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Scientific American on Understating Climate Science – Very Important

By Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solutions, Deniers and Delayers, global warming psychology, Impacts, Legacy Policy, politics, Psycho

Four giant sequoias killed or mostly killed by climate change-caused wildfire. Sequoia National Monument, Black Mountain Grove, Pier Fire 2017. Sequoias don’t normal die in wildfire. When our climate has changed enough to cause sequoias to die, from overly extreme fires caused by unprecedented low fuel moisture, it’s caused by climate change, not enhanced. Broad…

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August 25, 2019
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Paradise California: 14,000 Simultaneous Climate Change Catastrophes – The Camp Fire 2018

By Abrupt changes, Extreme Weather, Fire, Impacts, Photo Tour, The Unexpected

The depths of the Paradise Fire on November 8, 2018 are yet unknown. 14,000 homes were destroyed in four hours along with another 5,000 businesses and commercial structures. Recovery appears to be strong, debris are about half removed, but reconstruction as yet has little obvious momentum. 14,000 Simultaneous Catastrophes: Climate Change in Paradise California, the…

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August 23, 2019
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New Report Warns Planet May Be Warming Twice as Fast as Expected

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Impacts, Legacy Policy, modeling, Reports, Sensitivity, Solutions, The Unexpected

  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…

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August 21, 2019
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Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal: Science and Money Speak

By adaptation, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Healthy Climate, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, Solutions, Strategy

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…

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August 18, 2019
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State of the Climate Report 2018, American Meteorological Society

By Abrupt changes, Extreme Weather, Impacts, rainfall, Reports, sea ice, Sea Level Rise, Temperature

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…

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August 15, 2019
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Master Denier Frank Luntz Flips on Climate and Offers Communications Help

By Climate Reform, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Fire, Healthy Climate, Impacts, Messaging, Myths, Psycho, Strategy, The Unexpected, What we can do

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…

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July 28, 2019
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Permafrost Melt Photo Tour 2018

By Abrupt changes, feedback, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, Methane, Permafrost

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…

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July 10, 2019
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Are We Already Doomed? – Why 12 years to act and what does that mean?

By Gigs and Presentations

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…

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June 23, 2019
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06-21-2019: Environmental Researcher Bruce Melton with Latest on Climate Change

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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…

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June 21, 2019
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Rag Radio June 6, 2021 – Environmental Researcher Bruce Melton with Latest on Climate Change by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer

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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…

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June 6, 2019
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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…

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May 29, 2019
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A Houston Hurricane w/ 20′ Surge: $863 Billion Over 50 Years – Rapid Intensification

By adaptation, Beaches coastal, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Hurricanes, Sea Level Rise

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…

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May 27, 2019
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Batteries at Parity With Baseload Coal, Gas and Nuclear

By alternatives, Batteries, climate solutions, economics, Solutions, Uncategorized

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…

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April 30, 2019
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2019-03-15: The Band Climate Change With Bruce Melton

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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…

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March 15, 2019
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Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Steamboat Lake, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Silverthorne, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, North of Steamboat Springs, Colorado Pitch tubes: A tree's only defense against bark beetles. Pheromones, or natural beetle hormones, both attract and repel beetles and can be used as defense. Pesticides work too, but application timing is critical and spraying the world is likely improbable. Gray kill: During the first three years needles are bright red, brown and then fall off entirely. Only cold of -20 to -40 straight, in early and in mid winter respectively, can kill the beetle. Those temperatures disappeared about the turn of the 21st century. In areas of human occupation, dead trees become falling hazards quickly and must be removed. Blue slashes and flagging mark trees to be cut. These are white bark pine in Yellowstone National Park. Logged beetle kill, Prospector Campground, Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado. for up to about five years the dead wood can be used for lumber early and pelletized fuel late. After that the tops of the trees are too brittle and fall on logging machinery and loggers. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetles once attacked mostly lodgepole pines like these in Rocky Mountain National Park. Now there are so many beetles they are attacking even spruce trees. The scale of the kill is immense at more than 20 times greater than anything before. The attack is at 92 million acres.For comparison, Yellowstone is two million acres. Permafrost melt, Denali Highway, Alaska. Tree kill from soil saturation due to melted permafrost. East of Fairbanks, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pool and drowned trees near Chena, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater ponds, Denali Highway, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pond, Fairbanks, Alaska (within city limits). A meltwater river flows from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. The dark ice is dust from eons of accumulation and surface melt. Ice loss in Greenland has increased over 500 percent in ten years. Surface melting creates a very rough, surface where accumulated dust does not wash away. These drifts are solid ice. Around the perimeter of the ice sheet at low elevations the ice is melting tens of feet per year or more. The scale of melt is immense. This moraine is 100 feet high and the ice once towered over it. The ice flows in rivers and tongues and colder, drier times with more dust can be seen in the layers of older ice, closer to the edge. Also note how much lower the surface is than the moraines deposited along the margins of the ice. Most of this melt is recent as the ice has been in equilibrium since the Little Ice Age that ended 150 to 200 years ago. Less than a mile from its edge the ice sheet can be 1,000 feet tall. At it's center it is 11,000. The calving face of the ice sheet can be over 200 feet tall. The light is fantastically ever changing. Ilulissat Icefjord: Millions of icebergs , five times more than at the turn of the century, pour through Greenland's icefjords. Meltwater drains to the bottom of the ice sheet through holes, or moulins. There it lubricates the flow of the ice sheet, further increasing discharge of bergs. Bubbles of ancient air trapped in the ice have confirmed many hypothesis about how and when our climate has radically changed before. Bergs calve like thunder from massive ice cliffs at all hours of the day. Beach erosion is rapidly accelerating on Padre Island. Mile 30 beyond the 4x4 only sign. This beach was once 200 to 300 feet wide. Padre Island National Seashore, mile 7. Most of the erosion has been recently. Mile 50, Padre Island National Seashore. Padre Island is sinking naturally with little man made subsidence, but before the turn of the 21st century, it wasn't enough to cause massive beach erosion. Sand starvation from inland reservoirs plays a role too, but historically these beaches have been stable. South Padre Island has a little more trouble with more sand starvation from the Rio Grande and less rainfall to grow stabilizing dune grasses. Here, in places erosion is extreme. this is high tide, non-storm conditions. Several places along South Padre have been eroding more or less since the dams went up on the Rio Grande, but since the turn of the century the rate has likely increased significantly. October 2014, King tide, biggest tide of the autumn. Again in 2014, no storms of any consequence on the Texas Coast. Erosion down by the Mansfield jetties is much greater than in 2013. The worst on North Padre in 2013 was a few miles from the Mansfield Pass jetties in the sand starvation zone. The beach has never been wide here and during storms is often the first to erode. But normally, the beach builds back. This erosion is happening in non-storm conditions. At times the four-wheel drive trail is challenging. South Padre, Mile 13 beyond end of pavement. This is the first stage of barrier island disintegration. The beach goes first. The beach protects the dunes, which in turn protect the rest of the island.