Full Name
Mr. Bruce Melton
Job Title
Director
Company
Climate Change Now Initiative
Speaker Bio
Instagram Filming Logs - https://www.instagram.com/bruce.c.melton/Climate Change Photography - https://climatechangephoto.org Base Camp - https://ClimateDiscvoery.org Healthy Planet Action Coalition - https://HealthyPlanetAction.org
Bio
Bruce Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, climate science education specialist, author, and director of the Climate Change Now Initiative (501c3) founded in 2005 – the oldest independent climate science education organization in the world. He has written over 600 reviews of academic climate science, and was personally and singularly responsible for Sierra Club lowering their warming target to a restoration “less than 1 degree C above normal,” where the globally accepted “further warming to 1.5 C degrees above normal” is wrongly considered safe (Thanks to the climate policy committee, reviewing committees and peers, and the national board for their support). This accomplishment is a first of its kind globally that reverses or stabilizes already initiated Earth systems collapses and climate tipping activation, restores extreme weather mayhem back to its former rare levels, and eliminates warming-caused inequity and injustice, where the globally accepted “further warming” target makes effects nonlinearly worse. Sierra Club recognized that the current global climate policy of “a little further warming is safe,” that the Club previously supported, cannot stop current ecological degradation from warming effects and will result in ecological collapse in most systems unless our climate is restored, or cooled back to within the evolutionary boundaries of our Earth systems. MeltOn travels North America filming climate change impacts and his recent award-winning film project, Climate Change Across America, has documented over 150,000 miles of degrading natural systems and destruction of the built environment including South Padre Island erosion in Texas, desert species mortality in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts, vastly increased extremeness and area coverage of wildfires, over 100 million acres of native beetle caused forest mortality across the West, regeneration failure of forests after fire and insect mortality, the National Park Service defined tipping point in giant sequoia burn kill, permafrost collapse in Canada and Alaska, Arctic greening in the Great North and New England, extreme forest species mortality in New England, the Smoky Mountains, and throughout much of the Eastern U.S., from non-native insects and diseases, beach erosion at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and rapidly worsening ghost forests from sea level rise salt water poisoning along the middle East Coast. His films are uncommon documentaries, without talking heads, and featuring adventure across the continent, in some of the most beautiful, remote and threatened places on the planet, and it is all wrapped up in music with lyrics scored by his blues band from Austin (Climate Change). His films and interpretation of science and global warming psychology can be seen at ClimateDiscovery.org, (https://www.climatediscovery.org/) along with his counterintuitively beautiful climate change photography at ClimateChangePhoto.org (https://climatechangephoto.org), and MeltOn’s latest work on climate restoration strategies with the Healthy Planet Action Coalition’s website (https://HealthyPlanetAction.org). Melton is a part-time civil engineer in Austin, Texas, who specializes in critical environmental issues with revenues supporting his nonprofit. His original research was in nonpoint source stormwater pollution runoff treatment, which is fairly similar to nonpoint source climate pollution treatment. His current practice focuses on providing affordable engineering services to the underserved single family residential flooding community. See https://MeltonEngineering.com
Bio
Bruce Melton is a professional engineer, environmental researcher, filmmaker, climate science education specialist, author, and director of the Climate Change Now Initiative (501c3) founded in 2005 – the oldest independent climate science education organization in the world. He has written over 600 reviews of academic climate science, and was personally and singularly responsible for Sierra Club lowering their warming target to a restoration “less than 1 degree C above normal,” where the globally accepted “further warming to 1.5 C degrees above normal” is wrongly considered safe (Thanks to the climate policy committee, reviewing committees and peers, and the national board for their support). This accomplishment is a first of its kind globally that reverses or stabilizes already initiated Earth systems collapses and climate tipping activation, restores extreme weather mayhem back to its former rare levels, and eliminates warming-caused inequity and injustice, where the globally accepted “further warming” target makes effects nonlinearly worse. Sierra Club recognized that the current global climate policy of “a little further warming is safe,” that the Club previously supported, cannot stop current ecological degradation from warming effects and will result in ecological collapse in most systems unless our climate is restored, or cooled back to within the evolutionary boundaries of our Earth systems. MeltOn travels North America filming climate change impacts and his recent award-winning film project, Climate Change Across America, has documented over 150,000 miles of degrading natural systems and destruction of the built environment including South Padre Island erosion in Texas, desert species mortality in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran Deserts, vastly increased extremeness and area coverage of wildfires, over 100 million acres of native beetle caused forest mortality across the West, regeneration failure of forests after fire and insect mortality, the National Park Service defined tipping point in giant sequoia burn kill, permafrost collapse in Canada and Alaska, Arctic greening in the Great North and New England, extreme forest species mortality in New England, the Smoky Mountains, and throughout much of the Eastern U.S., from non-native insects and diseases, beach erosion at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and rapidly worsening ghost forests from sea level rise salt water poisoning along the middle East Coast. His films are uncommon documentaries, without talking heads, and featuring adventure across the continent, in some of the most beautiful, remote and threatened places on the planet, and it is all wrapped up in music with lyrics scored by his blues band from Austin (Climate Change). His films and interpretation of science and global warming psychology can be seen at ClimateDiscovery.org, (https://www.climatediscovery.org/) along with his counterintuitively beautiful climate change photography at ClimateChangePhoto.org (https://climatechangephoto.org), and MeltOn’s latest work on climate restoration strategies with the Healthy Planet Action Coalition’s website (https://HealthyPlanetAction.org). Melton is a part-time civil engineer in Austin, Texas, who specializes in critical environmental issues with revenues supporting his nonprofit. His original research was in nonpoint source stormwater pollution runoff treatment, which is fairly similar to nonpoint source climate pollution treatment. His current practice focuses on providing affordable engineering services to the underserved single family residential flooding community. See https://MeltonEngineering.com
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