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Bruce Melton PE

Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, author, filmmaker and front man for the band Climate Change.

It’s Cars, Not Coal – The New Paradigm of Climate Science

By alternatives, Emissions, in-depth and Popular Press, Solutions

The science has changed again. This time, things are really upside down. How are we supposed to know which target to shoot? We live, we learn. Science goes on, especially climate science. There is an extreme need for more knowledge about our climate. This has been obvious to the climate scientists for years. The titles in…

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The Psychology of Global Warming

By Deniers and Delayers

American Meteorological Society The certainty that climate scientists have about climate changes becomes greater every day. Yet, the portion of the public that agrees with the principles of man-caused climate change, or the risks faced, or the speed with which our climate is changing, or even the understanding of the certainty of the scientists themselves,…

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Russia On Fire: a Sign of Things to Come

By Extreme Weather

  "In Russia, the wildfires are believed caused by a warming climate that made the current summer the hottest on record. The hotter weather increases the incidence of lightning, the major cause of naturally occurring biomass burning. Soja said she hopes the wildfires in Russia prompt the country to support efforts to mitigate climate change….

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More Frequent and Extreme Storms Causing More Runoff In All of the Wrong Places

By Extreme Weather

Freshwater is flowing into Earth’s ocean in greater amounts every year, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms related to global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a team of NASA and university researchers. "In general, more water is good," Famiglietti said. "But here’s the problem: Not everybody is getting more rainfall, and those…

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CO2 Changing 14,000 Times Faster than Normal

By Uncategorized

This article in the journal Nature Geoscience looked at CO2 changes from the last 610,000 years as told in the bubbles of trapped air in Antarctic ice cores. It is a well known part of climate science that states that CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere differ based on the climate.  CO2 levels are lower on…

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Summer Was Fourth Warmest in 131 Years

By Extreme Weather

October 4, 2010   "An unparalleled heat wave in eastern Europe, coupled with intense droughts and fires around Moscow, put Earth’s temperatures in the headlines this summer. Likewise, a string of exceptionally warm days in July in the eastern United States strained power grids, forced nursing home evacuations, and slowed transit systems. Both high-profile events…

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The North American Pine Beetle Pandemic

By Impacts

I just returned from a 7,500 mile trip to witness the the greatest insect infestation anywhere in recorded history. This is an ongoing project of mine, and will be my third film drawing public attention to this extreme climate change impact. My Scientific Basis for this years film is here: http://www.meltonengineering.com/North%20America%27s%20Mountain%20Pine%20Beetle%20Pandemic%20February%202011color.pdf

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Mining Carbon from the Sky–50 ppm for $10 Trillion

By Solutions

Mining Carbon from the Sky–50 ppm for $10 Trillion. We can’t afford $10 trillion you say? What were we doing in Iraq then? 50 ppm for $10 trillion    Hansen 350,    Democracy Now – 8 years of bush, Iraq Afgahnistan, bailouts http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/linda_bilmes_the_10_trillion_hangover $200 per ton is $20 trillion, $100 per ton is $10 trillion (79, 80)…

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Climate is Changing and It’s Our Fault – Prove it say the Conservatives: Trouble is, it has Been Proven Thousands and Thousands of Times

By Deniers and Delayers

August 14, 2010 Benoit Thibodeau and his team have a new study of foraminifera from the St. Lawrence Estuary in Canada. One of what is certainly hundreds, and possibly thousands of studies of this most common of ocean temperature proxies. This one just looked at a thousand years of history, but found that this location…

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Expert credibility in climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – Almost 98% of Climate Scientists Support IPCC’s Platform

By Deniers and Delayers

July 20, 2010 Expert credibility in climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, April 2010 – Almost 98% of Climate Scientists Support IPCC’s Platform of Anthropogenic Climate Change AND, Contrarian Experts are by no Means "Experts" Abstract:  Although preliminary estimates from published literature and expert surveys suggest striking agreement among climate scientists on…

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Five Big All-time Global Climate Records Broken in June: Temperature, Temperature, Temperature, and Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice

By Impacts

NOAA reports that June, April to June, and the Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are the warmest on Record. Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods. Arctic sea ice covered was 10.6 percent below the 1979-2000…

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