Bruce Melton
@brucemelton.bsky.social
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...
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
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
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...
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-...
Spruce Beetle Kill Along the Colorado-New Mexico Border, Rio Grande National Forest, altitude 10,000 feet plus. Native bark beetle kill like this is widespread across the Rockies from New Mexico to treeline in Canada, caused by water stress from warming. climatechangephoto.org climatediscovery.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Spruce Beetle Kill Along the Colorado-New Mexico Border, Rio Grande National Forest, altitude 10,000 feet plus. Native bark beetle kill like this is widespread across the Rockies from New Mexico to treeline in Canada, caused by water stress from warming. climatechangephoto.org climatediscovery.org
American cities are getting unbearably hot. (CNN article) Caution when viewing unbelievable statistics. This article states that heat island can raise urban temperatures by 20 degrees F, while EPA says, heat island in urban areas is 1–7° F higher. climatediscovery.org/13312-2/ From 08/19/2024
March 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
American cities are getting unbearably hot. (CNN article) Caution when viewing unbelievable statistics. This article states that heat island can raise urban temperatures by 20 degrees F, while EPA says, heat island in urban areas is 1–7° F higher. climatediscovery.org/13312-2/ From 08/19/2024
When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? Three common misunderstanding about our climate future by Jeff Masters, Ph.D., Meteorologist, that neglects several significant pieces of science that makes much of his prognosis moot. climatediscovery.org/13430-2/
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
When will climate change turn life in the U.S. upside down? Three common misunderstanding about our climate future by Jeff Masters, Ph.D., Meteorologist, that neglects several significant pieces of science that makes much of his prognosis moot. climatediscovery.org/13430-2/
Climate change denial in government and media in the deep blue Republic of Austin - Record-breaking ice accumulation struck Austin in February 2023 leading to the worst ice disaster Austin has ever seen, but no mention of climate change in this report. See this review climatediscovery.org/13418-2/
March 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Climate change denial in government and media in the deep blue Republic of Austin - Record-breaking ice accumulation struck Austin in February 2023 leading to the worst ice disaster Austin has ever seen, but no mention of climate change in this report. See this review climatediscovery.org/13418-2/