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 […]
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The Water Cycle’s Extreme Energy Transfer
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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 […]
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Heat-Triggered Flash Droughts: The Rapid Intensification of Heat, Drought, and Wildfire Risk
by Daniel Brouse The Trend Flash droughts are one of the three fastest-accelerating climate extremes. The share of global land affected by heat-driven drought has expanded dramatically—from approximately 2.5% in the 1980s to 16.7% in recent years. The rate of increase has also accelerated, rising roughly eightfold since 2000. This shift is important because heat-triggered […]
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Global Wildfire Smoke
by Daniel Brouse Global warming is exactly that—global. These two videos of the 2026 wildfire season provide a striking example. The first video shows wildfire smoke spreading across North America. The second follows that smoke as it is transported across the atmosphere and circulates around the globe, reaching the UK and Europe. The second video […]
A More Episodic Hydrologic Cycle in a Warming Climate
by Daniel Brouse Changing Atmospheric Moisture Transport, Precipitation Intensity, and the Redistribution of Water Abstract Climate warming is altering the atmospheric hydrologic cycle in ways that extend beyond changes in average precipitation. This paper examines the hypothesis that warming is increasing atmospheric moisture residence time and transport distance while simultaneously intensifying precipitation and, in some […]
Climate Change and Moisture Transport
I’m wondering whether there is any way to quantify whether precipitation is now falling more rapidly over smaller areas and closer to where the moisture originates, potentially contributing to historically high-volume flooding. Conversely, could less precipitation falling over broader areas be contributing to worsening drought and diminishing inland snowpack? Is there any long-term tracking of […]
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Consumer Solar Panels
Michigan State University’s technology sounds amazing because it can turn almost any window into a power generator. However, there’s an inherent trade-off: allowing light to pass through the window means not absorbing the visible energy needed to generate electricity, which limits energy efficiency. What may be even more promising are “balcony” solar panels. These systems […]
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Three Irrefutable Lines of Evidence for Human-Caused Climate Change
by Daniel Brouse The evidence for human-caused climate change does not rest on a single temperature record, computer model, or scientific study. It comes from multiple independent lines of evidence that converge on the same conclusion. Three of the clearest are rising global temperatures, shrinking ice sheets and glaciers, and rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide […]
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Glacial Retreat and Climate Change Push the Rhine River to Historic Lows
by Daniel Brouse The Rhine River has fallen to historic low levels at several critical measuring stations, disrupting one of Europe’s most important transportation corridors. At Lobith, near the Dutch border, the river dropped to 6.47 meters above NAP, surpassing the previous record set during the severe 2022 drought. River discharge has also plunged to […]
Greenland’s Melting Ice Is Slowing Earth’s Ocean Conveyor Belt (AMOC)
by Daniel Brouse Glacial retreat is weakening the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) by injecting enormous amounts of freshwater into the North Atlantic. This disrupts the natural “ocean conveyor belt” that redistributes heat around the planet and plays a critical role in regulating global climate patterns. The Mechanics of the Slowdown The AMOC depends on […]