Tag Archives: Climate Science

Bruce Melton : The Climate Change Awareness Drought is Over / 2

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Photos by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.The Climate Change awareness drought is overPart Two: Voices tell us ‘the warmists are dead’ Which side is biased and how do we tell with all the noise in the media? By Bruce Melton … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : The Climate Change Awareness Drought is Over / 1

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo © Bruce Melton, 2012.The climate changeawareness drought is over Part One: It’s time to change the tone The shift in awareness is very encouraging and seems quite likely to be more or less permanent because the number of unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Climate Change Texas: The Worst-Case Scenario is Happening

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Austin, Texas, Late Summer 2011: This is not autumn in Central Texas. These are cedar trees (juniperus Asheii). The fall leaf drop does not begin here until about mid-October and extends through the first of the year. These cedar trees … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : What Can Be Done About Climate Change in Texas?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

What a mess. Even without the fires, our natural environment has been devastated by these droughts. This scene was taken in late August just around the corner from my house in southwest Austin. Fortunately I have only lost a handful … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Has Texas Crossed a Climate Threshold?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Downtown Austin seen from near the intersection of Loop 360 and US 290/71 West. This photo was taken in early September 2011. The brownish yellow- and red-leaved trees in the left and bottom right foreground are elms. They naturally shed … Continue reading →

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Rag Radio : Bruce Melton on the Real-World Effects of Climate Change

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Climate change activist Bruce Melton, left, with Rag Radio host Thorne Dreyer, in the KOOP studios in Austin, Texas, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Photo by Tracey Schulz / Rag Radio. Environmental activist Bruce Melton discussesthe real-world effects of climate change … Continue reading →

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Suzanne Goldenberg : Perry Officials Alter Environmental Report; Scientists Rebel

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Texas Governor Rick Perry. Censorship of scientists’ report sparks revolt. Photo by Evan Vucci / AP / The Guardian.Rick Perry officials doctorscientists’ environmental report Scientists ask for names to be removed after mentions of climate change and sea-level rise are … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Bat Out of Climate Hell

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Like a bat out of climate Hell:Alaska and the Amazon are done By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / February 2, 2011 Because we as a society have refused to listen to … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : It Is Colder Because It Is Warming

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

It is colder because it is warming On a warmer planet, winter weather becomes more volatile. The extremes get more extreme. By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 13, 2010 Global warming refers to climate, not weather. Snowpocalypses … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : I Want a Sequestration Machine for Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Climate intrigue and a change in prosperity:I want a sequestration machine for Christmas By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 23, 2010 Climate change is not just another dangerous dead-end road … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Catastrophic Change and Climate Blindness

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Iceberg discharge is accelerating rapidly in Greenland. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog.Climate blindness By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 2, 2010 Bruce Melton will be Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio, Friday, Dec. 3, … Continue reading →

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Bruce Melton : Climate Science’s New Paradigm

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

It’s the cars! Traffic in Houston. Image from City-Data.com.It’s cars, not coal: The new paradigm of climate science By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / October 28, 2010 The science has changed again. This time, things are really upside … Continue reading →

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