by Daniel Brouse Greenland: 6,205 Gigatons of Ice Gone—and the Energy Behind It Thirty Years of Continuous Ice Loss Greenland’s Ice Sheet has now experienced 30 consecutive years of negative total mass balance. According to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), the Greenland Ice Sheet lost approximately 173 billion tonnes (173 Gt) of […]
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HOW IS CLIMATE ENERGY HITTING YOU? The First Law of Thermodynamics
by Daniel Brouse The First Law of Thermodynamics and the Redistribution of Earth’s Excess Energy Energy Cannot Be Created or Destroyed The principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed is known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, or the First Law of Thermodynamics. In simple terms, the total energy within an isolated system […]
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How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Backyard Megapitfall Traps
by Daniel Brouse Public Access Introduction 🌎 HOW IS CLIMATE ENERGY HITTING YOU? 🏊 Backyard Megapitfall Traps: A Changing Ecosystem for Frogs, Spiders & Worms What can a swimming pool tell us about climate change? More than you might think. A backyard pool can unintentionally become a giant ecological trap—and an unexpected biological sensor. 🪱 […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? California Wildfires
by Daniel Brouse California Wildfire Insurance: Who Pays When the Forest Burns? California is confronting a difficult new reality: increasingly destructive wildfires are no longer just an environmental problem. They are becoming a financial, legal, insurance, and property-risk problem that reaches directly into the lives of homeowners, utilities, insurers, investors, and taxpayers. California lawmakers and […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Planetary Teleconnections
by Daniel Brouse Rerouting the Walker Circulation: The Pacific El Niño–Atlantic Niña Atmospheric Bridge The unusual co-occurrence of a Pacific El Niño and an Atlantic Niña illustrates how strongly connected Earth’s climate system is. Although the Pacific and Atlantic are separate ocean basins, the atmosphere links them through planetary-scale circulation patterns. One of the most […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Sudan’s Manmade Feedbacks
by Daniel Brouse Sudan: Hydroclimatic Whiplash and the Socio-Economic Feedback Loop Sudan is experiencing more than a succession of extreme weather events. It is experiencing a coupled climate, ecological, and socioeconomic crisis in which each shock weakens the systems needed to absorb the next one. Extreme heat increases water demand and accelerates soil and vegetation […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon Flash Flood Tragedy By Daniel Brouse A devastating flash flood on August 29, 2026, tore through Grand Canyon National Park, leaving one person dead and approximately 15 people missing or unaccounted for. The disaster struck around 2:30 p.m. following intense rainfall on the Kaibab Plateau. Up to an inch of rain fell […]
See 1.5°C in Action: The Nepal–Tibet Glacial Collapse
by Daniel Brouse The permafrost tipping point—and its feedbacks with other tipping points—is the most interesting part to me. Permafrost was kind of the glue holding everything together… until 1.5°C. Then the coupled feedbacks start feeding each other, and the whole system begins to unravel. And the mountains crumble to the sea… see? 😉 The […]
HOW IS CLIMATE ENERGY HITTING YOU? The Backyard Experiments
The Backyard Experiments: Hydroclimatic Whiplash, Soil Degradation, Insect Decline, and Ecosystem Collapse By Daniel Brouse Have You Looked Out Your Back Door for Climate Change? It’s there. I noticed an interesting phenomenon: an increase in dead earthworms and millipedes in the swimming pool. It turns out this is connected to opposite extremes of a coupled […]
How Is Climate Energy Hitting You? Millipedes Get Their Marching Orders
by Daniel Brouse Why are millipedes showing up dead at the bottom of the swimming pool? The answer may seem strange at first: extreme weather is changing the moisture dynamics of the tiny ecosystem around your home. Earlier this summer, I wrote about earthworms turning up dead in the pool. Their appearance followed intense rainfall […]