Record flooding on Onion Creek, Austin, October 2013 Hydrology is one of our advanced culture’s most important engineering design areas because so much of our lives depend on not being…
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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…
~ ~ ~ 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
First published on Truthout, April 15, 2017. In about the last 100,000 years, there have been 23 abrupt temperature changes in Greenland ice cores. In those moments, the temperature abruptly…
First published on Truthout, December 29, 2016. Our planet’s systems have a tremendous capacity to absorb punishment before they begin to show signs of degradation. Earth’s ecology self-heals like a…
First published on Truthout: December 20, 2016 With president-elect Donald Trump and his army of climate deniers preparing to take office, it could be a hard battle to get the…
An article from the Associated Press (AP) by Bajak and Borenstein on May 18 tells us that: “Extreme downpours have doubled in frequency over the past three decades.” This is…
First published on Truthout February 16, 2016 by Bruce Melton. We were awash for 19 days in a tumultuous sea of mountains and forests, drifting a course through the heart…
In the run up to the Paris climate talks, current policy is far behind. Virtually unknown is science stating that the solutions to treating climate pollution are simple, cheap and…
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