Many of us have become numb to the escalating collapse of everything that’s accelerating all around us. Extreme events have become so commonplace that they hardly get noticed by mainstream media. It’s Monday morning and I have to dig deep into my newsfeed to find any mention of ongoing heat waves, fires, droughts and storms. On Sunday afternoons I get […]
My sister Hilary and I present the second episode of our world famous (in our own minds) show where we talk about living in these end times. Topics include– Trucker strike and misinformation. Ranting about Facebook/Twitter/Youtube and others. Hilary’s drawings of Earth’s climate systems. The current heat anomaly going on everywhere. More on the end times. Hilary Jacobson can be […]
From the 1985 hit, “We are the World, We are the Children,” to Martin Luther King’s famous “we as a people will get to the promised land,” the history of “we” is rich with hyperbole and hope. While an invocation of “we” is mostly a positive rhetorical call to action, the truth about “we” in the context of climate change […]
Please enjoy my appearance on Poetry of Predicament with Dean Spillane-Walker:
In my latest YouTube video I discuss the NOAA numbers showing global methane now over 1900 ppb as of September, 2021. I then present my own personal hack of the NOAA data that measures annualized global methane growth. My hack takes into account the relatively fast rate of decay for methane (half-life of 110 months), which leads to stunning and […]
Hopium (n) Irrational or unwarranted optimism. [YourDictionary.Com] That deranged condition in which a person is deluded into thinking humanity will survive omnicide. [DoomforDummies.blogspot.com] I am not here to re-litigate the inevitability of the near-term collapse of global industrial civilization and the obvious consequence that billions of humans will suffer terribly as a result. Collapse is the endpoint of overshoot and […]
When I was working for the casino industry as a consultant, I became good friends with Bill Zender, a consultant whose work was very similar to my own. Early on, Bill shared a lesson that no one else in the industry seemed to know. He told me to “be generous,” to give away my knowledge and services as much as […]
The title refers to the approximate year that an asteroid slammed into the Gulf of Mexico causing the fifth great extinction (the latest research places the asteroid at 65.95 mya, ± 40k years). In particular, it was the event that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. We are now in the midst of the sixth great extinction and we are the […]
I was in a Twitter discussion recently with Dr. Zeke Hausfather, a well-known climate scientist & IPCC author. Hausfather is a top-notch, first-rate guy in every manner. He is well-educated, thoughtful in his comments, well-respected by his peers and a great science communicator. Here was our Twitter exchange, in part. My Tweet: I’m thinking that 2022 is going to be […]
Okay, I’m very excited … my first (and most likely last) book of poetry, “Totally Disconnected,” has just been published. With the fabulous help of my sister and her company Rosalind Press, my poetry is now available in physical form. Here’s the blurb: “We live in an age of disconnection: from our primal animal selves; from the planet we live […]
After being blocked on Twitter by the ubiquitous climate celebrity Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann) for daring to say that many doomers are kind and generous individuals (as I documented in this post), I have seen his type of behavior repeated by several other so-called apocaloptimists. In this short post, I want to outline a new climate-based Internet adage that I […]
I’ve been in a depressed and distraught state recently. More than usual. I need to rant a bit and that’s what this post is, pure and simple. Around where I live a house that was worth $1.3M (the same house would be worth $20,000 in Detroit) was put on the market for $1.6M and sold for over 2M. This is […]
My most recent CV (January, 2022) is: here. My gambling website is here. My everything else website is here. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1983. I was a professor of mathematics at Ohio University from 1983 to 1998, getting tenure in 1989. I was a whistleblower there (very long story) and the university […]
Well, COP-26 is ending in just a few short hours. I am waiting for the final statement to come out, but I doubt it will change my mind. Here are my journalistic opening lines, crafted in totally neutral and scientifically objective academic language. NY Times, Washington Post — feel free to use this opening paragraph for your own COP-26 final […]
Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding No more falsehoods or derisions, Golden living dreams of visions Mystic crystal revelation, And the mind’s true liberation Aquarius, Aquarius —Hair (the musical), 1967 I’ve been paying attention to the goings on at COP-26 this week. “Paying attention” is a weird way to put it, because the conference is extraordinarily fragmented and directionless. […]
The analogy of a “casino” to describe climate change related catastrophes has gained some recent traction, thanks mostly to Paul Beckwith’s frequent use of this terminology in his blog posts and YouTube videos. At first, the word “casino” seems to be an appropriate metaphor. “Casino” describes the apparently random way that fires, floods, droughts, heat waves and other climate-related catastrophes […]
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.