for these government-run policies as a last-resort property insurance will receive only a fraction of what was promised as climate impacts worsen. These state-run, underfunded insurance policies will eventually collapse, and those who paid into them will lose everything. 

Currently, state-run climate change insurance funds have no required minimum cash reserve levels and are grossly underfunded. A notable example of these poorly conceived, underfunded state-run climate change insurance funds is the brainchild of California Governor Gavin Newsom and his climate change advisory team. It appears that our politicians will do anything but confront the facts of the climate change emergency and immediately enact and enforce the correct fossil fuel use reductions needed to save humanity from climate change chaos and widespread extinction.

Over the next 10 years, one in 10 homes and businesses in high- and medium-risk climate-change areas are projected to become completely uninsurable. This will result in massive losses for the real estate and farming industries. At its worst, government attempts to force insurance coverage will only result in exorbitant premiums that no one can afford, except the very wealthy. 

The bottom line for insurance and reinsurance companies is that they will soon go bankrupt if they continue to accept or extend property insurance coverage to homes, businesses, or farms in medium—to high-risk climate change areas. Not only will they go bankrupt, but they will increase their staff's property policy servicing costs before they do. Climate change-related property insurance risks have become the ultimate no-win market segment for the insurance and reinsurance industry.

Ironically, as insurance cancellations rise and rates soar in high- to medium-risk areas affected by climate change, the insurance and reinsurance industries have become the most significant single force in reversing global climate change denial. Climate change-related insurance and reinsurance cancellations, along with soaring rates, have become a powerful motivator for governments and politicians to acknowledge the reality of climate change and take the necessary and honest steps to reduce fossil fuel use worldwide. 

For decades, no government, nonprofit organization, or mass climate change protest has been as effective as the insurance and reinsurance industries in mitigating the toxic pollution and profit incentives associated with fossil fuels that directly contribute to climate change. As inadvertent advocates for humanity's survival and rationality regarding climate change, the world and future generations will increasingly recognize, applaud, and honor the business wisdom and heroism of the stockholders, executives, and staff of the world's insurance and reinsurance industries. 

By steadfastly protecting the profitability of their businesses, they are also protecting humanity's future. In this area, it finally appears that traditional market forces will have a robust and continually growing profitability-controlling effect to help eliminate the toxic pollution and other climate change damages of the global fossil fuel cartel that directly fuels the accelerating climate change emergency.

Definitely click here for another detailed article on this accelerating wave of insurance rates and cancellation problems. It covers the significant financial fallout that these insurance rate increases and cancellation problems will cause in other critical industries, as well as the growing difficulty in obtaining home, business, or farm mortgage insurance in rapidly expanding climate-change medium- to high-risk areas. Its documentation also covers uncensored climate change research, forecasts, and analyses that the most innovative insurance and reinsurance companies use in their climate risk evaluation departments. The uncensored information they are using is not anything like what you are hearing in the media, from your government, or the UN IPCC.

Politics-Related

Initially, there will be a temporary economic surge in construction and home and business repairs due to the growing impacts of climate change and disasters. This climate change repair and rebuild strategy will continue in some areas of medium to high-climate-change-disaster zones. Eventually, the city, county, state, or national governments will be unable to repeatedly fund, rebuild, or repair homes or businesses for the uninsured or underinsured in these hazardous climate-change zones. Many governments will then switch to less expensive "Managed Retreat" strategies.

Accelerating climate change impacts will prompt governments to purchase more homes and businesses through the managed retreat strategy. This strategy was designed to reduce costs associated with futile, repetitive repair and rebuilding after new climate disasters in the same area.

Eventually, "Managed Retreat" strategies will no longer be effective because taxpayers will resist the rising tax burden required to fund them. (See the Insurance-Related Consequence section for a more robust discussion of Managed Retreat and government coverage of climate change costs.)

There will continue to be a mass human migration of climate refugees to safer global warming zones. In 2019, the United Nations estimated that 100 million people migrated from high-risk areas to safer regions or countries due to deteriorating conditions in their homelands. In 2026, due to rising primary and secondary impacts of climate change, the number of people affected is expected to increase from 120 million to 160 million.

States and governments worldwide are expected to issue more climate-related disaster declarations of emergency in 2026. These costly emergency mobilizations to address rising climate disasters will strain public tax revenues and deplete disaster relief personnel.

As climate change consequences continue to intensify, there will be an increase in fear, uncertainty and anxiety among the general public. The general public worldwide has not been informed about the severity of climate change's consequences. Consequently, when they see them intensifying, breaking record after record with their own eyes, it will be harder for the public to maintain the cognitive dissonance of believing everything will be OK with the climate while witnessing increasing climate change destruction.

When the general public becomes fearful and uncertain, they become vulnerable to dictators, authoritarian groups, and governments that tell them they can fix their problems and that they will be safe if they only accept restrictions on human rights or martial law, etc. As climate change worsens, authoritarian governments will likely continue to rise, and democracies worldwide will experience a significant decline.

In particular, there will be a worldwide rise in cultlike religious fundamentalism and religious extremism as more people become fearful of the increasing negative climate changes they see and "know" are occurring, but do not understand or cannot openly acknowledge as climate change consequences. Matching this growing and troubling worldwide religious fundamentalism and extremism pattern will be the rise of the power and influence of such movements in global politics. These political changes toward cultlike political authoritarianism or dictatorships will be strongly driven by these religious fundamentalist and extremist factions within many nations worldwide. This will occur because these religious fundamentalists and extremist factions see seizing more political control as a last resort method to control and reduce the many fears, uncertainties, and anxieties they have about the climate and other social factors in society. They see this power grab as a last resort requirement because of the widespread deteriorating crisis they see occurring, and because they also believe that their fundamentalist and extremist agendas are the perfect and only solutions to the current crisis.

