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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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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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Sep 12
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When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down?

By Abrupt changes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, Earth systems, Emissions, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, media myths, Myths, The Unexpected, warming in the pipeline
Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party descending the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 expedition. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution,…
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Sep 08
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When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? A common misunderstanding about our current climate knowledge.

By Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, climate solutions, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, evolutionary boundaries, Introduction to advanced climate change, Jeff Masters, Messaging, Myths, renewable energy, Solutions, The Unexpected, tipping points, understating biases
Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party descending the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 expedition. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution,…
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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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Feb 01
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The Last Year Below 1.5 C – Remarkable Warming Acceleration In 2023 Surpasses the Dangerous Warming Threshold

By 1.5 C, Abrupt, Abrupt changes, aerosols, celsius, climate change, climate emergency, climate restoration, climate solutions, dangerous, degrees, feedback, in-depth and Popular Press, jump, limit, point of no return, remarkable, Target, Temperature, The Unexpected, tipping, Truthout.org, unnexpected, warming
Image: The “Flats” on the back side of Padre Island in South Texas. Just inches above sea level, these flats are mostly gone today from sea level rise. The Global…
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Jul 22
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It’s not the heat, it’s the warming beyond evolutionary boundaries.

By 100-degree days, Abrupt changes, Austin, climate change, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, cumulative impacts, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, extremes, feedback, Flooding, Heat, heat duration, heat wave, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, point of no return, record temperature, Scenarios, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Texas, The Unexpected, thresholds, tipping, warming, Winter Weather
Bruce MeltonClimateDiscovery.orgFirst published as an abridge version on The Rag Blog, as a part of an-in-depth radio interview on the Rag Radio syndicated on Pacifica on 7/21/2023 There’s a quote…
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Feb 19
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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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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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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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Mar 05
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Like an Avalanche – Extremes Beyond our Earth’s Systems’ Evolution

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, climate, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Reform, climate restoration, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, collapse, Earth systems, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, Impacts, natural variation, Negative emissions, Scenarios, threshold, tipping
Onion Creek Flood 2013, US 183 bridge, Austin, Texas – new record flood depth.Climate change has returned to the news in full force with the Council of Parties meeting COP26,…
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