by Daniel Brouse December 5, 2025 Florida faces a long list of climate-driven threats — extreme heat, stronger hurricanes, toxic algal blooms, and collapsing insurance markets — but accelerating sea-level rise (SLR) sits at the center of nearly all of them. Although the current rise of a few millimeters per year may sound trivial, the […]
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Florida at the Front Line: How Accelerating Sea-Level Rise Is Reshaping the State in Real Time
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Climate Change Feedback Loops: Brown Carbon, Wildfires, and Arctic Melting
Feedback loops accelerate climate change at an exponential rate. In this case, brown carbon from wildfires warms the arctic. The warmer arctic absorbs more heat causing more wildfires. In turn, more wildfires cause more brown carbon resulting in a warmer arctic. The cycle keeps reinforcing itself as it repeats. A study published in One Earth […]
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A Foot of Sea Level Rise
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports U.S. coastline to see up to a foot of sea level rise by 2050. That is three times the rate of the previous one hundred years. “For businesses along the coast, knowing what to expect and how to plan for the future is critical,” said U.S. Secretary of […]
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Extreme Rainfall–surge Hazard Risks
by Daniel Brouse Most climate change models forecast rising sea levels as the predominant threat of a warming climate to flood risks. Though sea level rise is of great concern, so should be extreme rainfall. Both the sea and air temperatures are rising. Warm air can hold more moisture than cool air. Warmer sea temperatures […]
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Greenland Ice Sheet: largest single contributor to rising sea levels.
Dynamic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheetdriven by sustained glacier retreat by Michalea D. King, Ian M. Howat, Salvatore G. Candela, Myoung J. Noh, Seonsgu Jeong, Brice P. Y. Noël, Michiel R. van den Broeke3, Bert Wouters, Adelaide Negrete Greenland-Ice-Sheet.pdf The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at accelerated rates in the 21st century, […]
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Flood Risk and Real Estate Values
The risk of floods increasing do to human induced climate change is affecting real estate values. Though the risk is increasing in all flood zones, coastal areas are already feeling the pain. Most homeowner’s don’t know about flood insurance until they need it. Then, it is too late. Bloomberg News reports: Recent research confirms that […]
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Rising Sea Level and the Internet
In a study published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, authors concluded the infrastructure of the Internet is at risk due to global warming and rising sea levels. “Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas….” “Most of the damage […]
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When Your Property Goes Underwater
The right to the free flow of water has long maintained “public right-of-way easements” in the United States. In general, if a waterway is navigable, it is a public right-of-way; however, the results of climate change and rising sea levels have turned people’s private property into navigable waterways. An article in Bloomberg entitled The Fighting […]
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Rising Flood Frequency
The Journal Nature published an article entitled “Attack of the extreme floods: As the oceans rise, researchers aim to forecast where severe storms will trigger the worst flooding.” “the height of what constitutes a 50-year flood event has risen by more than 10 centimeters per decade in some places” “A rule of thumb holds that […]
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