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Ungineering, not geoengineering

By Agriculture, Arctic Sea Ice, climate emergency, climate restoration, Earth systems, Emissions, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, Gigs and Presentations, ice sheet, IMO, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, International Maritime Organization, Negative emissions, ocean processes, Permafrost melt, pine beetle, Podcasts, Point of No Return, Presentations, Solutions, Strategy, The Unexpected, Tipping

Ungineering, not geoengineering by Bruce Melton, first published at the GRag Blog on May 27, 2026 Podcast from Rag Radio, 97.1 FM, Coop Austin (Cover image: Ship trails in the North Pacific cool our climate through the oldest climate pollution treatment (geoengineering) strategy humans have been practicing for 150 years. Credit: NASA.) Summary: Geonegineering is…

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Geoengineering: We have been for centuries

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, Agriculture, Arctic Sea Ice, climate emergency, climate restoration, Earth systems, Emissions, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, forest health, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, Gigs and Presentations, ice sheets, IMO, Impacts, International Maritime Organization, ocean processes, Permafrost melt, Point of No Return, sea ice, Solutions, Tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Geoengineering: We have been for centuries Powerpoint Presentation, June 2, 2026 This presentation covers the concepts of geoengineering and pollution treatment that our advanced culture has been practicing for centuries and millennia. It started when we terraformed Earth by cutting down more than a third of its trees before the Industrial Revolution. Geoengineering is evident…

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Telltale for IMO Ship’s Fuel Regulations Causing Significant Nitrogen Oxide Emissions

By aerosols, Climate Policy, climate solutions, engineered solutions, Engineering, geoengineering, IMO, International Maritime Organization, Nitrogen oxide N20

Telltale for the New IMO Ship’s Fuel Regulations Causing Significant Warming Since 2023: Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxide Emissions  There has been a 67% reduction in ships’ cloud-altering abilities after the International Maritime Organization’s ship’s fuel regulations limiting sulfur went into effect. Sulfur is a natural component of fossil fuels that when burned creates air pollution responsible…

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By climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Emissions Scenarios, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, geoengineering, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Point of No Return, Scenarios, Solutions, Tipping

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…

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Sudden Jump in Academic Findings Indicating the Crossing of Numerous New Earth System Tipping Points

By Abrupt changes, Antarctic sea ice, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, forest health, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, modeling, ocean processes, Oceans, sea ice, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, The Unexpected, Tipping, Vegetation Response

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…

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The Warming Rate for the Last Two Years Has Been 25 Times the Warming Rate of the Last 150 Years

By Abrupt changes, aerosols, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, climate emergency, climate pollutants short-lived, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Emissions flip, feedback, geoengineering, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Point of No Return, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, Temperature, The Unexpected, Tipping, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

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…

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NOAA Research in the Stratosphere is Taking Off

By aerosols, climate emergency, Earth systems, Emissions flip, Engineering, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, Point of No Return, Solutions, Strategy, Tipping

NOAA Research in the Stratosphere is Taking Off March 3, 2023, NOAA (Article updated April 2024: The year 2023 experienced a remarkably unprecedented jump in global temperature that has now exceeded the dangerous 1.5 Degrees C threshold. (See here) Enduring this amount of warming for long, likely no more than a couple to several decades,…

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