Robert W. Gray

"Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’" share.google/svEBl00zajXY...

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Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.

This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.

Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Cliff Schecter (@cliffsedge) This has to be one of the funniest and most truthful things I’ve seen all day

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Thus is platinum! 👏👏👏👏⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home.

We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.

We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

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The Lower 48 average was 0.8F above the 1991-2020 normal.

“Warm West/Cool East” dipole to develop over North America in late January; mostly dry/warm conditions lead to record-low Western U.S. snowpack - Weather West Yes, it's still record warm out West and the snowpack really is that bad (outside of central/southern Sierra) I'll keep this part pretty short: it has been an absurdly warm winter thus far across near...

Seriously worried about the upcoming fire season, particularly in light of budget cuts to forest service and other disaster preparedness response/organizations, plus the complete and total absence of FEMA. We have almost no snowpack much fuel growth. Nightmares.
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Carney:

"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Map from NOAA Climate at a Glance depicting the relative rank of Nov-Dec 2025 temperatures on a county-by-county basis. Most Western U.S. counties experienced their warmest Nov-Dec on record, as depicted by all locations dark red in color on the map.

Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.

As U.S. Guns Pour Into Canada, the Bodies Pile Up

“The proliferation of illegal guns from the United States has fueled bloodshed in Canadian cities and even in remote northern communities. It has brought the kind of random gun violence rarely seen before…

Homicides have spiked in Canada in the past decade, most of them from guns”

A little late to the party but at least he finally got here. Not sure anyone is going to listen to him….

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In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍

This has big implications for carbon offset programs!

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An absolute must-read from WSJ. Not surprisingly the Ukraine "peace deal" is all about making Trump and his buddies even richer. Ukraine is just a side show. ⏬️

From Flames to Flow: Utah Water Research Lab Unraveling Streamflow Changes Post-Wildfire A team of researchers at USU's UWRL has developed and tested an innovative algorithm that can untangle the effects from wildfires and other watershed disturbances from natural rainfall-runoff variabil...

“Essentially, the automated algorithm takes long-term rainfall and streamflow data and identifies and separates out individual rainfall events and the resulting surges of water in the stream,” www.usu.edu/today/story/...

Donald Trump said “quiet piggy” to a female reporter because she dared to ask about the Epstein files, and as bad as that is, the fact that none of her colleagues defended her, is even worse.

Traditional wood products markets can only get us so far so we to diversify into the bioenconomy.

Our landscapes contain tree densities well outside the historic range of variation and well outside what is sustainabale under present and future climate. We need to look for solutions that include large-scale biomass removal.

Thanks for the clarification Aarne - I didn't see any reference to this research only applying to the situation in Finland. I do worry that your research could be mis-applied outside Finland and in places like western North America where we do have to seriously consider wildfire.

You’re forgetting the fire side of the equation…..

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

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Mikie Sherrill will be the next governor of New Jersey, reports Decision Desk.

Wow, as of this morning The Last Republican has risen to #7 on Apple TV

Thinking outside the tinderbox: Experts say Manitoba must rethink forestry strategy to face intensifying wildfire threats As wildfire risks rage and shift, province’s approach to managing forest resources must evolve, as must lumber-industry practices, forestry researchers say

Thinking outside the tinderbox
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