Accelerating climate change will intensify pressures on nearly everyone, with similar effects across most of the world's major problems. This is especially true in underdeveloped countries, where increased climate stress, poor management, and a lack of resources can quickly exacerbate existing problems beyond crisis levels. As climate change worsens, you will first see widespread ecological, political, economic, and social system collapses in the weakest regions of the world, then spread to the next weakest areas.

As the consequences of climate change become increasingly severe worldwide, more people will recognize its reality and danger and that we must act to address it. As this occurs in the general population, you will gradually see politicians who were climate deniers or received money from the global fossil fuel cartel change their climate change positions. They will begin to acknowledge that climate change is real and call for regulation to mitigate the growing consequences.

In 2026, more nations and politicians are expected to push for changes to their existing immigration laws, making it harder for large numbers of new immigrants to arrive. Their intelligence agencies and briefed politicians clearly understand that climate change migration by climate refugees (climagees) will continue to rise year by year in greater and greater numbers. Changing immigration laws now will make it easier for those nations as mass migration from high- and medium-risk climate-change areas accelerates.

As climate-related costs rise and are not covered by insurance companies, politicians will have to cut social benefit programs, foreign aid, and other expenditures and reallocate those funds to climate emergency recovery efforts for citizens.

Local and state police will be supplemented by the National Guard in an increasing number of climate change emergencies. That's covered. One will begin to see the militarization of local police forces as the stresses of climate change intensify.

There will be more political unrest as the consequences of accelerating climate change destabilize the normal lives of a nation's citizens. In immediate areas experiencing climate change-related emergencies, there will be increasing periods of lawlessness, with gangs having to fend for themselves until help can be organized. This was evident in the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans.

Low-income and middle-income groups will suffer the most as climate change intensifies. This is because they will have far fewer resources to withstand continuous extreme weather and repeatedly rebuild.

In 2026, some authoritative nations worldwide are expected to intentionally downplay or conceal the reality of the accelerating consequences of climate change.

Politicians worldwide will look for ways to deny that climate change is behind all of the climate emergencies. If they acknowledge climate change is real, they will say that it is too expensive to fix because fixing it will seriously harm the economy.

Additionally, refer to Part Four, further below, for an explanation of how the new White House administration will impact the climate change emergency.

The 2026 State of Climate Change Remedial Actions

In 2026, developed nations that are hiding the true dangers of climate change and it's consequence timetables from their citizens will cut back on fossil fuel regulations and reductions. They will develop various rationalizations and cover strategies for doing so as the consequences of climate change intensify. Developed nations that secretly understand the real-time risks and impacts of accelerating climate change will also need to reduce subsidies for green energy generation and related support activities.

You may be wondering why they would do this, as it is counterintuitive to what you would normally do when the climate change situation worsens. But the logic of these well-developed nations is simple.

If you can't prevent many of the worst consequences of climate change, build your financial reserves as large as possible to fund urgent emergency preparations to protect the government structure and key personnel.

Not only will developed nations that understand the real climate future reduce fossil fuel regulations and cut back on green energy generation actions, but they will also rationalize and justify seizing the fossil fuel assets or other assets of weaker nations to use or sell those assets to further increase their financial emergency reserves and ability to purchase the necessary emergency preparations for national self-protection.

This also makes one wonder if there is a secret principle behind the current political movement in the United States to Make America Rich Again, the old-fashioned way by stealing whatever you need or want from those who are weaker.

Miscellaneous-Related

Accelerating climate change consequences will steadily and aggressively "attack" the most fragile and "weakest links" within the world's social, economic, political, and environmental systems. The cumulative effects of accelerating climate change will first disrupt normal operations at the weakest links in many national and ecological systems. Then, year by year, they will steadily push those systems into new levels of emergency, disaster, catastrophe, and eventually, into complete collapse. 

Litigation against fossil fuel companies for damages caused by climate change is expected to continue to rise. Thousands of lawsuits exist against fossil fuel companies worldwide for these damages by individuals, businesses, states, and nations. The state of New York in the United States appears likely to soon win a significant case against fossil fuel companies for the climate change-related damages the state has incurred. (For more information on these thousands of worldwide lawsuits and how you too can get restitution for the climate change damages you have experienced, click here to begin to learn what you can do.)

More individuals will experience generalized climate change fear and anxiety. They will see undeniable patterns and trends of worsening climate disasters, but will not understand climate change processes and projections well enough to understand what is happening. This generalized climate of anxiety and fear will affect their health and well-being. It will also make them more strongly inclined to accept false climate change solutions from individuals who project certainty and safety, even though what is being proposed will not work, and whose solutions will only surreptitiously protect the status quo of the global fossil fuel cartel profits and its affiliated companies.

Due to an increase in climate change-related extreme weather events, personal road trips and vacations will likely take longer or be disrupted more frequently.

Possibly even sometime in 2026, the high barrier wall being expanded by the new US administration at the southern US border, designed to keep out migrants, will begin to be referred to as the climate change wall. As the climate change emergency worsens, more individuals and organizations worldwide will recognize the wall for what it is becoming.

In the news, you will hear about more climate researchers and knowledgeable high-level government employees quietly relocating themselves and their families to lower-risk regions.

Record-breaking climate change-driven weather will soon become so regular that you will hardly give it much attention. However, those paying attention will notice that every kind of weather record is being broken by larger amounts at an ever-faster rate.

In 2021, 75% of the world experienced weather extremes due to climate change, like those mentioned in this document. By 2026, this percentage is expected to exceed 90% of the global population.

