Climate Change Across America
An Award Winning Film
100,000 Miles in the Can
First Film in the Series – Two Awards
Climate Change Impact Adventure Narrative Rockumentary
Music From Austin, Texas
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…
An Introduction to Advanced Climate Change – Two Years in the Making by Bruce Melton PE Climate Change Now Initiative October 2023 (Link to the learning tool) This slide deck is a learning tool with 18,000 words in 52 slides with 70 beautiful images. The notes include about 85,000 words and over 600 references with…
Healthy Planet Action Coalition November 30, 2024 Climate Change Across America Slide Show (Download the slideshow here https://climatediscovery.org/climate-change-across-america-photographic-review-powerpoint-342-slides/ or click on the image above to see the presentation given by Melton. A 342 slide photojournal of climate impacts across North America. Join Bruce Melton PE as he tells the story of impacts from Padre Island…
Visualize World Heat The cover image for this story shows the daily high temperature anomalies for the Austin weather station at Camp Mabry for each day of the year 2022; one colored stripe for every day of the year. The anomaly is the difference in the temperature from normal where red colors are warmer than…
Frostweed On A Warming Planet First published by Bruce Melton PE in the Austin Sierran as a part of its cover image description on February 7, 2024 The most common species of frostweed in Central Texas is, Verbesina virginica. These “ice flowers” come from ice exuded by the stem. It takes a good hard freeze…
Image: The “Flats” on the back side of Padre Island in South Texas. Just inches above sea level, these flats are mostly gone today from sea level rise. The Last Year Below 1.5 C – Remarkable Warming Acceleration In 2023 Surpasses the Dangerous Warming Threshold The Global 1.5 °C Climate Change Threshold Was Unexpectedly Exceeded…
Worst Drought Ever in the Amazon, Caused By Climate Change The fifth, 100-year drought since 2005 has struck the Amazon in 2023; this one more extreme than any of the previous events. Each of these droughts except one were more extreme than the previous. These were 2010, 2015/2016, the smaller one in 2020, and the…
January 26, 2024 – The Heat is On – Passing the dangerous 1.5 C threshold… Rag Radio’s Thorne Dryer of Bruce Melton PE on the sudden acceleration of the global warming rate and exceedance of the dangerous 1.5 degree C warming threshold. It’s warming twice as fast as it was 10 years ago, and in…
Busted: The global 1.5 degree C above normal dangerous climate change threshold Climate Emergency Hope for 2024 A Remarkable Jump in Temperature? Bruce Melton PE, ClimateDiscovery.org Happy New Year all, I want to let you all know about what may to some seem like a perverse perception of “hope” with our accelerating climate emergency. In 2024…