by Daniel Brouse California Wildfire Insurance: Who Pays When the Forest Burns? California is confronting a difficult new reality: increasingly destructive wildfires are no longer just an environmental problem. They are becoming a financial, legal, insurance, and property-risk problem that reaches directly into the lives of homeowners, utilities, insurers, investors, and taxpayers. California lawmakers and […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Socio-Economic-Ecological Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse From Biodiversity to Monoculture: The Socio-Economic-Ecological Feedback Loop Climate change is often described as a problem of rising temperatures, but temperature is only one expression of the additional energy entering the Earth system. That energy moves through the atmosphere, hydrologic cycle, soils, vegetation, ecosystems, agriculture, forests, and human economies. As each system […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? North Texas
by Daniel Brouse North Texas: Drought, Wildfire, Evacuation, Water Scarcity, Livestock Liquidation, Crop Failure The Ross Fire: Climate Energy on the Ground The Ross Fire has exploded across more than 50,000 acres of North Texas, triggering mandatory evacuations, school closures, and a major emergency response. Driven by triple-digit heat, exceptionally low humidity, strong winds, and […]
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How Is the Climate Energy Hitting You? — Central England
by Daniel Brouse and Rocky Rex Central England is providing a very tangible demonstration of what climate energy looks like when it moves through a real landscape. Not as an abstract temperature anomaly. Not as a number on a graph. As heatwaves. Drought. Wildfires. Crop losses. Water restrictions. And then sudden, intense rainfall arriving on […]
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Sea-Level Rise: Rubbing Salt in the Wound
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? The Jersey Shore Is Sure Sea-Level Rise: Rubbing Salt in the Wound Sea-level rise is not simply a matter of the ocean getting higher. Climate change is altering the physical forces that move water toward and onto the shoreline. Rising seas, changing atmospheric […]
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Where’s the Beef? Tariffs, Inflation, and the Climate Cost of Meat
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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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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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 […]