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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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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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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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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
Bruce Melton : Kick the Climate Deniers off the Island
The Greenwood Acres fishing pier on Lake Buchanan, west of Burnet, Texas. Photo by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog. The climate science is certain: Time to kick the deniers off the island In just eight years, permanent climate conditions … Continue reading
Bruce Melton : Calling all Earthlings
Alien beings emerge from “What Was Once Lake Buchanan” as the water level falls. Photos by Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog. Calling all earthlings:Climate change communicationsmay as well be from aliens Relative to most of the 20th century, Austin’s … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : World Bank on Climate: ‘Turn Down the Heat’
Glacier melt. Photo by Dave Appleby / Flickr / Truthout.Is it really this bad?World Bank on climate:‘Turn down the heat’ Instead of working on climate pollution emissions reductions, we are now emitting more than was imagined in the 1998 worst-case … Continue reading
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Bruce Melton : Extreme Weather like Sandy Caused by Arctic Warming
Seaside Heights Amusement Park, Jersey Shore. Image from underthemat.Superstorm Sandy:Research shows how Arctic warmingdirectly causes extreme weather Climate change plain and simple: Arctic Sea ice melt caused Superstorm Sandy. And things are starting to get crazy with this ongoing string … Continue reading
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