“If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it!”
“While those of us working in the climate science field know the true picture, and understand the implications for our world, most others do not,” he wrote. “And this is a problem — a big one.”
Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling Apart
The above embedded article elicited the video response below from my friend and colleague Professor Guy McPherson.
I’ve been saying this for over a decade. A lost decade of preparation time, especially for our youth!
Abrupt Climate Change Denial has squandered an opportunity to prepare. The New Climate Denial Position is to deny Abrupt Climate Change.
I have curated a number of articles below showing the orchestrated litany of lies from people pretending to cover the climate and extinction crises.
As always, the technique is to shift the baseline dates so that they can pretend that we’ve had much less anthropogenic warming than we’ve in reality triggered. I covered this issue previously, Baseline Temperature dishonesty at the Edge of Extinction
Sam Carana at the Arctic News Blogspot is one of the few prepared to address the science and be realistic about the severity of our predicament. We’ll start with the truth and then get to the lies.
“It’s time to stop denying how precarious the situation is.”
“Remember the Paris Agreement? In 2015, politicians pledged to hold the global temperature rise to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pledged they would try and limit the temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Well, an analysis by Sam Carana shows that it was already more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial when the Paris Agreement was reached.” 2C Crossed
The Rogues Gallery of the Climate Enemy Within
Narrative Control at the Edge of Extinction.
As we circle the drain of collapse and extinction, the corporate media pretend to cover the poly-crises we face but report on the great unravelling as if it’s a future issue, rather that fully underway today, driven by the six-dozen feedback loops I know of, the ones we’ve yet to discover, and the “Black Swans” that we either haven’t thought of or we simply ignore. This muddying of the waters will only get worse as we circle the drain of collapse. “Current Climate Path Will Lead to Collapse of Life on Earth”
Voices From the Doomosphere | Kevin Hester My position in 2018
Above and below are forthright presentations from Dr Sid Smith, Guy and I interviewed Sid on NBL
Dr Sid Smith Rocks the Boat on Nature Bats Last
I’m editing this blog on 12/11/2024 including an analysis of the collapse from my friend and colleague Professor Guy McPherson.
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I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
HI Kevin,
According to most reliable estimates from Dr. McPherson and Sam Carana, we went over the cliff in 1979. President Jimmy Carter was aware of what was happening and made this famous ‘sweater speech’ asking Americans to conserve energy. He put solar panels on the roof of the White House and walked to his inauguration. https://columbiainsight.org/the-night-we-lost-the-war-on-climate-change/
Carter was ridiculed, had his campaign sabotaged and was defeated by Reagan, who tore down the solar panels and we were off to Hell.
China’s decision to embrace capitalism and rapidly industrialize was another disaster. IF there is a 20 year lag between emissions and effect on climate, we have been feeling that for the past 20 years, and it will only get worse with the constant wars.
Dr. McPherson indicates that our result was ‘baked in’ by around 1950. The two world wars kickstarted the warming. I have seen the climate change from four seasons a year to four seasons a day in my lifetime. I am 67 years old.
I believe we went over the cliff in 1914. That was the year that the last passenger pigeon died. There used to be literally billions of them, so many that they blackened the skies when they flew. It was also the year that industrial warfare started.
1945 was Armageddon, and armor-geddon. The finishing touches are being put on this very nasty cake right now. The question is, for whose, or what’s, benefit?
Kurt Vonnegut was right. Humans did not like it here.
Be well, thank you for your wonderful and sad newsletters, and live for the day. As Guy says, “These ARE the good old days.”
Nancy Beiman
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“I believe we went over the cliff in 1914.”
Nancy, have you read Daniel Quinn? (Ishmael, et. al.)
Quinn — and many others — feel that the advent of agriculture, some 10,000 years ago, was the beginning of the end for humans
With the advent of agriculture, humans could store food over more than a single turn of the seasons for the first time. With that ability came hoarding and economic stratification. Prior to agricultre, there was no hierarchy, as there was nothing other than personal strength to hold over another human.
Grainery receipts were arguably the first form of money, as they were exchanged for all manner of goods and services. So agriculture also created capitalism and all the other “isms” that arise from unequal distribution of wealth, which is essentially, food.
“[Ishmael] There’s only one way you can force people to accept an intolerable lifestyle. [Julie] Yea. You have to lock up the food.” — Daniel Quinn, The Teachings That Came Before & After Ishmael p181, excerpted from My Ishmael, A Sequel.
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My comments:
As always, your articles, videos, and interviews are top notch. And your latest “Post Doom Conversation” says it all.
The only thing I might add is that an excellent book that covers the very same ideas and themes is Earth Grief (Raven Press, Boulder, CO, 2022) by Stephen Harrod Buhner, who died not too long after publication. That book was his final hurrah, having written many others, including The Secret Teachings of Plants.
