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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Sea-Level Rise: Rubbing Salt in the Wound
Taking the Temperature of Climate Change
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Bend Over Much of the world is focused on 1.5°C. One reason the public has become so focused on this number is its simplicity. A 1.5°C (2.7°F) increase sounds like a straightforward, easily understood concept. It also doesn’t sound particularly frightening. After all, what’s the big deal about a […]
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 […]
Money Moves People: Why Demand Destruction May Be the Fastest Path Beyond Fossil Fuels
by Daniel Brouse 2026: The New Economic Reality Money moves people. The climate costs of fossil-fuel dependence are increasingly outweighing its benefits—not in some distant future, but here and now. We are moving beyond arguments about what climate change might cost decades from today. Across the Western world, climate impacts are already imposing costs of […]
The Good Ancestor
A poem by Daverick Leggett Every day I walk a hundred yearsto the hill where my great, great granddaughter sits.I carry words of blessingand reach to touch her back. But feeling me near she turns,sad-eyed and heavy with grief. “What was it like?” she asks,“when the great whales swam,when the birds sang you awake,when the […]
The Hydration Myth: Why You Don’t Need Eight Glasses of Water a Day
by Daniel Brouse The rule to drink six to eight glasses of water a day is a myth. The standard recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water every day is a popular health myth that is not supported by scientific evidence. While it may serve as a convenient baseline, there is no universal […]
Integrated Climate Stewardship: The Fossil Fuel Question and Answer
Question: I use phasing out in a way that means completely ending the use and production of fossil fuels down to zero. Phasing down means a gradual reduction or scaling back in FF use over time without specifying a complete stop. Would add or alter that in any way? How would you define differntiate ‘transition […]
Earth’s Thin, Changing Atmosphere: How Human Climate Change Is Reshaping the Troposphere
By Daniel BrouseEconomist & ClimatologistMembrane Domain USAAugust 10, 2026 Our system gives no value to global commons such as the atmosphere or the oceans, because they are not seen as “scarce commodities”. One oak tree does not matter, because there are vast numbers of oak trees. Pumping sewage into the sea doesn’t matter, because the […]
The Future of Energy Is Not Static
By Daniel BrouseEconomist & ClimatologistMembrane Domain USAAugust 10, 2026 I’m not certain what the future holds. I don’t think anyone can be. But I’m also not convinced that the future of fossil fuels can be projected simply by looking at today’s production levels and assuming they will continue indefinitely. There is a very real possibility […]
Science Is Science: Confronting Denialism and Ecofascism
About Denialism and Ecofascism: Science Is Science The ObservationGlad to know you’re watching out! At the same time, this divisiveness—when we desperately need everyone to pull together because it’s a CRISIS, right?—makes me somehow deeply sad. That’s a big job right there… How do we reach those who seem furthest away from any kind of […]