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Glimmers of Tropical Hyperborea
•�June 21, 2020
•�100 Words •�46 Comments
This is apparently the hottest temperature ever registered in the Arctic (100F ~= 38 Celsius). There's a good chance that 2020, an already very powerful year, will also become the hottest year on record (PredictIt now puts it at 50/50). And it's not even getting boosted by an El Nino, with very low levels of... Read More
Warmest January in Moscow
•�February 3, 2020
•�200 Words •�167 Comments
This January has been Moscow's warmest by a significant margin since records began, clocking in at stunning +0.1C; in all likelihood, it is the first time it has slipped above zero since at least the Medieval Warm Period. The previous maximum was -1.6C just a bit more than a decade ago, in 2007. Saint-Petersburg likewise... Read More
Bioleninism in the 21st Century
•�May 28, 2019
•�600 Words •�123 Comments
Climate scientists and IQ researchers are both (largely) correct. Both of the sciences that they represent are hugely important for understanding the future, while both also have tribal ideological detractors on the right and left, respectively. Though this wasn't always so. For instance, Svante Arrhenius, the man who constructed the world's first climate model back... Read More
Can't Do Green Without Red. or Can You?
•�February 9, 2019
•�600 Words •�71 Comments
Now here's the problem: Carbon taxes are extremely regressive. Furthermore, they hit hardest precisely those groups - the rural and small town blue-collars of the US - who have been hit hardest by economic globalization, which massively benefited the transnational oligarchy and the developing world but left the Fishtowns behind in a haze of deindustrialization... Read More
Da Russophile's Predictions for 2013
•�January 5, 2013
•�1,500 Words •�33 Comments
I just remembered I'd made some in 2012. It's time to see how they went, plus make predictions for the coming year. Of course I failed to predict the biggest thing of them all: The hacking that made me throw in the towel on Sublime Oblivion (remember that?), but with the silver lining that I... Read More
ARCS of Progress – the Arctic World In 2050
•�August 20, 2012
•�3,800 Words •�18 Comments
Editorial note: This article was first published at Arctic Progress in February 2011. In the next few weeks I will be reposting the best material from there. The Arctic to become a pole of global economic growth? Image credit – Scenic Reflections. - Northward ho!: An account of the far North and its people. In... Read More
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming
•�June 23, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�8 Comments
I am an idiosyncratic person. I support HBD, but oppose white (or any other) imperialism. My attitudes towards mainstream liberalism and conservatism is to wish a plague on both their houses. I think we're in for a world of hurt with Limits to Growth but also buy into "cornucopian" ideas like technological singularity and transhumanism.... Read More
3000 AD: the Rise of Polar Civilizations
•�October 16, 2011
•�2,700 Words •�27 Comments
The river of time flows on, and empires crumble, leaving behind only legend that becomes myth, while new polities arise to take their place. This process of decay and creation is going to receive a boost from "peak energy" and, above all, climate change - which will redraw the maps of power to an extent... Read More
I'd Sooner See the World Burn Than Compromise with Rogue Scientists
•�December 7, 2010
•�2,000 Words •�3 Comments
Or at least that's what seems to be going around in the mind of Condoleezza Rice, if this cable (Cable 1) from September 2008 is anything to go by. After successfully persuading countries like Brazil to let the American scientist Christopher Field run unopposed for an important position in a Working Group of the Intergovernmental... Read More
The Collapse Party Fulfills Its Own Name
•�December 4, 2010
•�1,700 Words •�7 Comments
I founded the Collapse Party one year ago after coming to the hard realization that industrial civilization is unsustainable and that - barring revolutionary socio-political (e.g. "ecotechnic dictatorship") or technological (e.g. geoengineering) transformation - it's catastrophic unraveling by the middle of this century is almost inevitable. As neither of development seems to be in the... Read More
The End of Western Freedom (And Why Russians Should Ignore Their Hypocritical Lectures)
•�September 15, 2010
•�1,200 Words •�28 Comments
In a recent post at Streetwise Professor, in reply to a Russophobe commentator, democracy activist* and net-buddy Mark Sleboda compiled a damning indictment of the real state of Western freedom. Newsflash: for the world's (self-appointed) moral arbitrators, it's nothing to write home about! It's well worth reading, which is why I'm reprinting it here with... Read More
New Project: Arctic Progress
•�September 4, 2010
•�800 Words •�8 Comments
The Arctic is one of the most ignored regions in commentary about global trends. This is unsurprising. The vastnesses of Hyperborea, a semi-mythical world of curdled seas, boreal lights and eternal sunshine, have always been "outside" history. But the fast pace of global warming in recent years is kick-starting Arctic history, bringing with it the... Read More
Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)
