The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
Our friends at the Southern Fire Exchange are offering the webinar, A Story of Fire and Fuels in Southwest Georgia, on March 13, 2026. Get full details and registration information at buff.ly/Pkot6Sx #PrescribedFire #FireScience
Ground-based snow observations, combined with pre-treatment (2021) and post-treatment (2023) snow-on lidar, show that canopy thinning increased snow depth and storage by 30% on north-facing slopes and by 16% on south-facing slopes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...
🔥 @grahamformaine.bsky.social : “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”
All are invited for this UC Berkeley-UC Merced-California Fire Science Consortium talk 🔥🌱
Thank you CFSC for the flier 😮💨 #fire #wildfire #Indigenous #california
The extent of record high temperatures across the West this winter is absurd.
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Hot, dry, windy conditions are increasingly arising in multiple regions at the same time, setting the stage for simultaneous wildfires around the world, a study shows. via @vox.com
Un be livable.
I had the privilege to live near and visit 2000 year old kauri Tane Mahuta in 🇳🇿.
To think that we knowingly destroy these beings, trees alive since the bronze age! …Because we are reluctant to efficiently cull Dark Triad devils from our species?! Get CRISPR ready and rid us off them!!
'Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash'
'Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, ... “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”'
"Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’" share.google/svEBl00zajXY...
It's webinar season & the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab's seminar series is back! Find the evolving list of presentations and register here: buff.ly/qxTDuVN
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.
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.
nothing to see here
The Lower 48 average was 0.8F above the 1991-2020 normal.
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.
weatherwest.com/archives/43686
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.
“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!
Next slide, please ...
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. ⏬️
“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.
