Doomsday – a year later

A year after the disaster of Doomsday when some 5,000 H-bombs were detonated, the Earth is still reeling, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The radioactivity has dropped below lethal levels and plant life is beginning to reassert itself where there is some sunlight but because a lot of dust is still in the air only [...]

Doomsday — a month later.

What would it be like at the typical locations mentioned yesterday a month after the Doomsday event?
Quite a bit of the first person, who was on the target and got obliterated by the blast, continued to drift as radioactive dust around the Northern Hemisphere.
But, after a month of mixing in that turbulent atmosphere, most of [...]

Doomsday — a week later.

Yesterday’s blog was a brief sketch about how various folks would encounter Doomsday. It was set in several different locations with typically informed people being unexpectedly confronted with this new life-changing event. There was very little difference in what each of them was doing at the time and the only real difference was their location [...]

Doomsday precursors, Doomsday event, Doomsday survival and Lifehavens

The survival of humanity has been the goal of these blogs. They have covered Lifehaven locations where the seeds of a new world could be stored for replenishing the Earth after the Doomsday event. They have covered the precursors of the Doomsday events and the various terrorist threats which might trigger a Doomsday. They have [...]

A reality check, for I’m in deep doo-doo with Doomsday.

After the last couple of months of flailing about with this Doomsday problem it would be easy to become gloomy and doomy myself but that hasn’t happened. Actually, I have been feeling quite cheerful even though I have eaten something my stomach didn’t like the other day. Perhaps I ate some of the bad tomatoes [...]

The Grief Cycle for Doomsday and how we will respond.

Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross became famous for publishing On Death & Dying in 1969. It was her Grief Cycle which has proven to be quite useful for analyzing many sorts of problems where control of the situation has been lost. On a world wide scale, the global warming, drought, famine, war and Doomsday are each going [...]

Doctor doom and doctor gloom and now trying to doctor Doomsday.

NASA’s Estimated climate forcings between 1850 and 2000

NASA’s Growth Rates of Greenhouse Gas Forcing 1850 – 2000
Note that this chart is of the growth rates of these greenhouse gases but it doesn’t show the cumulative effect of these gases and with the dropping off of the chlorofluorocarbons, shown in red, it makes it appear that [...]

Doctor Doomsday says — Prepare now for the Black Swans are in the air.

No one can predict the hour of Doomsday but we can predict a very high probability for it to be within the coming century; and it has about a fifty percent probability of occurring within the next decade. Even the prophets of old didn’t predict the hour of Doomsday but generally preferred to take a [...]

“The future of energy: It’s closer than you think.”

This week’s The Economist June 21st-27th 2008 has the featured section, “The future of energy: It’s closer than you think.” It begins “A fundamental change is coming sooner than you might think.” After a paragraph of general introduction paragraph 2 reads:
Such a failure of imagination has been at the heart of the debate about climate [...]

Fayoum – The Egyptian mummy portraits restored somewhat.

Today there were some portraits of the 2000 year old Egyptian Fayoum wax portraits in the news. They are intriguing but they have suffered some deterioration so I found some of them on the internet at Wikipedia and here is my attempt to return them to a little closer to the way they appeared when [...]