Appearance on Environmental Coffeehouse, 01-07-2022
Here is the YouTube video of my appearance on Environmental Coffeehouse, 01-07-2022:
2022 is Going to be The Most F**ked Up Year on Planet Earth Since -66,000,000
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 […]
Hopium, Apocaloptimism and Hausfather
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 […]
Mann’s Law — A New Internet Adage for End-Times
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 […]
Civilization is Ending in Real-Time … It’s a Holy F**k Moment
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 […]
A Little Bit About Me
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 […]
COP-26 was a Civilization-Ending Epic ClusterF**k
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 […]
The Age of Aquarius: Thoughts on Freedom and Choice in the Shadow of Doom
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. […]
Everyone Loses in the Climate Casino
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 […]
When is a Blue Ocean Event Going to Happen? Some Volumetric Predictions
For those who aren’t paying attention, one of the most catastrophic consequences of climate change is the impending “blue ocean event” or “BOE” (with thanks to Paul Beckwith for this terminology). A BOE is defined to be when the Arctic Ocean is covered by less than 1 million square kilometers of ice (the “extent” of the ice is < 1M […]
Top 40 Impacts of Climate Change
In this post, I list 78 current and future impacts of climate change, along with references for some of the more unexpected items. That list was compiled scouring the web along with suggestions and comments to a Twitter post I made. In retrospect, many of these items are redundant or speculative. And so, I refined that list down to 40 […]
In the very near future, self-aware artificial intelligence agents will probably do exactly what you’re suggesting, as soon as they…