Whether it is a Thucydides Trap or trying to fill an inside Strait, the real game here is about dominance display. Where is Jane Goodall when we need her? And why are we still stuck in ape-mode? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/mars...

The Epstein War ballooned the deficit 100X any DOGE cuts. In an alliance-entangled world, the whole show implodes now, just as a Dust Bowl returns. A perfect storm. The clever are departing for Mars. #dontlookup open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @meidasjordy.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social

Shortages of fertilizer are causing more countries to go organic. To succeed, it helps to understand quantum entanglement of the soil-food-gut-manure universe peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-... @hughhunt.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social

The new US Farm bill passed by the House last week mentions biochar 53 times! Given the unsolvable war at the Epstein Strait, which is blocking 1/3 of the world’s fertilizer, it could not be more timely. Grow organic! cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-woman-...

This is less about water and more about jet fuel. Hormuz was a gambler’s bet and a losing strait. Now Vegas must pay out bigly peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/05/when...

How will a narrow body of water halfway around the world affect the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio? cooldesign.substack.com/p/when-the-h... @hpacoalition.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social @rreich.bsky.social @Caitoz.bsky.social

Super El Niño forming. Beaches will be awash in seaweed. Algae is easily defeated with H2O2-saturated #biochar, but humans remain vulnerable to a CO2-saturated atmosphere peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/what... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

The least acknowledged constraint is the human failure to reckon with the oldest equation in ecology — that carrying capacity is not a suggestion, and that population, given resources, will expand to meet and exceed it medium.com/@cooldesign/... @hpacoalition.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Democracy is belief-dependent. So, refreshingly, is autocracy. Dictatorships are just social contracts with worse catering and no easy exit cooldesign.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

Elon and the Tech Bros think A.I. will guarantee everyone an upperclass life. They just overlook one truth: all economies are built upon energy, especially robot economies peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/move...

The US claims Iran is a nuclear threat while gutting safety and proliferation protection. “It’s a hot industry, it’s a brilliant industry,” said Trump, flanked by nuclear energy CEOs in the Oval Office. He added: “And it’s become very safe.” open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Mob wives of Miami? What dots connect major crime and oligarchs? Following the money leads to 1600 Pennsylvania Av. Here’s another Puzo sequel… peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

This week, there’s an Easter Egg for Patreon subscribers: a chapter from my next book www.patreon.com/posts/godfat...

The time has come. Words to live by cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-godfat... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @hpacoalition.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social

Adorno described, with the tools of 1962, the precise mechanism by which Facebook's News Feed algorithm would, 45 years later, discover that outrage travels six times faster than calm analysis open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

If sanity were to return, what are some ways we could lock in protections for basic rights that we are watching be destroyed in real time now? Is there a vax for MAGA? Can we make one? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-a...

Future historians will shake their heads in disbelief and puzzlement as they try to parse what happened in the 21st Century. Maybe a sun cycle? That it brought us Donald Trump, tho, was incredibly bad luck. It was a stress test for democracy. www.patreon.com/posts/godfat...

In a confrontation between the US and Iran, one needs to ask, who’s better equipped to live in the 12th century if it comes to that? medium.com/@cooldesign/...

It is not enough to protest. The question is whether we can restructure human societies to meet the planet’s standards rather than expecting the planet to adjust. substack.com/home/post/p-... @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

Some people get to play out their childhood traumas in larger theaters open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

In the final analysis, what do the price of oil, the deployment of the army, and the perils and promise of A.I. all have in common? open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

After Spain refused US military use of its bases, the Don promised to “cut off all trade with Spain.” 1. Spain would be violating laws if its bases were used without a UN resolution; 2. Cutting trade with Spain would violate GATT Articles I and II; 3. It would end with EU cutting all trade with US

Operation Epstein Fury will be a bad memory someday but in the meantime, Nuremberg-like trials will populate Spandau-like prisons peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/drai...

Assuming POTUS does not invoke war powers to suspend the midterms, what secrets might Congress find in the swamps? cooldesign.substack.com/p/draining-t...

I don't often agree with MAGA but they are right: if you get lost while hiking, you should retrace to find the trail. It’s the same for climate change or the Iran nuclear deal peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-n...

