Bruce Melton
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Director of the oldest independent climate science education organization in the world and civil engineer. One of the principal founders of the global climate restoration movement. More - https://climatediscovery.org/climate-change-now-initiative
Top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine. This mountain top is in the alpine zone, the same as arctic tundra. Normally, trees here are stunted and only a few feet tall. The tall trees are a feedback to warming called arctic greening. #arcticgreening www.instagram.com/p/DA95y6lt4YZ/
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Top of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine. This mountain top is in the alpine zone, the same as arctic tundra. Normally, trees here are stunted and only a few feet tall. The tall trees are a feedback to warming called arctic greening. #arcticgreening www.instagram.com/p/DA95y6lt4YZ/
Acadia National Park, Maine. Unidentified disease in red oak. From a distance it looked like a lot of Texas trees in autumn, that just brown and then the leaves fall. This is not Texas and this is some kind of fairly widespread disease. #climatechangeeffects
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April 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Acadia National Park, Maine. Unidentified disease in red oak. From a distance it looked like a lot of Texas trees in autumn, that just brown and then the leaves fall. This is not Texas and this is some kind of fairly widespread disease. #climatechangeeffects
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Acadia National Park, Maine. Video
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April 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Acadia National Park, Maine. Video
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Acadia National Park, Maine. This is some type of mealy bug, very similar to the adelgids attacking hemlock and fir from Appalachia to New England. Video www.instagram.com/p/DBAhJtCteeP/
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Acadia National Park, Maine. This is some type of mealy bug, very similar to the adelgids attacking hemlock and fir from Appalachia to New England. Video www.instagram.com/p/DBAhJtCteeP/
Acadia National Park, Maine - video
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April 7, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Acadia National Park, Maine - video
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Acadia NP, Maine - Leaf Miner, 3 of 3... Leaf miner is attacking in epidemic proportions in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon and are one of many ailments responsible for aspen mortality from sudden aspen decline. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
April 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Acadia NP, Maine - Leaf Miner, 3 of 3... Leaf miner is attacking in epidemic proportions in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon and are one of many ailments responsible for aspen mortality from sudden aspen decline. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
Acadia NP, Maine, 2 of 3... Leaf Miner - The larvae are not mortal to the trees themselves, but years of having their chlorophyll eaten out creates so much stress the trees often die of something else. #climatechangeeffects #leafminer #foresthealth #climatediscovery.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Acadia NP, Maine, 2 of 3... Leaf Miner - The larvae are not mortal to the trees themselves, but years of having their chlorophyll eaten out creates so much stress the trees often die of something else. #climatechangeeffects #leafminer #foresthealth #climatediscovery.org
Acadia National Park, Maine 1 of 3... This poplar has an attack of leaf miner. The fly larvae that make these tracks, eat the chlorophyll out from between the upper and lower leaf surfaces. I was surprised at how widespread this was this far south. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Acadia National Park, Maine 1 of 3... This poplar has an attack of leaf miner. The fly larvae that make these tracks, eat the chlorophyll out from between the upper and lower leaf surfaces. I was surprised at how widespread this was this far south. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
September 26 - (Turn up the volume!) Chasing a murder of crows at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge near Hampton Maine, on the coast. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #murderofcrows
Bruce Melton on Instagram: "September 26 - (Turn up the volume!) Chasing a murder of crows at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge near Hampton Maine, on the coast."
4 likes, 3 comments - bruce.c.melton on October 11, 2024: "September 26 - (Turn up the volume!) Chasing a murder of crows at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge near Hampton Maine, on the coast...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
September 26 - (Turn up the volume!) Chasing a murder of crows at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge near Hampton Maine, on the coast. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #murderofcrows
New Hampshire 114 and Cortland Ave red pine mortality from red pine scale. Red pine is a wetland tolerant pine, stressed by warming with fluctuating water levels in bogs with widespread mortality in New England. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #climateimpacts #climatechange
March 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
New Hampshire 114 and Cortland Ave red pine mortality from red pine scale. Red pine is a wetland tolerant pine, stressed by warming with fluctuating water levels in bogs with widespread mortality in New England. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #climateimpacts #climatechange
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If the Trump administration succeeds in its demand that the Dept of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia be placed under receivership, there's no reason they couldn't demand this of any academic department in the US that studies climate change.
Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education
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March 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If the Trump administration succeeds in its demand that the Dept of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia be placed under receivership, there's no reason they couldn't demand this of any academic department in the US that studies climate change.
New Hampshire, 101 West at IH 95 at the toll station. This type of mortality is widespread in bogs across the north because of inconsistent water; either too much or too little. This creates stress, which allows insects like red pine scale to attack. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #foresthealth
March 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
New Hampshire, 101 West at IH 95 at the toll station. This type of mortality is widespread in bogs across the north because of inconsistent water; either too much or too little. This creates stress, which allows insects like red pine scale to attack. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #foresthealth
Cape Cod, Red pine scale. These tiny non-native sap sucking insects glue their one-sided shell to tree needles and can attack by the thousands. Years of continuous attack can kill. Attacks are allowed by warming stress. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #redpinescale #climateimpacts
March 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Cape Cod, Red pine scale. These tiny non-native sap sucking insects glue their one-sided shell to tree needles and can attack by the thousands. Years of continuous attack can kill. Attacks are allowed by warming stress. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #redpinescale #climateimpacts
Cape Cod, Nauset Lighthouse, MA. Notice the red pine scale tip kill on the pine on the right. It is very widespread at the Outer Cape where we observed. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #redpinescale #forestmortality #forrestimpacts #climateimpacts #ClimateChangePhoto.org
Bruce Melton on Instagram: "September 39, Cape Cod, Nauset Lighthouse. Notice the red pine scale tip kill on the pine on the right. Besides for red pine scale mortality being evident across our path t...
1 likes, 0 comments - bruce.c.melton on October 13, 2024: "September 39, Cape Cod, Nauset Lighthouse. Notice the red pine scale tip kill on the pine on the right. Besides for red pine scale mortality ...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Cape Cod, Nauset Lighthouse, MA. Notice the red pine scale tip kill on the pine on the right. It is very widespread at the Outer Cape where we observed. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #redpinescale #forestmortality #forrestimpacts #climateimpacts #ClimateChangePhoto.org
Nauset Beach erosion, Cape Cod, MA. Like many places on our shores, erosion has been around forever. The difference today is the rate. The locals know. See the post for more. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #sealevelrise #beacherosion #climatediscovery.org
Bruce Melton on Instagram: "September 28, Nauset Beach erosion, Cape Code. Like many places on our shores, erosion has been around forever. The difference today is the rate. One of the gray-haired sur...
0 likes, 0 comments - bruce.c.melton on October 13, 2024: "September 28, Nauset Beach erosion, Cape Code. Like many places on our shores, erosion has been around forever. The difference today is the r...
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March 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Nauset Beach erosion, Cape Cod, MA. Like many places on our shores, erosion has been around forever. The difference today is the rate. The locals know. See the post for more. www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #sealevelrise #beacherosion #climatediscovery.org
Cape Cod National Seashore, Outer Cape near Provincetown, Race Point Beach area. Red pine scale mortality (shown here) now appears capable of eliminating red pine from the landscape. #climatechange #climate impacts #[email protected]
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Bruce Melton on Instagram: "September 28 - Cape Cod National Seashore, Outer Cape near Provincetown, Race Point Beach area, red pine scale kill. The scale that attacks red pine was brought to the US f...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Cape Cod National Seashore, Outer Cape near Provincetown, Race Point Beach area. Red pine scale mortality (shown here) now appears capable of eliminating red pine from the landscape. #climatechange #climate impacts #[email protected]
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The ongoing intensification of the NAO is starting to become striking
Its the pressure difference between the Icelandic low and Azores high - but both can be dislocated or further intensified via other high and lows in their vicinity - so expect exceptional events hitting Europe
#NAO #climate
Its the pressure difference between the Icelandic low and Azores high - but both can be dislocated or further intensified via other high and lows in their vicinity - so expect exceptional events hitting Europe
#NAO #climate
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
