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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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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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Dec 22
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Five-Fold Increase in Cool Season Tornadoes

By Climate Catastrophes, climate change, climate change caused, Climate change impacts, climate emergency, dsever weather, Extreme Weather, global warming, La Nina, Messaging, outbreak tornadoes, record, Tornado, Winter Weather
Mayfield Kentucky after the December 2021 tornado outbreak. Image: State Farm Insurance, Wiki Commons Winter tornadoes have increase 500 percent since 1953 with most of the increase likely being recent.…
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Apr 02
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Google Identifies Major Climate Denier Organizations

By alec, american conservative union, American Enterprise Institute, americans for tax reform, anti-climate science, antiscience, cato institute, Climate Change Counter Movement, Climate Culture, climate deniers, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, communications, competitive enterprise institute, Deniers and Delayers, global warming denial, heritage foundation, mercatus center, Messaging, Myths, Policy, politics, Psycho, Solutions, state policy network
(Editors Note: April Fools! And Thank You Extinction Rebellion! Though you nailed me and I had to come back to this post and add this prebuttal, good job. We can…
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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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Oct 11
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False Balance in the Media Reduces Climate Science Credibility, Oxford English Dictionary

By California, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, communications, credibility, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, extremes wildfire, fairness balance, false balance, Fire, global warming, Impacts, Media, Messaging, Myths, news, Policy, politics, Psycho, reporting journlism, Strategy, Trump, Uncategorized, What we can do
“Journalists have struggled historically to apply the notion of balance to the reporting of climate change science, because even though the overwhelming majority of the world’s experts agree that human-driven climate change is…
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May 02
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A Healthy Climate: Isn’t This the Goal?

By Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, communications, Emissions Reductions, Emissions Scenarios, global warming, Healthy Climate, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Negative emissions, Policy, politics, Psycho, Solutions, Strategy
Most of us think a healthy climate will result from emissions reductions. Time and again however, the science says this is not so. The reason? Emissions reduction strategies are about…
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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 28
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Thirty Years of Warnings: Union of Concerned Scientists 1988

By 1988, 30 years, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, communications, delay, fossil fuels, legacy climate policy, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Policy, Solutions, Strategy, summary, Union of Concerned Scientists
Thirty Years of Warnings: Union of Concerned Scientists 1988 Thirty years of warnings and very little has changed. Except for a few numbers, this letter from the Union of Concerned…
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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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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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