Mark White
@markwhite1215.bsky.social
Forest ecologist in northern Minnesota. Love plants and forests, alpine skiing and swimming.Que té vaya bien!
Climate change never ignites a fire. That’s almost always humans or lightning. But it’s clear when we examine the data that climate heating sets the table for fires that burn faster and larger. Since the 1980s temperatures during fire season in the Pacific NW have warmed around 4°F… 1/
That's a good one. But I prefer this (used in our book):
As governments row back on green measures, there has never been a more important time to make a lot of noise True, many climate scientists are speaking out and taking action, but many more are still hiding in the undergrowth This is just not good enough www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
theguardian.com
Interesting and helpful article on the importance of bias adjustments in long term climate data.
Andrew Dessler@andrewdessler.com · last wk.On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com and I revisit the warmth of the 1930s. This seems to be one of the most important denier arguments out there. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/raw-data-w...
I read through this, and it's remarkably autocratic, almost Soviet-style vision for science in the United States.
OSTP Director Releases Landmark Report and Recommendations for Renewing American Scientific Discovery
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios
whitehouse.gov
From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...
15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections
Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.
yaleclimateconnections.org
Unhealthy levels of smoke now affecting NYC. Particulate levels in NE MN and N WI/MI are firmly at hazardous levels approaching 500 µg/m³. It’s Summer 2023 all over again…
Oh look, another all-time record high temperature shattered... Salt Lake City, Utah today. Once again, climate change made this heat more likely. Are you hearing that connection when these records are discussed? We will have more on this later this week: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.
Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say
Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.
cbsnews.com
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
Lest this estimate sound unreasonably high to you, remember that heat is often not recorded as the cause of death on most certificates. Excess mortality statistics have to be derived after the fact: and for the 2003 EU heatwave, they totalled 70,000. So this number may even be conservative. Source:
sciencedirect.com
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
easternherald.com
When I move into a house I am just like anybody else: I like to immediately get settled in and orientate myself by drawing a map of the immediate area, themed entirely around the habits of squirrels.
🚨 Carbon dioxide averaged 432.34 ppm in May 2026. This marks a new record high for the month of May and the annual seasonal peak. 10 years ago May averaged about 408 ppm. This continued rise is driven by human emissions from fossil fuels, with climate change impacts intensifying around the world.
Photosynthetic optimum temperature plays a minor role in the increase of terrestrial carbon uptake from 2000 to 2019: One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... Water use and canopy structure are more important than temperature for the increase in carbon uptake. Very interesting 🤔!
Photosynthetic optimum temperature plays a minor role in the increase of terrestrial carbon uptake from 2000 to 2019
Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake are often assumed to reflect thermal acclimation. Using global eddy-covariance and satellite observations, Xu et al. show that maximum ecosystem photosynt...
cell.com
Study: “rewilding” with large mammals increases insect diversity, especially that of Orthoptera (crickets, grasshoppers) and Hymenoptera (bees, wasps).
Trophic rewilding restructure the insect communities according to their functional traits: Insights from a multitaxa study
Presence of large ungulates increased richness and abundance of some insect taxa. Across taxa, it supported life history traits declining in modern industrialised landscapes. Trophic rewilding thus r...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo agoScientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.
If you are concerned about the evisceration and suppression of U.S. science, you can make public comments on the proposed regulations here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... Here is mine, which, admittedly, I have aimed at older conservatives.
CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”
A lot of people who should know better are treating the demise of RCP8.5 as some kind of "gotcha!" moment that somehow overturns the rather dire climate predictions of the past decade. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth!
A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out
Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years
Should be us. This is the price of the corrupt Trump administration decision to cede this entire industry to the Chinese, just for added gasoline sales for his big fossil fuel donors. Corruption has a cost. American industries will pay.
New EV battery charges in 6 minutes and delivers 900-mile range
A new EV breakthrough by CATL could bring 900-mile battery ranges and six-minute charging times to the market.
thecooldown.com
