Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, author, filmmaker and front man for the band Climate Change.
New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected By Bruce Melton First Published on Truthout, May 28, 2019 New earthshaking science will be coming out in the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report that could nearly double future warming predictions. We have a window into this new science…
How, exactly, are we going to reverse climate change in time to save our soles from frying on the pavement? As a society, we have easily solved global-scale pollution problems before. How deep would it be and how many of us would be alive today, if when there were 1 billion people on Earth and…
State of the Climate Report 2018, American Meteorological Society Unsurprisingly, we have roundly exceeded climate norms in our old climate. Records continue to be broken and climate statistics broadly show we are exceeding or near the leading edge of warming in recent years, as would be expected from a climate that continues to warm, that…
Frank Luntz Flips – Original Climate Change Hoax Strategist Offers to Help Fight Climate Change After Nearly Losing His Home to a Firestorm in LA (See YouTube video of the Skirball Fire in Bel Air here.) The strategist that created the Conservative’s climate change playbook in 2002 has flipped. His house almost burned in a…
Permafrost Melt Photo Tour Climate Change Across America 2018 Field Work Already, Alaska has flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source from permafrost melt and methane emissions. (Commane 2017, science interpreted) Alaska — the entire state, and likely the rest of the north across the entire world — is now emitting greenhouse gases…
What is climate restoration and why aren’t we doing this already? The 1.5 C carbon budget allows abrupt change initiations completion like collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet; mandatory natural and or chemical carbon dioxide removal required in addition to emissions reductions; plus climate restoration scenarios to undoom us. First presented to the Climate…
Rag Radio 2019-06-21 – Environmental Researcher Bruce Melton with the Latest on Climate Change: Erosion on South Padre Island and the King Tide, Biden on Climate, Beetle Kill in the Sierra, The Paradise Fire in California and More… by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2021-01-22-bruce-melton Thorne Dreyer‘s guest Bruce Melton, a longtime contributor to The Rag…
Climate Change Across America An Epic Film Four Years in The Making 16,000 Miles From Texas to the Arctic Ocean Below is a taste of what we were up to in 2018 as an ongoing update to the bigger Climate Change Across America film project. So far we have 43,000 miles of production in the…
Thorne Dreyer’s guest Bruce Melton, a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and guest on Rag Radio, is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, author, and CEO of the Climate Change Now Initiative in Austin, Texas — the oldest, independent climate science education organization in the world, founded in 2005. We will discuss the presidential…
Significant Sunny Day Beach Erosion on South Padre Island, Beyond the King Tide It’s still beautiful, but this is nowhere close to sustainable. It’s catastrophic, but it’s virtually unknown. The beach is nothing like in our past where sea level rise was not an issue. Most of the wilderness beach on almost all of Padre…
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 warming. Specifically, extreme acute events such as drought, fire, insect attack, and disease, are not modeled sufficiently to understand the permanence of forest CDR. With…
Texas A&M and the Army Corp of Engineers have completed their economic justification for the Ike Dike hurricane flood surge protection plan that is destined to fail because of sea level rise — unless we reverse warming. Failure aside, the plan offers economic insight into the long-term economic impacts of a hurricane strike in a…
Bloomberg NEF – Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas March 26, 2019 It’s happened, decades ahead of schedule. Lithium-ion batteries are at parity with baseload coal, gas and nuclear. Those new gigabattery factories are responsible. it’s amazing what giga scaling can do to costs. The latest cost plummet was 35 percent since…
From Texas to the Alaskan North Slope via California, 16,000 miles in 46 days with 43 different camps. First presented to the Climate Change Committee of the Austin group of Sierra Club on 4/1/2019. 295 images, 125 mb – Link to the show
Rag Radio 2019-03-15: The Band Climate Change With Bruce Melton by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://archive.org/details/RagRadio2019-03-15-BruceMeltonAndClimateChange Against the backdrop of SXSW — and dedicated to the worldwide struggle against global warming — Rag Radio presents The Band Climate Change in performance. Led by Bruce Melton, Rag Radio resident climate guru, other members of the band…
Dedicated to the worldwide struggle against global warming — Rag Radio presents The Band Climate Change in performance. Led by Bruce Melton, Rag Radio resident climate guru, other members of the band are George Hadash, Philip Fulton, Ken Atwater, and Tom Williams. Performance on KOOP 91.7, 50 min 03/15/2019- Link
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 consensus that has evolved to protect our society compounds the understating nature of the industry of science. This creates a vastly understating public facing message. …
NASA: The Last 5 Years Hottest on Record? Yes, the last five years have been the hottest five years recorded since 1880. This is a big deal. But what we hear in the media portends bigger things. One of the biggest is the meaning of the yearly average temperature and its relationship to our old…
This presentation foes through the reasons why greenhouse gas emissions reductions will not result in a safe temperature, nature-based systems of forests, soils and oceans do not have the capacity to make up the difference, and a few of the mature and nascent technologies that are being scaled to the million ton per year…
Climate Change 2018 Review: Part 2 – The Good! by Bruce Melton Climate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) So much happened in our climate change world in 2018 that we are printing this article in two parts: The Bad, and The Good. We started with the bad. If you missed Part 1, you…
