It is likely due to natural
selection having formed our present-day species overwhelmingly in the
hunter-gatherer very, very long period of our species 1.8 million years of
existence (agriculture just having begun around 7000 BCE!) that we tend to take
notice of a foreground and leave the background along because any threats it
holds are immediate. Tigers, for example, become particularly dangerous when
they are up close rather than several fields away. During the (Northern
hemisphere’s) summer of 2026, as the E.U. was sweltering in successive
heatwaves, the El Nino current event in which warm equatorial water in the Pacific
Ocean moves eastward readily became a target as the culprit producing the heat far
away in Europe. In actuality, according to scientists (but what do they know?),
the gradual (i.e., background) warming of the planet’s atmosphere, especially
in the Artic as well as in Europe, was behind the heat breaking records in the
E.U. as well as in bordering sovereign states like Britain, where on 25 June, presumably
in London, an all-time-high temperature for the month of June was recorded. Global
warming, once safely in the background, was coming home to roust in the
foreground.
The full essay is at "El Nino as a Distraction as the E.U. Swelters."
