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Guy McPherson
“”McPherson is not the opposite of a denialist. He is a denialist, albeit of a different stripe. To watch him at work and to watch Tony Watts is to watch birds of a feather. Not evidence-based policy but policy-based evidence. Not part of the solution. Part of the problem. |
| —Michael Tobis, climate scientist[1] |
Guy McPherson (1960–) is Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. An author, blogger, and parallel universe version of Bjørn Lomborg, McPherson theorizes that runaway climate change constitutes a near-term humanextinction event primarily due to "the consequences of taking down more than 200 species each day: at some point, the species we take into the abyss is Homo sapiens".[2] McPherson first gained notoriety in the mid 2000s by predicting the end of civilization in under a decade due to peak oil, but as that failed to materialize he's switched gears to climate, and has gained a cultishly persistent following in the deep ecology/"doomer" fringe of th
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Guy McPherson
American scientist
Guy R. McPherson (February 29, 1960[2][3]) is an American scientist, professor emeritus[4] of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.[5][6] He is known for inventing and promoting fringe theories (roughly synonymous with the term pseudo-scholarship) such as Near-Term Human Extinction (NTHE),[6] which predicts human extinction by 2026.[7][8][9]
Biography
McPherson's career as a professor began at Texas A&M University, where he taught for one academic year. He taught for twenty years at the University of Arizona,[1] and also taught at the University of California-Berkeley[citation needed], Southern Utah University, and Grinnell College. McPherson has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving land management and wildfires.[10] He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed publications.[11] In May 2009, McPherson began living on an off-grid homestea
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Guy R. McPherson is the world's leading authority on the topic of abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He has been featured in several documentary films, as well as an episode of National Geographic Explorer. Professor McPherson was honored with the Jazz for Peace Honorary Ambassador Award in September 2019. A ceremony was held on 10 October 2020. The four previous honorees since Jazz for Peace was founded in 2002 include United States Congressional Representative Dennis Kucinich, United States consumer advocate Ralph Nader, America’s first Chinese mayor Jean Qian (Oakland, California), and American historian Howard Zinn. Jazz for Peace is an American professional jazz organization with the goal of promoting unity and peace across cultures through the performance of music. The group also seeks to increase arts and music education in schools. McPherson is Professor Emeritus of conservation biology at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty award-winning years. His scholarly work has produced more than a dozen books a
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