On August 21, 2026, President Donald Trump announced a temporary 90-day waiver of out-of-quota tariffs on imported ground beef, allowing up to 300,000 metric tons to enter the U.S. market tariff-free in an effort to reduce grocery prices. The president said he had secured a commitment that the imported meat would be sold at 25% […]
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Where’s the Beef? Tariffs, Inflation, and the Climate Cost of Meat
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A Hound’s Nose
Nemo’s Nose Knows I’ve been thinking about how to describe Nemo’s nose. He’s half Labrador and looks like a golden Lab, but his brain seems to be wired more like a hound. I’ve had Labs before, and they all loved the water. You couldn’t keep them out of it. Nemo is completely different. He prefers […]
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Treasury Doubles Bond Buybacks as U.S. Bond Market Volatility Deepens
The U.S. Department of the Treasury intervened on August 19, 2026, announcing that it will at least double the size of its liquidity-support bond buyback operations in an effort to calm a highly volatile Treasury market. Under the direction of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the maximum repurchase limits for longer-dated nominal coupon securities will increase […]
The Bleeding Edge of Climate Change
by Daniel and Sidd While Sidd was in town, I took some notes. Somehow, they turned into this: Climate Change: The Big Picture There are many ways to look at climate change. From a micro perspective, there are millions of individual feedbacks operating throughout the Earth system. From a macro perspective, there is the climate […]
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Climate Change Notes
Climate Change There are many ways to look at it. If you go with a micro view, there are millions of feedbacks. If you look at it from a macro view, there is the climate system. How these feedbacks are feeding back is the bleeding edge of climate change. One of the simplest of feedbacks, […]
Operation Blue Skies: Testing a New Way to Reduce Aviation’s Climate Impact
by Daniel Brouse Cloud feedback is one of the most important—and least understood—climate multipliers. That makes efforts to better understand and control aviation-related cloud formation particularly significant. On August 18, 2026, the landmark £5 million “Operation Blue Skies” project was officially launched, marking the world’s first airspace-scale trial of contrail avoidance across an entire oceanic […]
When Climate Moves the Crust: The Earth Quakes
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee For decades, we have studied the relationship between earthquakes and climate change. Early in that work, there was little evidence that changes in global temperature were having any meaningful effect on tectonic activity. That conclusion was reasonable at the time. Climate change was expected to progress relatively slowly, over […]
Human CO2 Climate Change: All You Need to Know
by Daniel Brouse Human CO2 Climate Change: All You Need to KnowAn unprecedented rate of Earth-system change. The Geological Society of London (the UK’s expert association of professional geologists since 1807) says: ” ….the current speed of human-induced CO2 change and warming is nearly without precedent in the entire geological record, with the only known […]
Demand Destruction: Bad News for the Economy, Good News for the Environment
U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly by 0.6% month over month in July 2026, coming in well below the forecast of a 0.1% increase. The data, released this morning, points to a significant slowdown in American consumer spending and a reversal of the momentum seen in previous months. Key Figures From the July Report Bad News […]
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U.S. Fiscal Deficit Surges as 30-Year Treasury Yields Hit 25-Year High
by Daniel Brouse The U.S. federal budget deficit reached a record $432 billion in July 2026, the largest deficit ever recorded for the month of July and the widest monthly shortfall since March 2021. The July surge pushed the cumulative deficit for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2026 to approximately $1.8 trillion—already exceeding […]