Interview: The End of the World
An interview by The Search with Dr. Guy McPherson who brings a climate change message like no other.
Tag: Mass Extinction
Why The IPCC Report Is So Scary
What is the IPCC and what does the 2018 special report mean for us? The report describes the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of
The UN’s Devastating Climate Change Report Was Too Optimistic
The IPCC has been criticized for being “too alarmist.” If anything, it is the opposite. With their latest report, they have been overly conservative. A decade ago, the “father of global warming”—the first scientist to sound the alarm on
Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater
In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis. Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places
Interview: Global Temperature Projections Could Double As the World Burns
You know things are really bad when even the pope is warning that unless governments take ACD seriously, Earth will be nothing more than “rubble” and “refuse.”
Guy McPherson at SOAK2018
Chat about how to live at the edge of extinction at SOAK 2018, regional burning man in the White Valley in Oregon.
Is Greenland Adjusting To Abrupt Climate Change? Can We???
Climate change is a daily reality up in Greenland. This week we look at the winners and losers in this global adaptation challenge and get a glimpse of what’s coming our way in the next few years.
Water Scarcity – A Looming Predicament!
For those who watched the original of this video, this is a revision to correct an error I made in the first version. I stated that there were 80 Billion livestock animals on earth. In fact the figure is
Busting Climate Change (Denial) Myths
More about the Robbers Cave Experiment: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2… More about the fossil fuel industry and tobacco companies using the same tactics: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Peter Doran’s Climate Science Survey: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… Climate change consensus same as smoking and cancer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Why CO2 alone
Climate Change Is Already Irreversible
Carbon capture paper: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S… – Solomon paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1704 – Further paper on carbon capture: http://science.sciencemag.org/content… – Species extinction due to climate change: http://science.sciencemag.org/content… and https://www.theguardian.com/environme…
Why Everything Will Collapse
If you sense that the future looks bleak, that there is little chance that this whole mess will end in joy and good humor, that there is a tiny chance that we will escape a systemic collapse of the thermo-industrial civilization, you are not far from reality.
Abrupt Anthropogenic Climate Change
If I had a motto it would be “Habitat, Habitat, Habitat” because that’s what really matters to all animals and plants — to all organisms in fact — including human animals.