This is climate pollution. One cannot see the global warming gases, but what we can see are the global cooling particulates created by burning naturally occurring sulfur in fossil fuels. Recent increases in global sulfur in fossil fuels regulations have accelerated global warming substantially, as they are removing global cooling that has masked about half…
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 most important carbon capture tax and cash pay incentive in the world has been upheld by the current U.S. administration and in some cases enhanced. Annually 61 million tons of CO2 are captured and safely stored, a drop in the bucket but Rome was not built in a day. The U.S. carbon capture incentive…
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…
Stratos, 500 million ton per year air capture unit by Occidental Petroleum in the Permian Basin, Texas What’s next for carbon removal? Undue false and widespread pessimism in the popular press. Companies have still drawn down only enough CO2 to cancel out a few hours of US emissions. Here’s what it will take to really…
Filming Logs 2026 – From Niagara Falls through New England and down to the Banks Forest mortality in the Northeast is beginning to be obvious to normal citizens. This means it is well established and far beyond normal mortality of a single individual out of 100 every few years. The curious thing about mortality in…
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…
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…
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…
Grand Canyon National Park North Rim Infrastructure Destroyed – Massively Irresponsible Fire Control and Passive Climate Denial Nary a word about climate change in reporting of the fire that destroyed almost all infrastructure at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, including the historic Grand Canyon Lodge. It’s not just our national treasures that are…
It’s Flooding Down in Texas Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. By Bruce Melton PE Posted on July 31, 2025 at the Rag Blog https://www.theragblog.com/bruce-melton-climate-science-its-flooding-down-in-texas/ Rag Radio Interview, 080125 https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2025-08-01-bruce-melton See our…
Lipscomb 2025 – Sea level rise projection planning based on statistical certainty and robust science (never mentioning risk)… Recent Antarctic-based sea level rise findings have consistently lowered future SLR amounts based on refined modeling of ice discharge mechanisms of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Shelves. This evaluation of recent Antarctic ice loss SLR science seeks…
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…
