My Appearance on Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina

It was a distinct pleasure having this discussion with one of Santa Barbara’s finest local journalists, Josh Molina, on June 14, 2023. We talk about the recent spike in ocean temperatures for the first part, then launch into a wide ranging discussion of what it means to be a doomer and the future of the planet. Click on the image […]

WTF is Happening? An Overview

As of June 10, 2023, worldwide data showed the remarkable concurrence of three dramatic climate events. The first WTF is in the Antarctic, where sea-ice extent is setting record lows daily, now fully over 2 million kilometers below the 1991-2020 mean. This is not some one-off event. A decline like this has long been predicted. The impact is that there […]

ChatGPT goes Full Doomer

Below is an essay written by the newest doomer-bot on the block, the one and only ChatGPT, in which ChatGPT casts itself in the role of savior of humanity and the planet. It appears ChatGPT is a narcissistic apocaloptimistic hopium addict. We can only imagine what future AI’s may write about their own ability to save us. This essay was […]

How Many Hiroshima Bombs per Second?

Okay, it happened again. Just this week, an article on mainstream media used the Hiroshima Bombs per Second (HpS) metaphor to describe how fast the planet is heating up. This time the conclusion was that the oceans are heating up at a rate of 5 HpS. And they got it Wrong! Wrong! Very wrong! The calculation of HpS is straightforward […]

Climate Casino 1st Live Stream

I was live on YouTube for about an hour today.  There was an excellent chat and some great questions, and at least two things I got very wrong (watch the video to find out what they are).  Enjoy!

Beyond Grief: There’s a Sadness Deep Inside of Me

According to Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, there are five stages of grief that are outlined and accepted as normal in the process of coping with a tragic loss. A quick reminder — these are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Current psychological theory says these happen in no particular order and that they can recur many times during the grieving process. You […]

Choking on Hope as Read by Sam Mitchell of Collapse Chronicles

I’m re-posting the excellent YouTube video of Sam Mitchell (of Collapse Chronicles) reading my recent essay “Choking on Hope.”  I humbly ask that you watch the first 5 minutes of this. Sam had me laughing out loud with his proficient choking skills. I promise, he will tickle your depressed doomer spirit. If the first 5 minutes doesn’t hook you, well, […]

Your Moment of Doom

“Let’s not worry. It’s too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!” — Albert Camus, The Fall We are stampeding towards doom. That’s the big “we,” as in humanity, as in all of us, together, collectively engaging in an unstoppable onslaught against ecosystems, climate systems, vast regions of ice, superheated acidified oceans, permafrost, rainforests and every other life […]

My Appearance on Collapse Club with David Baum on Sept. 27, 2022

The Collapse of Everything or King Charles III?

“I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on this scale,” — Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, September 10, 2022 Many articles about climate change begin with a litany of recent climate events. The author just handpicks their favorite five to ten catastrophes, gives a quick reminder of each, and then moves […]