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 sequoia burn that started in the Sierra Nevada. “Why are they burning?” Melton asks. “There is one historic factor with forest management and six new climate change factors that have caused sequoias to burn when sequoias have never burned before.” More than 13,000 mature sequoias have burned since 2015, most of them in 2020 and 2021. Read Bruce’s article and listen to the show to learn more about forest mortality and the widespread effects of climate change.
Bruce is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, climate science education specialist, author, and director of the Climate Change Now Initiative founded in 2005. He has written over 500 reviews of academic climate science, lectures regularly, and has recently received a special achievement award from the Sierra Club for helping in the establishment of new climate policy and a safer limit to warming of “less than 1.0 degrees C above normal,” that reverses already initiated ecological collapse and climate tipping and restores extreme weather mayhem back to its former rare levels. You can see his climate science reviews and films at ClimateDiscovery.org, and his counterintuitively beautiful climate change photography at ClimateChangePhoto.org.]
Rag Radio is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run, solar powered community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It is streamed live on the Internet at KOOP.org. The host and producer of Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer, is a prominent Austin-based activist and writer who was a pioneer of the ’60s underground press movement.
The show’s engineer and associate producer is Tracey Schulz and the staff photographer is Roger Baker; Suzy Shelor is Rag Radio associate; Alice Embree is a frequent guest host; and Glenn Smith and Roy Casagranda are our political analysts.
This show was broadcast (and streamed) live Friday, 2-3 p.m. CDT on KOOP, and was later rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., on Houston Pacifica’s KPFT HD-3 90.1, by KKRN, 88.5-FM in Round Mountain, CA, and at WALHRadio.com in Wilmington, OH. Learn more about Rag Radio here.
