Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, author, filmmaker and front man for the band Climate Change.
These reporter are criminal. They influence people who do not know better. Yep, the last time a global average winter was as cold as this one was in a different century all right, I guess to some people that means coldest in a century. These contrarians Blogs are frustrating, because I know a lot of…
Two degrees are in the bag. Now the EPA acts… We don’t get those two degrees back back even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today. We should have acted when Kyoto said. The scientist new what they were up too, even though it seems that everything they do these days is conservative. Three…
March 23, 2009 Just a little known fact here to make your life a little more accurate. Recent studies have found that the ocean’s pH has changed from 8.16 to 8.05 since the Industrial revolution. This is 100 times faster than normal, but it just doesn’t look like much until one understands the significance of…
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan research has shown. Even with the significant ice coverage this year. Lake Michigan is near normal to a bit above average this year, Superior has more ice than in the last six years. The U.S. December – Feb temp was 0.58 degrees above normal even though…
The West Antarctic ice sheet is the single most remote and inhospitable region on the surface of Earth. Because of its remoteness and hostility, research there is scarce. On our rapidly warming world today, and considering the possible climate threshold we have just crossed, collapse of the WAIS is a very important thing to understand….
A study in Science on the 13th shows a 12% average decline in ocean productivity along the western Antarctic Peninsula in the last 30 years. Temperatures have increased here 4.6 times the global average. In the last few years of the study (beginning about the time the Big Melt began in Greenland – about 2004)…
March 14, 2009 The stern report was the second most important report after the IPCC 3rd Assessment in 2001 and likely the most important political report on climate change ever written. It was commissioned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was published in the middle of the Bush reign It could not have made…
1. Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized… 2. The research community is providing much more information to support discussions on "dangerous climate change". Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change, with poor…
58 sessions, Over 1,400 submissions. http://www.iop.org/EJ/volume/1755-1315/6
Deep waters in the Antarctic account for twice as much deep water formation in the oceans compared to North Atlantic deep waters. The temperature of Antarctic deep water is warming and the surface waters of the Antarctic ocean are freshening. Both of these things are likely caused by increased Antarctic melt and a slowing of…
More News From Copenhagen. 600,000 million people at risk. Likely sea level rise is now over four feet excluding dynamical ice sheet changes. To get to four feet (1.2 meters) of sea level rise in 2100 from where we are today, we must see on average of 13 mm of sea level rise per year…
One of the most often repeated impacts of climate change is the disappearance of the glaciers from Glacier National Park. The science has been that the year 2030 would see the melting of the last glacier. The glaciers of Glacier National Park have melted by 67 percent in the past hundred years. Unfortunately, temperatures in…
Ocean acidity increases with atmospheric CO2 concentration. Since the turn of the 21st century, ocean acidity has caused a decrease of carbon concentration in the exoskeletons of the primary productivity organisms of the oceans. This means, not only are this fundamentally important part of the ocean system at risk, but the oceans are not absorbing…
Preliminary release of information from Copenhagen shows that with the best case scenario of CO2 emissions reductions, where CO2 emission decline by 3% per year by 2015 (this is a very aggressive reduction rate), there is still a 50% chance that the earth will warm 3.6 to 5 degrees F by 2100. A 3.6 degree…
This is 21 to 43 inches and it does not include dynamical ice sheet disintegration. Very important to note also in the Dutch study, sea level rise in the 22nd century will be 1.5 to 3.5 meters – that’s 11.5 feet. Most of the worlds major cities will be affected by eleven feet of sea…
I keep telling all my friends, I don’t make this stuff up. It has deadly serious implications for global society and the continuance of Earth’s environment, and lately, it seems to be coming at us from all sides – just as the popular media has seemingly lost nearly 100% of its attention span. The above…
The disintegration of the largest ice shelf ever known to collapse started in February 2008 during the Antarctic summer. Signs of the breakup continued during the deep polar winter, something else that has never been seen before. The European Space Agency has now announced that the breakup amounts to 14,000 square kilometers, or over 5,000…
IPY is the largest internationally coordinated planetary research effort in the past 50 years. More than 160 endorsed science projects are included in this report from researchers in more than 60 countries from the period March 2007 to March 2009 to allow for observations during the alternate seasons in both polar regions. The IPY is…
MIT projections are almost double the IPCCs. Very scary stuff, and this makes four major publications in as many weeks that the media has not acknowledged. And it is great climate change art too. The "no policy scenario" is business as usual. The policy scenario is the middle scenario of several likely alternatives used by…
Monaco Declaration Press Release: Urgent action is needed to limit damages to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries, due to increasing ocean acidity, according to 155 of the world’s scientific experts who will release the Monaco Declaration this Friday. The Declaration is based on results from the Second International Symposium on the Ocean in…
