It Ain’t Gonna Happen
How to Find Meaning in a World Headed Over the Cliff
The Climate Casino
Prof. Eliot Jacobson, on the collapse of global industrial civilization, the sixth great extinction, and related topics.
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What Type of Doomer are You?
And don’t say you’re a “climate doomer,” because that doesn’t exist.
The Fundamental Theorem of Doomism
Strawman argument alert! A response to psychological inoculation against climate doom.
An Unexpected Message from the Edge of Collapse
When an 18-Year-Old Asks How to Keep Living
More Fucked Today than Yesterday
And even more fucked tomorrow
Some Monsters are Real
What's coming has never been seen before in the history of modern global industrial civilization ... and it's just getting started.
Distracted by Bright Shiny Objects
What Japanese knotweed can teach us about how fucked we are.
It's 'Show your Stripes!' Day!
And please, use only Climate Casino certified warming stripes, where each stripe is handcrafted by a captive fossil-fuel billionaire and includes an e-coupon redeemable for negative karma.
Godzilla El Nino Update for June 18, 2026
All the sea-surface temperature news that's fit to print, and some that isn't.
Live with Prof. Eliot Jacobson
A recording from my live video on June 12, 2026, as Eliot figures out, for the first time, how to use Substack Live and eventually gets it going (i.e. skip forward!).
The Start of Doom to Come
The coming El Nino is forecast to strengthen into record territory before the end of the year. What will it be like where you live?
A Personal History of CO₂
May, 2026 will see the highest CO₂ measurement ever recorded. And next year will be even higher.