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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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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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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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Feb 27
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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 AlaskaI am continually amazed that scientists consistently find that ecological collapses have been activated, but do not connect that existing warming today, that activated these…
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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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Apr 02
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Google Identifies Major Climate Denier Organizations

By alec, american conservative union, American Enterprise Institute, americans for tax reform, anti-climate science, antiscience, cato institute, Climate Change Counter Movement, Climate Culture, climate deniers, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, communications, competitive enterprise institute, Deniers and Delayers, global warming denial, heritage foundation, mercatus center, Messaging, Myths, Policy, politics, Psycho, Solutions, state policy network
(Editors Note: April Fools! And Thank You Extinction Rebellion! Though you nailed me and I had to come back to this post and add this prebuttal, good job. We can…
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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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Dec 09
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The Climate Emergency Has Already Begun as Earth Systems Collapse

By 1.5 C, 2 C, Abrupt changes, carbon capture, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, climate threshold, climate tipping point, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, collapse, dangerous warming, Earth systems, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Negative emissions, Solutions
Demonstrators from several environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement demand broad action at a youth-led climate strike near City Hall on December 6, 2019, in New York City.…
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Aug 25
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Scientific American on Understating Climate Science – Very Important

By climate change, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solutions, communications, Deniers and Delayers, Fairness Bias, global warming, Global Warming psychology, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Oreskes, Policy, politics, Psycho, reticence, Scientific American, understating climate science
Four giant sequoias killed or mostly killed by climate change-caused wildfire. Sequoia National Monument, Black Mountain Grove, Pier Fire 2017. Sequoias don’t normal die in wildfire. When our climate has…
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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 07
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Climate Change 2018 Review: The Good and Bad, What Have We Learned? Part 2 – The Good!

By alternatives, batteries, Carbon Fee and Dividend, CF&D, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, electric vehicles, fossil fuels, Fracking, Global Warming psychology, Green New Deal, in-depth and Popular Press, IRS 45Q Tax incentives, Negative emissions, photovoltaic, Policy, Review 2018, solar, Solutions, Strategy, wind, wind energy
by Bruce MeltonClimate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) So much happened in our climate change world in 2018 that we are printing this article in two parts: The…
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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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Dec 20
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Nearly Two Billion Dollars Spent on Anti-Climate Science Legislative Lobbying 2000 to 2016

By anti-climates science, bills, Climate Policy, Congress, Deniers and Delayers, fossil fuel industrial complex, fossil fuel organizations, fossil fuels, legislation, lobbying, Policy, politics, The Unexpected
Nearly Two Billion Dollars spent on Anti-Climate Science Legislative Lobbying 2000 to 2016 Robert Brulle at Drexel University reminds us of what makes Congress work, “public opinion is only one,…
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