by Daniel Brouse Part of a series of articles on Climate Change And Flood Insurance Homeowners living in flood plain have learned the hard way that climate change has effected their ability to get a mortgage. As the sea level rises and extreme weather events intensify, homeowners have found their insurance rates increasing or their […]
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Climate Change And Credit
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Tagged climate change, credit, extreme weather events, flood insurance, real estate, rising sea level, sea level rise
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Herb Insulation Air Purifier (Healthy Snack)
by Daniel Brouse This is what I call the “Herb Insulation Air Purifier”. It’s very cheap and easy to use. As a matter of fact, it can pay for itself the first day. On a cold day, it can insulate the window from letting cold air in or warm air out. On a hot day, […]
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Tagged herb garden, Medicine
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Emissions Worst Ever
The World Meteorological Organization reported on October 30, 2017: Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record Green-House-Gas-Bulletin-2017.pdf Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The abrupt changes in the atmosphere witnessed in […]
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Tagged carbon emissions, climate change, CO2, emissions, sea level rise
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Real Estate and the Rising Sea Level
by Daniel Brouse “Living near the water is incredibly appealing for people around the country, but it also comes with additional considerations for buyers and homeowners,” Zillow chief economist Svenja Gudell wrote in a new report. “Homes in low-lying areas are also more susceptible to storm flooding and these risks could be realized on a […]
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Tagged climate change, flood insurance, flooding, floods, real estate
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Pollution And Health: 9 Million Deaths Per Year
The Lancet Commission published a report on October 19, 2017 that outlined the results of pollution and health. The report concluded that 9 million people suffered premature deaths due to pollution in 2015. “Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for […]
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Tagged air pollution, climate change, death, illness, pollution, water pollution
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Senegal Forecasts Climate Change Changes
Senegal is an African country on the west coast of the continent. The country is on the forefront of global warming’s impacts. “Climate change makes life harder for Senegalese farmers in many different ways: shorter rainy seasons, more frequent and longer dry spells and droughts, a lower water table, floods, coastal erosion, destruction of mangroves, […]
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Tagged climate change, salinization, sea level rise
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How to Make Gold & Platinum
by Daniel Brouse Q: How do you make gold and platinum? A: Collide two neutron stars “It’s so beautiful. It’s so beautiful it makes me want to cry. It’s the fulfillment of dozens, hundreds, thousands of people’s efforts, but it’s also the fulfillment of an idea suddenly becoming real,” said Peter Saulson of Syracuse University. […]
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Tagged Albert Einstein, astronomy, gold, gravitational waves, platinum, spacetime, stars
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Air Quality and Climate Change
Current models indicate an increase in air quality alerts. The increase risk is not necessarily from an increase in pollution. An on-going research study conducted by InternetU.org suggests a warming climate is likely contributing to reduction in air quality. The frequency of air quality alerts is on the rise in the United States and many […]
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Tagged climate change, immune system, ozone, pollution, respiratory system, Tropospheric Ozone
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One Trillion Ton Iceberg
By Daniel Brouse An iceberg weighing over one trillion tons (about the size of Delaware) broke off Antarctica. “Antarctica contains 90% of the world’s fresh water as ice. If all the ice melts, sea levels will rise by 60 meters (200 feet). The sea ice melting doesn’t raise the sea level as the ice is […]
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Tagged Antarctica, climate change, Larsen C shelf, sea level rising
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Bounty of the Sea: More Plastic Than Fish?
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, in a report called The New Plastics Economy (which looks at the amount of plastic that ends up in the sea) claims there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. “If we continue dumping plastic in the sea at the present rate, […]
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Tagged fish, fishing, oceans, plastic, plastic bags, pollution, seas
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