In 2026, most people still do not grasp that if we do not achieve the correct 75% global fossil fuel reduction targets sometime around 2025-26 (but no later than 2031 if we are very fortunate), about half of humanity will die by mid-century.

In 2026, global action to address the climate change emergency is unlikely to change significantly from its current state of denial and avoidance of the real, honest, and practical actions needed to resolve this global crisis. Only drastic and widespread personal and business climate change disruptions will sufficiently raise our collective awareness of the emergency to compel effective government action.

Major environmental groups will continue to allow the incorrect, fossil fuel-friendly, and "far too little, far too late" fossil fuel reduction targets of the world governments to go unchallenged. 

A larger share of humanity will gradually become aware of the truth of our global-warming extinction emergency, and that our governments have failed for decades to implement the required global fossil-fuel reductions, even though such reductions would have been far easier to achieve and could have been more gradual and less painful.

Beginning in 2026, an increasing number of people worldwide will gradually come to understand that accelerating climate change is and will continue to be the greatest disruptor of the 21st century. They will also begin to see that it is a threat multiplier and amplifier of most of humanity's other major global crises and problems.

Most individuals will begin to grasp that mass human extinction (also known as Climageddon) will not occur far off in the future. They will see that its foundation is already in place and that, in many poorer, climate change-vulnerable nations, a climate change-driven Climageddon is already occurring. 

In 2026, we reached the atmospheric CO2 threshold of 425-450 ppm, which is caused by our global burning of fossil fuels. Staying below the carbon 425-450 ppm threshold level is humanity's last chance to save the future from a massive human die-off. 

Today, we are at 427 ppm of carbon dioxide (CO2) and 524 ppm of CO2-equivalent. (The CO2 equivalent measurement combines all three carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide greenhouse gases into one measurement. Our 524 ppm of CO2e indicates we are in serious trouble, as 450 ppm of CO2e has long been considered the threshold for the old 2 °C equilibrium warming. This equivalent-warming warning implies that at a 450 ppm CO2e level, humanity is already on course to exceed a 2°C or greater increase in global warming, and that this cannot be stopped for centuries to thousands of years.

(Click here to read why a horrible mass die-off outcome will likely happen.)

Humanity will eventually reach a point where it can no longer endure the escalating consequences of climate change and will finally take action. Unfortunately, if humanity does not act soon, it may be too late for most of us to survive.

In Job One's home, San Francisco, California, our city will be the first to revise its planned 2-3-foot climate-change protective bay seawall plans and build at least a six- to ten-foot seawall to survive the projected sea-level rise over the coming decades.

Click here to learn why and how our governments are failing to mitigate climate change, which is worsening at an even faster rate.

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Six last thoughts for our 2026 climate change consequence forecast:

1. The consequences of climate change are no longer growing slowly year to year. They are accelerating in frequency, severity, and size as we cross more tipping points in climate systems and subsystems, feedback loops, and points of no return. At this point, every home, business, and community should have a backup energy supply system. You will need a backup energy system because widespread power outages are expected to continue accelerating as record-breaking extreme weather events occur more frequently and expand in coverage worldwide.

2. If you remember nothing else from this page besides what is in this section, you have everything you need to know about where the climate future is going. Namely:

a. Our climate change consequences are going to become more severe, more frequent, and cover larger areas,

b. Climate change consequences will become the greatest disruptor of the 21st century,

c. Climate change consequences will significantly multiply and amplify humanity's other major global problems, worsening disasters and catastrophes. In 2026, the consequences of climate change are expected to cause significantly greater destruction, financial losses, suffering, and deaths, directly or indirectly.

3. More individuals, businesses, and farms will relocate rather than rebuild after a climate change-related disaster in any medium to high-risk climate change area. After a business, farm, or family has been flooded out, burned out, droughted out, smoked out, etc., more of them will not want to go through the emotional, psychological, and financial process of rebuilding, with a higher probability they will soon have to do it again as climate change continues to escalate. Wisely, they no longer expect a different future amid worsening climate change consequences. They know that the repeated rebuilding process, which involves trying to collect from insurance companies or utilizing dwindling government emergency relief funds, will take years and ultimately result in additional waste of money and time, adding to the financial and time losses incurred from the original climate disaster.

4. A prudent and reasonable individual could consider it time to prepare for and adapt to the coming climate change. Click here to start our comprehensive Job One Climate Change Resilience Plan today.

5. As climate change consequences and conditions worsen, there will be a continuous flow of intentionally misleading global fossil fuel cartel-sponsored fake good climate change news.

Fake good climate change news is defined as climate news that does not directly and effectively reduce the amount of greenhouse gases, carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere to the levels necessary to save humanity from climate chaos and mass human extinction.

This uptick in cartel-financed fake climate change good news is meant to hide and deny the real climate change emergency or deflect attention from the need to do anything genuinely effective about it by cutting global fossil fuel use. This fake news about a good climate will sound fantastic and hopeful. It will discuss minimal progress across various climate areas, but this "feel-good" progress will still not meaningfully address the accelerating climate emergency and prevent climate chaos and mass human extinction.

Please don't be fooled by the fake climate change good news, which hides and denies the utter and total failure of humanity's current climate change management actions. The greenhouse gas illustration below shows the climate emergency worsening at an even faster rate.

6. If you're concerned about what you've read about your climate future, you can do something decisive about it.

1. Email your local, state, and national politicians a link to this forecast and ask them what they will do about the climate change emergency to get your vote in the next election.

