by Daniel Brouse Absolute humidity—the total amount of water vapor in the air—is increasing globally as the climate warms. The fundamental physics is straightforward: according to the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship, warmer air can hold substantially more water vapor. For every 1°C (1.8°F) of warming, the atmosphere’s water-holding capacity increases by roughly 7%. As human-caused greenhouse gas […]
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Real Estate Climate Risk Models
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Background Sidd said: “frightening article by Jeff Masters. We saw some of this coming, the flood risk aint justalong the coast, it extends 100 miles inland…the water cant get out …” https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-floods-of-the-future-wont-come-one-at-a-time/ In the 1990s, Sidd and I began developing real-estate-based climate risk models. From the beginning, one of […]
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High-Risk U.S. Real Estate Regions Under the Multiplicative Climate Risk Framework
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee The Multiplicative Climate Risk Formula The Multiplicative Climate Risk Formula is a real-estate climate-risk model designed to capture how multiple hazards and vulnerabilities can interact and compound rather than occur independently. The framework incorporates interconnected risks including sea-level rise, storm surge, extreme precipitation, flooding, hydroclimatic whiplash, wildfires, drought, extreme […]
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Americans Are Feeling the Heat—But Fewer Believe Climate Change Is Happening
by Daniel Brouse An AP-NORC poll reveals a deeply troubling contradiction in the American public’s understanding of climate change: Americans are increasingly experiencing the effects of extreme heat, yet fewer now believe climate change is actually happening. According to the poll, just 66% of Americans say climate change is happening, down sharply from 73% a […]
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Climate Change Impacts and You: The Rising Cost of a Changing Climate
by Daniel Brouse Introduction Climate change is no longer simply a future environmental threat. It is increasingly affecting American households through higher costs, declining air quality, extreme heat, infrastructure disruptions, property damage, and changing patterns of disease. Although catastrophic floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters dominate the headlines, the most widespread climate impact may be […]
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The Water Cycle’s Extreme Energy Transfer
Latent Heat and You By Daniel Brouse You probably think of the water cycle as a simple process: Evaporation → clouds → rain But there is something hidden inside that cycle: energy. Every time water evaporates, enormous amounts of energy move from one place to another. As climate change warms the oceans and atmosphere, this […]
The Latent Heat Engine: Ocean Evaporation, Water Vapor Feedback, and the Acceleration of Hydroclimatic Whiplash
By Daniel Brouse Abstract The ocean is Earth’s largest reservoir of stored thermal energy and a central component of the climate system’s energy redistribution machinery. One of the most important pathways by which the ocean transfers energy to the atmosphere is latent heat flux associated with evaporation. When liquid water evaporates, energy is removed from […]
Climate Change Hotspots: Highest Risk Over the Next Decade
by Daniel Brouse Climate Change Hotspots: Highest Risk Over the Next Decade
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Meteorologists’ New Vocabulary: How Climate Change Is Changing the Language of Weather
by Daniel Brouse As Earth’s climate warms, meteorologists and climate scientists are increasingly relying on specialized terminology to describe weather events that were once considered rare but are now becoming more frequent and more intense. Rising global temperatures have added energy to the atmosphere, while changes in the jet stream have altered weather patterns across […]
The Two Sides of the Climate Crisis: Consumption and Production
by Daniel Brouse Climate change is often discussed as a problem of emissions, but emissions are the result of two interconnected forces: consumption and production. Q: What are the greatest drivers of climate change?A: Consumption and production. At present, I would rank our addiction to consumption and ecofascism as the two most significant drivers of […]
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