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Apr 19
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The Dumbest Climate Plan in History

By Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate solutions, Democracy Emergency, Deniers and Delayers, economics, hostile corporate takeover, in-depth and Popular Press, politics, rollback of regulations, summary, Trump, What we can do
The Dumbest Climate Plan in History Bruce Melton PEFirst published at the rag Blog on April 18, 2025 Updated here on April 19, 2025 on ClimateDiscovery.org to add more illegitimate…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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