Ian Rose

Western US snowpack is still looking BAD. Hope for snow, but plan for low river flows and severe wildfire risk.

Personally, I prefer anything on a third party site like an author page at a magazine to be 3rd person, and anything on my own to be 1st. I still think of my website as essentially a blog, so I think the voice should be mine.

Northern California’s first condor egg in 100 years reported in redwood tree

Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.”

#californiacondor

If you read it vertically by color, I'm guessing it means something dirty in Welsh.

Graphic showing the spring leaf index anomaly for March 3, 2026 for the contiguous United States, with spread arriving very early in central and western areas and late in the southeast.

It's been so warm for cities like Denver, Colorado that even phenological spring has arrived there according to the first leaf out! Wow!

Graphic from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

As part of my strategy for surviving the huge, evil forces of the world, I think I want to start cultivating small-stakes enemies.

Today, it's the local car dealership that sent me an ad disguised as a 1099, which I put with my pile of tax documents and only opened just now, to an audible groan.

I'm not linking to yet another White Man On The Internet's blog post, but suffice to say:

No, LLM extruders *can't* do ethnographic research or social semiotic analysis

What they *have done* is flood the zone with slop that makes social science research & analysis infinitely harder than before

Since Thom Tillis is threatening to hold up Trump nominees over Noem's disastrous management of DHS, may I suggest starting with Steve Pearce for BLM.

I don't really care how he's stopped, or who stops him. I just want public lands in better hands than a lifelong gas man who vocally hates them.

The Dow is down 1,600 points since Pam Bondi said that we should all be talking about the Dow. The stock market is so very much not the economy, and our biggest problems right now are not economic. They're moral, ethical and legal. But even their one happy number isn't good anymore. Line go down.

Thanks to @larryoneill.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social and others for talking to me about the science as well as the on-the-ground experience of this snow drought.

As I say in the closer, we can still hope for a little help from Mother Nature, but we have to prepare for a tough summer.

Western Snow Drought Threatens Ski Season and Much More Record low snowpack could have downstream effects on rivers, farms, and cities that last long beyond winter

In the short term, this year's historic snow drought in the West is already hurting communities and economies that depend on tourism. But in the long run, it could hit our farms, forests, fish and more even harder.

My latest for Sierra Magazine:
#ClimateCrisis

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/weste...

It's not in a union and can't join one. That's enough for a 6-film deal if you're rich and awful enough.

Absolutely the most pain I've ever been in. I've often said I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but I have to admit, the worstness of my enemies of late has increased to the point that I'm rethinking it.

Dozens of daily record high temp records will fall late-week (NWS says nearly 150) in the Southeast.

Yeah. I've got to keep telling myself that it matters, even if only as some unknown reader's distraction. But I do think it's more than that. I'm trying to listen hard to the part of me that decides to keep doing this. It's certainly not for the pay. Somewhere, I do think it matters.

‘The Evergreen’: Ghost town offers a window into Oregon’s multiracial logging history When Gwen Trice dug into her family history, she learned that her father had come to Oregon from Arkansas in a boxcar to live and work in the logging town of Maxville. It was once one of the largest t...

Today on @opb.org's The Evergreen:
Maxville was once one of the largest towns in Wallowa County. It was created in the 1920s by a lumber company to house loggers, including Black loggers from Southern states — like Gwen Trice’s father. We explore her family roots & Maxville's multiracial history:

Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.

It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.

Power engineer here. They roar like jet engines because they are jet engines.

Solar plus batteries are nice and quiet.

Let’s stop going backwards on climate action!

I think I figured out the biggest structural problem with my longest-term project, and it's a relief that makes me think I might actually write the damn thing.

I have little room in my head for anything but sadness for the world, but I'm trying to do what I'd tell others to, and count the wins.

It's not complicated. If this isn't your line, you don't have a line and I don't want to hear from you.

I will never let them talk about "waste" again without screaming myself hoarse in their faces, and neither should you.

Nothing in human history has ever been more wasteful than choosing and starting war.

Eisenhower was right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_...

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

Adding to my list of to-dos when we get power back: Ban the prediction markets and salt the ground we bury them in.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

I'm so sorry for your loss, Wendy.

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die,” I repeat to myself as I absolutely pour that shit down my open throat.

I hate them so much, and I hate them for making me hate so much.

If you don't live in the United States, today would be a good day to tell your government to sanction and boycott us. Don't come to the World Cup. Don't come to the Olympics. Don't buy a thing made or based here. International law may be dead, but international commerce still exists. Punish us.

The war crimes seem countless, but I hope we're keeping count. A trial for each and every one.