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Jan 07
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Climate Change Review 2025 – The Science of the Effects of Warming

By Abrupt changes, aerosol cooling, aerosols, Africa, albedo feedback, Amazon, Amazon record drought, Antar4ctic and Greenland ice sheets, Antarctic sea ice, Antarctica, Arctic tundra, At risk natural CO2 emissions, Australia’s black summer, Boreal forests, Carbon capture costs, carbon removal, CDR, Climate change review 2025, climate change science, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Compound drought, Drought, Earth systems, Earth systems collapses, Earth systems degradation, East Asian sulfur regulations, Eclipses, effects of warming, Emissions flip, engineered solutions, Epic article, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, feedback, Fire, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, frozen ground, geoengineering, geoengineering experiments, Gigs and Presentations, Global temperature jump 2023 and 2024, good news, Groundwater loss, Gulf Stream, Heat, Hydroclimate whiplash, Hydrologic cycle impacts, ice sheet, ice sheets, IMO, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, International Maritime Organization, IRS 45Q, Mauna Loa, Near-cryogenic carbon capture, Near-future warming, ocean acidification, ocean processes, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, podcast, Podcasts, point of no return, rainfall, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, Sequestration flip, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, Svalbard, Temperature, The Unexpected, tipping, tropical forests, Vegetation Response, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Western US Forests, Wildfire ignitions
Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. Climate Change Review 2025 – The Science of the Effects of Warming by Bruce Melton PE,…
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Dec 05
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Telltale for IMO Ship’s Fuel Regulations Causing Significant Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

By aerosols, Climate Policy, climate solutions, engineered solutions, Engineering, geoengineering, IMO, International Maritime Organization, Nitrogen oxide N20
Telltale for the New IMO Ship’s Fuel Regulations Causing Significant Warming Since 2023: Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxide Emissions There has been a 67% reduction in ships’ cloud-altering abilities after the International Maritime…
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Nov 26
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What’s next for carbon removal? Undue Widespread Pessimism

By carbon dioxide removal, carbon removal, CDR, Climate Policy, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, DAC, direct air capture, engineered solutions, IMO, International Maritime Organization, IRS 45Q, irs section 45Q, IRS45Q, Myths, Negative emissions, Solutions
Stratos, 500 million ton per year air capture unit by Occidental Petroleum in the Permian Basin, Texas What’s next for carbon removal? Undue false and widespread pessimism in the popular…
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Nov 04
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Filming Logs 2026 – From Niagara Falls through New England and down to the Banks

By Beach Report, Beaches coastal, Drought, Earth systems, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, ocean processes, Oceans, pine beetle, rainfall, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, Temperature, Vegetation Response
Filming Logs 2026 – From Niagara Falls through New England and down to the Banks Forest mortality in the Northeast is beginning to be obvious to normal citizens. This means…
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Oct 02
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An Important Tipping Point for Our Total Earth System Has Passed – Natural Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2 Has Begun To Decline

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Amazon, climate restoration, CO2 Mauna Loa, Earth system, Earth systems, Earth systems flip, Emissions, Emissions flip, Emissions Scenarios, evolutionary boundaries, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, natural systems emissions, Shifting Ecology, tipping
An Important Tipping Point for Our Total Earth System Has Passed – Natural Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2 Has Begun To Decline Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide is in decline: climate…
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Aug 24
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Antarctic Tipping Warning, Mega Drying – Now greatest sea level rise contributor, Total Earth systems sequestration flips into decline

By Abrupt changes, AMOC, Antarctic bottom water, Antarctic overturning circulation, Antarctic sea ice, Antarctic tipping, Atlantic meredional overturning circulation, climate emergency, collapses, Drought, Earth systems, Earth systems collapses, Emissions flip, feedback, Forest, forest health, Forest Mortality, global drying, Gulf Stream, ice sheets, irreversible, mega drought, ocean processes, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, point of no return, rainfall, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Evidence continues to mount that Earth systems processes have passed tipping points or their tipping is foregone without rapid restoration of our climate to within the evolutionary boundary conditions of…
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Aug 08
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Grand Canyon National Park North Rim Infrastructure Destroyed – Massively Irresponsible Fire Control and Passive Climate Denial

