The Climate Pandemic
How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival

Much of what you’ve been told about climate disruption are myths

The most comprehensive book on climate disruption, The Climate Pandemic reveals that, unlike what you've been told:

• Current plans to limit global heating will not avoid climate catastrophe.
• Renewable energy will not offer a major clean energy source.
• Decarbonizing our energy system is a delusion.
• The human species is on a trajectory toward extinction without unprecedented climate action.

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic created a massive health and economic catastrophe that reverberated throughout society for years. However, society ultimately recovered.

In tragic contrast, we are in the midst of an infinitely more serious “climate pandemic.” Unlike the viral pandemic, it is never-ending. People will not become immune to its hazards. Nor will there be the equivalent of vaccines or drugs to treat it. In fact, the climate pandemic will steadily worsen, even threatening extinction, unless we launch a global political, economic, and technological revolution in our carbon-dependent energy system.

The Climate Pandemic offers profound new insights into the science, technology, politics, economics, and psychology that underlie the existential crisis that we face.

The Climate Pandemic explores:

• The mechanisms underlying climate-driven heat waves, megadroughts, wildfires, floods, and superstorms
• The human impacts of climate disruption: increased toxicity and disease, famine, migration, war, and societal collapse
• The psychological barriers that have prevented people from understanding and acting to mitigate climate disruption
• How climate “de-nihilists” have sabotaged solutions
• Why the media, scientists, environmentalists, corporations, and politicians have failed to help mitigate climate disruption
• How the Paris agreement, renewable energy, carbon capture, geoengineering, and nuclear power are unrealistic panaceas

The Climate Pandemic includes an extensive bibliography of references on climate disruption, with more than 1,700 hyperlinked entries. These include peer-reviewed scientific papers, books, and reports from government and international agencies and scientific associations.

From Midwest Book Review: "... an important contribution on the subject of Climate Change in terms of our personal and collective responses to surviving it as individuals and as a species... unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Environmental Studies collections and supplemental Climate Change curriculum studies..."

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Sample Chapters:

• Co-infection by De-nihilism
• Decarbonization Delusion
• Geoengineering Quackery
• Hellscape Earth
• Why the Scientists Failed
• Why We Failed
• The False Hope Nostrum
• Paris Agreement: Blind and Toothless
• Renewable Energy Hype
• Carbon Capture Snake Oil
• Our Comfortable Extinction

Acknowledgments

References

News Release: New Book Warns of Human Extinction from Climate Change

Articles:

• Is there valid evidence for a climate change trajectory that could lead to human extinction?
• The Climate Journalism Bubble
• Climate Scientists’ Claims Deserve More Scrutiny from the Media
• Why Fossil Fuel Companies Can't Leave Resources Stranded
• COP28 and the Fallacies of Climate Delusionism
• COP28 and the Futility of a Fossil Fuel "Transitioning Away"
• What Will be the Impact on Climate Change of Trump Policies?

About Dennis Meredith