Record flooding on Onion Creek, Austin, October 2013Hydrology is one of our advanced culture’s most important engineering design areas because so much of our lives depend on not being flooded…
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02-11-2022: Bruce Melton: The Valentine’s Week Texice Disaster – A seven-day freeze in Austin, half again more than anything before, with seven inches of snow and 20 million people in…
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~ ~ ~ BEgin letter to DAvid Furlow Fascinating. The depth of history in China… The White Crane Ridge and observation area beneath Three Gorges, wow. Little Ice Age famine…
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Summer Filming 2022, Sequoia Burn (Part 1 of 3) This summer filming season we focused on just one thing. The sequoia burn in California in 2020 and 2021 that killed…
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There are 345 million hectares (857 million acres) of forest in Canada. Of these, 226 million hectares (558 million acres) are managed forest lands used for forest production. When the…
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Policy Language: Forest carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a function of forest health. Current academic work on forest CDR does not consider all forest health effects of current or future…
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Tesla’s 80MW PowerPack substation in Mira Loma, California. Image from Tesla Bloomberg NEF – Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas March 26, 2019 It’s happened, decades ahead…
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by Bruce MeltonClimate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) The Woolsey Fire Evacuation, November 9, 2018, Malibu, California. Unprecedented catastrophes increase in extremeness nonlinearly with further warming. Photo by…
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The polar vortex is back with a vengeance. Woe… In winter, in the Arctic stratosphere, something hardly known before is happening. It’s called sudden stratospheric warming where the wintertime upper…
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“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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Even the extreme rainfall we experienced with Harvey is not the new normal. As warming increases, so do extreme weather events. Importantly, a little more warming does not increase extremes…
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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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Bubbles of ancient preserved air in Greenland ice tell the story of abrupt climate changes in our ancient past. (Photo: Bruce Melton) First published on Truthout, April 15, 2017. In…
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The collapse of the Delaware-size Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica has begun. Caused by warming and similar to the demise of the Larsen B and Larsen A in 2003…
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The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland is the fastest-discharging glacier in the world. Pictured here is its "melange," the result of a disintegrating ice sheet, which is comprised of "brash" (crushed…
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Congress Avenue and the Capital in the 1935 flood in Austin. An article from the Associated Press (AP) by Bajak and Borenstein on May 18 tells us that: "Extreme downpours…
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A 100,000-acre spruce beetle kill drapes this alpine mountain park like a heavy wool blanket. Except for a green strip of young trees along the old logging roads that crisscross…
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Global Thermostat's machine can remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere for $10 per ton. In the run up to the Paris climate talks, current policy is far behind. Virtually unknown…
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