King Tide flooding, marina on the Rappahanock River, southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Normally, high tide rises to only 12 to 18 inches below the top of the pier. Video - www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #KingTide #sealevelrise #climatechange
March 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
King Tide flooding, marina on the Rappahanock River, southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Normally, high tide rises to only 12 to 18 inches below the top of the pier. Video - www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt... #KingTide #sealevelrise #climatechange
King Tide flooding, marina on the Rappahanock River, southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Normally, high tide rises to only 12 to 18 inches below the top of the pier. Video - www.instagram.com/p/DBprXKpNaqA/ #KingTide #sealevelrise #climatechange
March 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
King Tide flooding, marina on the Rappahanock River, southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Normally, high tide rises to only 12 to 18 inches below the top of the pier. Video - www.instagram.com/p/DBprXKpNaqA/ #KingTide #sealevelrise #climatechange
Coquina Beach, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Not much beach remains. This is what a non-nourished, wild beach looks like, badly eroded and impassable at high tide. Video - www.instagram.com/p/DBu5_kSN9_k #kingtide #climateimpacts #sealevelrise
March 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Coquina Beach, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Not much beach remains. This is what a non-nourished, wild beach looks like, badly eroded and impassable at high tide. Video - www.instagram.com/p/DBu5_kSN9_k #kingtide #climateimpacts #sealevelrise
What does one do with their septic tank when climate change-caused sea level rise erodes the beach out from under their house?
See the video from the Outer Banks at Rodanthe, North Carolina. #sealevelrise #climatechange www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
See the video from the Outer Banks at Rodanthe, North Carolina. #sealevelrise #climatechange www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
What does one do with their septic tank when climate change-caused sea level rise erodes the beach out from under their house?
See the video from the Outer Banks at Rodanthe, North Carolina. #sealevelrise #climatechange www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
See the video from the Outer Banks at Rodanthe, North Carolina. #sealevelrise #climatechange www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melt...
The massive warming rate acceleration in 2023-24 was 25 times the rate of the previous 150 years. Warming in 2023-24 was 0.2 degrees C per year, compared with the previous 150 year’s warming rate of 0.008 degrees C per year. climatediscovery.org/the-warming-...
March 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The massive warming rate acceleration in 2023-24 was 25 times the rate of the previous 150 years. Warming in 2023-24 was 0.2 degrees C per year, compared with the previous 150 year’s warming rate of 0.008 degrees C per year. climatediscovery.org/the-warming-...
Rodanthe, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This is a high erosion area, but this is ridiculous. The rate of erosion has rapidly increased as the sea level rise rate has increased. See the video www.instagram.com/p/DCF_kq-NEE...
March 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Rodanthe, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This is a high erosion area, but this is ridiculous. The rate of erosion has rapidly increased as the sea level rise rate has increased. See the video www.instagram.com/p/DCF_kq-NEE...
Dangedorf 2023 - Sea level rise of 10 mm per year over last decade from the Outer Banks to the western Gulf of Mexico is triple the global average because of slow down of the Gulf Stream and gravitational anomalies from loss of Greenland ice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Acceleration of U.S. Southeast and Gulf coast sea-level rise amplified by internal climate variability - Nature Communications
Sea level rise along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast has accelerated since 2010 due to changes in steric expansion and the ocean’s circulation. The acceleration represents the compounding effects of...
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March 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Dangedorf 2023 - Sea level rise of 10 mm per year over last decade from the Outer Banks to the western Gulf of Mexico is triple the global average because of slow down of the Gulf Stream and gravitational anomalies from loss of Greenland ice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beach erosion from sea level rise and the King Tide on Pea Island, south of Nags Head, Outer Banks, North Carolina with the highest sea level rise rate in the world at 10 mmm per year; three times greater than the global average. Video www.instagram.com/p/DCVWm6YN1-...
March 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Beach erosion from sea level rise and the King Tide on Pea Island, south of Nags Head, Outer Banks, North Carolina with the highest sea level rise rate in the world at 10 mmm per year; three times greater than the global average. Video www.instagram.com/p/DCVWm6YN1-...