It’s Flooding Down in Texas Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far different from the safe one we recently vacated. By Bruce Melton PE Posted on July 31, 2025 at the Rag Blog https://www.theragblog.com/bruce-melton-climate-science-its-flooding-down-in-texas/ Rag Radio Interview, 080125 https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2025-08-01-bruce-melton See our…
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…
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…
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…
Instagram Filming Logs: Beetles, Fire and Regeneration Failure, September 2023 – Central Rockies Bruce Melton, ClimateDiscovery.org (Instagram logs with photos and video are below the summary.) Across the Central Rockies from the San Juans to Rocky Mountain National Park, beetle attacks are growing again. The beetles and impacted trees are changing though. Gone are the…
It’s not the heat, it’s the warming beyond evolutionary boundaries. Bruce Melton ClimateDiscovery.org First published as an abridge version on The Rag Blog, as a part of an-in-depth radio interview on the Rag Radio syndicated on Pacifica on 7/21/2023 There’s a quote that has been around forever, variously worded and attributed to many. The origin…
Rag Radio 2023-07-21, Climate Change scholar and activist Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio where they discuss the unprecedented heat in the summer of 2023. Among topics Bruce addresses are: What is going on with this increasing frequency of extreme events? Is the heat increasing faster? The additional causes of extreme heat beyond climate…
Rag Radio 2022-09-23 – Bruce Melton on Climate Change & the Sequoia Burn by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2022-09-23-bruce-melton Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio. He is our regular commentator on climate issues, having been on the show multiple times. Bruce recently wrote for The Rag Blog about his filming of the…
Oaks killed by drought near Visalia, California. Media Disproportionately Publishes Climate Change Contrarian’s Positions “Climate Change is a Wicked multidimensional problem,” say the authors of this research from Nature Communications on the disparity between publishing of articles on climate science vs. climate antiscience in the media. The motivation of this study was, “to provide insights…
Mayfield Kentucky after the December 2021 tornado outbreak. Image: State Farm Insurance, Wiki Commons Winter Tornadoes Increase 5-Fold because of Climate Change Winter tornadoes have increase 500 percent since 1953 with most of the increase likely being recent. This study looked at 4293 tornadoes reported between 1953 and 2015. Not only did it find tornadoes…
Climate Change Across America Fall Filming Report Southern and Southwestern Colorado Beetle Attack and Forest Regeneration Failure at Mesa Verde National Park We returned to filming after a long covid. No trouble. On the big drive from Texas to the mountains, New Mexico was grand with their indoor mask mandate. Colorado and Texas were about…
Summary: The Texas winter storm disaster was caused by both climate change and poor planning. Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme, and energy generation planning in Texas did not fully take into consideration cascading feedbacks, simultaneous catastrophes, and the extent to which our climate has already created more extreme weather based on warming…
Environmental Researcher & Activist Bruce Melton Covid-19, Climate Change, permafrost collapse and our new, abruptly evolving culture by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer 2020-07-03 Podcast – https://archive.org/details/RagRadio2020-07-02-BruceMelton Thorne Dreyer’s guest is environmental researcher and activist Bruce Melton. Bruce, a longtime contributor to The Rag Blog and frequent guest on Rag Radio, is a professional engineer, filmmaker,…
A Climate Emergency Response – Austin Group of Sierra Club, Climate Change Committee, June 7, 2021 A climate emergency is upon us. More than half of tipping points are active, they complete their activations and become irreversible with no further warming, and half have dynamical feedbacks that speed the collapse of other tipping systems. See…
Sea Lever Rise Erosion on Padre Island, Windsor Park Climate Crisis Committee, June 6, 2021 This is a special presentation on sea level rise erosion on Padre Island, that has been ongoing since about the turn of the century, has now eroded away the beach at high tide in wild areas not artificially nourished, and that has…
Environmental researcher Bruce Melton joins Thorne Dreyer on Rag Radio to discuss responses to a climate emergency. He covers what a climate emergency is and why we have such emergencies, the nature of climate tipping, what “weather mayhem” is, and much more. He also discusses how we can delay these catastrophes and implement a climate energy response. Listen…
Rag Radio 2021-01-22 – Environmentalist Bruce Melton on Tipping Points and Biden’s Plans by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://archive.org/details/rag-radio-2021-01-22-bruce-melton Environmental researcher and activist Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio. On the show Bruce explains the meaning of a “climate emergency response” and “climate tipping.” Known tipping points include Antarctic collapse, permafrost collapse, epic…
From South Texas to the North Slope of Alaska, climate change impacts are here. They are far more extreme and extensive than publicly understood, are mired in misinformation and the perceived debate, and are practically hidden in remote and difficult to reach areas. This film introduces a new right brain climate change adventure outreach strategy…
This presentation looks at recent reporting on sea level rise from South Padre Island, and the poorly understood statement in popular press about climate change being beyond the point of no return, or already being irreversible. This concept is based on carbon budgets for emissions reductions scenarios where negative emissions are not considered. In other…
