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 […]
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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 […]
Climate Change as a Fracture Fractal
In chaos theory, fractal geometry, and fracture mechanics, the pattern you’re describing is usually referred to by several related terms rather than one single universally accepted name: 1. Fracture Fractals The most common scientific term is fracture fractal or fractal crack pattern. These occur when a crack propagates through a material and develops: Examples: 2. […]
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Ozone Feedbacks From Carbon Combustion
Tropospheric Ozone, Ecosystem Collapse, and the Failure of Biofuel Narratives Daniel Brouse & Sidd Mukherjee May 9, 2026 Abstract Tropospheric ozone has emerged as one of the most underestimated systemic threats within the climate crisis. While carbon dioxide remains the primary driver of anthropogenic warming, ground-level ozone functions as a powerful secondary feedback mechanism capable […]
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War and Economics Reality
The latest developments surrounding negotiations reveal a fragile and highly conditional pause in hostilities—one that is already being overshadowed by deeper structural disruptions in energy, trade, and global markets. Status of Negotiations Frozen Assets A senior Iranian official has confirmed that part of the agreement to reopen the Strait during the ceasefire period includes the […]
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