Get Ready for a Long Hot Summer || June 25, 2026
One of the mountain ranges I've been visiting for over 35 years is missing something...the permanent snowfields! After an awful winter in the Rockies and much of the West, the summer months ahead are looking bleak.
A weak snowpack isn't just bad news for the ski enthusiasts; it has downstream effects on all of us. We're talking fires, water shortages, and impacts to agriculture. This summer is going to be a doozy.
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Comments (73)
Are those in the east or northeast exempt from the “hard summer” prognosis?
Already, schools in one Virginia county are asked to limit electricity use. Arizona is going to be so fucked from climate change and data center water usage. “They recycle the water”, no they don’t, it evaporates in most of these monster data centers.
Peter discovered global warming and its consequences. woww
Meanwhile, Alberta (that's in Canada eh) is getting pummeled with record rain falls...
Audio is rough
Paying for this shit loo
Why are your videos choppy
Your audio quality is freakishly bad for a paid service.
Rio Grande flows near Taos, but it will probably be dried up this Summer too...
Sound quality completely unacceptable Peter! Pls take a look at this guy who makes lots of outdoor footage in strong winds and has excellent sound quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaobsXpbgio Check out fm 21:25 onwards.
Buy a dead at for your sound. It costs 10$ and prevent this kind of issues..
Data centers heating everything up again
Chill everyone. He's written about climate change and its impacts in his books - and the difficulty in actually predicting outcomes since climate is global but weather is local. He has also talked about it on here a few times. Pretty sure he was being tongue-in-cheek.
was that /s or not...but yeah
Peter, I was surprised you neglected to mention that USDA Outlook for wheat is down 39% versus last year and that the amount of wheat planted domestically was comparable to 1919
Meanwhile, in California, the State Water Resources Control Board—a board whose members are appointed by the governor (and is staffed and managed by the most liberal viewpoint in government today)—is poised to approve updates to the Bay-Delta Plan. The plan would dedicate more water to river flows intended to improve habitat for native fish, including Chinook salmon. For some water sheds, that “dedication” is 100% of their supplies. The water will come at the expense of irrigated agriculture, reducing food production, eliminating farm jobs, and harming rural communities. All with no guarantee that salmon populations will recover based on the State’s untested theories. The result will be less locally grown food and greater reliance on imports. But apparently not from any State in the west.
I'm OK with an occasional garbled audio with subtitles. Might be worth adding a small microphone with a wind shield to your backpack, though. Can't be more than a few pounds. 😉😉
boo hoo the microphone critcis - check into the ER if you're that f'd up...
Peter doesn't know his audience: Americans can't read
I've been saying for 30+ years that Canada was going to be very nervous in the future, as climate change sets in, and greedy and hungry eyes face north...
It's been sad. I've watched glaciers disappear in the areas where I hike. It's disturbing. I shouldn't be able to witness geological change in my lifetime. As the West and Europe are being roasted, here in the upper Midwest we've been cooler than normal so far this spring (just the way the air currents work). There will be some Western water relief (and floods!) this winter as a record El Nino hits. Next summer I expect we folks in the Midwest and East will be roasted in the rebound. That's the issue. People forget about the problems during the cyclical rebounds. They lose track of the overall trend.
"I shouldn't be able to witness geological change in my lifetime." Very well said.
Utah has totally SUCKED this past week with all the wildfires. I can see blue sky today though:)
I just charged $48 for my Patreon membership & am very disappointed with the sound quality of this video! Irina Ranahan
The audio of this video is not clear.
Poor audio
This audio situation is getting ridiculous. This isn't rocket science. Record your video locally, on your phone or whatever, then when you get back to civilization, then you upload your video. Then you won't keep having all these spotty connection problems with garbled audio. Why hasn't anyone from your team figured this out?
While the summer may be exceptionally hot, I thought El Nino was also likely to bring exceptionally high amounts of precipitation during the winter months as well?
Farmers produce food. Consumers consume food. Consumers make conditions harder for farmers to produce food. That's the vicious cycle. As for the Colorado, I read Ed Abbey's Desert Solitaire a few years ago. Indispensible if you want to understand what was lost.
there's too much food produced anyway. farming is just a business even if most of the food is not consumed, farmers lobbied their subsidies and want to keep them, even if the food is not needed, that's a problem of all western world, not just US
Yeah, this is mind-boggling for the *beginning* of the dry season.
Lot of people here complaining about the audio quality… Just read his lips. It’s not that difficult.
