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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / 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. Caption: Cow Creek and what was Texas State Highway 1431, just … Continue reading
BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE & POLITICS / The dumbest climate plan in history
By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2025 The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level of knowledge of this current administration, but to draw attention to the strongly conservative Wall Street Journal article,“The Dumbest Trade War … Continue reading
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BRUCE MELTON / ESSAY / Resist the illegitimate administration: Why this happened and the climate change connection.
By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 23, 2025 SUMMARY: Americans did not change their views causing the Big Lie to be elected. Their views were bastardized by the unprecedented number of lies and the Fascist oligarchy dictator … Continue reading
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS AMERICA / SCIENCE / Bruce Melton
East Coast Filming 2024 Forest kill from salt water intrusion, Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 26, 2024 [Listen to Bruce Melton discuss the issues raised in this article on … Continue reading
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BRUCE MELTON | CLIMATE | It’s not the heat… The difference today with climate change is duration.
Is it time to rent out Texas? By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 21, 2023 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s interview with Bruce Melton on Rag Radio at 2 p.m., Friday, July 21, 2023, on KOOP 91.7 in … Continue reading
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BRUCE MELTON | CLIMATE CHANGE | Winter storm Texas 2023, and climate change
Ice storm brought down the power lines and it’s cold, cold, cold. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2023 Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest from 2-3 p.m. CST, February 9, 2013, on KOOP 91.7-FM … Continue reading
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BRUCE MELTON | CLIMATE | Sequoias burn: Ongoing collapse of the unburnable
The dead giants command a most unswerving attention. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | September 22, 2022 Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio Friday, September 23, from 2-3 p.m. CT on KOOP 91.7-FM in … Continue reading
BRUCE MELTON : CLIMATE | The Texice disaster, Valentine’s week, 2021
Stories of climate change survival, our current emergency, and new solutions to this existential crisis. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 10, 2022 AUSTIN — The Texas winter storm disaster was caused by both climate change and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, blizzard, Bruce Melton, cascading feedbacks, catastrophe, causes, Climate Change, climate pollution treatment, climate tipping, disaster, emissions, Global Warming, ice storm, natural systems, Rag Bloggers, record snow, rolling blackouts, simultaneous catastrophes, solutions, uncertainity, winter storm
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PANDEMIC | The Covid-19 testing myth
If more tests meant more cases, the number of cases would mirror the number of tests. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 23, 2020 AUSTIN — More tests means more cases, right? And, everyone can get a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Environment, Pandemic, Rag Bloggers
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ENVIRONMENT | Covid-19, climate change,
and permafrost collapse…
…and our new, abruptly evolving culture. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 3, 2020 AUSTIN — The origin of Covid-19 is still in dispute in academia. The classic connection is from contemporary bats via pangolins or civets, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, COVID-19, Habitat Loss, Pathogen Reanimation, Permafrost Collapse, Rag Bloggers, Telework, Virus Origin
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COVID-19: The tale of two graphs
Careful what you see and believe. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | April 20, 2020 In my work as a professional engineer, as an environmental researcher, and now as the director of the oldest independent climate science education … Continue reading
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Microsoft on climate: The game changer
Historic climate pollution emissions almost everyone missed. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 3, 2020 Microsoft going net zero by 2030 is a tremendously insightful action, but what’s truly groundbreaking and ever so much more important today, … Continue reading
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