Doom never tasted so sweet

The divine Seba Blanchard helps to promote Desdemona, after a smoking-hot performance at Seattle Center with her troupe, WildCard BellyDance. Technorati Tags: doom

Apocadocs Magnum Opus: Converging Emergencies, 2010-2020

Longtime doomspotters ‘Doc Jim and ‘Doc Michael have published their compendium of unhappy tidings in Converging Emergencies, 2010-2020. It’s 60 pages of face-slapping wake-up call, which begins with a quick summary of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief[*], and then dives into an overview of their big themes: Species Collapse, Resource Depletion, Biology Breach, Climate […]

Graphics from the near future: Children of Men

25 December 2016 (Desdemona Despair) – Don’t tell Desdemona that you haven’t seen Children of Men. This film is pure doomer porn, executed with the deft and utterly convincing cinematic touch of the great Alfonso Cuarón. Hie thee to the nearest video store / Red Box / Netflix queue and consume immediately. It’s 2027, and […]

Extinct: last of the Great Andaman tribe dies

  Boa Sr, the last speaker of ‘Bo’, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages, died last week, according to an indigenous rights group. She was 85. Her death marks the extinction of the Bo, a group thought to have lived on the Andaman Islands for as long as 65,000 years, “making them the descendants […]

Orlov: Predictions for the next decade

Catabolic collapse described by the inimitable Archbishop of Doom, Dmitry Orlov. …The decade will be marked by many instances of autophagy, in business, government, and in the higher echelons of society, as players at all levels find that they are unable to control their appetites or alter their behavior in any meaningful way, even in […]

Warming rescue plan doomed, report warns

By ADAM MORTONDecember 5, 2009 THE world has little chance of avoiding at least two degrees of global warming this century – the projected threshold for unpredictable and accelerated climate changes – if the emissions targets proposed by rich nations are locked in at next week’s Copenhagen summit, an analysis has found. A report by […]

World population tops 6.8 billion

U.S. 308,040,933 World 6,800,010,610 23:38 UTC (EST+5) Nov 28, 2009   We are still on target to hit 7 billion in 2012.   U.S. and World Population Clocks Technorati Tags: population,doom

Worst-case scenario: World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists

Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true By Steve Connor and Michael McCarthy, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading […]

The oceans are coming, part 2: Living on the land

By Dmitry Orlov and Keith Farnish Are you still talking about Cyclone Nargis? Have you ever heard of Cyclone Nargis? Here’s a reminder: on 1 May 2008 a weakening low-pressure system suddenly picked up energy as it approached Burma from the Bay of Bengal. By the second day of this rapid strengthening, Cyclone Nargis was […]

Grist: We have met the deniers, and they are us

Via reader Gail: By Adam Sacks James Inhofe.Marc Morano.Richard Lindzen.Bjørn Lomborg.George W. Bush. Names of shame, ignominy, criminals against humanity, against planet Earth itself.  Agents of the lethal delays in our response to escalating, accelerating, catastrophic global warming. Yet, as deniers of climate change, they’re amateurs compared to us.  Us activists, environmentalists, scientists, and certainly […]

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