by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee There’s a thing about climate change and a rising sea level that took me a while to grasp… a lot of the water isn’t actually in the sea. As more water accumulates in the sea and the temperature rises, more energy is also being stored in the sea. Now, […]
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Do You Need Flood Insurance?
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Pollution Kills
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Pollution will kill you. Usually, it is a slow, painful death. For the last 20 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from official air quality monitors to compile the “State of the Air” report. The most recent report found the United States recorded more days with hazardous […]
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Will Tree Species Survive Climate Change?
A Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources article reported: The theory of evolution suggests that species will adapt to changing environmental conditions. The belief is that these changes occur over long periods of geologic time. But, instead of warming over a period of 1,000 years, the climate is changing faster due to human activity […]
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Flood Buyouts, Savings and Climate Change
The AP article Flood buyout costs rise as storms intensify, seas surge reports: “‘… nearly half of the homeowners in Mosby signed up in 2016 for a program in which the government would buy and then demolish their properties rather than paying to rebuild them over and over. They’re still waiting for offers, joining thousands […]
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Climate Ignorance and Insane Real Estate Deals
An article in Splinter urges Sell Your Florida Property Now. “We all know, in a theoretical way, that climate change is going to turn the state of Florida into a narrow peninsula of watery broken dreams. But I bet you are not scared enough!” In a Bloomberg article, Lenders Scolded for Climate Ignorance in ‘Insane’ […]
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Air Quality And Asthma
A report published in JAMA entitled “Association of Changes in Air Quality With Incident Asthma in Children in California, 1993-2014” confirms air pollution increases childhood asthma incidence. “Conclusions and Relevance: Among children in Southern California, decreases in ambient nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 between 1993 and 2014 were significantly associated with lower asthma incidence.” “There’s been […]
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Groundwater Rise
Goundwater rise is a problem that will be exasperated by global warming and sea level rise. As the sea level rises, ocean water will inundate the coast, as well as, push groundwater up toward the surface inland. “Water will leach inside homes through basement cracks. Toilets may become chronically backed up. Raw sewage may seep […]
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Climate Change: Suspension Of Belief
by Daniel Brouse In the 1990’s, a team of real estate professionals, property management specialists, and climate change scientists starting working on a plan to mitigate the effects of global warming on residential real estate. There are two major problems with developing a plan: 1) Unintended Consequences The impact of climate change is wide reaching […]
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The Collapse Of Nature
Worldwide insect populations are in decline by as much as 80%. Insects are in a downward spiral threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, as reported by a global scientific review. “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades. The […]
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Earth Status 2018
Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970 according to a report issued on October 30, 2018 by the World Wildlife Foundation. Plummeting numbers of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish around the world are an urgent sign that nature needs life support. Our Living Planet Report 2018 shows population sizes of wildlife […]
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