Thanks again, Kevin, for giving folks a “place to go” to get energized anew. Linda
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[…] Scientists Terrified by How the Climate is Falling Apart […]
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“Peter Kevan, the lead author of the study, told the Guardian: “If [bumblebees] can’t keep temperatures below what is probably a lethal limit of about 35C, when the brood may die, that could explain why we are losing so many bumblebees around the world, especially in North America and Europe.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/bumblebees-overheating-threat-global-heating-temperatures-aoe?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR22vI8ZeiI9SboL5-gcpxl9CIoW_OkCNNRLUfJkeFreZVFdZT4lWL8_DJw_aem_AT5mxJEMa5HhIODkqmaFQvMYyl_rjhXP5dchrdzb3iGqysUebLOhu-Xu34FN6hwSTgf2QvrXeSfXWX7jTmdnsQ7M
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It’s so terrifying that even our sainted politicians in the cities are having their employee arborists frantically looking for the MAGIC tree that will survive in those heat sinks:
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
https://grist.org/agriculture/climate-change-tree-urban-city-arborists-heat-drought-native-species/
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My question being: if Seattle is going to have a climate like Northern Cal in less than 30 years, just what the hell is going to be alive in the freaking desert where Southern Cal’s gigantic cities are sitting? Well, actually, how about we include the entire swath from San Francisco & SoCal, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, etc etc all the way to the Atlantic Ocean… Uh-oh. Less than 30 years? That is an enormously quick shift. Mind-bogglingly quick!
I’m about a thousand miles north from NorCal, and a bit further north of Seattle’s latitude, so this piece of forested property will become a garden spot for the hordes of fleeing refugees while the coast will grow Redwood trees?
As it is, we’re seeing a lot of tree death around here and it isn’t just from the industrial corporate logging. Bark beetles that are now having 2 or 3 broods a year instead of just one and killing all sorts of different species. Trees dying of heat stress, we see the tops of Larch and Red Firs suddenly go brown and needles just falling off in a cloud, and looking carefully at the bark there are no tell-tale bore holes from bugs.
Faster and faster around the toilet bowl we swirl…
sealintheSelkirks
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Thank you Kevin for this excellent post and collection of very useful links. I especially related to your advice in the middle and end of your interview with Michael Dowd linked in your post. I sent you an email about it and posted a long response to your comment under the latest post by Indi Samarajiva (indi.ca).
I have trouble with people saying that things will be fully catastrophic by the end of the century. That’s soon and scary for sure, but I think it’s already much more dire than that. My kids, 25 and 30, are very unlikely to have a “normal” life. The nearly seamless official narrative is so firmly encoded into the meat computers of about 94% of Americans that a revolution of any kind is almost impossible.
I say “ALMOST” because of a 1953 science fiction paperback by Arthur Clarke called Childhood’s End, which provides a thought experiment we can do that might provide a way out. You say we’ve already passed the point of no return, and I’m sure you’re right, and I aim to follow your advice, re not trying to solve problems that can’t be solved; establish REAL friendships with empaths and cut the deadwood friendships out of your life; and get with our TRIBES of fellow empaths. Thank you!
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I’ve been a sci-fi reader since childhood, and that old book is one of the 1500 or so I have saved on the sci-fi bookshelf. Haven’t re-read it in decades but it’s still there. Didn’t think anybody would remember that book! If only, ya know?
As for cutting deadwood friendships out of our life, it does get mighty lonely out here in the fringes now and then. Best get a couple of dogs because I have a sign on my front porch that says:
THE AVERAGE DOG IS A BETTER PERSON THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON
Ain’t that the truth?
sealintheSelkirks
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Thank you Seal! It’s rare to find someone who knows about this wonderful and important book.
In Childhood’s End, strict aliens wait until human civilization is on the very brink of nuclear war and planetary collapse. The aliens arrive just as the United States and the Soviet Union are minutes away from launching their huge fleets of intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles. The aliens are fantastically powerful, able to incinerate any non-compliant military base or large city in an instant, and willing to do so to prove their point.
They come in one gigantic space ship, which they duplicate holographically so the humans will think there are huge, ominous space ships hovering over every major world city. They are on a “humanitarian” (alienitarian?) mission to save us from ourselves. They simply ban war. Any nation making a military move of any kind will become a glass parking lot. Every army, worldwide, is instantly deactivated, and strong, disciplined, young soldiers are immediately repurposed by their respective governments into disciplined workforces of skilled, organized workers. They are immediately set to work repairing and updating infrastructure, setting up renewable energy generating technology, and distributing resources worldwide.
The point is, humans in this story are able to end war instantly, and it is effortless for them. No one had to move to a new location, change their language, change their religion or culture, or learn any new technology. ALL they needed was the WILL to end war, which the aliens provided.
I LOVE your sign about dogs!
THE AVERAGE DOG IS A BETTER PERSON THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON
Take care!
jeffsyrop@zenhell.com
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