2. Please also send this 2026 climate change consequences forecast to everyone you love or who should have it so they can be prepared. Most people have no idea how severe climate change will become or how quickly it will occur. The billions of dollars spent by the global fossil fuel cartel on climate change misinformation and disinformation have been an overwhelming success in the media and as a truth-suppressing influence over our governments and the UN IPCC. Click here to read the documentation on how the global fossil fuel cartel is keeping you in the dark about the extreme climate change danger and their liability for the damages that you, your family, and your businesses are experiencing or will experience.

Part 2: In 2026, where you live will also determine the severity, frequency, and scale of climate change's increasing consequences.

In general, other than for microclimates, if you live between the 35th parallel north and the 35th parallel south, your climate change primary and secondary consequences will be considerably worse than in other areas of the world. On the other hand, if you live between the 35th and 45th parallels, either north or south, your climate change consequences will be less severe but still horrible.

If you live between the 45th and 55th parallels, your consequences will be lighter than in most other areas, but still painful. If you live above the 55th parallel north or south, you will still have many severe consequences. In many ways, these consequences are worse than those for those living between the 45th and 55th parallels. You will experience more wildfires, and temperatures will be significantly higher than ever; melting permafrost and tundra will cause infrastructure problems, and growing food in these areas will become increasingly challenging.

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Part 3: The Biggest Climate Change Tipping Points, Feedback Loops, and Disaster Warning Signs to Monitor in 2026.

Methane feedback emissions are the single most significant climate change tipping point and warning sign to monitor closely in 2026. Methane is about 80 times more potent than carbon in the atmosphere in raising global temperature. 

Methane emissions are rapidly increasing from the peat-rich wetlands of the world's primarily tropical wetlands, some from subarctic peatlands, and thawing permafrost. 

This methane release from tropical wetlands and subarctic peatlands is one of many climate change positive feedback loop situations. (Below is an illustration of a positive feedback loop for melting ice that will help you understand the danger of self-reinforcing and amplifying positive feedback loops in climate change. Notice how feedback loops are circular, where each thing adds more to the next item, and on and on.)

Worse, few national governments have methane-tracking regulations; even fewer have methane-reduction laws or programs. This lack of methane tracking and reduction targets is no accident. The fossil fuel industry and its lobbying efforts have been unbelievably successful in hiding the methane time bomb from the general public.

Methane is also released from:

a. fossil fuel industry fracking,

b. gasoline and diesel fuel production, and 

c. the billions and billions of cattle and other livestock, 

d. The many other methane-releasing climate change feedback loops are discussed here.

We are facing nothing less than a global methane time bomb that could render almost all of humanity extinct within a few decades. 

The global methane extinction time bomb is discussed here. (About two-thirds of the way down the page, the third extinction accelerating climate tipping point is described.)

The methane graph below reaches levels not seen in the last 10,000 years. (Notice how methane in the atmosphere started to soar at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, about 1870.)

The next most significant climate issue is the feedback loop driven by the loss of Arctic sea ice for most of the summer.

The earliest published projection for the Arctic Ocean to be completely ice-free during the summer is 2035. However, an abrupt, catastrophic loss of Arctic sea ice could occur at any time before 2035. 

A vast or complete loss of Arctic summer sea ice will drive even larger emissions of methane and carbon from subarctic peatlands and thawing permafrost. 

When all Arctic sea ice is gone in summer, many Arctic amplifying feedbacks will interact and become mutually reinforcing. As a result, the climate system and life will face orders of magnitude more challenging conditions than ever before. Stay tuned and carefully monitor the news for major Arctic summer sea ice losses.

The next most critical global climate tipping point is the drying up or dropping dangerously low of major worldwide rivers.

For example, this has occurred in the US, resulting in droughts in Colorado and affecting the Yangtze River in China. As more rivers worldwide dry up in summer, hundreds of millions of people will be severely affected by drinking water shortages, skyrocketing electricity bills, and water-related crop failures, among other issues.

This article about the Colorado River crisis explains how skyrocketing electric and water bills could harm millions.

This article discusses the Yangtze River crisis. 

Here are the most critical climate tipping points and feedback loops to watch for in the news.

We understand that the above is disappointing news for 2026, but please remember the most important point from our 2026 forecast. 

Our governments and politicians have squandered the last 60 years with inaction or ineffective climate action. If they had acted effectively, fixing climate change could have been much easier and more gradual.

Suppose our governments enforced the now-required reductions in fossil fuel use and came close to their nation's legitimate and ambitious 2025-26 global targets for reducing fossil fuel use. In that case, we can still avoid many, but not all, of the worst consequences on this page. 

But we can only save much of humanity if we all work together to compel our governments and politicians to act NOW!

Finally, if you are concerned about what you can do to address the climate change emergency and protect yourself, click here.

If you have doubts about what you are reading. For many visitors to our uncensored climate change think tank's website, their biggest question after reading our climate change consequences and timetable forecasts is, "Why are your climate change forecasts so much worse than almost everything I hear in the media from my government, the educational environmental and climate change organizations, or the former world's leading authority on climate change, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC)? Click here for the five critical reasons that will fully answer your why so much worse question.

Part 4: How the intensifying 2026 climate change consequences will affect your life will unfold in waves, not in the way most people think it will happen.

The many consequences of climate change will unfold slowly. In general, the consequences of climate change usually develop in cyclical, sporadic surges. These erratic yet cyclical consequences of climate change will continue to intensify in severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching new record levels. 

After reaching new record levels, the consequences of climate change will quickly return to near-normal or even below-normal levels. After a climate change consequence falls from record levels, it most likely will move into a plateau level (either below or above the previous normal level) before beginning another cycle of increased severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching another new record level and then, once again, falling back down quickly to near-normal levels.

