It’s a tough time to be a doomer. Doomers are acutely aware of the planet’s acclerating collapse and ongoing sixth great extinction. This includes record-breaking fires, floods, heatwaves, storms and dozens of other human-caused impacts that are creating suffering for life around the planet. We are exhausted by the volume of information we ingest: that it’s happening faster than expected, […]
Latest canary video:
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in April, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! APRIL, 2025 April 30, 2025 “We are dismantling the ecological foundations of our existence, from coral reefs to rainforests, with a recklessness that ensures not just the loss of biodiversity but the collapse of the systems that […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in March, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! MARCH, 2025 March 31, 2025 “The world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in February, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! FEBRUARY, 2025 February 28, 2025 “They said it started with the air—too much poison, too many machines, and a planet that couldn’t breathe anymore. By the time we noticed, it was too late; the cities were […]
This post contains ‘doom quotes’ posted to my Bluesky account in January, 2025. Please follow me on Bluesky for more daily ‘doom quotes.’ Thanks! JANUARY, 2025 January 31, 2025 “What they said was that climate change would increase the rate of extinction under every single scenario.” Climate-Driven Extinction, Climate Emergency Forum January 30, 2025 “I picked the wrong week to […]
I’ve been seeing “25 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating” in the media for well over a year now. This number is supposed to represent a way to help the average person visualize the total amount of heating of the planet caused by GHGs since 1971. And it’s wrong, wrong, very wrong! In this article I’m going to explain why […]
So, you’re at the water cooler hanging out with your work colleague, and the topic of global warming comes up. The two of you are getting an urge to make a friendly bet with each other, but you can’t decide what to bet on. Betting on the end of the world means placing an Over/Under bet on some statistic having […]
*Note. This essay was written by GPT o1, with the help of Ruben Schaer based on the prompt: “Write a dystopian essay predicting events in 2025 using this list as a guideline for your predictions: https://climatecasino.net/2021/10/top-40-impacts-of-climate-change/“ I edited the text in parts, removed several referenced to ‘hope’ and changed 2025 to 2035, because, well, things are just not as bad […]
To lead off this post I will share an email I received from Sam Mitchell of Collapse Chronicles. Sam wrote to me mid-December, saying he would not be doing our annual January prediction show for this coming year. Instead, Sam asked that I share his one singular prediction for 2025. Here it is: “The only prediction you need to know […]
For about the last two years I have been making daily posts on social media that include a daily “moment of doom” and a daily “doom quote.” The moment of doom usually comes from Google’s news feed, after I do a search on a variety of word combinations, beginning with “climate doom,” followed by “climate ocean,” “climate atmosphere,” “climate extinction” […]
I was thrilled to be invited to present at December’s MEERTalk this year. I’ve known about MEER for years. They are smart folks, grounded in functional science, who are already doing good work around the world. If you don’t know who they are, or want to find out more, please visit their website by clicking HERE. They allowed me to […]
My fourth appearance on ‘Santa Barbara Talks’ with Josh Molina. We started off talking about the upcoming presidential election, including the good and bad about Harris, everything bad about Trump and a shout-out to third-party candidate Jill Stein. We then took many twists and turns, including hurricanes Helene and Milton, Al Gore’s 2006 movie “Inconvenient Truth,” terraforming a different planet, […]
I was fortunate to be invited back to CNN-International to discuss all-things climate change, in the wake of hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida. Rosemary Church asked fabulous questions, but I admit, the final question was totally unexpected. My segment begins at 4:13. Enjoy!
Well, it finally happened. NOAA published an update to the AGGI (Annual Greenhouse Gas Index), including their best estimate of CO2e, as of 2023. And without postponing the reveal one moment longer, their value was CO2e = 534 ppm. And, drum roll, the value I posted in my article on CO2e was 532 ppm. I’m going to count this as […]
Considering myself a Doomist Prof. Eliot Jacobson, after reading your article on Genevieve Guenther’s three categories of Doomers whilst I’m…
Please keep going with your brilliant commentary and analysis - we need it in these insane truth-distorting times. I find…
I've had a very "productive Saturday" thanks to this post, your Happy Hour, and the many rabbit holes they have…
Well said, Eliot. Thanks for calling this out and for clearly articulating both the flaws in her statement and the…
We live in a time where delusions are replacing reality and Mother Nature is, of course, the ultimate reality against…
Good to see Gail's name. Miss her.
Awesome as ever ☺️
Good article Eliot. I still go with Sam Mitchells brilliant two class system for defining collapse aware people. Nazi doomer…