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Continuous El Nino Conditions Due to Human-Caused Climate Warming

By Abrupt changes, evolutionary boundaries, Extreme Weather, Heat, Impacts, ocean processes, Oceans, Point of No Return, Temperature, Tipping

Continuous El Nino Conditions Due to Human-Caused Climate Warming by Bruce Melton PE ClimateDiscovery.org ClimateChangePhoto.org El Nino is not just periodic any longer. Current ocean warming has created continuous El Nino conditions. When NOAA tells us it’s an El Nino in the Pacific, this reflects conditions that are “warming above average,” where the average ocean…

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Sudden Jump in Academic Findings Indicating the Crossing of Numerous New Earth System Tipping Points

By Abrupt changes, Antarctic sea ice, Climate Culture, climate emergency, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, engineered solutions, Engineering, evolutionary boundaries, feedback, forest health, Forest Mortality, geoengineering, ice sheet, Impacts, Legacy Policy, modeling, ocean processes, Oceans, sea ice, Shifting Ecology, Solutions, Strategy, The Unexpected, Tipping, Vegetation Response

Findings since mid-May reveal new and more serious insight into tipping threshold crossing of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets, Antarctic sea ice, ocean acidification, and tropical and boreal forests. The 30 percent warming jump in 2023 and 2024 is crucial to understanding the extreme risks of our current and rapidly accelerating climate trajectory. But…

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When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? A common misunderstanding about our current climate knowledge.

By Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, climate solutions, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, evolutionary boundaries, Messaging, Myths, Solutions, The Unexpected

Painting by Henry C. Pitz showing John Wesley Powell and his party descending the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, presumably during the historic 1869 expedition. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, via Yale Climate connections) When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? Intensifying extreme weather events and an…

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1-22-2021: Environmentalist Bruce Melton on Tipping Points and Biden’s Plans

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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…

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