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Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who undermines legitimate climate concerns by predicting we’re all going to die yesterday. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. 

Sources/Links/Notes:

• Guy McPherson, "Near-Term Extinction blog post (guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/) ," Nature Bats Last (last updated 2016).
• Scott Johnson, "How Guy McPherson gets it wrong (fractalplanet.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong/) ," Fractal Planet, 2014.
• Michael Tobis, "McPherson’s Evidence That Doom Doom Doom (planet3.org/2014/03/13/mcphersons-evidence-that-doom-doom-doom/) ," Planet 3.0, 2014.
• Nathan Curry, "Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction (vice.com/en/article/wd4egq/near-term-extinctionists-believe-the-world-is-going-to-end-very-soon) ," Vice, 2013.
• BizNewsTV, "'Humans will be extinct by 2026 (youtu.be/2AK-O5hICxE?t=1859) ' - 'doom and gloom prophet' Prof McPherson on abrupt climate change," January 19, 2023.
• Shannon Osaka, "Why climate 'doomers' are replacing climate 'deniers',” Washington Post, March 24, 2023.
• Jerome Roos, "We Don’t Know What Will Happen Next, (nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/global-crisis-future.html) " New York Times, April 18, 2023.
• List of McPherson predictions (rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson)

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