Videos: Environmental Catastrophe

Climate Emergency Update, September 2023

Earth’s climate system is in a state of emergency. Emergencies are defined by four specific elements; i.e., (1) seriousness (2) unexpected (3) dangerous, and (4) requiring immediate action. Based...

Science Snippets: Predictions from the Dismal Science

From Axios on 7 August 2023 comes a story with this headline: The climate wrecking ball striking food supply . Here’s the lede: “Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike...

Science Snippets: "You Can't Stop What's Coming"

Recently, on a Zoom call, I was accused of giving up. This often happens, of course. In this case, I was called a nihilist to my face. I appreciate the honesty, even though it’s misguided. As a...

Earth's Vital Signs are Going Haywire

The video posted [ below ] in this space a week ago took a different approach than usual. Rather than giving a relatively detailed overview of one aspect of climate change, last week’s video...

Saved by Cooling Centers?

I’ve been questioned lately about wet-bulb temperatures and their impacts on plants and non-human animals. As I have reported frequently in this space, wet-bulb temperatures represent a combination...

Fire, Soot, and Emissions: Oh, My!

I was recently asked if I could provide [my] “insights on the raging forest fire situation across Canada... I have not found any data on the amount of C02 being expelled, the amount of dark...

Science Snippets: ENSO Redux

MAY 1, 2023 - From Axios on 19 April 2023 comes an article titled Rapidly developing El Niño set to boost global warming . Here’s the lead: “A double whammy of natural climate cycles and...

Abrupt, Irreversable Climate Change

Professor Guy R. McPherson delivered a presentation and then moderated a discussion about anthropogenic climate change at the Rockingham Free Public Library on Thursday, 25 May 2023.

Edge of Extinction: We’ve Been Warned!

American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams died in September 2010 at the age of 83 years. He is famously credited with this line: “Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened...

Can Ecological Economics Let Us Survive and Reset?

Adjusting to Abrupt Climate System Change A few years ago Nate Hagens wrote a brilliant peer reviewed scientific paper (Ref1) in the journal “Ecological Economics” titled: “ Economics for the...

Expert Steven Starr Explains Why Nuclear War Is Planetary Death

For more than two decades US presidential administrations have been increasing the likelihood of nuclear war with Russia. It began with Bill Clinton violating the word of the US government not to...

Edge of Extinction: Collapse Fatigue

Ignoring warnings because - so far - nothing has happened to you does not make the warnings wrong.

Sea Shepherd Global: For The Ocean

The ocean is home to millions of incredible marine animals - from tiny phytoplankton to the colossal blue whale. But today, the ocean is threatened by destructive fishing practices that are wiping...

The Two Best-Kept Secrets in Climate Science

A Model of Ecological Conservation on Loess Plateau

Click to find out how an impoverished village in northwest China was transformed into a prosperous place, which President Xi Jinping hails as "a model of ecological conservation on the Loess Plateau."

Abrupt, Irreversible Climate Change to Cause Planetary Extinction

On 15 July 2022, Professor Guy McPherson was invited to participate in the Kindred Spirits Garden of Conversation press conference in Cork, Ireland.

Science Snippets: The Ninth (Probably) and Final Species of Human

It's All Over

Derrick Jensen is the prize-winning author of A Language Older Than Words, Listening to the Land, Strangely Like War, Welcome to the Machine, Walking on Water, "The Culture of Make Believe and...

On the Virtues of Self-Delusion

—or maybe not! Dr. Bill Rees , Professor Emeritus from the University of British Columbia, gave a presentation on our overshoot predicament earlier this month to a zoom meeting of the Canadian...

The Hypocrisy of the World ‘Leaders’

Hat tip to Bernie Edwards at Not Something Else ~ Ed. Neil Oliver: We haven’t even got past Halloween but it’s already panto season at COP26:

Arctic Apocalypse

The #Arctic is nearing the tipping point. The world's leading polar scientist, Dr. Peter Wadhams, is headed to Greenland to study actual conditions there. He expects the blue ocean event, when the...

What is a Sustainable Population?

World Population Day Presentation and Panel Discussion - What is a sustainable population? Why, when and what should we do about it? Dr William Rees was the lead speaker at this high level...

Means of Extinction: The Sea, the Sun, and Surprises

Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops

The video embedded below introduces a series of forthcoming videos that collectively summarize the Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops section of my long essay, “Climate-Change Summary” (previously,...

Aerosol Masking Previously Underestimated on Overheated Earth

Means of Extinction: Broiling Earth

The Energy Trap

Many Do the Math posts have touched on the inevitable cessation of growth and on the challenge we will face in developing a replacement energy infrastructure once our fossil fuel inheritance is...

Key Points Regarding Abrupt, Irreversible Climate Change

The ongoing Mass Extinction Event has been under way for at least 10 years: The United Nations Environment Programme reported in August of 2010 that we were driving an estimated 150-200 species to...

'We're Looking At Billions of People Not Being Able To Survive' | Peter Carter, Expert IPCC Reviewer

Peter Carter, M.D. and Roger Hallam discuss the science and ethics with regards to climate emergency for all of us struggling to understand what's actually going on, what needs to happen and what we...

Siberia: The Melting Permafrost

Russian geophysicist Sergei Zimov together with his son Nikita want to prevent the permafrost from thawing due to climate change. The ice in Siberia contains microbes that once thawed could tilt the...

ENDGAME 2050

What will the future be like in the year 2050? A mere three decades away, most of us hope to still be around. So, what kind of future are we riding into? ENDGAME 2050 gives us a glimpse into that...

Edge of Extinction: Maybe I’m Wrong

Energy Slaves, “Hard Work,” and the Real Sources of Wealth

Image: Energy Slaves by Stuart McMillen Many Canadians and Americans struggle financially. Millions are unemployed. Many others live paycheque-to-paycheque. A 2017 report by the US Federal Reserve...

Overstepping Our Ecological Footprint

Dr. William Rees, who coined the term #EcologicalFootprint , speaks with us about the untenable situation that humanity is in. Dr. Rees is not shy about his sense that we are now in complete...

Without A Net: Cataclysm

Derrick Jensen is the prize-winning author of A Language Older Than Words, Listening to the Land, Strangely Like War, Welcome to the Machine, Walking on Water, The Culture of Make Believe and...

Seven Distinct Paths to Loss of Habitat for Humans

Image: Dodo bird, Wikimedia Commons CC0 “Our membership in the animal kingdom comes with the ability to predict that loss of habitat will cause the near-term functional extinction of our species, as...

Mind Over Matter

A discussion between Derrick Jensen and Lord Hugh about Bright Green Lies, XR, collapse, and The System. Derrick Jensen is the prize-winning author of A Language Older Than Words, Listening to the...

Global Dimming

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Ed. Note: Discussions of Global Dimming are increasingly frequent now, as more information has become available. An early and excellent documentary...

The Turning Point

'The Turning Point' explores the destruction of the environment, climate change and species extinction from a different perspective.

Methane: The Arctic's Hidden Climate Threat

Image: resilientearth.com A methane burst from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could happen at any time and needs only a trigger. That's the conclusion of the world's leading research scientist in...