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Jun 04
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Ungineering, not geoengineering

By Agriculture, Arctic Sea Ice, climate emergency, climate pollution, climate restoration, Earth systems, Emissions, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, Forest Mortality, forestry, geoengineering, Gigs and Presentations, heat pollution, ice sheet, IMO, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, International Maritime Organization, marine cloud brightening, Negative emissions, ocean processes, permafrost melt, pine beetle, Podcasts, point of no return, pollution treatment, Presentations, solar radiation management, Solutions, Strategy, stratospheric aerosol injection, The Unexpected, tipping
Ungineering, not geoengineering by Bruce Melton, first published at the GRag Blog on May 27, 2026 Podcast from Rag Radio, 97.1 FM, Coop Austin (Cover image: Ship trails in the…
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Jun 04
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Geoengineering: We have been for centuries

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, Agriculture, Arctic Sea Ice, Bering dam, climate emergency, climate pollution, climate restoration, Earth systems, Emissions, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, forest health, Forest Mortality, forestry, geoengineering, Gigs and Presentations, heat pollution, ice curtain, ice sheets, IMO, Impacts, International Maritime Organization, marine cloud brightening, ocean processes, permafrost melt, point of no return, pollution treatment, powerpoint presentation, refreeze, regenerative, sea ice, solar radiation management, Solutions, stardust, stratospheric aerosol injection, tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whale poop
Geoengineering: We have been for centuries Powerpoint Presentation, June 2, 2026 This presentation covers the concepts of geoengineering and pollution treatment that our advanced culture has been practicing for centuries…
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May 11
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Blame it on China and it Will Magically Disappear – Ignoring Climate Warming and Relaxing Air Pollution Standards

By aerosols, Air pollution, Big Bend National Park, BRAVO study, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate warming, Deniers and Delayers, Earth systems, Emissions, Impacts, Legacy Policy, ozone, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, sulfur, Temperature, tipping
This is climate pollution. One cannot see the global warming gases, but what we can see are the global cooling particulates created by burning naturally occurring sulfur in fossil fuels.…
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May 04
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Drought Now Driven by Heat, Not Lack of Precipitation

By Abrupt changes, albedo, climate change drought, climate restoration, Drought, Emissions flip, evapoaration, evapotranspiration, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Heat, Heat drought, Impacts, Mesa Verde, rainfall, regeneration, Temperature, tipping
Heat Now Drives Western Drought, Not Precipitation… Forget about future drought extremes on a warmer planet. Droughts today have exceeded the evolutionary boundaries of most if not almost all of…
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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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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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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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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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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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Mar 07
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Chama Radio, New Mexico – Podcast

By carbon dioxide removal, CDR, climate change effects, Climate impacts, climate restoration, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions flip, evolutionary boundaries, Fire, fire New Mexico, forest health, Forest Mortality, Gigs and Presentations, Impacts, podcast, Podcasts, sequoias
June 11, 2022 – Mark Glover interview Bruce Melton on Chama Valley Radio, The Eagle, KXJR, New Mexico. Watch, listen or download the interview here (Fast forward about five minutes…
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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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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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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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