We evolved with remarkable capacities, but also with susceptibilities—tribalism, emotion‑driven reasoning, hero‑worship. A 32-count felon with a history of grift, bankruptcy, lechery, and money laundering can exploit those susceptibilities very effectively. www.patreon.com/posts/151749...

This *year* the world will heat four times faster than in the entire century between 1750 and 1850. By 2030, it could be at 5X. The extreme fires, floods, “snownadoes“ and “firenadoes“ draw our attention, but yo ain’t seen nuttin yet. cooldesign.substack.com/p/my-not-ver... @herbsimmens.bsky.social

This week the Zuck took the stand to defend the way Metagoogleverse cleverly mints centabillionaires by monetizing Gen Z suicides. His defense? Tobaccospeak. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/canc... Like and subscribe.

Widespread disinformation on social media and the distrust of more reputable sources share common roots with the cancel culture of the 1980s and 90s. Perhaps there is something we can learn from that comparison. cooldesign.medium.com/canceling-th...

It might be said that Gen Z is the most socially aware and digitally inclined generation. It could also be said that they are the most easily manipulated by the new media open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Social media, with A.I. jet fuel, propagates disinformation at light speed, heedless of repercussions or restraint. Some have learned to surf while others only stand on waves. And others, writers like myself, only stand and wave peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/loot...

From politics to pizza toppings, social media propagates disinformation at light speed, knowing neither borders nor restraint. But hey, it's not like social media platforms have any responsibility to ensure accuracy. That would be censorship, and we can't have that! open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Weekly climate chat now live links climate changes during 2 world wars and Great Depression, song other events to human activity—by Francisco Estrada and Leon Simons www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Xp... @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/seaw... @nickbreeze.genn.cc @hughhunt.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @hpacoalition.bsky.social @karenmessier.bsky.social @operaatioarktis.bsky.social @climaterealityproject.org @facingfuturetv.bsky.social @revkin.bsky.social @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social

Flying to Milan? Seaweed might already be fueling your flight. As it ramps up, production of sustainable avgas can cascade from food, pharma, and climate mitigation (biochar) while it cools the ocean & brings back whales. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/seaw...

Sustainable Aviation Fuel from, say, seaweed or bamboo, must top 26 million tons by 2050 to keep us all flying or give aircraft carriers meaning. China is doubling production annually. If Doolittle were alive today, he might well be working on the SAF problem cooldesign.substack.com/p/seaweed-bi...

CalFire has been pioneering the use of mobile biochar kilns to mitigate fire risk for the coming season—not only treating the disease, but going after the cause peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/02/livi...

As January winds down, my 8-week foray into A.I.-assisted Batman comic books parodying the Trumpian Broligarchy comes to a close. It was no sillier than Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, but at this point, reality is playing catch-up. What happens next? peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/verd...

Post the inevitable T.A.C.O. Greenland withdrawal, Denmark and Sweden can buy back their revalued bonds and laugh all the way to the bank. www.patreon.com/posts/elon-m...

This concludes my Jack Smith Batman parody. Just in time for the real Jack Smith to testify before Congressional Oversight this Thursday. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

In the penultimate episode of our superhero Jack Smith comic book, we go after the mass social media manipulation engineered by our broligarch overlords peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Your right hemisphere provides grasp of wholes, spatial patterns & non‑verbal experience. The left side gives you precise language, rule‑based analysis, planning, & refining & communicating ideas. Trump’s stroke in early 2025 was on the left side of his brain www.patreon.com/posts/148289...

Was the January 6 riot caused by one or more persons, or was it an algorithm? How do you put an algorithm on trial? Jack Smith would like to know. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-trial-...

There is an antidote to Steven Miller's Flexible Realism. It is called the Rule of Law. This week in The Great Change peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2026/01/ridd...

How is a 1915 silent movie like the United States today? I explore that this week on Patreon

Sending this love letter to Silicon Valley. You bought us the best government money can buy. How could we not be grateful? cooldesign.medium.com/riddler-and-...

If you calculate the climate cost of developing the Venezuelan oil reserve, any notion of regime change is literally a suicide mission. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Apologies for the tease but I’ll have another installment of my Batman parody coming out tomorrow…