Tropospheric Ozone, Carbon-Sink Failure, Wildfire, Lightning, and the Coupled Acceleration of Climate Change Daniel Brouse¹ and Sidd Mukherjee² ¹Independent Climate Researcher, Economist²PhysicistMembrane Institute / Philadelphia Spirit Experiment Publishing CompanySeptember 30, 2026 Overview Ozone represents a rare intersection of climate, ecological, agricultural, and public-health science. Core Formula O₃ = Direct Warming + Plant Damage + Carbon-Sink […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? California: Wave to Kelvin
by Daniel Brouse Chaos Theory Oceanic Teleconnection: Tropical Pacific Energy → U.S. West Coast A powerful El Niño is sending a massive pulse of ocean energy north along the Pacific coast—and California could see local sea levels rise by about a foot this fall. The Weather Channel reports that a coastally trapped Kelvin wave generated […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Hottest Summer Ever: Those Hot Summer Nights
by Daniel Brouse Simplified Introduction Tonight’s homework assignment is my favorite: Deep, deep math, statistics, and climate physics. THE NIGHTTIME HEAT JERK HAS ENTERED A NEW REGIME The contiguous United States just experienced its hottest meteorological summer on record. But the really interesting signal may be happening after sunset. Summer 2026 averaged 61.71°F for daily […]
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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 […]
A Hound’s Nose
Nemo’s Nose Knows I’ve been thinking about how to describe Nemo’s nose. He’s half Labrador and looks like a golden Lab, but his brain seems to be wired more like a hound. I’ve had Labs before, and they all loved the water. You couldn’t keep them out of it. Nemo is completely different. He prefers […]
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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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Extreme Energy Event: Violent Rain
“Climate change is increasing the amount of energy violent rain events contain, amplifying how much damage they can inflict.” The physics of wind and rain are important to understand: their destructive force increases nonlinearly with velocity and is further amplified by density and mass. Even relatively small increases in wind speed or rainfall intensity can […]
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Beyond Temperature: How Climate Science Shifted from Measuring Warming to Tracking Earth’s Energy System
Introduction 2023 was a record year for global average surface temperature according to the major observational datasets. However, climate science moved beyond focusing primarily on annual temperature records years ago because, by itself, average surface temperature provides only a limited view of the state of the climate system. Temperature is an important indicator, but it […]
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No Sudden Extinction Jump: But a Strongly Constrained High-End Warming Envelope
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Climate Change Scenarios 101 Q: Is climate change extreme and alarming?A: Yes. Q: Is a single abrupt climate shift likely to trigger immediate human extinction or a sudden global “die-off”?A: No. But the system behavior is still highly nonlinear and increasingly constrained by physical limits. 1) Near-term physical upper […]
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Climate Change and Flood Insurance
In the 1990s, what was considered a 500-year flood was expected to occur, on average, once every five centuries. By the early 2000s, many of those same events were being reclassified as 100-year floods. By the 2020s, they increasingly resembled 10-year floods. Today, in some regions, comparable flood events are occurring every few years. The […]