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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 | 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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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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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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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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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
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Gorgeous global march shows how to win
the climate fight
Huge environmental action in New York teaches us that the answer to change lies with the grass roots. By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | September 22, 2014 NEW YORK — The massive People’s Climate March, the most hopeful, … Continue reading
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
