Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, author, filmmaker and front man for the band Climate Change.
The Amazon – On the Path to Collapse The trend is now painfully obvious. Degradation in the Amazon is closely tied to compound drought and heat waves, low-soil moisture and low humidity. These compound drought events have become far more frequent and severe since the turn of the century and have resulted in the Amazon…
An Important Tipping Point for Our Total Earth System Has Passed – Natural Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2 Has Begun To Decline Natural sequestration of carbon dioxide is in decline: climate change will accelerate The familiar cover image of the Mauna Loa atmospheric CO2 concentration now reveals what has been coming for decades. Natural sequestration of…
The Scenario Bias Understates Earth’s Captured Co2 Injection Capacity A review of the Associated Press story, Study: Less carbon storage capacity than thought, by Tammy Webber, based on Gidden et al., A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage, Nature, September 3, 2025. Associated Press, September 3, 2025 – “The world has far fewer places…
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 our former climate. No amount of warming beyond the maximum of our old climate is now safe and we must cool from today to restore…
Grand Canyon National Park North Rim Infrastructure Destroyed – Massively Irresponsible Fire Control and Passive Climate Denial Nary a word about climate change in reporting of the fire that destroyed almost all infrastructure at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, including the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. It’s not just our national treasures that are…
It’s Flooding Down in Texas Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. By Bruce Melton PE Posted on July 31, 2025 at the Rag Blog https://www.theragblog.com/bruce-melton-climate-science-its-flooding-down-in-texas/ Rag Radio Interview, 080125 https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2025-08-01-bruce-melton See our…
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 based on refined modeling of ice discharge mechanisms of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Shelves. This evaluation of recent Antarctic ice loss SLR science seeks…
Findings since mid-May reveal new and more serious insight into tipping threshold crossing of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, Antarctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and tropical and boreal forests. The 30 percent warming jump in 2023 and 2024 is crucial to understanding the extreme risks of our current and rapidly accelerating climate trajectory. But…
Science Understates Dramatically Half the World’s Population Experiencing Double to 54 Times as Much Extreme Heat As Before We Changed Our Climate, a new extreme heat evaluation by Climate Central dangerously understates reality. A summary and review based on: Climate Change Made Extreme Heat Days More Likely A new attribution study shows every single extreme…
Grand Teton National Park bark beetle mortality Massive National Forests Logging Threat – Bad Decisions and Bad Math of this Current Illegitimate Administration This illegitimate administration has vowed to increase US National Forest timber production by 59% to 112 million acres. Really? Their USDA Emergency Situation Memorandum (Executive Order (EO) 14225, Immediate Expansion of…
The Dumbest Climate Plan in History Bruce Melton PE First published at the rag Blog on April 18, 2025 Updated here on April 19, 2025 on ClimateDiscovery.org to add more illegitimate actions against NOAA and NASA Podcast forthcoming ~ ~ ~ The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level…
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 the last two years, Earth has warmed 0.4 degrees C, compared to 1.2 degrees C warming in the previous 100 years. This warming rate is…
Pyrocumulonimbus Threats from Climate Change-Caused Wildfire They rain lightning, not rain Starting fires 22 miles away With as much energy as a moderately-sized volcanoes Puncturing the stratosphere with deep convection Like nuclear winter modeling Pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCbs) events appear to be increasing dramatically, producing more energy, and erupting in places where they have never been seen…
Even Worse Polar Vortex Excursions Are Likely In Our Future It may not be this year, but it may be. These extreme cold outbreaks caused by climate change were generally not supposed to happen according to the models, but the models are understated. Almost all climate change effects are happening generations to a century…
Copernicus Versus Berkeley Earth – Which Global Temperature is Correct? Are scientists confused? Some global temperature reports tell us that 2024 is the first year above the 1.5 degrees C above normal dangerous threshold, some say 2023 was, and there are varying reports that say the numerous global temperature evaluations are different from one another….
Texas’ Winter Forecast: Much Warmer than Normal, With An Above Average Chance of Extreme Cold The Electric Reliability Council of Texas tells us that this winter is expected to be warmer to much warmer than normal across the state with an above average chance of extreme cold. One of the remarkable statistics they cite is…
Climate Change Across America Filming Report, September/October 2024: East Coast and New England – A Summary Bruce Melton PE This season we witnessed 13,000 miles of climate change across the Eastern US from Texas to New England and down to the Outer Banks. We witnessed mostly natural systems degradation from warming effects, where this degradation…
Climate Change Denial in Government and Media in Central Texas 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 warrant acknowledgement of climate change in any reporting, much less an after-action report this report…
KXAN Pavement Temperature 162 F August 19, 2024, high temperature for the year. American cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most First published at CNN by Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, August 13, 2024 (Editor’s note: Caution when viewing unbelievable statistics. Check their work! This article states that the heat island…
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, Bureau of American Ethnology, via Yale Climate connections) When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? Intensifying extreme weather events and an…
