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- AetherCzar The Hidden Truth
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- Anthony Watts Independent and irreverent look at the turbulent world of climate change
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- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
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Category Archives: Doom
How to Stay Alive in the Coming Ice Age
The arctic blasts of cold weather known as polar vortices, are just a foretaste of what is coming, as the long overdue “coming ice age” bears down on human civilization, with a vengeance. When the deep cold finally hits us, … Continue reading
After 2020 We Are All Dead
The following timeline proves that after the year 2020 we are all dead: “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged … Continue reading
Scarcity of Wit and the Coming Age of Chaos
Ancient empires including Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India, left behind some magnificent ruins. I wonder how soon it can be said that our civilization did the same. At the rate we are moving into the age of chaos, it may … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Doom, Dysgenics, Empire
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A New Age Where Imbeciles Live Forever
Hello Idiocracy: Human Intelligence Peaked Long Ago It doesn’t matter whether human IQ peaked in the age of ancient Greece, or whether the Victorian age was the peak for humans. For a number of reasons, it appears that human cognition … Continue reading
Inside the Hell Zones; Is it Bug Out Time?
All objective signs seem to point toward a steady tapering off of pandemic deaths, at least for most of Europe and North America. But there are some who think this is just the beginning . . . of the end. … Continue reading
Naked Asteroid Streaks By Earth: We Never Saw it Coming
It’s Always the Apocalypse You Don’t See Coming On Monday of this week, the asteroid 2020 JJ flew less than 5,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean, well inside the orbits of many artificial satellites — but still far above the … Continue reading
When Gaia Met Theia: The Blobs Remember
Garnero speculates, the dense, distinct piles might even be fragments of Theia itself, forever interred in the deep Earth. __ Quanta Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when Earth and the solar system were very young, a giant Mars-sized planet is … Continue reading
Are We Dead and Just Don’t Know It?
Forever Doomed In 1988, famed climatologist James Hansen predicted that much of Manhattan would stay permanently underwater sometime between 2008 and 2018. In 1989, a senior UN environmental official declared that entire nations would be inundated by rising sea levels … Continue reading
Things are Getting Less Expensive
Consider the modern television set: The last TV I bought was a 43-inch smart TV that cost me roughly $500 in 2016; it’s no longer in my possession, but my old roommate is still using it to his great joy. … Continue reading
Without Fossil Fuels Modern Civilisation is Impossible
80% of Energy Comes from Fossil Fuels With over 80% of energy consumption coming from fossil fuels, pretty much everything we have in our economy today is available thanks to fossil fuels. We wouldn’t have today’s homes, schools or grocery … Continue reading
Famine, Pestilence, War, Death: Shorter Growing Seasons
Famine and pestilence go hand in hand, and the threat of famine can trigger war. Death on a large scale usually follows. Warm Weather: Longer Growing Seasons Ever since the “Little Ice Age,” the Earth has experienced a warming trend, … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate, Doom, food
Tagged Climate
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Coal is Just Getting its “Second Wind”
Coal Power Plants Expand Globally … In 2017, after two years of declines, International Energy Agency figures showed global coal demand rising to 5.357 million tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE). __ Coal is King of the World China is building … Continue reading
Good News, Bad News
Good News: World Keeps Not Ending According to the loudest prognosticators of the past few centuries, the world should not exist. Our ancestors should have died in uncounted fiery religious conflagrations. The planet should have been destroyed by nuclear apocalypse, … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Demographics, Doom, Europe, Postmodernism, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged leftist idiocy
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The Coming Doom of the “Y” Chromosome and Human Males
Although the Y chromosome’s role in sex determination is clear, research has shown that it is undergoing rapid evolutionary deterioration. Many generations ago the Y chromosome was large, and contained as many genes as the X chromosome. Now it is … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Doom, Genetics and Gene Expression, Sex, Sex Differences
Tagged doom, Sex Differences
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Donald Trump: Alone Against the Apocalypse?
Fighting Chaos with Chaos? Trump as “Chaos-Master” Faces Down Forces of Doom From its start, the Trump administration has been plagued by charges of “chaos.” From the revolving door of senior staffers — including two secretaries of state, three national … Continue reading
Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”
Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading
Why is Latin America So Violent?
Top 10 National Homicide Rates per Million Persons It is important to look at national homicides both as a rate — see above — and in total — see below. By either measure, Latin American nations have significant representation in … Continue reading
What Breed of Human Can Survive in the Future Commons?
In the Future: Death from the Commons Today we can safely travel around the world, by air, sea, rail, and highway. We can breathe the common air, eat the common food, and often drink the common drinks, taking only the … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Doom, Environment, Military, Nuclear War, satire, Weapons
Tagged drones, nanoweapons
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Climate Apocalypse Cult Built on Faulty Models
Why Climate Change Models So Badly Flawed Climate is shaped by hundreds of factors, most of which scientists do not understand with any precision. In other words, most of the meaningful variables that contribute to the Earth’s chaotic climate cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Doom, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, Climate Cult
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Will China Pass on World War III and Stand Aside?
China will lend “moral support” to Putin in his war of words against the west. China does not want to see a nuclear war destroy the global economy which China is so deeply invested in. But if it comes to … Continue reading
MegaCities of the Coming Anarchy
What Would a Preview of Tomorrow’s World Look Like? It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. __ … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Demographics, Doom, Dysgenics, Megacities
Tagged dysgenics, Megacities
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Green Billionaires Threaten Foundation of Modern Societies
Warren Buffet, billionaire and major investor in wind energy, has admitted that wind isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. “The only reason to build them [wind farms]” is the subsidies; “They don’t make sense without” them. … As … Continue reading
Posted in Doom, Electrical Power Grid, Energy, Green Quagmire, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged energy, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
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Can These Worms Save the Human Race from Extinction?
We Have Not Confronted a Virus that Constitutes an Existential Threat to the Species — Yet But eventually, we are likely to meet an emerging virus that comes close. The Zika virus, for example, is certainly not an existential threat … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Demographics, Doom, Epidemiology, Zika
Tagged doom, Epidemics, Zika
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Nightmare on Your Street: Could You Survive the Loss of the Power Grid?
The Power Grid Has Gone Down and Will Not Come Back Up: What Do You Do? Stores are closed. Cell service is failing. Broadband Internet is gone. Hospitals are operating on generators, but rapidly running out of fuel. Garbage is … Continue reading
Posted in Discontinuities, Doom, Electrical Power Grid, Survival Prepping, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged cyberwar, EMP, Infrastructure
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A Sense of Security is the Beginning of Disaster
Humans crave security. They will go to great lengths in an attempt to make themselves feel safe and secure. Unfortunately, there is no limit to potential risks. The ones we focus on are often the least likely to do us … Continue reading
