Education
Daniel Brouse graduated from West Chester East High School in 1980. Awarded
an academic scholarship, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business and
Economics with a minor in Philosophy from West Chester University. His
strength in mathematics and analytical reasoning led to his appointment as
WCU's first statistics tutor. Graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1984,
Daniel was inducted into Phi Sigma Tau, the international honor society for
philosophers, and Pi Gamma Mu, the premier honor society in the social
sciences.
Career and Multidisciplinary Expertise
Daniel's professional career spans real estate, banking, finance, and
investment, providing a practical foundation for his academic work.
Research and development have remained central to his pursuits,
particularly in economics and the physical sciences. Over time, risk
management emerged as the unifying framework connecting his diverse areas
of expertise.
Science and Technology
Daniel's engagement with science and technology began early, grounded in
geology, biology, meteorology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. At age
18, he developed what is believed to be the world's first computer program
for filing federal tax returns.
In his 20s and 30s, Daniel collaborated with physicist Sidd Mukherjee of The Ohio State University, helping pioneer foundational elements of the early World Wide Web. Together, they launched platforms including The Philadelphia Spirit Experiment Publishing Company (The Membrane Domain and King Arthur), which hosted one of the first web-based publishing ecosystems for artists, scientists, and thinkers.
Their work included Glistening Trail Records, the first web-based record company to integrate music distribution, streaming audio, and video-years before such models became industry standards.
The pair also made early contributions to climate science, identifying the nonlinear and accelerating nature of climate change-now a foundational principle of modern climate theory.
"We developed the hypothesis of the nonlinear acceleration of climate change in the 1990s, which evolved into established climate theory by the 2000s," Daniel explains. "Initially, impacts appeared to double roughly every 100 years. That interval has since collapsed to just a few years."
COVID-19 Research
In 2020, Daniel expanded his research into immunology and public health,
focusing on the human immune response to SARS-CoV-2. His first paper,
COVID-19 and Air Pollution, was published on May 26, 2020. Subsequent
papers addressed long COVID, genetic susceptibility, environmental risk
factors, and the role of nutrition in immune resilience.
New Economics and Climate Change
In 2023, Daniel published The Age of Loss and Damage: Climate Change
Economics and the Exponential Costs to Society, proposing a new economic
framework that integrates climate science, statistics, and physics. The
work critiques traditional linear economic models and argues for the use
of exponential functions to reflect the real-world dynamics of climate
risk.
"Our climate model employs chaos theory to project global temperature increases of up to 9°C above pre-industrial levels-conditions that would threaten human survival. Acknowledging these risks is essential to developing effective crisis-management strategies."
Risk Management and Crisis Response
Daniel has spent more than four decades studying and applying principles of
risk management across economics, science, and systems theory. By the
1990s, he identified human activity itself as the greatest risk to
humanity, with climate change and demographic aging emerging as tightly
coupled existential threats.
"We face unprecedented challenges, but recognizing their severity compels action. Robust crisis management is not optional-it is imperative for the survival of civilization."
Quotes
1997 - Sidd Mukherjee: "You do not suffer fools gladly."
2007 - Christopher Brouse: "Dad, you are a little too smart for your own
good."