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Apr 14
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An Intro to Advanced Climate Change – Two Years in the Making

By 1 degree C, 1.5 degrees C, Abrupt, Abrupt changes, adaptation, Advanced climate change, aerosols, Agriculture, Beaches coastal, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Drought, Earth systems, emergency cooling, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, For Beginners, forest health, frozen ground, futher warming, geoengineering, Gigs and Presentations, Global Warming psychology, Healthy Climate, ice sheet, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, ireversible, learning tool, Legacy Policy, Messaging, modeling, Myths, Negative emissions, Oceans, permafrost melt, pine beetle, point of no return, politics, Presentations, Psycho, Scenarios, scientific justification, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, Temperature, The Unexpected, tipping, untenable
by Bruce Melton PEClimate Change Now InitiativeOctober 2023(Link to the learning tool) This slide deck is a learning tool with 18,000 words in 52 slides with 70 beautiful images. The…
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May 29
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Brief: Tipping Initiation, Restoration Reverses Some Sea Level Rise, Beach Disintegration, Limit to Sea Level Rise Adaptation

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, adaptation limits, barrier island disintegraion, beach disintegration, beach erosion, Beach Report, Beaches coastal, climate restoration, collapse, Earth system, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, Limit to Sea Level Rise Adaptation, Restoration Reverses Some Sea Level Rise, reversing sea level rise, Sea Level Rise, tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
A brief discussion with summarized academic findings. Climate Tipping, Earth Systems Collapse Initiation Greenland and Antarctica have seen their tipping activated. This does not mean they have passed the point…
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Nov 07
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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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Sep 22
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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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Aug 05
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Giant Sequoias: A Tipping Point

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, climate restoration, climate warming, Drought, Earth systems, Fire, fire suppression, forest health, Forest Mortality, high-severity fire, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Legacy Policy, megafire, pine beetle, prescribed burns, regeneration, sequoias, Shifting Ecology, The Unexpected, tipping, wildfire
Giant Sequoias: A Climate Tipping Pointby Bruce Melton PE Follow MeltOn in the field on Instagram See abridged version on Truthout.org: August 9, 2022. Summary: Up to 13,000 mature sequoias…
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Jan 08
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Climate Change – Where do we move?

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, adaptation, alternatives, climate, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, collapse, dystopian, EArh systems, Earth systems, economic collapse, Emissions flip, existential, Extreme Weather, feedback, migration, Negative emissions, scenario bias, Scenarios, sequestration, short-term, The Unexpected, thresholds, tipping, What we can do, Where do we move
“Where do we move?” Retirees want to know where  they can escape climate change impacts. Those seeking to give their kids the best life they can want to know. The…
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Dec 01
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The Texice Disaster, Stories of climate change survival, our current emergency, and new solutions to this existential crisis.

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Austin, bomb cyclone, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Central Texas, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate change impacts, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, communications, Earth systems, Emissions Reductions, Extreme Weather, global warming, ice bomb, ice storm, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, net zero, polar vortex, sequestration, Solutions, suddeen stratospheric warming, survival stories, teleconnection, Texas grid, The Unexpected, warming impacts, winter storm uri, Winter Weather, winter weather disaster
Summary: The Texas winter storm disaster was caused by both climate change and poor planning. Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme, and energy generation planning in Texas did…
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Feb 06
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Microsoft on climate: The game changer

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, historic emissions, in-depth and Popular Press, Microsoft climate policy, Negative emissions, net zero 2030, past emissions, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, short-term, Temperature, The Unexpected, What we can do
Dune erosion from sea level rise on South Padre Island wilderness beach, 13 miles beyond the end of pavement. The similarly sloped surf facing dune angles reveal sandbergs calving into…
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Oct 23
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The Latest on Forest and Ag Sequestration – Good, But Not Near Enough

By adaptation, Agriculture, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, forestation, forests, Negative emissions, reforestation, regenerative agriculture, sequestration, soils
Twenty authors from all across the world, led by Stephanie Roe at the University of Virginia in a review article in Nature Climate Change titled, Contribution of the land sector…
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Oct 01
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IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere, The Important Bits

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, adaptation limit, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Sea Ice, Beaches coastal, Climate change impacts, Climate reports, coastal impacts, Glaciers, global warming, Greenland, ice sheet, ice sheet collapse, ice sheets, Impacts, IPCC, Methane, migration, modeling, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, sea ice, sea ice melt, Sea Level Rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, September 24, 2019The Ocean and Cryosphere (the icy part of our planet) in a Changing ClimateA Summary of Important Findings Overall of course,…
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Aug 18
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal: Science and Money Speak