This three-phase cyclical pattern, characterized by steep up, quick down, and back to the near-typical pattern, will prevent many individuals from recognizing the long-term patterns and trends of climate change. This climate-consequence pattern of ignorance will leave individuals and businesses vulnerable to the next sporadic, intensifying cycle of climate-change-driven catastrophes. 

In part, the most common climate change-driven extreme weather consequences are defined as heat waves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, floods and flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather. However, these are only a few of the many climate change consequences we will experience as climate change intensifies. 

If you begin to think about climate change consequences occurring in the pattern of more frequent, more severe, and larger-scaled sporadic "waves" that eventually affect and break down the standard patterns of our lives, you would have a good idea about how climate change consequences will unfold this year and over the following decades. Do not panic or worry if a climate change consequence reaches a new record, such as soaring land or sea temperatures for a week, a month, or even a season. It will eventually return to near its normal range, but that is only a small part of the climate-consequence problem. 

The real problem, which is invisible to most people, will be that almost all climate change consequences will continue to sporadically increase in severity, frequency, and scale season by season, year by year, and decade by decade:

1. From now through 2026, on average, most climate change consequences are expected to intensify at a significantly accelerated rate.

2. On average, from 2026 to 2031, the intensity of most climate change consequences will increase dramatically, as will severe global climate catastrophes.

3. On average, the intensity of many of the worst climate change consequences will increase near-exponentially from 2031 to 2050. Severe global climate catastrophes will occur regularly, making it challenging to cope with the waves of damage and losses.

The good news is that by understanding how climate change will unfold in sporadically intensifying waves over the coming decades, you will have time to prepare, adapt, and help change the dangerous trajectory of the world's accelerating climate consequences. 

You can use the graphic above to visualize how the consequences of climate change will unfold. The green bars represent how new records will be broken over time (left to right). The blue bars represent how, after each new broken climate change consequence record, that consequence will drop back steeply and quickly to plateau at near-normal levels and stay that way for a while. Unfortunately, even the baseline levels of many consequences will continue to increase gradually.

The only terrifying thing that can alter the above-described cyclical, more gradual pattern of climate change consequence escalation is humanity crossing major climate tipping points or primary climate feedback loops, as we are currently doing. Crossing these two factors, separately or together, will accelerate the consequences of global climate change, leading to exponential growth.

Please refer to the graph below to understand why we state that nearly all climate change consequences will increase dramatically and exponentially once tipping points are crossed. This illustration shows not only the gross failure of your governments to regulate and protect you from the accelerating consequences of climate change caused by burning more and more fossil fuel, but it also illustrates how the acceleration of climate change consequences after tipping points are crossed will directly follow and parallel the steep rise of the three major greenhouse gases polluting our atmosphere.

The graph below shows the three major fossil fuel-related greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The numbers at the bottom of the illustration are dates in history AD. PPB is parts per billion. PPM is parts per million. (The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, AR6 is the IPCC's climate summary report, and NOAA is the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) As you can see below, we are walking into a perilous future of climate change consequences.

For many visitors to our climate change think tank's website, the most pressing question after reading our forecasts is...

"Why are your climate change forecasts so much worse than almost everything you hear in the media, from your government, or many other environmental and climate change educational organizations?"

The primary reason is that, like only a few others worldwide, our organization uses calculations, approximations, and values related to the numerous climate change tipping points, feedback loops, and other seldom considered factors within the Climageddon Feedback Loop. Other organizations either intentionally ignore these critical factors or fail to leverage them due to a lack of understanding of the dialectical, interacting dynamics of complex adaptive systems and the numerous systems and subsystems involved in climate change. To learn about the survival-critical Climageddon Feedback Loop and its effects on your future, click here.

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If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need to begin the process for financial recovery and restitution by reading this page as soon as possible due to time limitations on filing for restitution from harmful acts. This page will connect you to successful law firms handling this specialty.

If you have experienced damage to your home, business, or farm from climate change-related consequences, you must begin a lawsuit against all related parties ASAP. Some wealthy companies have directly caused the climate change emergency and the damages you have experienced, or that, as part of their legally required due diligence, should have informed you of the relevant climate change risks. 

The number of court cases related to the global climate crisis and its resulting damages has doubled since 2015, bringing the total to over 2,000, according to a report by European researchers last year. More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil, alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil, and gas and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. 

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Part 5: How the change in the US Government administration with the new 47th US president radically worsens humanity's climate change consequences.

The major shift in political philosophy within the US government administration presents significant new challenges for the climate change movement and forecasting. The incoming US administration has already announced plans to cut green energy generation subsidies and promote more fossil fuel production, which is expected to significantly undermine climate change management and reduction efforts.

Although the US is one of the world's largest producers of fossil fuels, the likelihood that the new administration will promote even more fossil fuel extraction and sales creates a significant climate change problem not just in the United States. Every other fossil fuel-producing country, and any country that wants to remain competitive and profitable in fossil fuels, will be forced to mirror the new US administration's fossil fuel-promoting positions and actions. This mirroring will, unfortunately, exponentially increase the global adverse effects of burning fossil fuels, driven by the anticipated large-scale increase in US fossil fuel production and sales.

Additionally, because the new US administration has promised to cut green energy subsidies, the harmful behavior-mirroring effect will likely echo worldwide as other nations follow suit to maintain competitiveness. History has repeatedly and painfully proven that people, companies, and governments will quickly imitate whatever is profitable.

The new US administration is also a strong promoter of Bitcoin. Bitcoin servers require an extreme to a ridiculously high level of energy use. We anticipate that any widespread new promotion and acceptance of Bitcoin will counterbalance global gains in our current anemic and grossly inadequate fossil fuel use reduction programs. Bitcoin's growth will exacerbate climate change and global warming.

