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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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Jul 16
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When Normals Are Not Normal: The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring the Reality of Global Warming

By 30-year averages, 30-year normal, Climate Culture, climate warming, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Global Warming psychology, historic climate, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Myths, National Weather Service, normal temperature, Strategy, Temperature, temperature records, The Unexpected, Truthout.org, warming mask, What we can do
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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Dec 26
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New Media Bias: Climate Change Contrarians Preferred in Media, Shaping Policy AND Science

By climate awareness, climate change, Climate Change Counter Movement, climate contrarians, Climate Culture, climate scientist's, contrarians, Global Warming psychology, Media, media bias, Messaging, Myths, Psycho, Reports, understate
Oaks killed by drought near Visalia, California. “Climate Change is a Wicked multidimensional problem,” say the authors of this research  from Nature Communications on the disparity between publishing of articles…
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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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Jul 28
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Master Denier Frank Luntz Flips on Climate and Offers Communications Help

By climate action, climate communications, climate messaging, Climate Reform, communications, deniers, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Fire, Frank Luntz, Global Warming psychology, Healthy Climate, Impacts, Messaging, Myths, Psycho, Strategy, The Unexpected, What we can do
(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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Mar 13
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Climate Science Compromise Feedback Loop and Unrecoverable Impacts

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Beaches coastal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, communications, compromise, consensus, Deniers and Delayers, feedback, global warming, Global Warming psychology, Healthy Climate, ice sheet, Impacts, irreversible, is global warming real, Legacy Policy, Media, Messaging, modeling, Policy, politics, Psycho, Public opinion, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, unrecoverable, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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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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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Apr 18
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Global Environmental Sustainability and a Healthy Climate: Climate Policy 2.0

By adaptation, alternatives, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Change Counter Movement, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, communications, Deniers and Delayers, Emissions, Emissions Reductions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, fossil fuels, global warming policy, Global Warming psychology, global warming solutions, Healthy Climate, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Messaging, negative emisions, Negative emissions, Paris, Paris Climate Commitments, Paris Climate Conference, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy, What we can do
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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Feb 24
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What’s the Big Deal With Climate Change?

By Abrupt changes, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Reform, communications, deniers, Deniers and Delayers, desert, die-off, Drought, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, extremes, forest health, Forest Mortality, global warming, Global Warming psychology, Impacts, Messaging, Myths, pine beetle, Psycho, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, The Unexpected, weather, What we can do
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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Feb 04
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Healthy Climate Alliance and 300 ppm CO2 by 2050 (300×2050)

By 300 ppm CO2, 300x2050, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, DAC, decarbonization, direct air capture, Emissions, Emissions Reductions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, feedback, Global Warming psychology, Healthy Climate, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Policy, politics, sequestration, Solutions, Strategy
Emissions reductions alone allow Earth’s temperature to continue to rise, sea level to continue to climb, and our beaches to mostly disappear. What can we do to not only prevent…
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Nov 17
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The Moral Imperative Dilemma

By alternatives, BECCS, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Climate Reform, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, DAC, direct air capture, geoengineering, Global Warming psychology, Legacy Policy, Messaging, moral imperative, Negative emissions, Policy, Psycho, REDD, Solutions, Strategy, Uncategorized
The “moral imperative dilemma” is that thing where we feel it is our duty to create a fossil fuel extinction in order address climate change. This is something our climate…
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Aug 28
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New Climate Culture

By Abrupt changes, alternatives, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solultions, climate solutions, communications, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Global Warming psychology, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Negative emissions, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, Solutions, Strategy, What we can do
In 2015, new energy generation construction from wind and solar accounted for 70 percent of the total globally. Natural gas was 27 percent and coal was relegated to the 3%…
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Jun 12
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Sea Level Rise: IPCC Averages, Extremes From Latest Publishing, and Ice Sheet Collapse

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Antarctica, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Extreme Weather, Global Warming psychology, Greenland, Gulf Stream, ice sheet, ice sheets, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Negative emissions, Policy, Psycho, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, Strategy, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Sea level rise erosion, South Padre Island, about mile 20 up the four-wheel drive beach. This erosion is occurring during normal, non-storm tides when the sun and moon align to…
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