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Tree planting: A diminishing part of the climate solution
This article looks at what is called nature-based carbon dioxide removal. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | August 20, 2019 While tree planting has long been a substantial nature-based part of the climate pollution challenge, increasingly we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rag Bloggers
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Yosemite National Park: Climate Change is here, and it’s bad
We are documenting what no others are documenting. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 31, 2019 Bruce Melton will discuss his recent environmental expedition to Yosemite National Park at Thorne Dreyer’s 74th Birthday Bash, a benefit for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rag Bloggers, Yosemite
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Philip Russell, Bruce Melton, Jay Wehnert, Glenn Smith, Pat Thomas & James Retherford, Bill Kirchen, Roy Casagranda, Patricia Vonne, Genevieve Van Cleve & Luis Guerra, Sydney Wright, Ty Richards & Andy Macintyre, Margo Sawyer
Our guests include activists & environmentalists & political analysts; musicians, a storyteller, a slam poet, an architectural sculptor & a Jerry Rubin biographer; plus we discuss Outsider Art & welcome AMLO to Mexico. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag … Continue reading
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Alaskan permafrost now emitting more greenhouse gases than it is storing
Alaskan permafrost has flipped from carbon sink to carbon source. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | July 5, 2018 Climate change researcher and Rag Radio environmental reporter Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer‘s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Bill Minutaglio, Alice Embree, James Cole & Nicole Stasek, Harry Targ, Bruce Melton, Roy Casagranda & Glenn Smith, Alex Coke, Spencer Perskin & Shawn Siegel, and Lee Carter
Our guests include the author of a cool new book about Timothy Leary, health justice and climate change activists, a Virginia Democratic Socialist, an acclaimed jazz musician, and classic Austin rockers. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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Feedbacks kick in: 2017 is second warmest without El Niño influence
‘Recent observations strongly suggest that climate change may soon push some systems past tipping points, with global implications.’ By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | February 1, 2018 Listen to the podcast of Thorne Dreyer’s January 11, 2018 Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Rag Blog, Rag Bloggers
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Climate change 2017: What happened and what it means
Unfortunately, new record-breaking science has made at least as much noise as Trump. By Bruce Melton | Truthout | January 10, 2018 Bruce Melton will discuss the latest in climate change, including material contained in this article, as Thorne Dreyer‘s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, California Fires, Climate Change, Climate Science, Global Warming, Hurricane Harvey, Rag Bloggers, Truthout
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METRO | Bruce Melton : Is Austin Energy now against alternative energy?
The future is bright and breezy, not black and dirty. Whatever is going on with Austin Energy misses some very important and fundamental news. By Bruce Melton | The Rag Blog | August 5, 2014 AUSTIN — Really? Austin Energy … Continue reading
METRO REPORT | Bruce Melton : Critical sea level rise on Padre Island
Sea level rise is accelerating. At some point, our barrier islands will cross a disintegration threshold and begin to disappear. Because every mile of every beach is created differently, we will see some beaches begin to suffer sooner than others. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach Erosion, Beach Report, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Science, Environment, Global Warming, Metro, Padre Island, Rag Bloggers, Sea Level Rise
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Can Austin survive the current Texas drought? / 3
We look at the climate science that warns that Austin faces serious water supply problems, and at the roles played by transportation planning and suburban sprawl in that crisis. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | February 19, 2014 … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Water Supply, Bruce Melton, CAMPO, Central Texas Growth, Climate Change, Climate Denial, Climate Science, Colorado River Watershed, Environment, Global Warming, Highland Lakes Water Reservoirs, james Hensen, Land Development, Rag Bloggers, Roger Baker, Texas Drought, Texas Drought Series, Texas Politics, Urban Sprawl, Water Conservation, Water Politics, Western Drought
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Bruce Melton on Global Warming and Climate Change Denial
Environmental activist Bruce Melton at the studios of KOOP radio in Austin, Texas, September 20, 2013. Photo by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast: Environmental researcher and climate change activist Bruce Melton Austin environmentalist and Rag Blog … Continue reading
