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:

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...

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

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

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!

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

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.

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. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

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.

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

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."

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

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.

Thank you @permafrostpathways.bsky.social ! I am very excited that this special issue is out there with articles from RedFire, Community Wildfire Protection Plans from AVF, articles on the Wildland Fire Initiative, the upcoming Expert Group, just a ton of great contributors here.

"Chik'iidruu" in Gwich'in. It's also the name of a caribou clavicle and a tool that's used for hunting rabbits. Nice picture.

Quote with a Pic of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe.

Excited to be the Mountainfilm 2025 mural artist in Telluride! My mural, "Cartographies of Arctic Change" (a massive 26.5' x 36'!), visualizes our Arctic research. It's going up now on Telco Coffee, a wall previously graced by JR, Gregg Deal, Banksy, and more. Come see it in Telluride!

If the Democrats remove @davidhogg.bsky.social from the party he should make a 3rd party. I would donate. The NEA @neatoday.bsky.social should become members enmasse. The Democratic Party is so entrenched with leadership that doesn't want to do the right thing: Universal Healthcare, minimum wage,etc

“Let’s be ambitious enough to work together on wildland fire outside of the initiative in a real way.” Congratulations, Edward Alexander, whose term as Head of Delegation for Gwich'in Council International to the Arctic Council concludes this week. Read his remarks: www.linkedin.com/posts/dinjii...

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Those who spent the last 5 years howling about Hunter Biden being on the board of a Ukrainian company on the grounds that he would not have been granted that position if Ukraine did not want to influence Joe Biden now say they believe the Qataris just want Trump to have nice things for no reason

Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska Migratory birds have returned to Interior Alaska. tsuugaay "small songbirds" k’elaxdihtsogh "yellow warbler" ché’ delgez "arctic tern" kets’iht’ón’ "swallow" ts’est’ûud "dark-eyed junco" mehk’ą̂ąy "mew gull" ntsiiɬ "northern flicker" tsidaanmbiidh "crossbill"

The Democrats should form "The States Rights Alliance." That would be awesome. The Bill Aspen Society (B.A. society) all as turn on Republican games from the last century.

Devastating data disruptions for #Alaska & the #Arctic. With no advance notice: "Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS)." #NOAA #SeaIce #Snow

"The risks Arctic fires pose on local ecosystems and the communities that depend on them, as well as the destabilizing effect they can have on the global climate, require a rethinking of how fires will be managed in the future." Powerful StoryMap from @gwandaii.bsky.social @gridarendal.bsky.social

"Paramount Set to Pay Mobster After Shakedown for Protection Money."

We were founded 40 years ago to bring science to the decision-making table. Recent events - from extreme weather to extreme policy - have made our work more important than ever. With your help, we can do it for the next 40. We’re standing strong. Stand with us. bit.ly/3GlaQ1v

Wildland fire in the Arctic is changing rapidly. With half the state of Alaska lacking snow cover and experiencing deep drying, fuels are prepped, if the early spring produces some lightning, for fire. We could be off to the races to add another red stripe, maybe a much longer one than we've seen.

Reminds me of the David Bowie song "I am afraid of Americans."

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Tesla is down 71%, but I'll celebrate when it's down 100% and Musk is completely bankrupt.

The annual Alaska Spring River Break-up webinar will be tomorrow 11am-Noon AKDT. Kyle Van Peursem (NWS) and I will review current conditions and potential risks as Alaska’s big rivers transition from ice to open water. Register at the link. #akwx #Spring2025 #Hydrology uaf-accap.org/event/river-...

Sunday afternoon was not the best upper air observation cycle for Alaska. "X" are places that would normally have had weather balloon launches three months ago. #akwx #weather #NOAA @climatologist49.bsky.social @coweatherman.bsky.social @brunota2003.bsky.social

The shift on climate change will drastically limit U.S.-based research into its health effects, which tries to answer questions like whether events like wildfires and heat waves can affect cardiovascular health and pregnancy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/w...

“Climate change doesn’t care if you believe in it. It is here, it is accelerating, and the impacts are already quite dramatic.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/13/m...

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

January-March 2025 temperature departure from normal in the Arctic. It was the second warmest January-March period on record north of 60°N (2016). @alaskawx.bsky.social

Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.