The new US administration's projected position on cutting or eliminating green energy subsidies is a looming economic disaster for the United States. This is because China already has a nearly insurmountable lead in manufacturing green energy generation and green energy-dependent products. Once the new US administration enacts cuts to US green energy generation and green product subsidies, the United States will have ceded to China the world's most profitable future segment of manufacturing and business.

Most people are unaware that energy production is the world's largest market segment. It accounts for about 25-30% of the world's total gross product (GDP). When you include all green energy-related products needed in the future, this market segment could account for 35-40% of global GDP.

The new US administration's short-sighted policies regarding green energy will likely accelerate China's massive lead in the global production of green energy generation equipment and green products. This shortsightedness will create a future green-energy competitiveness deficit in the US economy from which the US will never recover. China is expected to become the world's largest producer of green energy products, a critical future direction for humanity's energy use.

Additionally, over the next several decades, we estimate that the many consequences of the new US administration's contrarian and counterintuitive energy policies and its enthusiastic promotion of the energy-greedy Bitcoin during an accelerating climate change emergency will increase the destructiveness and timeframes of global climate change consequences by about 10 to 25% from our previous dire estimates. 

The major change in economic strategy surrounding fossil fuel energy, green energy generation, and green products by the new US administration may be the last straw and final death rattle for any hope of resolving the climate change emergency before humanity enters the second irreversible stage of runaway global warming once it crosses the atmospheric carbon 450 parts per million. (Click here to read about the four stages of irreversible runaway global warming and their catastrophic and extinction-accelerating consequences.)

One of the most bizarre statements by members of the new US administration concerns the purchase of Greenland. For most people, that looks like a statement out of the blue with no relevance. But to the few in right-leaning political and intelligence think tanks, this is one of the key moves of the future. What the new administration and these right-leaning think tanks won't say and must keep secret is that they already know that a climate change-driven widespread global collapse and mass extinction are coming. They know it is now unavoidable because they see the actual science, and they know we have failed to reduce global fossil fuel use for the last 60 years.

The few deep thinkers in right-leaning think tanks may estimate the accelerating global collapse is 50-70 years away, while some may even think it's only 15-25 years away. Regardless of their timeline or beliefs, they recognize that the standard approach is to acquire the safest land areas least affected by climate change. This means the current US administration is considering the potential purchase of Greenland to secure the United States against climate change.

In Greenland, large areas of new land will be exposed as glaciers melt and temperatures warm. Greenland is also rich in other resources. They know Greenland is so far from other regions that it is easily defended. Greenland would be an ideal location for transporting key members of the American government, their families, and the wealthiest Americans. At the same time, the rest of the world will suffer from chaos or a climate change emergency. (During the presidential campaign, there were also statements about making Canada the 51st US state for similar reasons to the Greenland purchase described above.)

Right-leaning think tanks cannot let the public know they understand that climate change-driven collapse and chaos are coming. They would be blamed for it, and this would directly contradict the profit interests of their primary financial backers. The hidden agenda of these think tanks is to enable their funders to continue to profit amid the collapse and chaos. This will also keep them getting funded, so they can secretly prepare their right-leaning think tank for collapse as well.

Many right-leaning think tanks' financial funders profited from creating the climate change emergency. Why shouldn't their owned right-leaning think tanks hide the accurate climate change information from the public so that their financial funders can continue to profit equally as well during the collapse of humanity?

There is also a large group of right-leaning think tanks funded by billionaires and industrialists who fully understand what is coming. Many of these billionaires have already prepared their survival bunkers worldwide, and some are also building escape spaceships. Only the poor, the ignorant, and those without power or ample resources will be caught in the worst of the climate change-driven consequences: chaos and extinction.

We also predict that the current US administration will censor new climate change research findings done with government resources and begin removing critical climate change information from government websites to make it appear that there is no such thing as climate change. Denying reality is a short-term strategy at best. Ultimately, reality (or truth) prevails, and delaying denial often leads to even worse consequences.

Ultimately, regardless of actions taken by the new US administration, it cannot halt the near-continuous rise in food costs due to the ongoing effects of climate change, exacerbated by low crop yields and failures. Additionally, they will be unable to lower overall inflation or prevent it from rising further, as the costs of climate change are expected to increase dramatically under the next US administration. The recent, unbudgeted Los Angeles wildfires alone could approach $200-300 billion in eventual recovery costs.

If you have read everything above about the many 2026 consequences of climate change, you are likely feeling unsettled. The good news is that you now have a more accurate view than 99.9999999% of the population of what individuals and businesses worldwide will face in terms of climate change damages, disruptions, costs, and consequences in 2026. More importantly, this knowledge will enable you to start planning how to adapt to or prepare for what is to come. (Further down this page will be a link to information designed to help you adapt and prepare.)

Some critical things to keep in mind coming from newer climate change research

1. New research has found that for every degree Celsius that the temperature rises, conflicts in the world increase by 4%.

2. Every 10th of a degree Celsius, we can lower the temperature at which the global temperature 100,000 people can maintain and live in a safe zone, and vice versa.

3. With every 1° Celsius of temperature increase, 7% more water evaporates from the world's rivers, lakes, and oceans. That 7% will also decrease in an irregular pattern, with 20 to 30 inches of rain over a one- to three-day period not considered unusual. At the same time, while many areas will experience extreme flooding, others will experience extreme drought.

4. Most people have no idea that, as of 2026, the pace of climate change consequences occurring is changing dramatically! From now until 2031, the severity, frequency, and scale of these climate change consequences will increase dramatically and far beyond what you have experienced over the past decades.

