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In November 2015, McPherson was interviewed on National Geographic Explorer with host Bill Nye. Andrew Revkin in The New York Times said McPherson was an “apocalyptic ecologist … who has built something of an ‘End of Days’ following.” Michael Tobis, a climate scientist from the University of Wisconsin, said McPherson “is not the opposite of a denialist. He is a denialist, albeit of a different stripe.” David Wallace-Wells writing in The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) called McPherson a “climate Gnostic” and on the “fringe,” while climate scientist Michael E. Mann said he was a “doomist cult hero.”

McPherson’s career as a professor began at Texas A&M University, where he taught for one academic year. He taught for twenty years at the University of Arizona, and also taught at the University of California-Berkeley, Southern Utah University, and Grinnell College. McPherson has served as an expert witness for legal cases involving land management and wildfires. He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed publications. In May 2009, McPherson began living on an off-grid homestead in southern New Mexico. He then moved to Belize in July 2016. He moved to New York in October of 2018.