by Daniel BrouseJuly 19, 2025 California offers a stark preview of what to expect as the U.S. property insurance market begins to unravel under the weight of climate change. Insurers continue to withdraw from wildfire-prone and flood-prone areas, despite recent policy efforts aimed at stabilizing the market. The January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires alone generated […]
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Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Collapse of Insurance: California as a Case Study
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Wetlands at the Edge: Climate, Collapse, and a $39 Trillion Warning
The global destruction of wetlands—which sustain fisheries, agriculture, water purification, and flood control—could result in the loss of $39 trillion in economic benefits by 2050, warns the Global Wetland Outlook 2025 from the Convention on Wetlands. Wetlands are disappearing faster than any other ecosystem on Earth. Since 1970, the world has lost 22% of its […]
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Tipping Cascades: The Nonlinear Dominoes of Climate Collapse
by Daniel Brouse July 14, 2025 My latest deep reflection has centered on how tipping points have triggered self-sustaining feedback loops in the climate system. We knew this was coming—and it is now here. Luckily, I was prepared for that part. What I could not fully envision in my mind’s eye was how the interplay […]
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Human-Caused Global Warming Tripled Heat Deaths During European Heatwave
by Daniel Brouse July 9, 2025 A rapid attribution study led by Imperial College London found that human-caused global warming increased peak temperatures during Europe’s early summer heatwave by up to 7°F, tripling heat-related deaths across 12 major cities, including Paris, London, and Madrid. Of 2,300 estimated heat deaths between June 23 and July 2, […]
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Hydroclimate Whiplash: America’s Flood Disaster Signals Accelerating Climate Chaos
by Daniel Brouse July 9, 2025 Hydroclimate whiplash describes the extreme swings between severe droughts and catastrophic floods, a phenomenon intensified by climate change. Another term, Drought-Flood Abrupt Alternation (DFAA), highlights how these sudden shifts compound the vulnerability of communities already stretched thin by recurring climate disasters. In the past week alone, the United States […]
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“1,000-Year Flood” Hits Chapel Hill: Another Warning Sign of a Warming World
by Daniel Brouse July 7, 2025 Yesterday, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, experienced what is being described as a “1,000-year flood event” as the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal unleashed between 8–12 inches of rain in just a few hours. Streets turned into rivers, homes and businesses were inundated, and emergency crews conducted multiple water rescues […]
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Florida’s Condo Collapse: Climate Physics, Soaring Costs, and the End of Coastal Wealth
by Daniel Brouse July 6, 2025 Insurance: The First Casualty of Climate Collapse in Florida and Beyond Check out the powerful physics explained below — Wind and water forces scale with the square of velocity (v²) Yesterday, we discussed the failing insurance markets in Texas. Today, we turn to Florida, where the insurance industry is […]
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Texas Flood Disaster: At Least 22 Dead, 20 Girls Missing as “500-Year Floods” Become Regular Events
by Daniel BrouseJuly 4, 2025 It rained 12 inches in just one hour, and the river rose 26 feet in only 45 minutes. Search and rescue operations continue along the Guadalupe River in Texas after catastrophic flooding killed at least 22 people and left at least 20 girls missing, local authorities confirmed. The full scope […]
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Polar Vortex Disruptions, Rossby Waves, and a New Threats to the Stratosphere: Why Our Jet Streams Are Becoming Unrecognizable
by Daniel Brouse July 2, 2025 Recent severe weather across North America—record-breaking tornado outbreaks, prolonged flooding, and deadly heat domes—are not random. They are tied to deep disruptions in the polar vortex and jet stream, driven by interconnected climate processes that are accelerating in a nonlinear way. The Role of Rossby Waves and SSW Events […]
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From Mathematics to Climate Leadership: Sarah Kapnick’s Vision for Climate-Integrated Finance and Infrastructure Resilience
by Daniel Brouse July 1, 2025 Sarah Kapnick’s journey—from a Goldman Sachs analyst to NOAA’s chief scientist and now global head of climate advisory at JPMorgan Chase—reflects a career spent aligning climate science with financial and infrastructure decisions. She has long recognized the urgent intersection of climate risk and financial planning, an urgency that has […]
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