Jim Whittington🔥
@jimwhittington.bsky.social
Retired BLM/NPS/USFS - Courtesy faculty with Oregon State's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Interested in wildland fire, incident management, climate change, history, public health, & crisis comms. Texas expat. Birthday: 318.51
I know a lot of feds who were struggling with the shutdown & all the crap they've been put through this year. I know neighbors who depend on SNAP. I know families (ours too) who were in the process of altering holiday plans. No doubt, the shutdown was bad for many.
But to cave? Like this? Come on.
But to cave? Like this? Come on.
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I know a lot of feds who were struggling with the shutdown & all the crap they've been put through this year. I know neighbors who depend on SNAP. I know families (ours too) who were in the process of altering holiday plans. No doubt, the shutdown was bad for many.
But to cave? Like this? Come on.
But to cave? Like this? Come on.
Ridiculous.
That's my center.
That's my center.
Alperen Şengün dribbles by Giannis Antetokounmpo, puts him on a spin cycle, and scores the dagger And-1 on Myles Turner (with many replays)
Rockets win
Rockets win
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Ridiculous.
That's my center.
That's my center.
Solid op-ed by my friend Bobbie Scopa:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Wildfires don’t wait for Washington
With paychecks stopped, parts undeliverable and logistics grinding to a halt, even the bravest firefighters will be stranded out there without backup.
www.deseret.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Solid op-ed by my friend Bobbie Scopa:
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
OK, every weekday in November I'll try to post a fire photo. Here's one of a Shot crew getting geared up and ready to hike into the fire. I can't remember which fire this was, but I'm fairly certain it was in New Mexico.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
OK, every weekday in November I'll try to post a fire photo. Here's one of a Shot crew getting geared up and ready to hike into the fire. I can't remember which fire this was, but I'm fairly certain it was in New Mexico.
$69/410 pieces of candy all gone by 7:40.
Next year, I'm getting a stack of brochures from the Coast Guard to pass out to the adult trick-or-treaters.
Next year, I'm getting a stack of brochures from the Coast Guard to pass out to the adult trick-or-treaters.
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
$69/410 pieces of candy all gone by 7:40.
Next year, I'm getting a stack of brochures from the Coast Guard to pass out to the adult trick-or-treaters.
Next year, I'm getting a stack of brochures from the Coast Guard to pass out to the adult trick-or-treaters.
Same. And yes, disasters were definitely on the ballot--and in multiple ways.
I’m a big “we’re all in this together” person. I want disaster relief going anywhere in the country that faces a disaster, no matter how anyone there voted. I don’t think “how’d they vote” is a relevant question.
But I and anyone who agrees on that got outvoted. Disaster response was on the ballot.
But I and anyone who agrees on that got outvoted. Disaster response was on the ballot.
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Same. And yes, disasters were definitely on the ballot--and in multiple ways.
Back in the day, I was working a fire near a fancy ski resort. This was when $30 million homes were still unfathomable to me. This guy, who kept bragging that he had the President's personal phone number, came up and said he was going to write a check to pay for all the firefighter meals. 1/
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Back in the day, I was working a fire near a fancy ski resort. This was when $30 million homes were still unfathomable to me. This guy, who kept bragging that he had the President's personal phone number, came up and said he was going to write a check to pay for all the firefighter meals. 1/
When I do candy corn I only do the Autumn Mix. Got to have those little pumpkins.
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
When I do candy corn I only do the Autumn Mix. Got to have those little pumpkins.
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The president has still not signed the governors disaster declaration request for Alaska.
This is directly keeping funding out of the hands of disaster survivors who need it.
This is directly keeping funding out of the hands of disaster survivors who need it.
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The president has still not signed the governors disaster declaration request for Alaska.
This is directly keeping funding out of the hands of disaster survivors who need it.
This is directly keeping funding out of the hands of disaster survivors who need it.
Yikes! I knew this would be a big number, but I didn't imagine it would be THAT big--over one-third of GDP growth since 2000 is recovering from and preparing for disasters. This seems unsustainable. Maybe we should change some things?
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yikes! I knew this would be a big number, but I didn't imagine it would be THAT big--over one-third of GDP growth since 2000 is recovering from and preparing for disasters. This seems unsustainable. Maybe we should change some things?
Once clutch, always clutch. Once an Astro, always an Astro.
The one-time World Series MVP gets a chance to make it two and I'm a Canadian for the rest of the baseball season.
The one-time World Series MVP gets a chance to make it two and I'm a Canadian for the rest of the baseball season.
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Once clutch, always clutch. Once an Astro, always an Astro.
The one-time World Series MVP gets a chance to make it two and I'm a Canadian for the rest of the baseball season.
The one-time World Series MVP gets a chance to make it two and I'm a Canadian for the rest of the baseball season.
Not only is the shutdown affecting the prescribed fire shoulder season & making it impossible to treat acres, but the longer it goes the more it cuts into the training season & the prep for 2026. Because so much training is set up by the feds, it affects local, state, & private resources as well. 1/
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not only is the shutdown affecting the prescribed fire shoulder season & making it impossible to treat acres, but the longer it goes the more it cuts into the training season & the prep for 2026. Because so much training is set up by the feds, it affects local, state, & private resources as well. 1/
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Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.
It's the season for prescribed fire - an important step to reducing fuel loads in our forests.
This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...
This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.
Saddened to see more good people leaving federal service before they should. Institutional knowledge & memory are forever diminished, the mission and culture wrecked irreparably. Just a huge and unnecessary loss that will haunt this country for years to come.
