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Climate Change Denial in Government and Media in Central Texas

By climate denial, climate emergency, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Media, Myths, official reports, polar vortex, Psycho, Strategy, The Unexpected, What we can do, winter storm uri

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…

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07-06-2018: Rag Radio Environmental Reporter Bruce Melton from Yosemite Park

By Alaska Highway, BAnff, bark beetle, Coffey park Fire, Denali, haul road, Jasper national Park, leaf miner, Montecito Deruis flow, Podcasts, polar vortex, premafrost collapse, saguaro frostbite, Thompson Fire, tubbs Fire, tundra bushes, wildfire california, yosemite

Climate change researcher and Rag Radio environmental reporter Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio, joining us live from Yosemite National Park (actually from Fresno, where he could get cell phone…

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Climate Change 2017: What Happened and What It Means

By 1.5 C, 2017 review, Abrupt changes, Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Amplification, Climate Catastrophes, Extreme Weather, extremes, Fire, Flooding, floods, havey, Impacts, jet stream, polar vortex, precipitation, rainfall, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctica

The Thomas Fire, viewed from Via Real, just east of Lambert Road and the Bella Vista Polo Club, in Summerland, California, on December 11, 2017. (Photo: Doc Searls) By Bruce…

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Trump on Global Warming: What’s so Bad About A Little Warming

By A little bit of warming, Arctic, climate change, cold, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Forest Mortality, global warming, Impacts, Myths, polar vortex, Shifting Ecology, Temperature, The Unexpected, Trump, warming is good, why is it cold with global warming

Average temperature in the far north has warmed double the rest of the planet because snow reflects almost all of the sun’s energy back into space. When snow melts, that…

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