By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee November 25, 2025 Introduction: The Shift From Gradual to Abrupt Sea Level Rise Sea level rise (SLR) is one of the most revealing indicators of the accelerating pace of climate change. A century ago, global SLR was doubling roughly every 100 years. Ten years ago the doubling time had […]
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Sudden Sea Level Pulses: How “Cork Release” Ice-Sheet Failures Could Rapidly Reshape Global Coastlines
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Flooding at Coastal Sites That Use and Produce Hazardous Substances
Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States Published in Nature / 20 November 2025 Sea level rise (SLR) increases the risk of flooding at coastal sites that use and produce hazardous substances. We assess whether socially marginalized populations in the United States are more likely to be […]
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The Race Against Time: Climate Crisis vs. the United States
by Daniel Brouse April 12, 2025 AbstractHumanity stands at a historic crossroads where the accelerating pace of climate change threatens to overtake both our capacity for response and the viability of the global economic system itself. Recent models indicate that without immediate intervention, climate change could cause the collapse of capitalism as we know it—potentially […]
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International Year of Glaciers
by Daniel Brouse March 21, 2025 Glaciers Melting 36% Faster Than 20 Years Ago The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to raise global awareness about the critical role glaciers play in our planet’s climate system and water resources. This initiative aims to mobilize governments, scientific institutions, the private […]
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Climate Change: Adapt or Die
United Nations Press Release — UN scientists on Monday delivered a stark warning about the impact of climate change on people and the planet, saying that ecosystem collapse, species extinction, deadly heatwaves and floods are among the “unavoidable multiple climate hazards” the world will face over the next two decades due to global warming. UN-IPCC-Climate-Change-March-2022 […]
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Shorefalling Rainstorms
i have been reading of the floods in kerala (india, southwest) and i just realized it isn’t just sea level rise and storm surge these shorefalling rainstorms a) pick up huge amounts of water off the ocean b) drop it inland as they come ashore c) all that water has to get out thru existing […]
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One Trillion Ton Iceberg
By Daniel Brouse An iceberg weighing over one trillion tons (about the size of Delaware) broke off Antarctica. “Antarctica contains 90% of the world’s fresh water as ice. If all the ice melts, sea levels will rise by 60 meters (200 feet). The sea ice melting doesn’t raise the sea level as the ice is […]
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Climate Change Breaks Multiple Records with Global Impacts
The World Meteorological Organization (WHO) issued a report that states records for 2016: a record global temperature exceptionally low sea ice unabated sea level rise ocean heat Extreme weather and climate conditions have continued into 2017. “This report confirms that the year 2016 was the warmest on record – a remarkable 1.1 °C above the […]
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Atlantic City Going Under
by Daniel Brouse For decades businesses located on the island of Atlantic City have been scenario planning for climate change and rising sea levels. At the turn of the century, the casinos devised a plan to float their businesses and ferry gamblers in. Now, the rising waters are no longer a scenario. So-called “nuisance flooding” […]
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Antarctica And Rising Sea Level
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee The U.N. weather agency said the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record of 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius) on March 24, 2015. In March of 2017, there is about 10% less sea ice in Antarctica than the previous record minimum. “One would probably say that the old record […]
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