Because most people and businesses are unaware that the severity, frequency, and scale of climate change consequences will dramatically increase from now until 2031 (and then continue to increase exponentially after that date), they are unknowingly putting themselves at extremely high risk.

They are not initiating their critical emergency preparations, adaptations, resilience-building, and, where applicable, migration or Managed Retreat. (Managed retreat is what politicians call climate change-driven migration when they want to sanitize and minimize its public media connection to climate change.

5. Most of the world's population has no idea that we have entered into the second phase of irreversible global warming. Click here to learn more about what that means.

Part 6: How to protect yourself, your family, and your business from climate change consequences and losses 

Here is how you can prepare, adapt, survive, and help mitigate the consequences of climate change, while also reaping the many benefits humanity will enjoy if we address the climate-heating emergency. There is a lot of bad news in the predictions above, but we can still take many steps to mitigate this extinction emergency and lead longer, more comfortable lives. 

Here are a few of the positive and easy things we can start today:

• • Read our uncensored ten-fact summary of the current climate change threat timetables. 
  • Sign the online global warming extinction emergency petition by clicking here.
  • Start our comprehensive four-part Job One Climate Change and Global Crises Resilience Plan today by clicking here.
  • To find the safest locations to survive the climate change emergency, visit our member section. 
  • Donate to keep Job One for Humanity, a non-profit climate change think tank speaking uncensored painful truths to power, by clicking here.
  • Share these 2026 predictions everywhere and with everyone you think they should be shared with, particularly politicians and their staff.
  • Become an activist/volunteer and help us sort out this climate nightmare by clicking here.
  • Get super motivated by watching the Netflix movie "Don't Look Up," which features a star-studded cast of big Hollywood names. It's not so secretly about climate change, extinction, and what you have just read.

A friend of Job One recently wrote about how his life changed in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. "Up here in BC this year, we have had record heat for a record time, wildfires, rainfall, and once-in-a-century flooding. Climate change deniers are just not looking at what is right in front of their eyes."

(If you value what you are discovering, please share this page with your friends because much of this uncensored climate change information is actively being censored by the media and even by many environmental groups due to its highly unsettling nature.)

2026 Summary

1. More extreme weather records will be broken IN 2026. These new extreme weatheer records will be broken by larger and larger amounts at even faster rates, covering larger and larger areas. This is the most important thing to watch for in 2026 in your area and on the global news to experience the validity of our 2026 forecast.

2. The 70+ climate change consequences above will increasingly consume your time and financial resources and reduce the quality of your life. 2026 will be a year of significantly increased climate-related stress and inconvenience. Daily personal and business routines will be disrupted or delayed more frequently. 

3. Accelerating climate change consequences will increasingly affect most of our lives in the following specific areas: 

heat, humidity, wind, rain and rain bombs, drought, extreme weather travel delays, increased airline flight turbulence, extreme cold and cold spells, snow bombs, wildfires and wildfire smoke events, food production, food prices, food distribution costs and availability, health, personal costs, regional infrastructure dependability, business costs, the environment, politics, miscellaneous, and the rapidly expanding climate change-related property and mortgage insurance crises for homes, businesses, and farms. 

4. In 2026, many of us will notice significant price spikes in food and other commodities and an increase in product shortages due to climate-related business and distribution disruptions, and lower crop yields and failures. These food and cost problems will arise due to climate change-related extreme weather events.

5. Home and business owners will be continually hammered by rising annual electric bills and insurance rates. This will make homeownership for more individuals impossible and cause more businesses to go bankrupt.

6. As climate change consequences and disaster costs continue to escalate yearly, traditional market forces driven by rising insurance, rebuilding, and other climate change-related costs will eventually render continued political and personal climate change denial the ultimate lose-lose financial and political strategy. 

7. Many other climate change consequences will dramatically worsen in frequency, severity, and scale during this period. Click here for a master list of all the primary and secondary consequences of climate change.

8. The climate change emergency is worsening so quickly that in 2026, we will also have to update our mission based on the reality of current climate conditions. Click here to see how we changed our mission.

There are many benefits that humanity will reap when we fix the climate change emergency

The above 2026 predictions can be disheartening, but there are many benefits if we work together to meet the 2025-26 global fossil fuel reduction targets. Please take a moment to read about these benefits, which aim to counterbalance the negative news about climate change mentioned above. Then, proceed to the next section, which will guide you through the necessary changes, preparations, and adaptations.

Click here to read about dozens of these worthwhile benefits. This page is the most-read page on our website, with millions of views.

To find the safest locations to survive the climate change emergency, visit our member section.

For those who are interested in our other climate change forecasts beyond 2026

Phase 2 Climate Change, 2026-2031: We have created a separate forecast page for those who want to see short-term climate change outcomes for 2026-2031. Click here to see the 2026 to 2031 page.

Phase 3: Climate Change, 2032 to 2050. We have created a separate forecast page for those who want to see their short-term climate change outcomes for 2032 to 2050. Click here to see this 2032-2050 page.

Documentation links for our 2026 prediction materials

a. Click here to discover why our last decade of annual climate change forecasts is significantly more accurate than others.

b. Your government and your media outlets will not cover or will water down the above climate change consequences at the behest of the invisible hand of vested financial interests determined to maintain fossil fuel profits at any cost. If you do not believe this, click here to see why this is, unfortunately, true.

c. The effects of climate change can be directly attributed to various forms of extreme weather and conditions. Click here to learn more about the organization doing this work.

