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Oct 10
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Instagram Filming Logs: Beetles, Fire and Regeneration Failure, September 2023 – Central Rockies

By Abrupt changes, bark beetle, climate change, Colorado, effects, Filming logs, forest collapse, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Photo tour, pine beetle, Shifting Ecology, tipping, Vegetation Response
Bruce Melton, ClimateDiscovery.org(Instagram logs with photos and video are below the summary.) Across the Central Rockies from the San Juans to Rocky Mountain National Park, beetle attacks are growing again.…
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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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Feb 19
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Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions

By Abrupt changes, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic warming, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate restoration, climate solutions, collapse, Earth systems, Extreme Weather, feedback, feedbacks, Impacts, irreversible, risk, Scenarios, Solutions, tipping, uncontrollable
Risky Feedbacks – Not In Models; Understated Solutions Feedback s are best understood by example. The cloud machine feedback in a forest is a good one to start with. Remove…
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Sep 22
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Sequoias Burn: Ongoing Collapse of the Unburnable

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Emissions flip, extreme fire, Filming trip, Fire, forest health, Forest Mortality, Gigs and Presentations, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, national park, Sequoia, sequoia burn, The Unexpected, threshold, tipping point, unprecedented fire, wildfire
Sequoias Burn: Ongoing Collapse of the Unburnable By Bruce Melton PE, Director of the Climate Change Now Initiative 2005, ClimateDiscovery.org(Co-published on the Rag Blog for an interview on Rag Radio…
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Aug 05
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Giant Sequoias: A Tipping Point

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, climate restoration, climate warming, Drought, Earth systems, Fire, fire suppression, forest health, Forest Mortality, high-severity fire, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Legacy Policy, megafire, pine beetle, prescribed burns, regeneration, sequoias, Shifting Ecology, The Unexpected, tipping, wildfire
Giant Sequoias: A Climate Tipping Pointby Bruce Melton PE Follow MeltOn in the field on Instagram See abridged version on Truthout.org: August 9, 2022. Summary: Up to 13,000 mature sequoias…
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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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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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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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Jun 04
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Rag Radio Podcast – A Climate Emergency Response, Environmental Researcher & Activist Bruce Melton by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer

By climate change, climate emergency, climate threshold, Gigs and Presentations, Impacts, irreversible tipping, podcast, tipping
Environmental researcher Bruce Melton joins Thorne Dreyer on Rag Radio to discuss responses to a climate emergency. He covers what a climate emergency is and why we have such emergencies, the nature of…
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Mar 13
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Austin, Texas: The Blizzard of ’21 – Summary and Photo Tour by Bruce Melton

By Abrupt changes, Austin, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Extreme Weather, freeze, ice disaster, ice storm, icetastrophe, Impacts, natural gas, Photo tour, polar vortex, power outage, rolling blackouts, snowpocalypse, snowstorm, Texas, The Unexpected, water outage, wind turbines, winter storm, winter storm warning, winter weather disatser
First published in the Austin Sierran on March 9, 2021, updated March 13. By 10 pm on February 14, this map was updated with winter storm warnings (pink) issued for…
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Jan 12
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Film Screening, Dallas Sierra Club – Climate Change Across America, Inglorious Events, (44 min), Climate Change Now Initiative

By across america, climate change, Climate Change Across America, climate change film, climate tipping, ecological collapse, films, Gigs and Presentations, global warming film, happening now, Impacts, North America
From South Texas to the North Slope of Alaska, climate change impacts are here. They are far more extreme and extensive than publicly understood, are mired in misinformation and the…
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