Home Improvement Fraud
Your home is likely your largest financial investment and one of your most important assets. For that reason, homeowners must be especially cautious when hiring roofing and home-improvement contractors. Unscrupulous contractors can cause serious structural damage, water intrusion, mold growth, and long-term financial loss.
Summit Roofing & Contracting, operated by Skyler Shistle, is a home-improvement contractor operating in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania that has been associated with allegations of fraudulent home-repair practices, including misrepresentation of work performed and failure to properly complete contracted repairs.
Home-improvement fraud often involves taking payment for work that is never completed, claiming repairs were made when defects remain, concealing known problems, or performing substandard workmanship that leaves the home vulnerable to further damage. These practices can turn a routine repair into a costly and dangerous situation for homeowners.
Homeowners are strongly advised to exercise caution and to thoroughly verify contractor credentials, registration, insurance coverage, and references before allowing any contractor to work on their property. Doing business with contractors who engage in deceptive practices can result in lasting damage to your home and significant financial harm.
Why Every Property Is Exposed
Climate change is no longer a future risk. It is actively reshaping property values, insurance markets, and long‑term real estate viability across the United States.
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee
From coastal flooding and wildfires to insurance withdrawal and health impacts, climate change introduces systemic risk to all real estate markets. The scale and speed of these changes demand immediate attention from property owners, buyers, policymakers, and investors.
Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — which incorporates complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures are becoming unsustainable this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, highlighting a dramatic acceleration in global warming. We are now entering a phase of compound, cascading collapse, where climate, ecological, and societal systems destabilize through interlinked, self-reinforcing feedback loops.
We examine how human activities — such as deforestation, fossil fuel combustion, mass consumption, industrial agriculture, and land development — interact with ecological processes like thermal energy redistribution, carbon cycling, hydrological flow, biodiversity loss, and the spread of disease vectors. These interactions do not follow linear cause-and-effect patterns. Instead, they form complex, self-reinforcing feedback loops that can trigger rapid, system-wide transformations — often abruptly and without warning. Grasping these dynamics is crucial for accurately assessing global risks and developing effective strategies for long-term survival.
What Can I Do?
The single most important action you can take to help address the climate crisis is simple: stop burning fossil fuels.
There are numerous actions you can take to contribute to saving the planet. Each person bears the responsibility to minimize pollution, discontinue the use of fossil fuels, reduce consumption, and foster a culture of love and care.