esterday brought the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) measure of inflation. Today, the focus shifts to consumer inflation. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August 2026 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, showing headline consumer inflation rising 0.4% in August on a seasonally adjusted basis and increasing 3.4% over the past 12 months. Core […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Turkey: Water Poor. No Water Pour.
by Daniel Brouse Climate Change, Groundwater Depletion, and the Emerging Water Crisis Türkiye is rapidly approaching a critical threshold at which it could officially become a water-poor nation by 2030, driven heavily by severe climate change and extensive groundwater mismanagement. Located within the highly vulnerable Mediterranean Basin, Türkiye is experiencing plunging per-capita water availability, escalating […]
How much land do I need for my own shit?
Tonight’s homework assignment: How much land do I need for my own shit? (AKA The Eat n’ Poop Experiment) Both literally and figuratively. This is an experiment I’ve been working on for years. And when you actually try to do it—when you have to think about where your food comes from, where your water comes […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Socio-Economic-Ecological Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse From Biodiversity to Monoculture: The Socio-Economic-Ecological Feedback Loop Climate change is often described as a problem of rising temperatures, but temperature is only one expression of the additional energy entering the Earth system. That energy moves through the atmosphere, hydrologic cycle, soils, vegetation, ecosystems, agriculture, forests, and human economies. As each system […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? North Texas
by Daniel Brouse North Texas: Drought, Wildfire, Evacuation, Water Scarcity, Livestock Liquidation, Crop Failure The Ross Fire: Climate Energy on the Ground The Ross Fire has exploded across more than 50,000 acres of North Texas, triggering mandatory evacuations, school closures, and a major emergency response. Driven by triple-digit heat, exceptionally low humidity, strong winds, and […]
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How Is the Climate Energy Hitting You? — Central England
by Daniel Brouse and Rocky Rex Central England is providing a very tangible demonstration of what climate energy looks like when it moves through a real landscape. Not as an abstract temperature anomaly. Not as a number on a graph. As heatwaves. Drought. Wildfires. Crop losses. Water restrictions. And then sudden, intense rainfall arriving on […]
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Sea-Level Rise: Rubbing Salt in the Wound
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? The Jersey Shore Is Sure Sea-Level Rise: Rubbing Salt in the Wound Sea-level rise is not simply a matter of the ocean getting higher. Climate change is altering the physical forces that move water toward and onto the shoreline. Rising seas, changing atmospheric […]
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Where’s the Beef? Tariffs, Inflation, and the Climate Cost of Meat
On August 21, 2026, President Donald Trump announced a temporary 90-day waiver of out-of-quota tariffs on imported ground beef, allowing up to 300,000 metric tons to enter the U.S. market tariff-free in an effort to reduce grocery prices. The president said he had secured a commitment that the imported meat would be sold at 25% […]
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The Bleeding Edge of Climate Change
by Daniel and Sidd While Sidd was in town, I took some notes. Somehow, they turned into this: Climate Change: The Big Picture There are many ways to look at climate change. From a micro perspective, there are millions of individual feedbacks operating throughout the Earth system. From a macro perspective, there is the climate […]
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Demand Destruction: Bad News for the Economy, Good News for the Environment
U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly by 0.6% month over month in July 2026, coming in well below the forecast of a 0.1% increase. The data, released this morning, points to a significant slowdown in American consumer spending and a reversal of the momentum seen in previous months. Key Figures From the July Report Bad News […]
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