Edward Alexander

Americans are surprised to learn that racist, xenophobic gulags are bad for business. More at 11.

Analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere fire emissions for EU🇪🇺+UK🇬🇧 shows that 2025 (up to 19 August) has the highest annual total of the past 23 years driven by the, still increasing, scale of the devastating #wildfires in Spain & Portugal over the past two weeks. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Stephen Miller accidentally summons the nation's hippies to take to the streets.

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

State of the climate continues to track global change The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist...

Folks with the University of Alaska Fairbanks contributed mightily to the American Meteorological Society's 2024 State of the Climate Arctic Chapter. #akwx #Climate #AlaskaSky @arcticgoddess.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social

www.uaf.edu/news/state-o...

That sounds awesome.

Map from NASA FIRMS with the area burned to July 27, 2025 for Alaska, Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories annotated.

Northern North America wildfire area burned updated to Sunday. Area burned is higher than last year at this point in the season. Alaska has burned about 42 percent more area, Yukon Territory about 17 percent more and the Northwest Territories about 4 percent more. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire2025

Fire suppression in the boreal: "There's too much fire now" - Woodwell Climate In boreal forests, which are experiencing intensifying fires, fire suppression offers a way to protect both people and carbon-rich permafrost

For Woodwell’s Dr. Kayla Mathes, community perspectives have driven home the need for fire suppression as a tool to protect people and climate.

Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...

@permafrostpathways.bsky.social

Aaaa deegwatsaii kwaa. Dinjii Zhuh K'yaa gaanandai shro'. Translation: "aaa be quiet. You don't understand the Native American way of life." In Gwich'in.

Photo taken in DENALI National Park yesterday.

Saskatchewan & Manitoba have already surpassed their previous highest annual total #wildfire emissions with Ontario amongst the highest in the 23-year #CopernicusAtmosphere dataset. Further west, British Columbia is comparable to 2023 & 2024 for the same time of year.

If you're interested in wildland fire data, you have to follow my friend Mark Parrington who "brings the heat" in his posts!

It's been a spell since I've seen a good fricative post.

Map of Alaska and the Yukon Territory showing PM 2.5 Air Quality Index reports from the PurpleAir network as of about 715am AKDT/815am MST on Monday, July 14, 2025.

Smoke from wildfires evident in the available PM2.5 air quality reports in Alaska and the Yukon Territory early Monday. AQI improved in the Fairbanks area but remains poor at Coldfoot and surely much of the rest of the northern Interior. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #ytwx #Smoke #Summer2025

Screenshot from the NASA FIRMS website showing reported firms as of July 14, 2025 with annotated area burned for Alaska, the Yukon and the NWT. Acreage statistics from state and territorial websites.

Wildfire area burned in northern North America to July 14 is ahead of last year at this time in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Similar area burned now compared to last year mid-July in the Northwest Territories. Graphic from the NASA FIRMS website. #akwx #Wildfire #Summer2025 #Canada #Alaska

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

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Canada's reward for being America's truest, most stalwart ally of the last 150 years is an unjustified trade war and 35% tariffs. There are battlefields the world over where Canada's finest lost blood on our behalf, little did they know we would stick the knife in their back at home. #shameful

The budget for ICE in the BBB will exceed the budget for the Marine Corps. The BBB is poised to pass. This is increasing their budget by a factor of 10. Ramping up for WWII levels of increase.

Except, the enemy is the public.

We are seeing the birth of a new police state.

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Congress doing the wrong thing, yet again, at the behest of a corrupt president? Well, I am shocked, shocked I say.

One of these days a branch of the US Government will do the right thing and it will really, really, take me by surprise.

That's not the issue. The issue is did it exceed the authority that the CONSTITUTION Of THE UNITED STATES granted the courts? No? Then we were good, until the Court decided it wasn't a co-equal branch of government.

Bar plot showing the area burned to June 27 in 2024 and 2025 in Alaska, the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories. All three regions have larger area burned this year than 2024.

Wildfire area burned in northern North America is ahead of this time in 2024. Largest increase is in the Yukon Territory. However, the last days of June 2024 saw rapid wildfire growth in Alaska and the YT, so this will look different at the end of the month. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire #Arctic

NOAA collapse continues. Another sad day. #NOAA

When we as Americans abandon the people of the world to starvation, war, poverty, unjust incarceration, the climate crisis unmet with a will towards a livable world, for the unchecked greed of our wealthy, it's not "America First" it's "America Only" and it feels like "America the Ugly."

Opinion | Alaska Cannot Survive This Bill

It's true, Alaska Cannot Survive the Big Ugly Bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o... #Alaska #OBBB

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Insanity.

For the next four months, every day without wildfire smoke is a perfect weather day.

In 2024, wildfire carbon emissions from high northern latitudes registered sixth highest in the 22-year satellite record. Wildfire carbon emissions from the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions reached an estimated 151 million tonnes. #ESOTC2024 #C3S🔥 bit.ly/3XWrOJw

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.

You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.