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Abrupt changes

Instagram Filming Logs: Beetles, Fire and Regeneration Failure, September 2023 – Central Rockies

By Abrupt changes, bark beetle, climate change, Colorado, effects, Filming logs, forest collapse, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Photo tour, pine beetle, Shifting Ecology, tipping, Vegetation Response

Bruce Melton, ClimateDiscovery.org(Instagram logs with photos and video are below the summary.) Across the Central Rockies from the San Juans to Rocky Mountain National Park, beetle attacks are growing again….

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Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions

By Abrupt changes, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic warming, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate restoration, climate solutions, collapse, Earth systems, Extreme Weather, feedback, feedbacks, Impacts, irreversible, risk, Scenarios, Solutions, tipping, uncontrollable

Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions Feedback s are best understood by example. The cloud machine feedback in a forest is a good one to start with. Remove…

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A review of World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022 in Bioscience, October 26, 2022

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, carbon dioxide removal, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Drought, extremes, feedbacks, fires, floods, Hurricanes, severe weather

A review of Ripple et al., World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, Bioscience, October 26, 2022. The report opens, “We are now at “code red” on planet Earth….

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Sequoias Burn: Ongoing Collapse of the Unburnable

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Emissions flip, extreme fire, Filming trip, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Gigs and Presentations, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, national park, Sequoia, sequoia burn, The Unexpected, threshold, tipping point, unprecedented fire, wildfire

Sequoias Burn: Ongoing Collapse of the Unburnable By Bruce Melton PE, Director of the Climate Change Now Initiative 2005, ClimateDiscovery.org(Co-published on the Rag Blog for an interview on Rag Radio…

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Dragon’s Mouths, Permafrost and Earth Systems Collapse Blindness

By Abrupt changes, Alaska, Arctic, Arctic warming, climate, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate restoration, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, frozen ground, Impacts, irreversible, Permafrost, permafrost collapse, permafrost melt, point of no return, Scenarios, tipping

Permafrost thaw, Glenn Highway, Southeastern Alaska I am continually amazed that scientists consistently find that ecological collapses have been activated, but do not connect that existing warming today, that activated…

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Permafrost Collapse Ongoing – Completes With No Further Warming

By Abrupt changes, Arctic, Arctic warming, carbon dioxide removal, climate emergency, climate restoration, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, frozen ground, irreversible, Negative emissions, net zero, Permafrost, permafrost collpase, permafrost melt, permafrost thaw

Background: Permafrost Collapse is Underway With Emission Plausibly Rivaling All of Global Transportation… Across the Northern Hemisphere, permafrost melt emitted 630 TgC, or 2.3 gigatons (Gt) CO2 (not including methane)…

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