el monzón es cocide. - Thoughts
For those of you who can't read Spanish: It says "The monsoon is cooked". You read that right. Those of you in India would've noticed that even though it's JUNE, the FIRST RAINY MONTH, there's barely a cloud in the sky. Wispy cirruses and small cumuli bring little promise of rain. But how did this happen? Short answer? We set fire to fossil photosynthesisers and fracked ourselves up with millions of years of carbon set free. To quote Coldplay, "the tightrope that [we're] walking just sways and ties". Long answer? It's because we've made The Boy a lot more powerful, so now he's ruining our monsoon. Who's "The Boy", you ask? ¡El Niño! Its full name's the El Niño Southern Oscillation, but I'll be calling it ENSO in this article. Basically, ENSO is a boy some years and a girl (La Niña) on others. For example, 2025 (last year) had a few La Niña events, and the La Niña stent from 2020 to 2023 made the news. M...