Americans on average can't read or too lazy for it
The wheat harvest is about complete in western Kansas a lot of it got hit with a cold snap during pollination. Mediocre bushels per acre. So rain won't effect the 2026 harvest much. Milo, and corn are in the ground or being planted now. The lack of rain would effect that 2026 harvest, as well as the fall planting of the next wheat crop.
You need to record with better audio this is getting embarrassing
This is going to really affect the new chip fabs in Arizona, but how much remains to be seen. What about the rumor that China has acquired a top of the line EUVL machine from ASML somehow? Is that true? What can be done about that?
Probably true. The machine isn't that useful for production; these things need constant maintenance and specialty replacement parts. The issue is their ability to reverse-engineer and copy it. That would take quite a bit of time, but it would accelerate their development of native capacity.
Peter sounded like Charlie Brown’s teacher today.
I can handle the heat. But the wind... If I can't get my daily dose of apocalyptic predictions, Mother Nature has gone too far.
If not for the audio quality, this would be a really good video. There are tools out there that can help you fill in the audio gaps. Might be a good idea to look into them.
The audio makes this a total waste of time
Growing lettuce, or anything else, in the desert always seemed weird to me. What's critical in the western desert is that PEOPLE have water to drink and stay clean. As I recall, about 50% of the water pulled from the system is for agriculture. That's the first thing to dial down to zero in my opinion. And, I do mean zero, if necessary. Big ag and their lawyers need to be put in their place. Not coddled.
Everyone depends on this agriculture to eat and survive
Very disappointed in the quality of the audio for your video. Considering you charge a fee for this, it shouldn't be too much to ask you to do it over before you make it available for your subscribers on your Patreon site. Sometimes "good enough" is not.
It's Trump's fault. Peter does have a habit of slapping his presos together very quickly; Fast-Food Geopolitics?
How to make a climate supercomputer - 6 washers and 6 feet of string
Time for LA to start building scaled desalination plant capacity before it’s too late!
Filed under: Reasons I left southern California and moved to New England years ago when I saw the writing on the wall.
Very unpleasant to listen to. Why not do commentary in a controlled setting with adjacent video/stills?
Others already wrote it. We can't hear a thing. It takes focus away from the message you are trying to give.
please do not post videos with so terrible sound quality
Love that you hunt! Never would have guessed but that's great!
What are the best sources of news that present just the facts instead of biased news we see from FOX News, MSNOW, MSM?
I wish there were good ones. I end up going to professional sources wherever I can, or the pieces written by professionals in adjacent media for more general audiences. It's hard. I am trying to train my AI agent to do more of it for me, though! Any source that is dependent on advertising revenue / click-bait is useless. If they report on someone's tweet as news, you know for sure that they're a crappy source.
The reckoning on the Colorado river is going to be massive - system is broken that was covers up by abundance that has went away with global warming. Water rights are like gold and the only fix will involve states changing water rights and you haven’t seen a fight like a water rights battle. changing water rights will be explosive and drive some people out of business.
The audio is trash as usual…Why can’t you fix this?
The audio is unacceptable for a free service, even less so for a paid service on Patreon.
I can understand not wanting to climb back up there for take 2, though.
but hey, USA is supposed to be fine, and independent, right----hahaha go and find out in real life
Looks like Y'all wil be getting a lot of veg/meat from Australia. We have had Rainmageddon continent wide for weeks.
except ....for lack of diesel fuel you will not be able to send this stuff around the world
I find it really funny to hear from a guy who flys on a regular basis and therefore is very much responsible for this climate breakdown and all its consequences that there will be a hot summer...pls remember this will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life, so thank you very much for leading a very american life style and pls be sure to enjoy all of its consequences
Human driven climate change? Not likely. Every climate prediction made since 2000 has proven false.
That Audio really needs cleaned up. Most garbled yet.
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what is in your water??? how old are you? 12? get over those smilies....
With less global snow/ice on the surface, the albedo effect of the globe is also lower. This means that less sunlight/energy is reflected back into space, which again leads to more energy/heat remaining in the atmosphere. This again leads to less ice/snow …
it is called self re-enforcing feedbacks - btw, did Peter just say climate change ist not real? Interesting for a geostrategist who is supposed to have a wide lense strategic view on all things related to geography
How did we come to depend on Arizona being at the end of a water supply chain being so vulnerable? This sounds like stupid on top of stupid. We never should have allowed ourselves to get in this position. I guess stupid is generational...?
That was explained.
Half of this recording was inaudible.
Luckily he provided the subtitles.
Well, we need that melted snow for the data centers so C-3PO, aka The Golden Protocol, can come to save the TroTUS and all his failed diplomacy.