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Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California Anthropogenic warming accelerates wildfire season onset in California.

Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close after funding cut, in blow to local media The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down its operations after the loss of federal funding, the nonprofit said on Friday, in a blow to local TV and radio stations that have relied on its grants for nearly six decades.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will shut down after losing federal funding due to a $9 billion cut by the Republican-controlled House. Created in 1967, it distributed funds to NPR, PBS, and over 1,500 local stations.

This does not make America great in any way. 🤬

📣 Erasing Truth is Not History—It’s Propaganda 📣

The @smithsonian should be ashamed.

When institutions sanitize reality to appease authoritarian power, they betray their mission and the people they serve. The Smithsonian should be ashamed. This is how democracy dies—one erased fact at a time.

For awareness, a Research Station has multiple labs, usually tailored to unique research needs of each region.

The Pacific Northwest Research Station is headquartered in Portland but has labs in Wenatchee, Corvallis, Anchorage, and elsewhere.

At PNW, wildfire and rangeland are big research areas.

As virtually everyone else has now said, the jobs data going forward will be more or less meaningless

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Kill/fire the messenger. Fire anyone espousing the truth or accountability. Same thing happened to scientists, DOJ officials, and countless others. This is so fvcked.

#FireScarFriday
Very old fire-scarred stump. The astute observer will notice two whitetail deer in the background. 🔥

As US wildfires rage, firefighters clean toilets after Trump staff cuts, critics say The U.S. Forest Service faced criticism from current and former employees who say federal workforce reductions under the Trump administration have left fire teams understaffed, as the country grapples with decade-high U.S. wildfire numbers this year.

The crew leader on an Oregon blaze said her team went hungry for several days, ran short of medical supplies and had to scrounge for chainsaw fuel after support staff quit the agency during two rounds of "fork in the road" buyouts.

Easier said than done. Lots of area burning, and fires don't obey orders very well.

Check out all these great resources on repeated fires (reburns).

I'm stoked to have contributed to some of these products.
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The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

Understanding Wildfire Severity - The Lookout Wildfire ‘severity’ describes the ecological effects of a fire. At a landscape-scale, severity is measured using satellite imagery. This process uses images of the vegetation from before and after…

Today's Lookout Livestream is an extended/freewheeling tour of the topic of wildfire severity, told as a bunch of stories about fires I have worked on or studied in Northern California over the past 3 decades.
the-lookout.org/2025/07/16/u...

U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

Now that NOAA is no longer tracking billion-dollar weather disasters, rely on insurance broker Gallagher Re, who just released their list for the first half of 2025. So far, we are near the 10-year average. The CA wildfires ($65 billion) were the 8th-costliest weather disaster in world history.

Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

The frequency of heat extremes are doubling roughly every 10 years.

There are twice as many extreme heat days now as in 2015, and by 2035 there will be twice as many as now!

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#ClimateEmergency
#EndFossilFuels

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And this also goes for Starlink.
#StarlinkShutdown

Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the Epstein files that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in The Forest Service's new chief recently published a letter that called for wildfires to be suppressed "as swiftly as possible." That may sound prudent to many, but it raised eyebrows among some who st...

Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in. From the Mountain West News Bureau's @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social w/ @boisestatepublicradio.org - www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...

US #1237 1963 ‘The Sciences’

An occasional series to remind people what the US has previously been proud of.

#StampSubSkeet

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...

"Years with such extreme FWI metrics are 88-152% more likely across global forested lands under a contemporary (2011–2040) climate compared to a quasi-preindustrial (1851–1900) climate, with the most pronounced increased risk in temperate and Amazonian forests." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Congratulations to lead author Matthew Harris. Other team member include @coopecology.bsky.social, J. Balik, J. McFarland, and C. Stevens-Rumann.

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We found that aspen slows fire progression: as aspen cover on the landscape increased, daily area burned and daily spread rate decreased.

Aspen also serves as a barrier to fire spread, demonstrated through a higher proportion of aspen cover at fire perimeters than in burn interiors.

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We tested if daily area burned and fire spread rate varied by the percent of aspen encountered on any given day. We also measured the relative abundance of aspen at outer fire perimeters/boundaries vs. fire interiors.

We evaluated 314 fires that burned from 2001-2020 in Arizona and New Mexico.

Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".

Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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I just met a dude in the Denver airport who is on his way to work on that fire

How Wildfires Are Speeding the Shrinking of BC’s Glaciers | The Tyee Researchers with a new study on smoke and the ‘ice albedo effect’ are startled by the quick pace of melting.

How #Wildfires Are Speeding the Shrinking of BC's #Glaciers via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

Good thread about historical fire and Indigenous fire use in N. America 🔥

There are ways to mitigate and adapt to extreme events, like stopping the burning of fossil fuels and building early warning systems (or not firing people who make forecasts and coordinate with local officials), but prayer is not one of them.