Reference Topic 1: We have been given far lower, incorrect global fossil-fuel reduction targets from fossil-fuel-compromised "trusted" authorities. Learn why you can't believe the so-called world's leading authority on climate change (the UN IPCC) for legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets or their consequence predictions and timetables:

Click here to understand the long-term history of the IPCC underestimating the consequences, timeframes, and the needed global fossil fuel reduction targets by as much as 20-40% or more.

Click here to see precisely how the IPCC "cooked the books" and grossly skewed the current IPCC global fossil fuel reduction calculations by including unproven and non-existent "carbon-sucking unicorn" technology into their projections. 

Click here to see the eleven key climate change tipping points mostly excluded from the IPCC calculations on how much fossil fuel use we must reduce each year globally. 

Click here to see the four key reasons the IPCC's 26 global climate conferences have failed to produce results or legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Click here to see the REAL 2025-26 global fossil fuel reduction targets and why we must get close to a 75% reduction in total global fossil fuel use (oil, natural gas, coal, etc.) by 2026, not the far, far less net-zero emission levels they have pledged by 2050 or 2040! (In the technical notes at the bottom of the 2025-26 fossil fuel reduction specification page, you will see each calculation and compensation for the factors that make up the required correct global fossil fuel reduction numbers.)

To see the many mass mobilization actions our governments must now take to get close to the 2025-26 global fossil fuel reduction targets and save humanity from near-total extinction, click here.

Reference Topic 2: How can a soon-arriving near-total human extinction's probability (or possibility) be accurate? 

Click here for a detailed "big picture" catastrophic meltdown of global warming's consequences and tipping points. Combined with the other 12 major international crises, these will lead to widespread starvation and extinction for much of humanity by mid-century, and near-total extinction as early as 2070.

Click here to see the four significant global warming extinction-evoking tipping points and how close we are to crossing them. The first tipping point, at 425-450 ppm of carbon, will precisely explain why the consequences of climate change will grow exponentially over the next 3-6 years.

Reference Topic 3: What governments must do to save the future

It is time to demand legal accountability for global warming, the immediate termination of all global fossil fuel subsidies, and the imposition of a worldwide price on corporations' carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. 

Click here to learn more about the Fee and Dividend carbon pricing and other critical actions our governments and corporations must immediately take to reach the 2025-26 global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Reference Topic 4: The deep causes of this whole climate catastrophe mess

To understand the underlying causes of our current global warming emergency and the 12 other most pressing international crises, please read the book Overshoot. In it, you can learn about Earth's carrying capacity (the land and sea area available to support a population's critical survival needs). 

Click here for information on climate migration and safer areas.

Reference Topic 5: Miscellaneous 

Click here and read our Job One for Humanity policy on disrupting all false or dangerous climate, global warming, and environmental acts or ideas.

Please continue to educate yourself about these life-critical climate issues by exploring the documentation and analysis on this website.

Additional Important Climate Change information:

If our governments had enforced the necessary reductions in fossil fuel emissions to avoid major climate disasters, we would not face the consequences that now confront us. 

If we come close to meeting the legitimate and ambitious 2025-26 global targets set by nations, we may still avoid many, but not all, of the worst consequences listed below. 

And if we all work together to compel our governments and politicians to act now, we can still save much of humanity from great suffering, financial loss, and mass extinction.

For answers to your remaining questions about climate change and global warming, click here for our new climate change FAQ. It has over one hundred of the most asked questions and answers about climate change.

If you find this 2026 climate change forecast helpful, please email it directly to your friends, because it is doubtful they will get it elsewhere

Here's why? Your government and your media outlets will not cover or will water down these 2026 climate change consequences in the service of huge vested financial interests that are determined to maintain their obscene fossil fuel profits. When you are done reading this, please ask yourself: Who else should have this uncensored climate change information for 2026? 

Please also share this climate change forecast with politicians and their staff members.

(If you do not believe the world's most profitable cartel would create billions of dollars in worldwide disinformation and misinformation or actively suppress accurate climate change information to maintain its profits, then click here to see the mountain of research on why this is true.)

Please also share this climate change forecast with politicians and their staff members.

About Job One and this Annual Climate Change Forecast

Over the last decade, we have updated and reissued this annual forecast every late December or early January. Because of its proven accuracy year after year, it has become our most shared web page. 

Job One for Humanity, founded in 2008, is a non-profit, 100% publicly funded, independent think tank that provides a holistic, "big picture" overview of climate change.

Job One for Humanity provides research-grounded climate change consequence analysis, timeframes, risk assessments, and solutions to educational, climate, and environmental organizations worldwide at no charge. Job One is part of a 30-year-old US IRS-recognized, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization. 

According to Google Analytics, millions of unique visitors have visited our website to review our independent, 100% publicly funded think tank's uncensored, non-politicized climate change analysis and research.

Job One for Humanity provides research-grounded climate change consequence analysis, timeframes, and risk assessment, as well as educational resources, to climate and environmental organizations worldwide, all free of charge. It also provides climate change analysis, risk assessment, and fee-based solutions and services to insurance companies, law firms in litigation with the fossil fuel cartel, governments, and businesses affected by climate change emergencies. 

Because of the fossil fuel cartel's 60-plus-year history of bad faith and immoral actions, Job One for Humanity never accepts funding or consulting work from fossil fuel-related industries or businesses.

Annual Forecast Acknowledgments

Special thanks to our board of advisers and volunteer staff and other climate scientists worldwide for helping us to create this annual update of our climate change consequence and timetable forecast. Additional thanks to Peter Carter for his input on the KPMG verification study and to Bruce Nappi, who has provided much information regarding the original Club of Rome and MIT studies and subsequent related studies or updates.

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