by Daniel Brouse September 3, 2025 Florida faces mounting challenges in health, education, and climate resilience—each reinforcing the state’s declining quality of life. Life ExpectancyFlorida’s life expectancy has fallen sharply. Recent estimates put it at ~77.5 years, down from 79 in 2019, with COVID-19 and drug overdoses driving much of the decline. The state now […]
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Runaway Climate Feedbacks and Systemic Collapse
Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeSeptember 3, 2025 Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — incorporating complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures could rise by as much as 9°C (16.2°F) within this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates, which predicted a 4°C rise over the next thousand […]
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Runaway Feedbacks: Can Earth Warm 9°C This Century?
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee September 1, 2025 I said: Our climate model — incorporating complex social-ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, non-linear system — projects that global temperatures could rise by up to 9°C (16.2°F) within this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates, which predicted a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, […]
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The Accelerating Collapse of the AMOC–Jet Stream Feedback Loop
By Daniel Brouse September 1, 2025 The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the jet stream are unraveling much faster than science once believed possible. What was once thought to take millennia, and later centuries, has now accelerated into mere decades. Earlier this year, I wrote about the unsettling transition from spring to summer in […]
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Sea Level Denial vs. Climate Reality: The Accelerating Collapse of Ice Sheets and Ocean Circulation
by Daniel BrouseAugust 29, 2025 Here’s an example response you can use when confronting a climate denier—this one addresses the accelerating rise in sea levels and the collapse of the AMOC. The climate denier said to me: “What an absolute load of BS. Sea level hasn’t changed to ANY verifiable degree in 2,000 years. Sit […]
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Slate Auto: Reinventing the EV With a “Blank Slate” Approach
by Daniel BrouseAugust 28, 2025 Founded in 2022, Slate Auto is an American startup with a bold mission: to deliver an affordable, highly customizable electric vehicle that challenges traditional automaking. At the center of its strategy is the company’s first product, the Slate Truck—a modular electric pickup designed to transform seamlessly into an SUV. This […]
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Cape Coral’s Collapse: How Climate Risk and Insurance Costs Broke Florida’s Hottest Housing Market
by Daniel Brouse August 21, 2025 Cape Coral, Florida, has gone from one of the fastest-rising housing markets in the country to arguably the worst real estate market in the United States. During the early years of the pandemic, the city experienced a frenzy of demand. Median home prices skyrocketed nearly 75% in just three […]
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Antarctica, Inevitable Sea-Level Rise, and the Cascading Impacts of Climate Change
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeAugust 21, 2025 Introduction The destabilization of Antarctica represents the single greatest existential threat to humanity. What was once viewed as a slow-moving process unfolding over millennia is now accelerating at a pace that outstrips scientific projections. The August 2025 paper,“Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment,” confirms […]
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Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier Outburst: A Glacial Flood Emergency
by Daniel BrouseAugust 13, 2025 A massive upstream basin of rainwater and snowmelt, dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier, began releasing on Tuesday, prompting officials to urge residents in parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of a potentially dangerous surge of floodwater. The National Weather Service (NWS) Juneau office issued a flood warning for areas along […]
Evaporation: Death by Corn Sweat
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee August 10, 2025 Introduction: Observing a Vanishing Pool I’ve been researching evaporation for decades, but sometimes the most telling experiments happen in my own backyard. At the start of this pool season, rainfall far exceeded evaporation. Then, for the past two months, the balance flipped: with little rain and […]
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