Eliot Jacobson—climate science communicator and “know-it-all doomer”—joins me to discuss his eclectic background, why climate change data in 2023 was off the charts, and what it means to be a doomer at his stage of climate and ecological breakdown.

2023 was truly unprecedented, with record-breaking temperatures recorded across the globe. We know the planet we are living on has changed; this new world we are in is unrecognizable. It becomes harder to ignore and forget how fucked we are when you’re choking on putrid smoke for weeks on end; when the asphalt buckles under the stress of heat domes that last weeks; when basic food staples become unaffordable at the supermarket; when reports about “wet bulb temperatures” become common in the headlines; when millions of carcasses of sea life wash ashore on the beaches around the world; when climate scientists say things like “[t]his month was—in my professional opinion as a climate scientist—absolutely gobsmackingly bananas.”