Record-breaking ice accumulation struck Austin on January 31-February 2, 2023 leading to the worst ice disaster Austin has ever seen. One would think that this obviously climate change-caused event would…
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When Normals Are Not Normal The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring the Reality of Global Warmingby Bruce Melton PESee the abridged version on Truthout.org, July 17, 2022In-depth references are…
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For the first time since the Climate Change Denier in Chief was “elected” in 2016, when he shut down climate science at the US Federal Government, the Environmental Protection Agency…
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(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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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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(See YouTube video of the Skirball Fire in Bel Air here.) The strategist that created the Conservative’s climate change playbook in 2002 has flipped. His house almost burned in a…
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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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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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“Journalists have struggled historically to apply the notion of balance to the reporting of climate change science, because even though the overwhelming majority of the world’s experts agree that human-driven climate change is…
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April 13, 2018: Recent ocotillo mortality from drought stress and flathead borer, Glen Springs Road, Big Bend National Park. Mortality is anywhere from triple to 10x normal and includes pines,…
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Big Bend National Park, March 2015, River Road near Soliz. Climate change has come to the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert. The dead sticks in the photo are creosote bush…
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Average temperature in the far north has warmed double the rest of the planet because snow reflects almost all of the sun’s energy back into space. When snow melts, that…
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Fake News Reduces Climate Science Outreach Reported this month in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical Union, Climate scientists are slowing their publicity of new discoveries. Inaccurate reporting, and…
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The Flats on Padre Island National Seashore: Just a few inches above sea level, and normally only covered up during storms, these flats have been regularly inundated since the…
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This beautiful beach is compromised by natural erosion. It happens every time sea level rises greater than 7 mm per year on average from all sources. Here at mile 50…
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President Trump it seems, has given us permission to backslide with our thinking about climate change. Until we have rule or law that tells us we must do something about…
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South Padre Island, Texas: Mile 14 beyond the end of the road. There is supposed to be a big wide beach here, but erosion due mostly to sea level rise…
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As of 2013, the most extreme storms had increased on average nearly 50 percent across Europe. The 99 percentile daily precipitation event is the 1 percent probability storm or the…
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First Published on Truthout, December 4, 2015 The perceived debate on climate change has discredited traditional climate science communications to such an extent that we are just now implementing policies…
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(See more on the Drexel/Stanford research on the climate change counter-movement here.)Merchants of Doubt, A film by Sony Pictures and Robert KennerAustin Premiere and Lecture by Bruce Melton PEInspired by…
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