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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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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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Very Large Negative Emissions: Beyond Paris Emissions Reductions to a Safe and Healthy Climate

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James Hansen, 32 year director of the U.S. national climate modeling agency, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (1981-2013, now retired), has had a new fundamental piece of climate work published. His team looks at the negative emissions required–in addition to various scenarios for emissions reductions–that are needed to achieve “non-dangerous” warming. Under Hansen’s…

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