Darren Rumbold, Ph.D.
@drumbold.bsky.social
Emeritus professor and author
www.darrenrumbold.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darren-Rumbold?ev=hdr_xprf
www.darrenrumbold.com
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darren-Rumbold?ev=hdr_xprf
Just finished my second novel in the climate science fiction series ‘Phoenix Treks’ to be released on February 13, 2026. If interested in a free advanced review copy: see: darrenrumbold.com/arc-signup/. While you're on the website, check out my perspectives on climate change and geoengineering.
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Just finished my second novel in the climate science fiction series ‘Phoenix Treks’ to be released on February 13, 2026. If interested in a free advanced review copy: see: darrenrumbold.com/arc-signup/. While you're on the website, check out my perspectives on climate change and geoengineering.
We can't let this narcissistic want-to-be dictator get a Nobel Prize - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
No Nobel Peace Prize for Trump!
Only four U.S. presidents have ever received the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Barack Obama (2009). And all of them received the prize f...
sign.moveon.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We can't let this narcissistic want-to-be dictator get a Nobel Prize - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
Please sign the petition. I was fortunate enough to spend a good part of my career conducting research in the Everglades, and they’re destroying it as well as destroying people’s lives.!!
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
July 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Please sign the petition. I was fortunate enough to spend a good part of my career conducting research in the Everglades, and they’re destroying it as well as destroying people’s lives.!!
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
www.everglades.org/no-alligator...
Everyone should watch this limited series of an entire country closing due to Climate Change.
Climate Change including ocean acidification will be devastating to ecosystems but it’s how humans react that make it an existential threat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Climate Change including ocean acidification will be devastating to ecosystems but it’s how humans react that make it an existential threat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours | John Harris
The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Everyone should watch this limited series of an entire country closing due to Climate Change.
Climate Change including ocean acidification will be devastating to ecosystems but it’s how humans react that make it an existential threat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Climate Change including ocean acidification will be devastating to ecosystems but it’s how humans react that make it an existential threat. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The 2025 UN Ocean Conference opens today. While pre-meeting recommendations recognized ocean acidification, they should have emphasized this existential threat more, esp. when OA effects are compounded by heat waves and low oxygen. darrenrumbold.com/blog/
insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...
Global Scientific Community Urges World Leaders to Transform Research Into Policy Ahead of UN Ocean Conference - Inside Climate News
At the One Ocean Science Congress, scientists offer ten key recommendations for protecting and restoring marine ecosystems suffering from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
insideclimatenews.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The 2025 UN Ocean Conference opens today. While pre-meeting recommendations recognized ocean acidification, they should have emphasized this existential threat more, esp. when OA effects are compounded by heat waves and low oxygen. darrenrumbold.com/blog/
insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/0506202...
We can't let this continue!
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We can't let this continue!
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
There is a debate regarding the messaging on climate change, with some maintaining that fear appeals attempting to motivate by emphasizing the potential danger backfire. HOW CAN WE NOT FEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
For more see: darrenrumbold.com/my-perspecti...
www.ehn.org/epa-moves-to...
For more see: darrenrumbold.com/my-perspecti...
www.ehn.org/epa-moves-to...
EPA moves to erase power plant emissions rules, claiming climate impact is too small
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to strike down greenhouse gas limits for fossil-fueled power plants, arguing their emissions aren’t a significant threat despite overwhelming scie...
www.ehn.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There is a debate regarding the messaging on climate change, with some maintaining that fear appeals attempting to motivate by emphasizing the potential danger backfire. HOW CAN WE NOT FEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW?
For more see: darrenrumbold.com/my-perspecti...
www.ehn.org/epa-moves-to...
For more see: darrenrumbold.com/my-perspecti...
www.ehn.org/epa-moves-to...
My debut Cli-Fi novel came out yesterday. I’m familiar with debate regarding the messaging with some maintaining fear appeals backfire--- that may have held water before Nov 2024. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z6Y5LH or books2read.com/u/4jxW5Y or www.darrenrumbold.com
#climatechange #postapocolyptic
#climatechange #postapocolyptic
Trek Across a Changed Land: Book One of the Phoenix Treks
Trek Across a Changed Land: Book One of the Phoenix Treks - Kindle edition by Rumbold, Darren. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Trek Across a Changed Land: Book One of the Phoenix Treks.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
My debut Cli-Fi novel came out yesterday. I’m familiar with debate regarding the messaging with some maintaining fear appeals backfire--- that may have held water before Nov 2024. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1Z6Y5LH or books2read.com/u/4jxW5Y or www.darrenrumbold.com
#climatechange #postapocolyptic
#climatechange #postapocolyptic
Reposted by Darren Rumbold, Ph.D.