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Saddened to see more good people leaving federal service before they should. Institutional knowledge & memory are forever diminished, the mission and culture wrecked irreparably. Just a huge and unnecessary loss that will haunt this country for years to come.
Every new smoke study is nothing but bad news.
We'll soon need to use different strategies and tactics that limit firefighter exposure. But can you do that and reduce community smoke exposure too, or will it mean more fire on the landscape longer--and thus more deaths? Another climate quandary.
We'll soon need to use different strategies and tactics that limit firefighter exposure. But can you do that and reduce community smoke exposure too, or will it mean more fire on the landscape longer--and thus more deaths? Another climate quandary.
A new Nature study projects wildfire smoke will cause 71,000 excess deaths annually in the U.S. by 2050, representing $608 billion in damages that exceed all other estimated climate costs combined.
Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns
When wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky an eerie orange in June 2023, millions of Americans who’d never experienced such pollution got a glimpse of what has become routine for…
news.mongabay.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Every new smoke study is nothing but bad news.
We'll soon need to use different strategies and tactics that limit firefighter exposure. But can you do that and reduce community smoke exposure too, or will it mean more fire on the landscape longer--and thus more deaths? Another climate quandary.
We'll soon need to use different strategies and tactics that limit firefighter exposure. But can you do that and reduce community smoke exposure too, or will it mean more fire on the landscape longer--and thus more deaths? Another climate quandary.
Reposted by Jim Whittington🔥
What can we realistically expect from water systems during urban wildfire conflagrations? We held a recent workshop with on-the-ground experts and have written up some initial takeaways ucanr.edu/blog/conflue...
Water Systems and Wildfire: Understanding Capacities and Limitations | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
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ucanr.edu
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
What can we realistically expect from water systems during urban wildfire conflagrations? We held a recent workshop with on-the-ground experts and have written up some initial takeaways ucanr.edu/blog/conflue...
Sengun, Amen, and the Rockets play basketball today, and boy, do I need the escape that good hoops brings. Oh, that Slim Reaper guy is also playing.
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sengun, Amen, and the Rockets play basketball today, and boy, do I need the escape that good hoops brings. Oh, that Slim Reaper guy is also playing.
Turned on the heat for the first time this morning. There was enough of a chill in the house that these old bones did not want to get out from under the covers. Thus marks my official start of Fall.
October 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Turned on the heat for the first time this morning. There was enough of a chill in the house that these old bones did not want to get out from under the covers. Thus marks my official start of Fall.
Happy 71st Birthday SRV! Still the coolest cat ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLC3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLC3...
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude Mood
YouTube video by Marcel Besselink
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Happy 71st Birthday SRV! Still the coolest cat ever.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLC3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLC3...
I'm just a dumb wildland fire guy in SW Oregon, but even I can see this will increase uncertainty & raise risks for my structural brothers & sisters in FDNY-as well as NYPD, State Police, & responders in nearby jurisdictions. Not to mention everyone living in the area, which I'm told is quite a few.
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm just a dumb wildland fire guy in SW Oregon, but even I can see this will increase uncertainty & raise risks for my structural brothers & sisters in FDNY-as well as NYPD, State Police, & responders in nearby jurisdictions. Not to mention everyone living in the area, which I'm told is quite a few.
This cool air and rain feels like a season-ending event for wildland fire in the PNW, at least for areas west of the Cascades. My scientific findings support this and by that, I mean I wore jeans instead of shorts yesterday.
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This cool air and rain feels like a season-ending event for wildland fire in the PNW, at least for areas west of the Cascades. My scientific findings support this and by that, I mean I wore jeans instead of shorts yesterday.
Reposted by Jim Whittington🔥
Climate chaos is coming for us.
Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
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Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
(Img:OldMarshallJailHotel)
November 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Climate chaos is coming for us.
Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
(Img:OldMarshallJailHotel)
Some places face bigger risks than others, but no matter where we live, we're gonna struggle to adapt to events like nothing we've seen before.
I'm a climate futurist.
Let me level with you about what this means.
🧵
(Img:OldMarshallJailHotel)
I'd like to point out there are still 7,500 wildland firefighters working 19 uncontained large fires and yesterday, initial attack actions were carried out on 236 new starts.
A shutdown adds to the stress, reduces capacity, and creates additional uncertainties in a massively complex environment.
A shutdown adds to the stress, reduces capacity, and creates additional uncertainties in a massively complex environment.
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'd like to point out there are still 7,500 wildland firefighters working 19 uncontained large fires and yesterday, initial attack actions were carried out on 236 new starts.
A shutdown adds to the stress, reduces capacity, and creates additional uncertainties in a massively complex environment.
A shutdown adds to the stress, reduces capacity, and creates additional uncertainties in a massively complex environment.
Injuries, free agency, & time finally caught up with my childhood team. I'm not sure any team could overcome more than 2,000 games lost to injury but still, the #Astros were in it until the end.
2017-2024 was a hell of an 8-year run & the little kid in me really enjoyed it.
Now, let's go Rockets.
2017-2024 was a hell of an 8-year run & the little kid in me really enjoyed it.
Now, let's go Rockets.
September 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Injuries, free agency, & time finally caught up with my childhood team. I'm not sure any team could overcome more than 2,000 games lost to injury but still, the #Astros were in it until the end.
2017-2024 was a hell of an 8-year run & the little kid in me really enjoyed it.
Now, let's go Rockets.
2017-2024 was a hell of an 8-year run & the little kid in me really enjoyed it.
Now, let's go Rockets.
In war ravaged Portland, Fort Powell still stands.
September 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In war ravaged Portland, Fort Powell still stands.