Guy McPherson

Guy R. McPherson
McPherson in 2014
Born (1960-02-29) February 29, 1960 (age 64)
EducationUniversity of Idaho (B.S., 1982)
Texas Tech University (M.S., PhD)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Idaho
WebsiteOfficial 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]

  1. ^ "Academic History - Guy R. McPherson".
  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. ^ Guy M. McPherson. "Guy R. McPherson Faculty Page". University of Arizona. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Nathan Curry (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. ^ Alastair McIntosh (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.'