By David SwansonTuesday December 28, 2010 The fall and decline of an empire can take many years, but certain “benchmarks” (as imperial courts have been known to call them) can measure the progress in one year alone. Take, for example, the year 2010. This year opened with the United States Supreme Court claiming further power […]
Faithful reader Warnwood was inspired by The Twelve Doomiest Stories of 2010 to create this neat montage: Another year, the warmest on record, and the evidence continues to mount that we are seriously fouling our own nest, permanently altering the relatively stable and mild climate conditions under which civilization arose and has flourished, and hitting […]
Desdemona’s quest against delusional hope won’t be won by presenting the cold, hard numbers alone. The right hemisphere of the brain must be engaged as well, and to this end Desdemona goes to great lengths to find dramatic images to enliven the numbers. Here are the most doom-laden photos of 2010, chosen by scale, impact, […]
Free-market economist Stefan Karlsson asks the question on his blog and gets reposted by the usually level-headed Christian Science Monitor. Of course, for anybody even slightly acquainted with climate science, the answer is an obvious, ”Yes, and how.” Since Karlsson doesn’t allow comments on his blog, Desdemona is forced to reply here. Karlsson asks: What […]
Matt Novak of Paleo-Future premiers his second webcast, Apocalypse. It’s an overview of the 1970s “apocsploitation film” genre and a trip down Memory Lane for Desdemona, who saw all of these as a child. The shiny happy futurism of the 1950s gave way to much darker predictions for humanity in the 1970s. With energy crises, […]
By Alex Morales, Kim Chipman and Jim Efstathiou Jr.Dec 12, 2010 9:00 PM PT Delegates at the United Nations climate talks stayed up two nights in a row last week to agree on a proposal to slow global warming. Next year’s negotiations may be even tougher. The plan approved on Dec. 11 creates a climate […]
Desdemona is not above proselytizing for the One True Religion™, the mighty Church of the SubGenius. Media Barrage #8661 Technorati Tags: doom
Inspired by the ApocaDocs 2010 Year In Review, Desdemona arbitrarily picked twelve of the most profoundly doom-laden stories of 2010. 2013 doomiest graphs, images, and stories 2012 doomiest graphs, images, and stories 2011 doomiest graphs, images, and stories 2010 doomiest graphs, images, and stories — January – Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert Scientists […]
The top 100 stories from the 1629 news items recorded by the ApocaDocs in 2010. [A feature that Desdemona is sorely tempted to emulate.] Mon, Jan 11, 2010from BBC: World’s biodiversity ‘crisis’ needs action, says UNEight years ago, governments pledged to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, but the pledge will not be […]
By Earle Holland8 Dec 2010 (Ohio State University) Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University, posed that possibility in a just-released special climate-change edition of the journal The Behavior Analyst. He also discussed how the rapid and accelerating retreat of the world’s glaciers and ice sheets dramatically […]
