Years ago I was in psychotherapy and I was complaining about the casino industry (my industry) and my ethical issues with my work. And my psychotherapist said she had clients who were helping make bombs that were being dropped on civilians, and they had issues too. I got it.

Uh oh! The #climatecasino just discovered during an audit that August 2024 is beating August 2023 after all! August, 2023: 1.505°C August, 2024: 1.506°C Is the fake-fix in? Final results in about 5 days.

Again, for those who may be wondering, my daily 'moment of doom' postings are taking a break until October. However, if you want to read something to maintain your DQ (doom quotient), this is an excellent read: substack.com/home/post/p-14…

Antarctic sea-ice extent has not yet exceeded last year's record low maximum extent. This is yet another #climatecasino wager that hangs in the balance. x.com/EliotJacobson/…

Do you understand the title of my PhD dissertation? "Green Functor Constructions in the Theory of Associative Algebras" ijmp.org/wp-content/upl…

Your 'ironic doom quote' for today: "The 'developed' nations have been widely regarded as previews of the future condition of the 'underdeveloped' countries." amazon.com/Overshoot-Ecol…

Mountain gorillas? Elephants? Polar bears? Coral? Boreal forrests? Koalas? Emporer penguins? Blue Whales? The Amazon? Burgers? Corporations? Democracy? Humans? You can't save all of these. You have to choose some losers. It's the trolly car problem. Which do you choose?

Breaking News! Code Yikes! Global sea-ice extent is once again at a modern-day record low for the day, breaking below 2023's uncharted bananas.

Here are the monthly global mean surface temperature anomalies through August, 2024, (with respect to the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline). The quadratic trendline shows the climate passing 1.5°C in 2027.

Your 'canary-ridden doom quote' for today: "But those on the coastlines are the canaries in the coal mine: they are the ones to whom the impacts of climate change are already most obvious." -- Katharine Hayhoe, Saving Us youtu.be/SXH22lbrWV0

Forecast for tomorrow: 110°F+ in the foothills around Santa Barbara. This is fine. (image courtesy of weather.us)

This yard sign I spotted yesterday is ... purrfect.

Yellow dot Yellow Dot Studios delievers again. Must watch!

Your 'bonus doom quote' for today: "..perhaps the most exhaustive (and most well-written) compendium of doom-laden climate change facts outside of the scientific literature, his book [The Unihabitable Earth, DWW] doesn't exaggerate or spin the science." amazon.com/Saving-Us-Clim…

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