"Climate change is not a future problem. It is a NOW problem [...] When we defund weather, climate, & environmental research, we blindfold ourselves in the middle of a burning house."
#EarthDay op-ed from @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social & @michaelemann.bsky.social
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#EarthDay op-ed from @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social & @michaelemann.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
April 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Climate change is not a future problem. It is a NOW problem [...] When we defund weather, climate, & environmental research, we blindfold ourselves in the middle of a burning house."
#EarthDay op-ed from @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social & @michaelemann.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
#EarthDay op-ed from @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social & @michaelemann.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/philadel...
Happy and Sustainable Earth Day 2025
Climate change is like a slow-moving, runaway train we thought we could stay in front of or stop, but we haven’t noticed it has crested a hill and is now accelerating faster and faster toward the inevitable.
#earthday #climatechange
Climate change is like a slow-moving, runaway train we thought we could stay in front of or stop, but we haven’t noticed it has crested a hill and is now accelerating faster and faster toward the inevitable.
#earthday #climatechange
April 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Happy and Sustainable Earth Day 2025
Climate change is like a slow-moving, runaway train we thought we could stay in front of or stop, but we haven’t noticed it has crested a hill and is now accelerating faster and faster toward the inevitable.
#earthday #climatechange
Climate change is like a slow-moving, runaway train we thought we could stay in front of or stop, but we haven’t noticed it has crested a hill and is now accelerating faster and faster toward the inevitable.
#earthday #climatechange
Even in Naples, Florida —widely recognized as a wealthy city. Rolls-Royces we’re driving past.
Protestors gather in Naples, Fort Myers against Trump administration, policies
Part of the nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 movement, the Southwest Florida protests drew a couple thousand people in Naples and south Fort Myers.
www.naplesnews.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Even in Naples, Florida —widely recognized as a wealthy city. Rolls-Royces we’re driving past.
Reposted by Darren Rumbold, Ph.D.
An important perspective from conservative commentator, David Brooks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
April 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
An important perspective from conservative commentator, David Brooks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Around the first Earth Day---scientists warned “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution,” reported Life magazine in 1970. Laughable predictions by alarmists? We aren’t wearing gas masks now is because of the Clean Air Act!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Around the first Earth Day---scientists warned “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution,” reported Life magazine in 1970. Laughable predictions by alarmists? We aren’t wearing gas masks now is because of the Clean Air Act!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Darren Rumbold, Ph.D.
Trump is a climate change accelerationist. Essentially a puppet of big oil, he is working to burn our world.
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trump is a climate change accelerationist. Essentially a puppet of big oil, he is working to burn our world.
Reposted by Darren Rumbold, Ph.D.
wrote about that intelligence committee hearing today
obvi the signal fiasco dominated the convo but the exchange between Sen. King and intelligence director Gabbard also deserves attention. first time climate change was omitted from threat assessment in 11 years
thebulletin.org/2025/03/main...
obvi the signal fiasco dominated the convo but the exchange between Sen. King and intelligence director Gabbard also deserves attention. first time climate change was omitted from threat assessment in 11 years
thebulletin.org/2025/03/main...
Maine senator grills intelligence director Gabbard on omission of climate change from annual threat report
Gabbard implied that climate change was no longer considered a direct threat to US national security.
thebulletin.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
wrote about that intelligence committee hearing today
obvi the signal fiasco dominated the convo but the exchange between Sen. King and intelligence director Gabbard also deserves attention. first time climate change was omitted from threat assessment in 11 years
thebulletin.org/2025/03/main...
obvi the signal fiasco dominated the convo but the exchange between Sen. King and intelligence director Gabbard also deserves attention. first time climate change was omitted from threat assessment in 11 years
thebulletin.org/2025/03/main...
My debut Cli-Fi novel will be released on April 22 in time for Earth Day 2025. It’s a cautionary tale of climate change as a threat multiplier based on plausible science. To learn more, see: www.darrenrumbold.com. Please consider preordering—we may all be busy protesting on Earth Day.
March 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My debut Cli-Fi novel will be released on April 22 in time for Earth Day 2025. It’s a cautionary tale of climate change as a threat multiplier based on plausible science. To learn more, see: www.darrenrumbold.com. Please consider preordering—we may all be busy protesting on Earth Day.