By Daniel Brouse July 8, 2023 How long is “ever”… as in “the hottest it’s ever been in recorded history”? During the first week of July 2023, the Earth had the hottest days ever. Humans are about 200,000 years old with our closest variety being dated to about 140,000 years ago. The earliest “recording of […]
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Climate Change: How Long Is “Ever”?
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Health Impacts of Air Pollution
By Daniel Brouse June 30, 2023 The health impacts of air pollution are both cumulative and irreversible. The more polluted the air, the more severe the effects. The more polluted air you breathe over time, the more severe the effects. That is to say breathing “Moderate” quality air for 3 days might be similar to […]
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Tagged air pollution, climate change, ozone, particulate matter
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Carbon Offsets: Planting Trees is Greenwashing
By Daniel Brouse June 28, 2023 This article is in response to “
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Corsi-Rosenthal Box: The Best Air Purifier
What is a Corsi-Rosenthal Box and how do you build one? The Corsi-Rosenthal Box is a simple DIY air filter and purifier that outperforms and can be more effective than expensive HEPA purifiers. Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes are made from cardboard, tape, furnace air filters, and a box fan. The Corsi-Rosenthal Box was invented by Richard Corsi, […]
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Tagged air filters, air pollutin, air purifiers, air quality, climate change, free, pollution
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Climate Change: Stranded on an Island
by Daniel Brouse Climate change brings with it the inevitability of rising sea levels. Even if green house gas emissions were stopped completely, the sea will continue to rise for hundreds or thousands of years. Not only will the submerged properties be affected by the rising tides, so will all the new island properties. Initially, […]
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COVID: Insulin Reduction, Diabetes, High Cholesterol, Heart Disease and Stroke
by Daniel Brouse March 11, 2023 Post-COVID patients are at an increased risk of developing or exacerbating diabetes. In addition, the American Heart Association (AHA) states that diabetes often lowers HDL (good) cholesterol levels and raises triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels. Both blood sugar and cholesterol increase the risk for heart disease and stroke. […]
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Tagged cell fate change, cholesterol, COVID, COVID-19, diabetes, DNA, epigenetic, genetics, genome, insertions, Insulin, long haulers syhdrome, long-COVID, Post Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting at Accelerated Rate
The Word Economic Forum published the report The Antarctic ice sheet is melting. And this is bad news for humanity. * The Antarctic ice sheet has been strongly decreasing since 2016. * If left unchecked, the complete melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet would cause a global sea level increase of 3.3 metres in […]
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Long COVID Update: 3 Years of Living With It
by Daniel Brouse March 7, 2023 In February of 2020, I contracted SARS-CoV-2. By May of 2020, I recognized a pattern of recurring symptoms including: difficulty breathing, congestion, cough, stomach aches, diarrhea, loss of taste and smell, temperature deregulation, night sweats, nightmares, vivid dreams, dizziness, brain fog, headaches, muscle aches, earaches, and peripheral neuropathy. Over […]
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Climate Change Impacts on Flood Risks and Real Estate Values
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee February 26, 2023 Climate change poses many risks to real estate values. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in the system increase. So, we expect more storms, more droughts, more wildfires, more floods, more fluctuations of all kinds. What we are saying is that […]
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Earliest Spring on Record: Climate Change in Real Time
by Daniel Brouse February 24, 2023 Parts of Texas, Arkansas, Ohio, Maryland, and New York are all experiencing the earliest spring conditions on record. The National Phenology Network has published a study on February 21, 2023 that found: Spring leaf out continues to spread north, arriving several days to weeks earlier than average (the period […]