by Daniel Brouse Multiple Feedback Coupling Becomes Observable Beginning most notably around 2022, multiple climate-system feedbacks appear to be increasingly coupled, with changes in several major climate variables occurring simultaneously and in physically connected directions. The analysis tracks six climate-system variables: These six variables generate 15 unique pairwise coupling paths, which are combined into a […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? California: Wave to Kelvin
by Daniel Brouse Chaos Theory Oceanic Teleconnection: Tropical Pacific Energy → U.S. West Coast A powerful El Niño is sending a massive pulse of ocean energy north along the Pacific coast—and California could see local sea levels rise by about a foot this fall. The Weather Channel reports that a coastally trapped Kelvin wave generated […]
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Climate Debt Collection
What happens when we miss the 1.5°C Paris target? Think of it like owing money to a loan shark. The debt doesn’t wait decades to be collected. Our fingers are being broken now.Our kneecaps are next. One of the biggest challenges in communicating climate change is proximity—both in time and location. If the consequences seem […]
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Which Climate Feedback Is Accelerating Fastest? by Daniel Brouse Simplified Introduction Which climate feedback is accelerating fastest? We often ask which feedback is strongest. But there’s another question that may be even more important: What happens when climate feedbacks begin combining—and amplifying one another? Water vapor is the strongest positive feedback. Ice and snow albedo […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Pennsylvania: When the Levee Breaks
by Daniel Brouse Pennsylvania: When the Levee Breaks — Crying Won’t Help You, Praying Won’t Do You No Good Pennsylvania’s aging levees reveal a dangerous mismatch between a rapidly changing climate-energy system and infrastructure designed for a climate that no longer exists. The problem is much larger than flooding. It is a collision between increasing […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Kyrgyzstan
by Daniel Brouse Kyrgyzstan Says, “You Cursed Brat. I’m Melting.” Kyrgyzstan is home to more than 10,000 glaciers covering roughly 4% to 5% of the country’s total land area. Situated primarily within the colossal Tien Shan and Pamir-Alay mountain ranges, these massive stores of ice contain an estimated 590 cubic kilometers of freshwater. They are […]
How Is Climate Change Hitting You? Rapid-Fire Lightning
by Daniel Brouse SIMPLIFIED INTRODUCTION ⚡ How Is Climate Change Hitting You? Rapid-Fire Lightning Rapid-fire, near-continuous cloud-to-cloud lightning can sound less like an ordinary thunderstorm and more like a prolonged fireworks finale lasting an hour or more. But the lightning is doing more than making noise. ⚡ Lightning creates NOx🌎 NOx contributes to ozone formation🌿 […]
Low-Level Cloud Feedback: The Unknown Mega-Multiplier
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Simplified Introduction ☁️🌎 LOW-LEVEL CLOUD FEEDBACK: THE UNKNOWN MEGA-MULTIPLIER What if one of Earth’s most important climate amplifiers is something we still don’t fully understand? Low-level marine clouds are more than weather. They are a planetary sunshade—reflecting enormous amounts of incoming sunlight back into space. But what happens if […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? The One-Two Punch of Doubling Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse The One-Two Punch of Doubling Feedbacks Climate feedbacks are processes in which an initial change in Earth’s climate system triggers additional changes that amplify or dampen the original change. Positive feedbacks amplify the initial warming caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, accelerating climate change beyond what the initial forcing alone would produce. As Earth’s […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? See Sea Level Rising
by Daniel Brouse Ocean Heat Accumulation More than 90% of the excess heat trapped in Earth’s climate system by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is absorbed by the ocean. Because water has a much higher heat capacity than air, the global ocean acts as a massive climate buffer. Without this vast heat reservoir soaking up the […]