Science Understates Dramatically Half the World’s Population Experiencing Double to 54 Times as Much Extreme Heat As Before We Changed Our Climate, a new extreme heat evaluation by Climate Central dangerously understates reality. A summary and review based on: Climate Change Made Extreme Heat Days More Likely A new attribution study shows every single extreme…
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…
The Dumbest Climate Plan in History Bruce Melton PE First published at the rag Blog on April 18, 2025 Updated here on April 19, 2025 on ClimateDiscovery.org to add more illegitimate actions against NOAA and NASA Podcast forthcoming ~ ~ ~ The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level…
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….
Texas’ Winter Forecast: Much Warmer than Normal, With An Above Average Chance of Extreme Cold The Electric Reliability Council of Texas tells us that this winter is expected to be warmer to much warmer than normal across the state with an above average chance of extreme cold. One of the remarkable statistics they cite is…
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…
Climate Change Denial in Government and Media in Central Texas Record-breaking ice accumulation struck Austin on January 31-February 2, 2023 leading to the worst ice disaster Austin has ever seen. One would think that this obviously climate change-caused event would warrant acknowledgement of climate change in any reporting, much less an after-action report this report…
KXAN Pavement Temperature 162 F August 19, 2024, high temperature for the year. American cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most First published at CNN by Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, August 13, 2024 (Editor’s note: Caution when viewing unbelievable statistics. Check their work! This article states that the heat island…
Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party descending the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 expedition. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, via Yale Climate connections) When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? Intensifying extreme weather events and an…
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…
Not Near Enough Rain in Austin Maybe things will change soon. May is our wettest month after all. The big drought hole southwest of Austin remains and the lakes are in sorry shape. We were supposed to get some relief from El Nino this winter, but nada, even though some have seen 20 inches east…
