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 […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Good Ancestor and the Climate System: Applying Long-Term Thinking to a Nonlinear Climate Future
by Daniel Brouse Introduction Roman Krznaric’s The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World begins with a deceptively simple question: How can we become good ancestors? His argument is fundamentally about time. Modern societies have become increasingly organized around immediate rewards, quarterly results, election cycles, daily news, and rapidly changing information. […]
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The Climate Regime Is Changing: What the Hottest Month on Record Reveals
by Daniel Brouse Introduction: The Climate Regime Is Changing July 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded for the contiguous United States—but the most revealing record wasn’t the daytime heat. It was the heat that didn’t go away at night. The average overnight minimum reached 64.2°F—3.7°F above average, setting a new U.S. record for the […]
July 2026: The Record Heat Was Especially Dangerous After Sunset
by Daniel Brouse July 2026 was officially the hottest month ever recorded for the contiguous United States since national records began in 1895. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average temperature across the Lower 48 reached 76.9°F—about 3.3°F above the 20th-century average and roughly 0.1–0.2°F warmer than the previous July records […]
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Fire Without Precedent: The Wildfire Escalation Reshaping the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
by Daniel Brouse The 2026 wildfire season is rewriting the history of wildfire in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Record-setting megafires, increasingly unusual Arctic fires, overwintering “zombie fires,” and growing insurance losses reveal a wildfire regime that is expanding in both intensity and geographic reach. From Oregon’s record-breaking Big Grass Fire to destructive fires around Spokane […]