By adaptation, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Dragon Bravo Fire, Fire, forest health, Grand Canyuon National Park, Impacts, North Rim Burned, prescirbed burn, prescribed burn failure, The Unexpected, wildfire
Grand Canyon National Park North Rim Infrastructure Destroyed – Massively Irresponsible Fire Control and Passive Climate Denial Nary a word about climate change in reporting of the fire that destroyed…
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Jul 23
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It’s Flooding Down in Texas

By Atlas 14, climate change, climate emergency, Cow Creek, disasters, Earth systems, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, extreme events, Extreme Weather, FEMA, flash flood, flood, flood plain, Flooding, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, increasing, Kerrville, National Weather Service, NOAA, Planning, rainfall, Texas, tipping, understated
It’s Flooding Down in Texas Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe…
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Jul 03
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Sea Level Rise Projection Planning Based on Statistical Certainty and Robustness (Never Mentioning Risk)

By ice sheets, low-biased, Planning, projections, risk, robustness, Sea Level Rise, statistical certainty, understated, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Lipscomb 2025 – Sea level rise projection planning based on statistical certainty and robust science (never mentioning risk)… Recent Antarctic-based sea level rise findings have consistently lowered future SLR amounts…
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Jul 02
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Sudden Jump in Academic Findings Indicating the Crossing of Numerous New Earth System Tipping Points

By Abrupt changes, Antarctic sea ice, climate change effects, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Earth systems collapse, ecological collapse, ecological degradation, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, forest health, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, global warming effects, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, modeling, ocean processes, Oceans, sea ice, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, The Unexpected, tipping, tipping points, Vegetation Response
Findings since mid-May reveal new and more serious insight into tipping threshold crossing of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, Antarctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and tropical and boreal forests.…
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May 04
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Massive National Forests Logging Threat – Bad Decisions and Bad Math of this Current Illegitimate Administration

By Abrupt changes, beetles, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Democracy Emergency, Deniers and Delayers, Drought, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, forest regeneration, Increased logging
Grand Teton National Park bark beetle mortality Massive National Forests Logging Threat – Bad Decisions and Bad Math of this Current Illegitimate Administration This illegitimate administration has vowed to increase…
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Apr 19
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The Dumbest Climate Plan in History

By Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate solutions, Democracy Emergency, Deniers and Delayers, economics, hostile corporate takeover, in-depth and Popular Press, politics, rollback of regulations, summary, Trump, What we can do
The Dumbest Climate Plan in History Bruce Melton PEFirst published at the rag Blog on April 18, 2025 Updated here on April 19, 2025 on ClimateDiscovery.org to add more illegitimate…
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Mar 10
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The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years

By Abrupt changes, aerosol cooling, aerosols, carbon dioxide removal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, climate emergency, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, feedback emissions, geoengineering, global warming, International Maritime Organization, jump, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, point of no return, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, spike, Temperature, Temperature jump, temperature spike, The Unexpected, tipping, warming rate, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Image: Yale Climate Connections The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years A review of Hansen 2025. In…
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Feb 04
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North Rim Grand Canyon Pyrocumulonimbus Danger

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, Black summer, climate emergency, climate restoration, Extreme Weather, extreme wildfire, Fire, Impacts, Ozone Hole, pyroCb, pyrocumulonimbus, raining fire, The Unexpected, wildfire, wildfire thunderstorm
Pyrocumulonimbus Threats from Climate Change-Caused Wildfire They rain lightning, not rainStarting fires 22 miles awayTheir fire tornados are far more extreme than fire devilsWith as much energy as a moderately-sized…
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Nov 26
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Climate Change Across America Filming Report, September/October 2024: East Coast and New England

By Abrupt changes, Acadia, Adirondacks, Appalachia, beach erosion, Beach Report, Beaches coastal, Cape Cod, climate emergency, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, filming report, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, ghost forests, Great Smoky Mountains, greening, Hatrteras, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, national park, Outer Banks, Photo tour, point of no return, Reports, salt water intrusion, salt water poisoning, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, The Unexpected, tipping, Vegetation Response
Climate Change Across America Filming Report, September/October 2024: East Coast and New England – A Summary Bruce Melton This season we witnessed 13,000 miles of climate change across the Eastern…
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