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The perceived debate has devastated traditional climate science education The solutions however, are not what they seem New technologies are vastly more cost effective than this "perceived debate" implies Climate Change ... and will get much worse faster Are as bad -or worse- than they seem because of previous delay Impacts are no more costly than what we spend on advertising every year... Solutions Climate Discovery brings you the real science More robust than every before Using plain English The written word For more, swipe on, scroll down or click the menu From the field and from academia Films and music 92 million acres of forest killed: by a native beetle gone berserk because of warming. 500% increase: Greenland ice loss ... in last 10 years. Previously stable beaches already gone ... during normal, non-storm conditions. Research now shows that global cooling smog from coal has masked more than half of current warming that should have already occurred. reveals the masked warming creating more warming than if we did nothing at all. -- when emissions of sulfates cease in the next 20 to 30 years Killing Coal Leave it in the ground Take it out of the sky Hurry... ... We do not have time to wait any longer Climate Discovery and the We make the science clear. Climate Change Now Initiative:

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Climate Science Compromise Feedback Loop and Unrecoverable Impacts

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Beaches coastal, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, Deniers and Delayers, feedback, global warming psychology, Healthy Climate, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, Messaging, modeling, politics, Psycho, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Why are climate change impacts so much worse than projected? What does it mean? Why don’t we do something? In a nutshell, science is conservative, it’s slow, and the great climate consensus that has evolved to protect our society compounds the understating nature of the industry of science. This creates a vastly understating public facing message. …

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March 13, 2019
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Climate Change 2018 Review: The Good and Bad, What Have We Learned? Part 2 – The Good!

By alternatives, Batteries, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, economics, global warming psychology, in-depth and Popular Press, Negative emissions, Solutions, Strategy

Climate Change 2018 Review:  Part 2 – The Good! by Bruce Melton Climate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) So much happened in our climate change world in 2018 that we are printing this article in two parts: The Bad, and The Good. We started with the bad. If you missed Part 1, you…

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February 7, 2019
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse: The Critical Path

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    West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse: The Critical Path Article link Sea level rise estimates of around 10 feet by 2100 are now becoming hard to ignore. This article is about several new findings in 2018 that build on near-10 feet of sea level rise news from NOAA in 2016 and 2017. What is…

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February 5, 2019
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Climate Change 2018 Review: The Good and Bad, What Have We Learned?

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Agriculture, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Extreme Weather, Fire, flood, forest health, Forest Mortality, Healthy Climate, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Negative emissions, Permafrost, pine beetle, politics, Reports, Scenarios, Solutions, Trump, Uncategorized

Climate Change 2018 Review:  Part 1 – The Bad  by Bruce Melton Climate Change Now Initiative, 501c3 (Link to Article) So much happened in our climate change world in 2018 that we are printing this article in two parts: The Bad, and The Good. We start with the bad, and as bad as it was…

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February 2, 2019
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Nearly Two Billion Dollars Spent on Anti-Climate Science Legislative Lobbying 2000 to 2016

By Climate Policy, Deniers and Delayers, politics, The Unexpected

Nearly Two Billion Dollars spent on Anti-Climate Science Legislative Lobbying 2000 to 2016 Robert Brulle at Drexel University reminds us of what makes Congress work, “public opinion is only one, relatively minor input” into decisions made by Congress. (Grossmann 2014) Data for Brulle’s latest work comes from the 1995 Lobbying and Disclosure Act that requires all…

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December 20, 2018
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California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, climate change counter movement, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, Extreme Weather, Fire, Impacts, Truthout.org

    California Wildfires: Where Is the Climate Change Outrage?   Bruce Melton First published at Truthout.org November 17, 2018 Unprecedented droughts, fires and floods are not the “new normal”: Climate change gets nonlinearly worse from here on out. Like an avalanche, the physics of warming determines that a little more warming doesn’t create a…

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November 18, 2018
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2018-11-16: Environmental Activist Bruce Melton Assesses the Damage

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Rag Radio 2018-11-16 – Environmental Activist Bruce Melton Assesses the Damage by  Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://archive.org/details/RagRadio2018-11-16-BruceMelton Thorne Dreyer’s guest, Rag Radio environmental reporter Bruce Melton, is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, author, longtime contributor to The Rag Blog, and CEO of the Climate Now Initiative based in Austin. Today, we discuss…

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November 16, 2018
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Titanic II: Icebergs on a Warmer Planet

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Drought, Extreme Weather, Gulf Stream, Impacts, rainfall, Truthout.org

In an Age of Climate Change, Even Titanic II Is Not Safe From Icebergs Bruce Melton First Published on Truthout November 13, 2018 Titanic II is set to sail in 2022. It’s a $500 million replica of the doomed Titanic that hit a North Atlantic iceberg in 1912. A local news report about the new ship postulated…

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November 13, 2018
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False Balance in the Media Reduces Climate Science Credibility, Oxford English Dictionary

By Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Messaging, Myths, politics, Psycho, Strategy, Trump, Uncategorized, What we can do

False Balance in the Media Reduces Climate Science Credibility, Oxford English Dictionary “Journalists have struggled historically to apply the notion of balance to the reporting of climate change science, because even though the overwhelming majority of the world’s experts agree that human-driven climate change is real and will have major future impacts, a minority of scientists dispute this consensus….

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October 11, 2018
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Climate Change Across America: Summary of Summer Filming Season 2018

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Extreme Weather, Fire, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, Glaciers, Impacts, Mega-Landslides, Permafrost, pine beetle

Climate Change Across America: Summary of Summer Filming Season 2018 (Our trip log with photos and videos can be found here.) This year was year four of filming with 43,000 total miles of observation to date. In the summer filming season in 2018, for 16,000 miles from Austin to the Arctic via California, we literally…

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August 19, 2018
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Climate Change Across America 2018: Full Trip Log

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Drought, Extreme Weather, Fire, flood, Flooding, forest health, Forest Mortality, Glaciers, Heat, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, Mega-Landslides, Permafrost, pine beetle, Shifting Ecology

Climate Change Across America – Instagram Trip Logs Full Trip Log, Summer Filming Season 2018: June 27 through August 11 – Austin to the Arctic Circle via California. The expedition was 16,199 miles, 46 days, 42 different camps, 2 motels – Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Utah,…

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August 16, 2018
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Forest Mortality Exceeds Growth For the First Time

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, forest health, Forest Mortality, pine beetle

Our Nation’s Timberlands Flip: Mortality Exceeds Growth by 2:1 Because of climate change, our nation’s forests are dying faster than they are regenerating. This was not supposed to happen for a long, long time. It’s really something that is not even projected, except in very vague terms about ecosystem transformation. But today, already, we see…

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August 15, 2018
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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.