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 […]
A lively and wide-ranging conversation, covering topics from the Los Angeles fires to record ocean temperatures to record CO2 growth. This show features Oceanographer Jim Massa, who brings his expertise to questions about sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content, aerosols, wildfire smoke, ocean chemistry and more.
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 […]
The latest update to my “Canary in the Coal Mine” video, now including 2024.
A deep conversation discussing a bit of paleoclimatology, the current state of the planet and what it would take for humanity to save itself and how that just isn’t going to happen.
The first part of this conversation focuses on CO2-equivalent and the challenges of getting this number right. tl;dw: CO2e is somewhere in the range 530 – 540ppm. The second part is wide ranging and includes monthly global temperatures, heatwaves, 1.5°C, blue ocean event, AMOC, Antarctic and global sea-ice, and the the collapse of global industrial civilization.
Hello Eliot, feel free to use this info: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-climate-jeopardize-global-blood.html A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health suggests a…
yes, appreciate the collected doomer quotes! Gives me a great book list! Useful to remind ppl of who, writers, they've…
This is great, thanks! I look for your posts every day. Many of these quotes perfectly capture my feelings and…
My sincere condolences to you upon the passing of your fur-baby Rosie. If canines ruled the planet: we would all…
Yep, keep them coming. As our planet degrades: the terrifyingly accurate Doom Quotes become our Epitaphs. Bob Shaw Are Humans…
More for me, please, Prof.! Thanks.
I can put most of this under one "Ain't gonna happen"; Ban all advertising. When it comes to civilized humanity,…
I have found it amazingly difficult to explain the simplest parts of climate change to people that have no science…