NOAA Atlas 14 and Atlas 15 – A Geeks Guide to Rainfall Intensity Criteria for Safety Fortunately, the Liar in Chief’s decimation of our advanced civilization as we know it is meeting with substantial feedback from citizens, democratic lawmakers, and most importantly, judges. One of the most critical issues that affects almost all of us…
Does it seem like the droughts and floods are getting bigger, deadlier, and more extreme and dangerous? If you are not a climate change denier, it’s not your imagination. Droughts are indeed getting deeper, drier and longer, and floods bigger and more frequent. The research is widespread, and effects have now been felt by almost…
Heat Now Drives Western Drought, Not Precipitation… Forget about future drought extremes on a warmer planet. Droughts today have exceeded the evolutionary boundaries of most if not almost all of our world’s ecologies. This means their collapses are baked in, where new species and mechanisms tolerant of the warmer and drier conditions, replace the…
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, first posted at the Rag Blog on December 31, 2025 Podcast – Rag Radio, KOOP Austin, January 2, 2026. The good news is real,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
The “remarkably unprecedented” increase in warming rate in 2023 and 2024 * All time global temperature records keep falling| * Almost every single day over the last 13 months set a new global daily all-time high temperature records Bruce Melton PE Climate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 ClimateDiscovery.org It’s not just all-time temperature records being broken….
Climate Change Across America, May-June 2024 Radio Interview on MeltOn’s latest climate change filming trip from Texas to Delaware and the Outer Banks. Rag Radio (syndicated on Pacifica) Interview by Thorne Dreyer, July 27, 2024 (Article) Climate Change Across America – East Coast Filming May/June 2024 First published by Bruce Melton at the Rag Blog…
Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036 Texas A&M University Report by the Office of the Texas State Climatologist Update 2024 (Link to full report) (Commentary by Editor MeltOn) Large thanks to State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon and his team. Texas is a big place and this report was a lot…
Thirteen Monthly Global High Temperature Records in a Row Current 12-Month average 1.64 C Above Normal Copernicus Report, European Union’s Earth Observation and Monitoring Program Surface Air Temperature June 2024 June 2024 was warmer globally than any previous June in the data record, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 16.66°C, 0.67°C above the…
An Introduction to Advanced Climate Change – Two Years in the Making by Bruce Melton PE Climate Change Now Initiative October 2023 (Link to the learning tool) This slide deck is a learning tool with 18,000 words in 52 slides with 70 beautiful images. The notes include about 85,000 words and over 600 references with…
Healthy Planet Action Coalition November 30, 2024 Climate Change Across America Slide Show (Download the slideshow here https://climatediscovery.org/climate-change-across-america-photographic-review-powerpoint-342-slides/ or click on the image above to see the presentation given by Melton. A 342 slide photojournal of climate impacts across North America. Join Bruce Melton PE as he tells the story of impacts from Padre Island…