•�August 9, 2010
•�5,000 Words •�15 Comments
The next installment of our Watching the Russia Watchers series at S/O features an interview with Peter Lavelle, the main political analyst at the Russia Today TV network, host of its CrossTalk debate show and Untimely Thoughts blogger. (He also has a Wikipedia page!) Peter is opposed to Western media hegemony, considering it neither fair... Read More
Russia Burning: Not Apocalypse, But Its Prelude
•�August 7, 2010
•�1,900 Words •�44 Comments
This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia's drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the classical cannon such as The Saga of the Burned Foot (Miriam Elder) or The Tale... Read More
Simmered to the Edge of the World
•�May 31, 2010
•�1,200 Words •�14 Comments
When denier ideologues make the transition to accepting the reality of anthropogenic global warming, one of the arguments they start to use tends to go something along the following lines: "Sure, the polar bears might get screwed over, but otherwise things will be just great. Crop yields will increase and northerners will get to have... Read More
Ecotechnic Dictatorship Is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse
•�January 31, 2010
•�6,500 Words •�40 Comments
As a follow-up to my article on the historical necessity of Green Communism, I would like to 1) refute some common myths and misconceptions about limits to growth-induced collapse, 2) clarify the concept of Green Communism, and 3) elucidate why the only realistic way to prevent collapse now is to force through a "sustainable retreat"... Read More
The Final Gambit: Geoengineering
•�January 20, 2010
•�3,300 Words •�6 Comments
It is very likely that efforts to prevent CO2 levels from soaring to 450ppm - the level we need to stop at to have any hope of limiting temperature rise to 2C or less - will fail. This will lead to a series of climatic "tipping points", as Gaia's stabilizing systems fail to check runaway... Read More
The Deeper Meaning of Climategate
•�December 1, 2009
•�3,300 Words •�13 Comments
As someone who has stuck his neck out for the imminent reality of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in both his real and online life, it would be fitting for me to comment on the Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident (and as per usual, what was originally meant as a "comment" has blossomed into a... Read More
The Dilemmas of Global Dimming
•�June 28, 2009
•�2,100 Words •�1 Comment
Not only is global warming a real and present threat that may yet in conjunction with impending energy shortages doom industrial civilization, it may have even been dangerously underestimated. "What have you been smoking!?," you might say to me. Get off the doom train and enjoy the Sun. Unfortunately, we might not have much of... Read More
Top 10 AGW Denial Myths
•�June 6, 2009
•�2,100 Words •�7 Comments
I've long viewed the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) denial movement with a certain sense of bemusement. The causal links are rock-solid - could it really be a coincidence that atmospheric CO2 levels started rising at the very same moment as industrial civilization got into swing, within decades reaching magnitudes big enough to decisively interrupt the... Read More
Kremlin Dreams Sometimes Come True
•�May 31, 2009
•�1,100 Words •�2 Comments
This April, Michael Bohm, editor at the Moscow Times, published the article New Kremlin Dreamers, which questioned Russia's stated intention of becoming an advanced industrial nation by 2020. I wasn't much impressed by its pessimistic assertions - for instance, regarding Russia's hopes of becoming the world's fifth largest economy by 2020, he falls into the... Read More
Some Thoughts on the Financial Crisis
•�October 10, 2008
•�3,100 Words •�2 Comments
What with all the noise about the ongoing credit crunch, all around financial apocalypse and burgeoning signs that it is beginning to spill over into Main Street like a torrent of water from a collapsing dam, I thought it's about time we take a look at this "sucker" (to use Bush's blunt term) and it's... Read More
News 2 May: Russia's Second Oil Peak
•�April 25, 2008
•�4,600 Words •�5 Comments
For all the noise being made this month about Georgia, about NATO, about Tibet, etc, possibly the most portentous is that it seems Russia hit its oil peak (strictly speaking, its second - the first happened in 1987), well in line with peakist predictions. Production increases via application of new technology, as seen in the... Read More
News 14 Jan
•�January 14, 2008
•�500 Words •�2 Comments
President Putin's visit to Bulgaria to bring pipeline deal, NPP contract A new company is being created, in which Russia will own a 51% stake, to build a pipeline to carry Russian oil via the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas and Greece's Alexandroupolis on the Aegean, so as to bypass the congested Bosporus. It... Read More
Towards a New Russian Century?
•�January 11, 2008
•�4,100 Words •�9 Comments
EDIT 11/27/08: Since writing this, I have come to realize that peak oil is real and will play a major role in any future scenario, and far sooner than the other three themes I highlight here. The twentieth century was, above all, a Russian century. Granted, Germany was the most important challenger Great Power in... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.