When Climate Feedbacks Stop Looking Theoretical By Daniel Brouse The 2023–2024 El Niño event made observable what had previously been discussed largely as theoretical: multiple climate-system tipping processes were being pushed simultaneously. At least nine potential tipping points were being knocked or pushed toward critical thresholds during the 2023–2024 period. Two of the clearest examples […]
Category Archives: Global Warming
Tipping Point Season: Permafrost Thaw Simplified
by Daniel Brouse Tonight’s homework assignment: Tipping Point Season. Now that we’re deep into Tipping Point Season, my first assignment was to identify the most observable tipping points emerging this season and compare them with what we were seeing last season. Tonight’s publishing is Permafrost Thaw: The Sequel. The first chapter was the 2023 warning […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Chester County, It’s Shocking
by Daniel Brouse A Shocking Trend: Lightning Strikes Are Surging Across the Delaware Valley Lightning is one of the most spectacular—and potentially destructive—ways atmospheric energy reaches the ground. And the trend in Chester County is striking. Over the past decade, the number of lightning strikes has increased dramatically, rising from approximately 18,200 in 2016 to […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Greenland: Gigatons Gone
by Daniel Brouse Greenland: 6,205 Gigatons of Ice Gone—and the Energy Behind It Thirty Years of Continuous Ice Loss Greenland’s Ice Sheet has now experienced 30 consecutive years of negative total mass balance. According to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), the Greenland Ice Sheet lost approximately 173 billion tonnes (173 Gt) of […]
HOW IS CLIMATE ENERGY HITTING YOU? The First Law of Thermodynamics
by Daniel Brouse The First Law of Thermodynamics and the Redistribution of Earth’s Excess Energy Energy Cannot Be Created or Destroyed The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed is known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, or the First Law of Thermodynamics. In simple terms, the total energy within an isolated system […]
Also posted in Education, Energy, Environment, Science, weather
Tagged climate change
Comments closed
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Backyard Megapitfall Traps
by Daniel Brouse Public Access Introduction 🌎 HOW IS CLIMATE ENERGY HITTING YOU? 🏊 Backyard Megapitfall Traps: A Changing Ecosystem for Frogs, Spiders & Worms What can a swimming pool tell us about climate change? More than you might think. A backyard pool can unintentionally become a giant ecological trap—and an unexpected biological sensor. 🪱 […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? California Wildfires
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 […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Planetary Teleconnections
by Daniel Brouse Rerouting the Walker Circulation: The Pacific El Niño–Atlantic Niña Atmospheric Bridge The unusual co-occurrence of a Pacific El Niño and an Atlantic Niña illustrates how strongly connected Earth’s climate system is. Although the Pacific and Atlantic are separate ocean basins, the atmosphere links them through planetary-scale circulation patterns. One of the most […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Sudan’s Manmade Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse Sudan: Hydroclimatic Whiplash and the Socio-Economic Feedback Loop Sudan is experiencing more than a succession of extreme weather events. It is experiencing a coupled climate, ecological, and socioeconomic crisis in which each shock weakens the systems needed to absorb the next one. Extreme heat increases water demand and accelerates soil and vegetation […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon Flash Flood Tragedy By Daniel Brouse A devastating flash flood on August 29, 2026, tore through Grand Canyon National Park, leaving one person dead and approximately 15 people missing or unaccounted for. The disaster struck around 2:30 p.m. following intense rainfall on the Kaibab Plateau. Up to an inch of rain fell […]