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Jan 07
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Climate Change Review 2025 – The Science of the Effects of Warming

By Abrupt changes, aerosol cooling, aerosols, Africa, albedo feedback, Amazon, Amazon record drought, Antar4ctic and Greenland ice sheets, Antarctic sea ice, Antarctica, Arctic tundra, At risk natural CO2 emissions, Australia’s black summer, Boreal forests, Carbon capture costs, carbon removal, CDR, Climate change review 2025, climate change science, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Compound drought, Drought, Earth systems, Earth systems collapses, Earth systems degradation, East Asian sulfur regulations, Eclipses, effects of warming, Emissions flip, engineered solutions, Epic article, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, feedback, Fire, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, frozen ground, geoengineering, geoengineering experiments, Gigs and Presentations, Global temperature jump 2023 and 2024, good news, Groundwater loss, Gulf Stream, Heat, Hydroclimate whiplash, Hydrologic cycle impacts, ice sheet, ice sheets, IMO, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, International Maritime Organization, IRS 45Q, Mauna Loa, Near-cryogenic carbon capture, Near-future warming, ocean acidification, ocean processes, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, podcast, Podcasts, point of no return, rainfall, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, Sequestration flip, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, Svalbard, Temperature, The Unexpected, tipping, tropical forests, Vegetation Response, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Western US Forests, Wildfire ignitions
Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. Climate Change Review 2025 – The Science of the Effects of Warming by Bruce Melton PE,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Jul 16
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How much CO2 reduction, how much does it cost, and what’s it worth? A Detailed Primer

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, atmopsheric removal, Carbon Engineering, climate, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 reduction, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Global Thermostat, global warming, Healthy Climate, Negative emissions, reversal, sequestration, Strategy
Joule, Corrected proof. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2018.05.006 We have been moving towards the answers to these questions forever it seems, so here goes: Immediately below is my summary. Further down are thoughts on…
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