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BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE CHANGE / Climate Change Review 2025
Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. The Science of the Effects of Warming By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 31, 2025 The good news is real, but a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Climate Change Review, Environment, Global Warming
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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 | 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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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Heat Wave, Rag Bloggers, Texas Climate
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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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Tagged 2223 Winter Storm, Austin Ice Storm, Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Rag Bloggers
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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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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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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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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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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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How close are we to doomsday?
Some models predict a global firestorm apocalyptic-level event. By Steve Rossignol | The Rag Blog | August 29, 2017 Well, we appear to have survived the historic solar eclipse. And it also appears that the potential nuclear crisis with North … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Doomsday, Global Warming, Methane Emissions, Rag Bloggers, Steve Rossignol
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Marching for a green economy ‘built to last’
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030, calling it ‘a moral imperative.’ By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | September 24, 2014 NEW YORK — With hundreds of thousands … Continue reading
