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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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Aug 24
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Antarctic Tipping Warning, Mega Drying – Now greatest sea level rise contributor, Total Earth systems sequestration flips into decline

By Abrupt changes, AMOC, Antarctic bottom water, Antarctic overturning circulation, Antarctic sea ice, Antarctic tipping, Atlantic meredional overturning circulation, climate emergency, collapses, Drought, Earth systems, Earth systems collapses, Emissions flip, feedback, Forest, forest health, Forest Mortality, global drying, Gulf Stream, ice sheets, irreversible, mega drought, ocean processes, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, point of no return, rainfall, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Evidence continues to mount that Earth systems processes have passed tipping points or their tipping is foregone without rapid restoration of our climate to within the evolutionary boundary conditions of…
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Jul 03
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Sea Level Rise Projection Planning Based on Statistical Certainty and Robustness (Never Mentioning Risk)

By ice sheets, low-biased, Planning, projections, risk, robustness, Sea Level Rise, statistical certainty, understated, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Lipscomb 2025 – Sea level rise projection planning based on statistical certainty and robust science (never mentioning risk)… Recent Antarctic-based sea level rise findings have consistently lowered future SLR amounts…
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Mar 10
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The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years

By Abrupt changes, aerosol cooling, aerosols, carbon dioxide removal, Climate Catastrophes, climate change, Climate Culture, climate emergency, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, feedback emissions, geoengineering, global warming, International Maritime Organization, jump, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, point of no return, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, spike, Temperature, Temperature jump, temperature spike, The Unexpected, tipping, warming rate, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Image: Yale Climate Connections The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years A review of Hansen 2025. In…
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May 29
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Brief: Tipping Initiation, Restoration Reverses Some Sea Level Rise, Beach Disintegration, Limit to Sea Level Rise Adaptation

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, adaptation limits, barrier island disintegraion, beach disintegration, beach erosion, Beach Report, Beaches coastal, climate restoration, collapse, Earth system, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, Limit to Sea Level Rise Adaptation, Restoration Reverses Some Sea Level Rise, reversing sea level rise, Sea Level Rise, tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
A brief discussion with summarized academic findings. Climate Tipping, Earth Systems Collapse Initiation Greenland and Antarctica have seen their tipping activated. This does not mean they have passed the point…
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Oct 01
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IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere, The Important Bits

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, adaptation limit, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Sea Ice, Beaches coastal, Climate change impacts, Climate reports, coastal impacts, Glaciers, global warming, Greenland, ice sheet, ice sheet collapse, ice sheets, Impacts, IPCC, Methane, migration, modeling, Oceans, Permafrost, permafrost melt, sea ice, sea ice melt, Sea Level Rise, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, September 24, 2019The Ocean and Cryosphere (the icy part of our planet) in a Changing ClimateA Summary of Important Findings Overall of course,…
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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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Mar 25
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Sing Delay, Delay, Delay: 0.5 C Limit to Dangerous Climate Change

By 0.5 C, 1.5 C, 2 C, abrupt change, Abrupt changes, abrupt climate change, Arctic, Arctic sea ice collapse, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, CO2, dangerous climate change, delay, Emissions, Greenland, Gulf Stream, Gulf Stream Collapse, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Methane, modeling, Policy, sea ice, Strategy, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse
Point 660, Greenland Ice Sheet, 20 miles east of Kangerlussuaq on the west coast. Physics is important. An enormous amount of heat is required to melt ice. This is why…
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Feb 21
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Warning From NOAA: Paris Inadequate

By 300x2050, abrupt change, Abrupt changes, Abrupt sea level rise, Antarctica, Beaches coastal, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, economics, emisions reductions, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Healthy Climate, ice sheets, Impacts, Negative emissions, net zero, non CO2 greenhouse gases, Paris, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Padre Island National Seashore, 52 miles beyond the “Four-wheel Drive Only” sign. Dune erosion from normal biannual high tides — the King and Spring Tides in October and April. NOAA’s…
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Jan 10
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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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Nov 04
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Very Large Negative Emissions: Beyond Paris Emissions Reductions to a Safe and Healthy Climate

By abrupt change, Abrupt changes, Antarctica, California Fires, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Sandy, Impacts, modeling, Negative emissions, Paris Emissions Reductions, Policy, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Strategy, Texas Drought, West Antarctic Ice Sheet
The Devil’s Elbow: Just about as far as one can get from anywhere in Texas, this area is the big bend in the Texas coast on Padre Island, 35 miles…
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