(End of the American Dream)—Many are referring to this year’s El Niño as a “Godzilla El Niño”, and now we are starting to understand why such an extreme label is being thrown around. We all knew that when an El Niño formed it would bring higher temperatures, but this is ridiculous. An immense heat dome is expected to fry the heartland of the United States during the next seven days, but conditions are even worse over in Europe. The information that I am about to share with you is hard to believe, but it is all true.
According to Google, when an El Niño forms Europe can typically expect “prolonged summer heatwaves, increased drought potential in central/northwestern Europe, and stormier, milder conditions during early winter”.
This time around, Europe is facing a gargantuan heat wave, and dozens of lives have already been lost…
Western Europe was in the grip of a heatwave on Wednesday that claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, shut schools and cultural landmarks, as forecasters warned the extreme temperatures could persist until the end of the week.
Every day this week, records are being shattered.
In the UK, it was being projected that the national June heat record would be exceeded by a very wide margin both today and tomorrow…
The UK Met Office has issued exceptionally rare “Red Extreme Heat Warnings” for today and tomorrow, with temperatures forecast to soar to at least 102.2 degrees Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), which would obliterate the UK’s June heat record of 96.08 degrees Fahrenheit (35.6 Celsius).
In Spain, yesterday was the hottest day ever recorded for the month of June…
Spain’s state meteorological agency said the country recorded its highest daily average temperatures in June since at least 1950, with Tuesday’s average of 28.17C breaking the previous 2025 record of 28.01C.
Other European nations are getting absolutely baked too, but nobody is getting it any worse than France..
Tuesday was the hottest day ever in France, and then that record was broken again on Wednesday…
France has recorded its hottest day since records began in 1947, its national weather agency says, breaking a record set on Tuesday as an early summer heatwave grips western Europe.
The national temperature indicator – an average of day and night temperatures across dozens of locations – hit 30C, up from 29.8C a day earlier.
More than half the country remains under a red heat alert with tens of thousands of homes in the west without power. The temperature in Paris and many other areas broke 40C on Wednesday.
When you break the record for the hottest day in the history of your country for two days in a row, that is really bad.
In Landes, a high temperature of 111.7 degrees Fahrenheit was actually recorded at one point…
A high of 44.3 degrees Celsius (111.7 Fahrenheit) was measured in parts of Landes, in the southwest.
That is absolutely insane.
It isn’t supposed to get up to 111 degrees in France.
We have never seen anything like this before.
Unfortunately, only about 25 percent of all homes in France actually have air conditioning.
Many French citizens consider air conditioning to be bad for the planet, and so it is widely shunned…
Sadly, this heat wave is far from over.
In the coming days, Eastern Europe is going to get hammered, and a lot more people are going to die.
Meanwhile, the very first confirmed case of Ebola in Europe has popped up in France…
France on Wednesday announced its first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor who had flown back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting a major outbreak.
The case is the first of the deadly haemorrhagic fever identified outside the African continent during the current outbreak, which has also affected Uganda.
It is the first time France has detected Ebola. In 2014, during an outbreak in west Africa, two patients were transported to France, but they had been diagnosed abroad.
As I discussed the other day, dozens of health workers have been getting infected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
To me, that is a really bad sign.
When this doctor boarded a flight home, he was only having headaches, but then he “deteriorated slightly during the flight”…
The patient “boarded a commercial flight from Kinshasa while virtually asymptomatic, experiencing only headaches,” and his condition “deteriorated slightly during the flight” before he received immediate care upon landing in Paris, the ministry stated in a press release.
He was taken directly to hospital and placed in isolation after arriving in France to prevent any risk of transmission.
Since this doctor was quickly isolated, he may not spread Ebola to others.
But what about everyone else on the flight?
Are some of them now carrying the disease?
I think that this outbreak is a much bigger story than most people realize.
But WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus continues to insist that the risk to the general population is low…
Still, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that the international risk remains low.
“Whenever a case happens in Europe or other parts of the world outside Africa, I see overreaction, but I don’t think overreaction is needed,” he said at a news conference Wednesday. Less than 30 Ebola cases have been reported outside of Africa since the first outbreak about a half century ago, he said.
“No need for panic,” Tedros said.
Hopefully he is right.
But I don’t think that he is.
There is no effective treatment for this version of Ebola, and there is no cure.
So if you get it, there is a very good chance that you will die.
Hopefully more people will start waking up to the fact that this chapter of human history will be a time of war, famine, pestilence and natural disasters.
I am convinced that the next six months are going to be absolutely nuts.
We are facing war in Ukraine, war in the Middle East, a global food crisis, an Ebola outbreak and a “Godzilla El Niño” simultaneously, and I have a feeling that many other unexpected surprises are just around the corner.
So buckle up and hold on tight, because we are in for a bumpy ride.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
