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Guy McPherson
Personal blog · guymcpherson.comsciencepolitics
Guy McPherson writes Nature Bats Last, a personal blog at guymcpherson.com about science and politics. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Current state in climate change. Are things THAT bad?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his writing on climate change, methane feedback and possible near-term collapse. One commenter describes his climate summary as pessimistic and well sourced.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Current state in climate change. Are things THAT bad?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-01
What Hacker News says?
This guy seems to think we've got that much time before all hell breaks loose due to runaway clathrate gun methane buildup and dramatic ocean level rise from both temperature expansion and glacial melt. I don't really like to think about it... https://guymcpherson.com/
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on “Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil”Submitted The irreconcilable acceptance of near-term extinction as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGuy McPherson has a disturbingly well sourced and pessimistic summary of how climate change will affect humanity in the next few decades. In his view it's too late to stop it and we're finished: http://guymcpherson.com/2013/01/climate-change-summary-and-u...
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on “Industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?”Submitted We're Done (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.foresight.org/news/negativeComments.html And the sad thing is, that even if your logic is more strict, if you argue scientifically, people still think you are a nutjob just because you see things from a different perspective. I just hope guy mcphearson is wrong, I so hope. http://guymcpherson.com/recent-video/ He is a meta climate scientist, he looks at the output of all the others and combines them - wh…
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on “Scientific Consensus Is Almost Never Wrong”Submitted Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens (2021) [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt could be Guy McPherson ? - https://guymcpherson.com/
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on “Reduction of Sulfur Emissions from Ships May Be Causing Rising Sea Temperatures”Submitted Current state in climate change. Are things THAT bad? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hackers ethic for the world after collapse as a story · 1 points
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