Guy McPherson

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Guy R. McPherson
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McPherson in 2014
Born (1960-02-29) February 29, 1960 (age 65)
Education University of Idaho (B.S., 1982)
Texas Tech University (M.S., PhD) [1]
Alma mater University of Idaho
Website Official website

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]

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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 other colleges in North America. 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 homestead in southern New Mexico. He then moved to Belize in July 2016. He moved to Westchester County, New York in October 2018. [12]

In November 2015, McPherson was interviewed on National Geographic Explorer with host Bill Nye. [13] Andrew Revkin in The New York Times said McPherson was an "apocalyptic ecologist ... who has built something of an 'End of Days' following." [13] Michael Tobis, a climate scientist from the University of Wisconsin, said McPherson "is not the opposite of a denialist. He is a denialist, albeit of a different stripe." [14] David Wallace-Wells writing in The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) called McPherson a "climate Gnostic" and on the "fringe," [15] while climate scientist Michael E. Mann said he was a "doomist cult hero." [16]

He has made a number of future predictions. In 2007, he predicted that due to peak oil there would be permanent blackouts in cities starting in 2012. [17] In 2012, he predicted the "likely" extinction of humanity by 2030 due to climate-change, and mass die-off by 2020 "for those living in the interior of a large continent." [18] In 2018, he was quoted as predicting "that there will be no humans on Earth by 2026," which he based on "projections" of climate-change and species loss. [9]

For the 2024-2025 school year McPherson worked at Bellows Falls Middle School in the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union in Windham County, Vermont as a teacher's assistant and paraprofessional.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Academic History". University of Arizona. Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ McPherson, Guy (January 8, 2024). Is There a Secret Cabal Running the Show? A Discussion with Psychologist Peter Miller. Nature Bats Last (Video Podcast). 33:05 minutes in. Retrieved January 20, 2024– via YouTube. [my] birthday on February 29th of this year
  3. ↑ McPherson, Guy (14 October 2019). "The Fire Next Time – Hubris". weeklyhubris.com. Retrieved 20 January 2024. My path was further cleared by my birth in 1960
  4. ↑ "Chances high for another dry winter in Monterey County". The Salinas Californian . Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  5. ↑ McPherson, Guy M. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page". University of Arizona. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Curry, Nathan (August 21, 2013). "Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction". Vice.com. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ Jamail, Dahr. "Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It". Truthout . Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Richardson, John H. "When the End of Human Civilization is your Day Job". Esquire . Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  9. 1 2 McIntosh, Alastair (2020). Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being. Berlinin. ISBN   9781780276397. The professor crisply reiterated and summed up his position in an interview given in 2018: 'Specifically, I predict that there will be no humans on Earth by 2026, based on projections of near-term planetary temperature rise and the demise of myriad species that support our own existence.'
  10. ↑ McPherson, Guy M. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Services". University of Arizona. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Refereed Journal Articles - Guy R. McPherson". cals.arizona.edu.
  12. ↑ "What I Live For". weeklyhubris.com.
  13. 1 2 Revkin, Andrew (October 31, 2015). "National Geographic Explores Bill Nye's Climate Change Denial – and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Analysis". The New York Times . Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  14. ↑ Tobis, Michael (March 13, 2014). "McPherson's Evidence That Doom Doom Doom". Planet3.0. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  15. ↑ Pielke, Roger (March 8, 2019). "The Uninhabitable Earth — future imperfect". Financial Times . Retrieved May 14, 2019. We are introduced to Guy McPherson and Paul Kingsnorth, called "climate Gnostics" by Wallace-Wells, both of whom have dropped out of society to await the climate rapture. It seems that Wallace-Wells introduces these "fringe" characters to normalise his own apocalyptic vision, as if to say: You think I'm out there? Look at these guys.
  16. ↑ Mann, Michael E. (July 12, 2017). "Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial". The Washington Post . Retrieved May 14, 2019.
  17. ↑ "The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity". 28 August 2007. One by one, starting in 2012, the world's cities will experience permanent blackouts; and once we enter the Dark Age, the Stone Age won't be too far behind.
  18. ↑ "We're Done by Guy McPherson". I concluded .. we had set into motion climate-change processes likely to cause our own extinction by 2030.. For those of us living in the interior of a large continent.. I'd give us until 2020 at the latest
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