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Guy R. McPherson
Birth Date:29 February 1960
Education:University of Idaho (B.S., 1982)
Texas Tech University (M.S., PhD)
Alma Mater:University of Idaho
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Guy R. McPherson (February 29, 1960[1] [2]) is an American scientist, professor emeritus[3] of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.[4] He is known for inventing and promoting fringe theories (roughly synonymous with the term pseudo-scholarship) such as Near-Term Human Extinction (NTHE),[5] which predicts human extinction by 2026.[6] [7] [8]

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,[9] and also taught at the University of California-Berkeley, 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 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. 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 saying "Specifically, I predict that there will be no humans on Earth by 2026", which he based on "projections" of climate-change and species loss.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. McPherson . Guy . January 8, 2024 . Is There a Secret Cabal Running the Show? A Discussion with Psychologist Peter Miller . Video Podcast . Nature Bats Last . 33:05 . . January 20, 2024 . [my] birthday on February 29th of this year.
  2. Web site: McPherson . Guy . The Fire Next Time – Hubris . weeklyhubris.com . 20 January 2024 . 14 October 2019 . My path was further cleared by my birth in 1960.
  3. News: Chances high for another dry winter in Monterey County . 15 May 2019 . . en.
  4. Web site: Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page . University of Arizona . Guy M. . McPherson . July 10, 2016.
  5. Web site: Humanity Is Getting Verrrrrrry Close to Extinction . Vice.com . Nathan . Curry . August 21, 2013 . July 10, 2016.
  6. News: Jamail. Dahr. Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It. Truthout. 6 July 2015.
  7. Web site: Richardson. John H.. When the End of Human Civilization is your Day Job. Esquire. 7 July 2015.
  8. Book: McIntosh, Alastair . Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being . Berlinin . Alastair McIntosh . 2020 . 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.'.
  9. Web site: Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Academic History. University of Arizona . May 14, 2019.
  10. Web site: Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page: Services . University of Arizona . Guy M. . McPherson . July 10, 2016.
  11. Web site: Refereed Journal Articles - Guy R. McPherson. cals.arizona.edu.
  12. Web site: What I Live For. weeklyhubris.com.
  13. Web site: National Geographic Explores Bill Nye's Climate Change Denial – and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Analysis . . Andrew . Revkin . October 31, 2015 . July 10, 2016. Andrew Revkin .
  14. Web site: McPherson's Evidence That Doom Doom Doom . Planet3.0 . Michael . Tobis . March 13, 2014 . July 10, 2016.
  15. Web site: The Uninhabitable Earth — future imperfect . . Roger . Pielke . March 8, 2019 . 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. News: Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial . Michael E. . Mann . . July 12, 2017 . May 14, 2019. Michael E. Mann .
  17. Web site: 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. Web site: 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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