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Analysis of the enduring appeal of ‘the apocalypse…end-of-times resulting from our own actions that can only be avoided through some repentance’

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562048764012949505.html Roger Pielke Jr.🇺🇦 Many people really like the idea of the apocalypse, especially an end-of-times resulting from our own actions that can only be avoided through some repentance I welcome pointers to literature on this seemingly basic human instinct Why do we love the apocalypse?  Kellow 2020 The Lure of the Apocalypse https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2020/01/the-lure-of-the-apocalypse/ Lambelet […]

Al Gore tells NYT: ‘Fossil fuels pose a significant & ongoing threat to democracy’ – Warns of ‘a sense of climate despair’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/podcasts/epa-climate-al-gore.html?smid=tw-share   By Lauren Jackson July 1, 2022 This week, in one of the most important environmental rulings ever, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for America to meet its climate goals. Yesterday’s decision limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants — which, as we covered on The Daily, is […]

Michael Mann Warns ‘We Have Less Than a Decade’ To Prevent ‘Catastrophic’ Global Warming – Claims ‘We Need Legislation’ To Regulate Earth’s Temps

By Alex Christy Against the backdrop of extreme weather across the country, Chris Jansing welcomed Penn State University’s Michael Mann to declare that “we have less than a decade” to save the planet. Jansing teed Mann up quoting President Biden and wondering, “So, let me ask you specifically about what the president just said, that […]

Watch: Past WRONG climate predictions by ABC & NBC – ‘Countdown to Doomsday’

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2022/06/04/just-how-wrong-were-abc-and-nbcs-climate-predictions-hint-nyc By Scott Whitlock Two wildly wrong climate predictions have anniversaries in June. And since ABC and the NBC-owned SyFy Channel don’t like to be embarrassed by explaining their botched global warming prognosticating, we’ll do it for them. Fourteen years ago, on June 12, 2008, ABC’s Earth 2100 offered a special on the then-far off year of 2015. […]

The end is always nigh: We have an ‘unhealthy emotional dependency on doom for a sense of purpose’

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-end-is-always-nigh?mc_cid=917ba2f301&mc_eid=2c28606ca0 By Lionel Shriver   Typically for my generation, I woke repeatedly as a kid with my pajamas soaked in sweat because I’d had yet another nightmare about nuclear war. While I rarely dream about mushroom clouds any more, a dark cloud of one shape or another has dogged me like a sooty, vaporous stray […]

‘How many ‘last chance’ climate summits will there be? Watch new Morano Minute

https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/05/how-many-last-chance-climate-summits-will-there-be-watch-new-morano-minute/ Every climate summit seems to be labeled the “last chance” for humanity to save the world from climate change. When will everyone realize its always going to be the “last chance”? Enough already! Watch the latest episode of CFACT’s Morano Minute here! Every climate summit seems to be labeled the “last chance” for humanity to […]

‘Mysterious Black Box’ will ‘witness & record the end of the world as we know it’ from climate change – Will ‘hold leaders to account’

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mysterious-indestructible-black-box-will-tell-the-future-what-happened-to-us This Mysterious, Indestructible ‘Black Box’ Will Tell The Future What Happened to Us By PETER DOCKRILL At a distant end of the Earth – hidden somewhere on the remote Australian island of Tasmania – a strange structure is about to witness and record the end of the world as we know it. The project, […]