by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee In memoriam of Anne When Mountains Crumble to the Sea: Glacial Retreat, Permafrost Thaw, Hydrostatic Pressure, and Landslides Mountains may look permanent. They are not. Across Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Chile, New Zealand, and the European Alps, glaciers are retreating, permafrost is thawing, and mountain slopes that were stabilized by […]
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When Climate Energy Changes the Ecosystem: Forests, Fire, and the Transition to a New State
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Western U.S. Woodlands: Ecosystem Conversion or Vegetation Type Conversion Towering woodlands across the Western U.S. are being permanently replaced by spiky shrubs as bigger and hotter wildfires sweep through forests that have not evolved to survive such high-intensity blazes and a warmer climate. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” said […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Reno, Nevada
by Daniel Brouse How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Reno, Nevada: Hydroclimatic Whiplash, Flash Droughts, Extreme Winds, and Wildfires Reno, Nevada, is experiencing some of the most pronounced climate stresses in the American West. Rapid warming is intensifying the region’s existing desert and alpine vulnerabilities, while simultaneously altering snowpack, water supplies, vegetation, wildfire conditions, and […]
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How Is the Climate Energy Hitting You? The Worms Squirm
by Daniel Brouse Backyard Experiment How Is the Climate Energy Hitting You? is a collection of backyard experiments conducted in conjunction with you—the reader. The goal is simple: to look at how the increased energy in the climate system is showing up in our everyday lives. Is it becoming more extreme, more frequent, and more […]
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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How Is the Climate Energy Hitting You?
by Daniel Brouse What I Did on My Summer Vacation I thought it might be a fun experiment to see how the extreme weather fueled by climate change is impacting you—and me. I’ll start with “What I Did on My Summer Vacation.” Within 15 feet of my backdoor, we’ve experienced more violent storms than ever. […]
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 […]
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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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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 […]