I have heard the term ‘hopium’ used since my earliest days as a doomer. ‘Hope’ + ‘opium’ = ‘hopium.’ Hope as an opiate drug that numbs the mind and keeps us believing the delusion that a future without collapse is possible. Hope as a belief that there is a plan that could work. Hope as the blue pill, staying in […]
This is a follow-up to my article from January, 2024, titled: “How Hot is Hell? I mean Earth.” Of course, it is common knowledge that 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history and likely the hottest year in over 120,000 years, at about 1.6°C above the 1850-1900 baseline (Copernicus data). If the long-term average was one year alone, we […]
In this post, I gave Over/Under wagers for the global mean surface temperature anomaly, based on data availble through the end of 2024. I provided two methods to do this, one based on accelerating warming and the other based on temperature jerk. In the current post, I am going to update these forecasts using data through the end of 2025. […]
Appreciated how this article was structured to walk through and eliminate the simple answers before getting to the tricky ones.…
An interesting read, especially when read in conjunction with your previous essay on Hope. Basing our understanding of the concept…
The punctuation makes a difference. That didn't sound correct, so I checked. The actual quotation begins : " Hope, in…
Thank you very much for your suggestions, Prof. Jacobson! I appreciate them very much and will start to check some…
Thanks so much for the typo catches!
Racing To Extinction by Lyle Lewis.
Hi Scott Excellent article thanks. The descent from hopium into hope porn seems to be one more example of things…
There is a lot of research on how various feedbacks influence the hydroxyl concentration. I recommend an AI search.