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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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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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Apr 19
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The Dumbest Climate Plan in History

By Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, climate solutions, Democracy Emergency, Deniers and Delayers, economics, hostile corporate takeover, in-depth and Popular Press, politics, rollback of regulations, summary, Trump, What we can do
The Dumbest Climate Plan in History Bruce Melton PEFirst published at the rag Blog on April 18, 2025 Updated here on April 19, 2025 on ClimateDiscovery.org to add more illegitimate…
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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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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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Feb 01
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The Last Year Below 1.5 C – Remarkable Warming Acceleration In 2023 Surpasses the Dangerous Warming Threshold

By 1.5 C, Abrupt, Abrupt changes, aerosols, celsius, climate change, climate emergency, climate restoration, climate solutions, dangerous, degrees, feedback, in-depth and Popular Press, jump, limit, point of no return, remarkable, Target, Temperature, The Unexpected, tipping, Truthout.org, unnexpected, warming
Image: The “Flats” on the back side of Padre Island in South Texas. Just inches above sea level, these flats are mostly gone today from sea level rise. The Global…
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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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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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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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Jul 03
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Rag Radio Podcast, Melton Interview on Covid-19 and Permafrost Collapse

By Abrupt changes, Alaska, Arctic, Arctic Flip, Arctic warming, climate emergency, climate warming, collapse, contagion, Covid-19, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, frozen ground, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, melt, Methane, pathogen, Permafrost, permafrost melt, preservation, reanimation, thaw, The Unexpected
Melton talks with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer about ongoing massive permafrost collapse and the science showing the Covid-19 origina debate is ongoing, with compelling findings on pathogen reanimation from…
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Jul 03
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Covid-19, climate change, and permafrost collapse, and our new, abruptly evolving culture.

By Abrupt changes, Alaska, Arctic, Arctic Flip, Arctic warming, bat, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, collapse, contagion, coronavirus, Covid-19, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, frozen ground, ice, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, melt, pangolin, pathogen, Permafrost, permafrost melt, preserved, reanimation, spiny anteater, thaw, The Unexpected, virus
Permafrost collapse on the Glenn Highway in southeastern Alaska near Slana. By Bruce MeltonFirst Published on The Rag Blog on July 7, 2020 AUSTIN — The origin of Covid-19 is…
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Feb 06
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Microsoft on climate: The game changer

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, historic emissions, in-depth and Popular Press, Microsoft climate policy, Negative emissions, net zero 2030, past emissions, Policy, politics, Psycho, Scenarios, short-term, Temperature, The Unexpected, What we can do
Dune erosion from sea level rise on South Padre Island wilderness beach, 13 miles beyond the end of pavement. The similarly sloped surf facing dune angles reveal sandbergs calving into…
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Dec 09
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The Climate Emergency Has Already Begun as Earth Systems Collapse

By 1.5 C, 2 C, Abrupt changes, carbon capture, carbon dioxide removal, CDR, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, climate threshold, climate tipping point, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, collapse, dangerous warming, Earth systems, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Negative emissions, Solutions
Demonstrators from several environmental groups including Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement demand broad action at a youth-led climate strike near City Hall on December 6, 2019, in New York City.…
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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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