By adaptation, air capture, carbon dioxide removal, Carbon Engineering, CDR, climate solutions, CO2 capture, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Exxonmobile, Global Thermostat, Healthy Climate, Klaus Lackner, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Occidental Chemicals, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy
Link to Arizona State University Video – https://youtu.be/4t1-ZijQnQo How, exactly, are we going to reverse climate change in time to save our soles from frying on the pavement? As a…
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May 27
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A Houston Hurricane w/ 20′ Surge: $863 Billion Over 50 Years – Rapid Intensification

By Accumulated Cyclone Energy, ACE, adaptation, Beaches coastal, climate heating, economic impacts, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Houston, Hurricanes, Ike Dike, rapid intensification, Sea Level Rise, storm surge
Texas A&M and the Army Corp of Engineers have completed their economic justification for the Ike Dike hurricane flood surge protection plan that is destined to fail because of sea…
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Mar 13
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Climate Science Compromise Feedback Loop and Unrecoverable Impacts

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Beaches coastal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, communications, compromise, consensus, Deniers and Delayers, feedback, global warming, Global Warming psychology, Healthy Climate, ice sheet, Impacts, irreversible, is global warming real, Legacy Policy, Media, Messaging, modeling, Policy, politics, Psycho, Public opinion, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, unrecoverable, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Why are climate change impacts so much worse than projected? What does it mean? Why don’t we do something? In a nutshell, science is conservative, it’s slow, and the great climate…
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Feb 02
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Climate Change 2018 Review: The Good and Bad, What Have We Learned?

By 2018 review, Abrupt changes, adaptation, Agriculture, Arctic, Atlas 14, California Fires, carbon dioxide removal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Policy, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, environmental rollbacks, Extreme Weather, Fire, flood, forest health, Forest Mortality, forests, Fracking, global warming, Healthy Climate, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, IPCC, IPCC 1.5 C Report, is global warming real, National Climate Assessment, Negative emissions, Permafrost, pine beetle, Policy, politics, Reports, Scenarios, Solutions, Trump, Uncategorized
by Bruce MeltonClimate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) The Woolsey Fire Evacuation, November 9, 2018, Malibu, California. Unprecedented catastrophes increase in extremeness nonlinearly with further warming. Photo by…
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Apr 18
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Global Environmental Sustainability and a Healthy Climate: Climate Policy 2.0

By adaptation, alternatives, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Change Counter Movement, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, communications, Deniers and Delayers, Emissions, Emissions Reductions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, fossil fuels, global warming policy, Global Warming psychology, global warming solutions, Healthy Climate, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Messaging, negative emisions, Negative emissions, Paris, Paris Climate Commitments, Paris Climate Conference, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy, What we can do
April 13, 2018: Recent ocotillo mortality from drought stress and flathead borer, Glen Springs Road, Big Bend National Park. Mortality is anywhere from triple to 10x normal and includes pines,…
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Sep 04
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When Does Climate Catastrophism Become Climate Reality?

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, catastrophe, Catastrophism, certainty, climate, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, economics, Extreme Weather, flood, Hurricane Harvey, modeling, Policy, Professional judegement, reality, resource abandonment
As flood frequency increases, when will the time come where recovery is no longer worth the effort? Climate catastrophism, or as it will be called soon, reality, is getting tougher…
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Jun 12
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Sea Level Rise: IPCC Averages, Extremes From Latest Publishing, and Ice Sheet Collapse

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Extreme Weather, Global Warming psychology, Greenland, Gulf Stream, ice sheet, ice sheets, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Negative emissions, Policy, Psycho, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, Strategy, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Sea level rise erosion, South Padre Island, about mile 20 up the four-wheel drive beach. This erosion is occurring during normal, non-storm tides when the sun and moon align to…
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Mar 08
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Warm Winter, Early Spring: Is Climate Change a Mixed Bag or are we Kidding Ourselves?

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Beaches coastal, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, CO2, Deniers and Delayers, Drought, economics, El Nino, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, forest health, Forest Mortality, Glaciers, Greenland, Gulf Stream, ice sheet, ice sheets, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, IPCC, modeling, Negative emissions, Oceans, pine beetle, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Winter Weather
President Trump it seems, has given us permission to backslide with our thinking about climate change. Until we have rule or law that tells us we must do something about…
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Sep 15
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An Easier Solution to Climate Change

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, aerosols, alternatives, Climate Policy, climate pollutants short-lived, Climate Reform, CO2, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, Extreme Weather, in-depth and Popular Press, Policy, Sea Level Rise, sequestration, Shifting Ecology, short-term, Strategy, Temperature, What we can do
The Thermometer Series: The first of six articles on the next steps in climate reform and why we need to advance current climate change strategy. The driver of our climate…
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