🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥

NEW – How wildfires and storms drove insurance losses in 2025 – in three charts | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/0XOfI5t

Nice article from CBC featuring our recent research findings relating snowpack to fire severity. More important than how much area burns, is how it burns. 🔥🧪🌎 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Think a warmer, drier spring means no rx fire (like I did?) Think again! www.hcn.org/articles/why...

The western U.S., limping away from one of the driest winters on record, is primed for wildfires. insideclimatenews.org/news/2703202...

1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵

To complement this @theguardian.com article, please see our new (very timely) paper on snow-wildfire dynamics 🔥

Lowest snowpack on record in the Southwest by longgg shot! Only 36% of normal currently. Much lower in spots. Former record 57% in 2015 going back to 1987. Obviously this can have huge implications for water availability and fire season… 1/

1/5 NEW paper alert! 🧪🔥 A lot of you know that snowpack is currently at a record or near-record low in many watersheds in the western US. A logical question is thus: how will the low snowpack affect wildfire in the coming months? Read the thread for key findings ...

My research team recently published “Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century.” If you’re interested in wilderness philosophies, Indigenous stewardship, and the questions raised by climate change and fire - this one’s for you! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Interesting article in the @wsj.com by Katherine Clarke about a rebuild in the Pacific Palisades area. Two things to note - expensive but not crazy build costs plus a massive savings generated on insurance. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

🔥 Critical Fire Weather Monday 🔥 “Critical” is rare for #Florida - a couple times of year. And it’s the first of 2026 due to very dry air, gusty winds and drought-stricken crisp ground. Please take great care as any fire that ignites will spread rapidly. This will be a challenging #fire season!

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

Me. I'm a mad scientist. (Paul Noth cartoons)

EV battery technology continues to astound! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2026/02/24/s...

Really proud of my paper with @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social, @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social, Andrew Stillman, and Courtney Davis out now in @natcomms.nature.com, which looks at the forecasted exposure of bird biodiversity to high severity fire in the western US. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some nice media exposure about the threatened whitebark pine that highlights one of our recent studies. 🧪🌎

Democracy may die in darkness, but it also seems you can kill it in broad daylight.

None of what's happening now would be possible without gop enablers. They own all of it. The gop is the party of evil. Vote them all out.

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to prelim figures from the International Disaster Database. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires & droughts. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Smash hit! A whopping eight people are in attendance at the 315 showing of Melania in Missoula

Yet another stroke of genius from POTUS 🔥

OK, as we go into February, I'm officially worried about our snowpack numbers across the Western US. Less snow means dryer soils and fuels heading into the summer and I don't like fire years where the high country comes online early.

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

OMG. I'm at a hotel bar preparing to give a wildfire lecture (the best place to prepare a lecture). The dude next to me starts talking about a conspiracy theory stating there is a laser weapon that started all the recent wildfires in Canada. We've got some whacky people in the US! 🔥

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

Is there a way to specifically pay 1% of your taxes with a promise to send the rest when the Epstein files are released? Asking for America.

Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

This graphic is really great.

I wish two things: 1. Ryanair operated in the US. 2. People would cancel Starlink (I know a lot of people who dislike Musk but still have Starlink; I wish they’d not give that a$$hole their money)

I so wish there was an edit option here. Anyway tagging this as a wildfire post since the paper that was misrepresented in the DOE report was all about fire. 🔥 🧪

I also dismissed the report based on its content The jokers who authored the DOE report totally misrepresented one of my peer-reviewed papers (page 69 of the report). They are either 1) purposely spewing disinformation or 2) not smart enough to understand the paper. I guess it could be both.

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread) biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

Get solar panels if you are able!!

Trump watched an actual insurrection on Jan 6th and did NOTHING to stop it. Now he threatens to use the Insurrection Act against law abiding Americans.

I’ll be on @boisestatepublicradio.org’s Idaho Matters (weekdays at 12) tomorrow to talk about my recent insurance reporting. I attended a public forum on the issue since the story published, and you’re going to want to hear some of what I recorded. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...

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.

Say it publicly, you cowards!

Great @boisestatepublicradio.org Idaho Matters interview with @propublica.org’s Mark Olalde. They discuss his important recent reporting on the massively subsidized, lightly regulated and often environmentally damaging public lands ranching industry. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase, an expert on the U.S. media and its role in democracy explains. buff.ly/lcUuZZQ By @victorpickard.bsky.social #journalism

He’s concerned about the safety of violent protesters in Iran but doesn’t give a fuck about peaceful citizens being murdered on American streets. 🤬

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984