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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 04
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Filming Logs 2026 – From Niagara Falls through New England and down to the Banks

By Beach Report, Beaches coastal, Drought, Earth systems, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, ocean processes, Oceans, pine beetle, rainfall, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, Temperature, Vegetation Response
Filming Logs 2026 – From Niagara Falls through New England and down to the Banks Forest mortality in the Northeast is beginning to be obvious to normal citizens. This means…
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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 23
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It’s Flooding Down in Texas

By Atlas 14, climate change, climate emergency, Cow Creek, disasters, Earth systems, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, extreme events, Extreme Weather, FEMA, flash flood, flood, flood plain, Flooding, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, increasing, Kerrville, National Weather Service, NOAA, Planning, rainfall, Texas, tipping, understated
It’s Flooding Down in Texas Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe…
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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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May 04
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Massive National Forests Logging Threat – Bad Decisions and Bad Math of this Current Illegitimate Administration

By Abrupt changes, beetles, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Democracy Emergency, Deniers and Delayers, Drought, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, forest regeneration, Increased logging
Grand Teton National Park bark beetle mortality Massive National Forests Logging Threat – Bad Decisions and Bad Math of this Current Illegitimate Administration This illegitimate administration has vowed to increase…
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Nov 26
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Climate Change Across America Filming Report, September/October 2024: East Coast and New England

By Abrupt changes, Acadia, Adirondacks, Appalachia, beach erosion, Beach Report, Beaches coastal, Cape Cod, climate emergency, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, filming report, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, ghost forests, Great Smoky Mountains, greening, Hatrteras, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, national park, Outer Banks, Photo tour, point of no return, Reports, salt water intrusion, salt water poisoning, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, The Unexpected, tipping, Vegetation Response
Climate Change Across America Filming Report, September/October 2024: East Coast and New England – A Summary Bruce Melton This season we witnessed 13,000 miles of climate change across the Eastern…
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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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Jul 26
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Climate Change Across America, May-June 2024

By Abrupt changes, Beach Report, Beaches coastal, evolutionary boundaries, filming report, forest health, Forest Mortality, ghost forests, Gigs and Presentations, Impacts, Photo tour, Podcasts, salt water poisoning, sea level intrusion, Sea Level Rise, Shifting Ecology, tipping, Vegetation Response
Radio Interview on MeltOn’s latest climate change filming trip from Texas to Delaware and the Outer Banks.Rag Radio (syndicated on Pacifica) Interview by Thorne Dreyer, July 27, 2024 (Article)Climate Change…
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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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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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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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Dec 12
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Climate Change Across America – Fall Filming 2021: Beetle Kill in SW CO and Forest Failure at Mesa Verde National Park

By Abrupt changes, climate change, Climate Change Across America, Climate impacts, Climate impacts in the US, climate tipping, Drought, Earth systems, evolutionary boundaries, fir beetles. ecological collapse, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, forest regenration, global warming, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, La Garita Wilderness, Mesa Verde, Mesa Verde National Park, pine bark beetles, pine beetle, pinyon juniper forest, pinyon pine, red kill, San Juan Mountains, spruce beetles, widlfire, Wmenuche Wilderness, Wolf Creek Pass
Southern and Southwestern Colorado Beetle Attack and Forest Regeneration Failure at Mesa Verde National Park We returned to filming after a long covid. No trouble. On the big drive from…
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