by Daniel Brouse What will change consumer behavior when it comes to climate change? Money. Insurance, interest rates, and taxes. Most consumers do not substantially change their behavior until doing nothing becomes cost prohibitive. For years, we assumed that climate change was unlikely to change consumer behavior in the near term. Climate change seemed too […]
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When Climate Change Hits the Wallet: Insurance, Interest Rates, and Taxes
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Climate Change, Acceleration, and Inertia (Simplified)
🌎 CLIMATE CHANGE, ACCELERATION & INERTIA Climate change is not simply a matter of temperatures gradually rising. It is an energy problem. More energy is entering the climate system than leaving it—and most of that excess energy is being absorbed by the oceans. That creates INERTIA. But something else is happening. As warming crosses critical […]
Climate Change, Acceleration, and Inertia
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Climate Change Climate change has been primarily driven by fossil-fuel emissions creating an energy imbalance. More energy is entering the climate system than is leaving. The accumulation of that energy manifests first as rising temperatures and increasingly as extreme weather energy events such as storms and heatwaves. Most of […]
When Climate Feedbacks Begin to Accelerate
by Daniel Brouse Low Clouds, Ozone, and the Emerging Climate Jerk Surge The Question We Should Be Asking A common assumption in climate projections is that if humanity eventually stops adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, global temperatures will eventually stabilize. That basic physical expectation remains important. But it leaves out a potentially critical question: […]
Why Hasn’t There Been a Hurricane?
by Daniel Brouse How Is Climate Change Hitting You? Climate Energy Is Being Redistributed Q: What’s your take on not having a single hurricane this season? Great question! I’ve written several papers on this topic, and I think what we’re seeing is particularly interesting. As of September 23, the Atlantic has produced six named storms […]
Tropospheric Ozone = #1 Climate Gas
Known Ozone: The Climate Change Agent That Damages the Carbon Sink By Daniel Brouse Tropospheric ozone is a powerful greenhouse gas. Ozone (O₃) is one of the most important individual greenhouse gases contributing to global warming, ranking behind carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) and methane (CHâ‚„) in terms of its direct contribution to human-caused warming. But ozone […]
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Clean Energy Economy
by Daniel Brouse THE ENERGY IS ALREADY THERE.THE CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY HARVESTS IT. Tonight’s homework assignment: Clean Energy Economy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. But it can be harnessed, converted, stored, transmitted, and used. The sun is already delivering enormous amounts of energy to Earth. The atmosphere is already moving. Winds are already blowing. […]
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Change in Climate Change: Δc
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Since the ’90s, we’ve been in pursuit of change in climate change (Δc). It took us about 10 years to recognize that the rate of change was doubling on roughly a 100-year timescale. By 2020, the acceleration in acceleration had changed substantially: the doubling interval had compressed to roughly […]
2022–2026 Climate Jerk Surge: Albedo–Cloud–Ocean Heat Content Triad
by Daniel Brouse ABSTRACT The recent change in climate-system dynamics is being expressed not simply as continued warming, but as increasing synchronization among multiple radiative and thermal feedback pathways. Beginning most notably around 2022, the climate system exhibits an increasingly interconnected pattern among six major variables: cloud cover, planetary albedo, sea ice extent, atmospheric water […]
2022–2026 Jerk Surge Math & Methods
by Daniel Brouse Multiple Feedback Coupling Becomes Observable Beginning most notably around 2022, multiple climate-system feedbacks appear to be increasingly coupled, with changes in several major climate variables occurring simultaneously and in physically connected directions. The analysis tracks six climate-system variables: These six variables generate 15 unique pairwise coupling paths, which are combined into a […]