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Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits.
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized. By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...
www.stanfordecholab.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits.
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
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Be careful out there tonight. That big red spike of new fires does not need to happen.
July 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Be careful out there tonight. That big red spike of new fires does not need to happen.
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Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
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Even more evidence that using forests as nature based "solution" does not solve our carbon problem.
Another idea: substantially reduce carbon emissions, and do it like yesterday. 🔥
Another idea: substantially reduce carbon emissions, and do it like yesterday. 🔥
Sounds like a contradiction but it’s not. Planting trees to fight climate change can sometimes make things worse. In fire-prone areas, more trees mean more fuel. More fuel leads to bigger fires. Bigger fires release more carbon. Plant wrong, burn more. #FireEcology #ClimateRisk #ThinkBeforeYouPlant
Tree Planting Was Supposed to Be a Climate Change Solution. It Could Be Making Things Worse
With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says
www.scientificamerican.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Even more evidence that using forests as nature based "solution" does not solve our carbon problem.
Another idea: substantially reduce carbon emissions, and do it like yesterday. 🔥
Another idea: substantially reduce carbon emissions, and do it like yesterday. 🔥
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Ironically, if there's one thing DOGE has done it's to make me think there is much less fraud and waste in the (non-DOD) government than I thought. If after months of practically unlimited access all they're able to find is research and grants that they disagree with, there must not be much
May 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ironically, if there's one thing DOGE has done it's to make me think there is much less fraud and waste in the (non-DOD) government than I thought. If after months of practically unlimited access all they're able to find is research and grants that they disagree with, there must not be much
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USFS keeps trying to equate "reducing hazardous fuels and wildfire risk" with increased commercial logging & benefits to the timber industry -- but they are not equatable. The vast majority of commercial logging *increases* fuels & fire hazard. Don't believe the spin. 🌏 www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
www.usda.gov
May 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
USFS keeps trying to equate "reducing hazardous fuels and wildfire risk" with increased commercial logging & benefits to the timber industry -- but they are not equatable. The vast majority of commercial logging *increases* fuels & fire hazard. Don't believe the spin. 🌏 www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
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The Trump administration is gutting the EPA's enforcement of pollution regulations and rolling back rules, but do go on about our "standards."
Miller: "If you had a choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint from it that is not as well constructed, as a doll made in America that has a highly environmental and regulatory standard & those two products are both on Amazon, that yes, you probably would be willing to pay more."
May 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Trump administration is gutting the EPA's enforcement of pollution regulations and rolling back rules, but do go on about our "standards."
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April 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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they 100% dumped the cold backups into an s3 bucket to save $1m a year because they can't understand the value of tape storage
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
they 100% dumped the cold backups into an s3 bucket to save $1m a year because they can't understand the value of tape storage
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The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
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Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News
Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”
insideclimatenews.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
Explaining this common government promotion process/trajectory to my mother was fun. Non-government citizens don't know how the process works at all.
Not to mention that USDA is not renewing term position across the board. Unsure what DOI is doing with terms
Not to mention that USDA is not renewing term position across the board. Unsure what DOI is doing with terms
March 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Explaining this common government promotion process/trajectory to my mother was fun. Non-government citizens don't know how the process works at all.
Not to mention that USDA is not renewing term position across the board. Unsure what DOI is doing with terms
Not to mention that USDA is not renewing term position across the board. Unsure what DOI is doing with terms
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Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.
Leavitt: "It's only because of the United States of America that the French aren't speaking German right now."
March 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Just gonna point out she is saying this just 50 yards or so from Lafayette Square, which sits immediately outside the White House and includes a giant statue of General Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution and a visible reminder of the key role France played in securing U.S. independence.
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I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
March 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I’m struck by the Trump administration’s attempt to redefine equality as discrimination against white people. This is a deeply racist idea that *equal outcomes* must be unfair, assuming white people are naturally at the top of the hierarchy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
It's nice to have some of those things though
If this Useful Idiot in The White House is going to put out tweets and policy that is damaging to America, perhaps anyone with brains around him should proofread them first.
How fucking embarrassing.
How fucking embarrassing.
March 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's nice to have some of those things though
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I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.
March 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I’ve been so upset about the Mahmoud Khalil situation all day — it isn’t business as usual for the White House to instruct Ice to revoke the green card (!!) of a Columbia graduate for their political views. For me this’ll be the moment we tipped from authoritarianism light to authoritarianism heavy.
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Fraud is a crime. Will people soon be indicted for all the fraud found by Elon and DOGE?
March 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Fraud is a crime. Will people soon be indicted for all the fraud found by Elon and DOGE?
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Listen to Riva Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters - a 30y veteran of the wildland fire service - on the fire impacts of the non-fire layoffs in the federal land management agency.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
How the Loss of Federal Workers Will Have A Massive Impact on Fire Operations This Fire Season, With Riva Duncan
Podcast Episode · Life with Fire · 02/16/2025 · 18m
podcasts.apple.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Listen to Riva Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters - a 30y veteran of the wildland fire service - on the fire impacts of the non-fire layoffs in the federal land management agency.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations.
Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include:
Boston
Miami
Houston
Omaha
Wichita
Kansas City
Marquette, MI
Sioux Falls, SD
Rapid City, SD
Cheyenne, WY
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include:
Boston
Miami
Houston
Omaha
Wichita
Kansas City
Marquette, MI
Sioux Falls, SD
Rapid City, SD
Cheyenne, WY
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season
The National Weather Service has lost about 10% of its staff, hitting offices prone to severe weather hardest
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Scoop: ~33% of NWS offices no longer have sufficient staffing to safely keep 24/7 operations.
Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include:
Boston
Miami
Houston
Omaha
Wichita
Kansas City
Marquette, MI
Sioux Falls, SD
Rapid City, SD
Cheyenne, WY
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Critically understaffed @nws.noaa.gov offices now include:
Boston
Miami
Houston
Omaha
Wichita
Kansas City
Marquette, MI
Sioux Falls, SD
Rapid City, SD
Cheyenne, WY
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
www.rollingstone.com
March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
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obviously these are the geniuses we want running mail and the social security office and faa air traffic control
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
obviously these are the geniuses we want running mail and the social security office and faa air traffic control