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,…
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…
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…
Science Understates Dramatically Half the World’s Population Experiencing Double to 54 Times as Much Extreme Heat As Before We Changed Our Climate, a new extreme heat evaluation by Climate Central dangerously…
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…
It may not be this year, but it may be. These extreme cold outbreaks caused by climate change were generally not supposed to happen according to the models, but the…
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…
Texas’ Winter Forecast: Much Warmer than Normal, With An Above Average Chance of Extreme ColdThe Electric Reliability Council of Texas tells us that this winter is expected to be warmer…
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…
KXAN Pavement Temperature 162 F August 19, 2024, high temperature for the year. American cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most First published at CNN by…
The “remarkably unprecedented” increase in warming rate in 2023 and 2024 * All time global temperature records keep falling|* Almost every single day over the last 13 months set a…
The cover image for this story shows the daily high temperature anomalies for the Austin weather station at Camp Mabry for each day of the year 2022; one colored stripe…
First published by Bruce Melton PE in the Austin Sierran as a part of its cover image description on February 7, 2024 The most common species of frostweed in Central…
This exeedance of the dangerous 1.5 degree C threshold so far ahead of projections will be (I believe) particularly conducive to communicating the great need for emergency actions. These actions…
Lake Travis: Record Low? Despite the rains, Lake Travis’ water elevation of 631.1 feet elevation is only two and a half feet higher than it’s low pf 628.5 feet in…
Image: Lakeway City Park on Lake Travis, 2011 Drought of Record, elevation approximately 630. The elevation for February 2024 was 631.34. First published at the Dallas Federal Reserve by Jayashankar…
Rag Radio 2023-02-10 – Climate Change Activist Bruce Melton on the Central Texas Ice Storm – Climate change scholar and activist Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio. They discuss…
Windsor Park Climate Conversation Bruce Melton and Justin Schoof August 23, 2023 – Record droughts in some area, record flooding in others. A polar vortex freezes Texas, then an atmospheric river…
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…
Record flooding on Onion Creek, Austin, October 2013Hydrology is one of our advanced culture’s most important engineering design areas because so much of our lives depend on not being flooded…
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