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Together we can avert the worst impacts of El Niño

August 31, 2026

This is a longer message I recommend watching my video on LinkedIn. But if you only do one thing, come join Stripe's climate scientist Zeke Hausfather and the AirMiners community this Wednesday at 11 AM PST. Register here: https://luma.com/tu0uvbx1

Climate scientists are saying El Niño this year is going to be bigger than any El Niño ever in human history in terms of its cost and its impact.

That means tens of millions of people going hungry, going without water. We're going to have the hottest year on record. There'll be a surge in wildfires, and people will lose their livelihoods, they'll lose their homes, and they'll lose their lives. All in the next few months.

At the same time, the climate world, the people that are really knowledgeable about all this stuff, the people that are passionate about making long-term change, they're going to be in New York for Climate Week. And if New York Climate Week is kind of the same as it was last year, the world will go on talking about climate change as something that's really important and will mostly stay on the path of small, iterative, unsatisfying progress.

Imagine instead we unleash a whole generation of people to work on El Niño for the next three months, averting the worst impacts, saving lives, averting hunger, averting drought.

That's a future world where we move forward from El Niño stronger than ever. A world where we know we can address El Niño and other climate catastrophes, and a world where we know how to take action so that we don't have to avert and we can build a stable climate. A world where, yes, we can do something about El Niño becomes, yes, we can do something about the whole darn climate.

That's a world where we unleash innovation, policy structures to stabilize the climate and reverse climate change.

The first step on this is we've got an AirMiners event coming up on Wednesday with Stripe's climate scientist Zeke Housefather to learn about the science of El Niño and the impacts. And then we're going to get to work in that session. If you haven't registered yet, register here: https://luma.com/tu0uvbx1

The second step is taking over New York Climate Week.

We're putting together a schedule of El Niño programming for people in New York and worldwide to learn about the science and to take action, taking off new inventions, fundraisers, community projects, new businesses. Then we'll go and stabilize El Niño, and then we'll go and stabilize the planet.

Here's some ways you can help make El Niño Climate Week a success:

If you want to be a co-organizer with me on El Niño Climate Week hit reply

If you want be part of El Niño Climate Week in some way, hit reply and I'll send you what you need to get started.

And come join Zeke Hausfather and the AirMiners community on Wednesday at 11 AM Pacific.

Register here: https://luma.com/tu0uvbx1

Tito

P.S. if you can't make it Wednesday, you can help out by reposting on LinkedIn, sharing with friends and other networks


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