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Carlos Rittl @carlosrittl.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“It is unambiguous and it is clear climate change is playing a role. These aren’t just bigger fires, they’re fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.”

Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

Of 200 fires in the past 44 years, half of the fires that cost US$1bn or more were in the last decade

www.theguardian.com

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 15h

Love it!

GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 15h

Can you please provide a gift link?

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 1d

From Realtor's 2025 Housing and Climate Risk Report:

US homes at "severe or extreme" #climaterisk:

Flood: 6% of homes ($3.4 tr in value, inc. $1 tr outside FEMA flood zones so mostly uninsured)

Wind: 18% of homes ($8 tr)

Wildfire: 5.6% ($3 tr)

www.realtor.com/research/cli...

2025 Realtor.com Housing and Climate Risk Report

Understanding climate risk in the housing market is essential, as these challenges not only affect residential safety but also influence property values, insurance costs, and overall market stability....

www.realtor.com

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests

Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests over recent decades. However, high-severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is also an important metric of fire activity given its d...

doi.org

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 15d

Our paper takes a close look at managing designated wilderness in an era of unprecedented change. Please check it out.

A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social!
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Clare Boerigter @clareboe.bsky.social · 15d

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/...

(PDF) Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century

PDF | The 1964 Wilderness Act is a landmark piece of legislation, providing robust protections from development, mechanization, and resource extraction... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 18d

New Science Advances paper on the feedback loop between loss of snow feeding more wildfire, and wildfire resulting in earlier snowmelt. As to latter, in snow obs, under average conditions, snow melts earlier during 1st-yr postfire in 99%(!) of western snow zones.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Impact of current and warmer climate conditions on snow cover loss in burned forests

Wildfires are causing earlier snowmelt across the western US, and this effect would be exacerbated with projected warmer winters.

www.science.org

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 20d

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 25d

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 25d

The California Fire Science Consortium released a research brief based on our article "Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire." Check it out! 🧪🔥

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah, it’s weird! One might think the journal would fix such issues. What you say, @esajournals.bsky.social ?

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 27d

New paper by Garret Meigs and friends:
"Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open- vs closed-canopy forests"

From my read, one of the key take home messages is that dense forests, even if large trees are present, are still burning with a lot of high-severity effects🧪🌎🔥

Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open‐ vs. closed‐canopy forests

Wildfire activity has accelerated with climate change, sparking concerns about uncharacteristic impacts on mature and old-growth forests containing large trees. Recent assessments have documented fir...

doi.org

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 28d

Aha look who's back, it's @terriblemapshq.bsky.social !

Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 28d

Map of Africa made from orange peel

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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 28d

Big tobacco launched the effort to undermine science decades ago, and fossil industries eagerly grabbed the baton. Now, enabled by fossil funded politicians, corrupt judges and misguided media focus on false balance, denialism is now part of official U.S. government policy. Good luck, America ...

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe - Inside Climate News

European climate experts say the pro-fossil fuel arguments are based on climate disinformation.

insideclimatenews.org

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 27d

It is almost as if all the lawsuits filed over the last few decades that effectively stopped USFS management activities contributed to the extensive forest loss in the southern Sierra and elsewhere …

Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 29d

By the time the #Garnetfire is done burning off the last large block of green forest in the s Sierra, recent megafire burn scars will then stretch continuously from s of Bakersfield to n of Yosemite NP. Rapid, total transformation of the w-side forests in the Range of Light. What a massive loss. 🌎

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Sep 7

#GarnetFire in Sierra Nevada is extremely active today--perhaps most active it has been so far, w/large & episodically tall (~30k ft) pyroCb plume. Now over 40k acres & burning in heavy forest, it'll likely burn until sustained rain/snow arrives (none on horizon). #CAfire #CAwx

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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 29d

The Garnet Fire has burned through a place I have worked since 2002. A place I hold dear. We knew this wasn't a matter of if, but when. Unfortunately the leadership on the Sierra National Forest didn't have the same urgency that we did. My eulogy for Teakettle.
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...

A Eulogy for Teakettle

Justice William O. Douglas, in his dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sierra Club v. Morton, said “Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium...

www.hurteaulab.org

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28d

"...ferocious fire in recent years, fueled by climate change, has proved fatal to the trees that experts once thought were impervious to flame. An estimated 20% of the world’s mature giant sequoias have died in the last decade due to severe wildfires..."

Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 28d

A fire raging through the Sierra National Forest has burned through part of a grove of giant sequoias. @lilaseidman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames

A fire burning in Fresno County has reached the McKinley grove of giant sequoias. Several trees are in flames and specially trained firefighters are on their way to put them out.

www.latimes.com

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Marco Turco @marco-turco.bsky.social · 28d

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Hydroclimatic Rebound Drives Extreme Fire in California's Non‐Forested Ecosystems

Hydroclimatic rebound occurs when unusually wet periods are followed by intense drying, or vice versa, creating sharp moisture swings. We show that this process drives extreme fire activity in Califo...

doi.org

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 27d

Deadly wildfires that hit Spain and Portugal last month were 40 TIMES more likely because of the impacts of the climate crisis.

#ThisIsClimateChange.

Find out more here:

Spain and Portugal wildfire weather made 40 times more likely by climate crisis, study finds

Wildfires were 30% more intense than would have been expected without global heating, scientists say

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 28d

new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social!

Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙

rdcu.be/eFm7e

Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire

Nature Climate Change - The authors use 1,603 estimates of local extinctions from 1980 to 2021 to show that dragonfly species with wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost...

rdcu.be

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks @kiwiincolorado.bsky.social · Sep 5

#WhitebarkPine In The #US Projected To Experience An 80% Reduction In #Climatically Suitable Area By The Mid-21st Century
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doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #model #PNW #USWest #Canada #threatened #ESA #disease #pinebeetle #climatechange #elevation #ecology #range

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets.

news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...

Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management

This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of active management tools for forest fires. Read Part 1. Photographs of forests in the western U.S. from the mid-1800s show a starkly different r...

news.mongabay.com

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!!

doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations

Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....

doi.org

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you, Meade, for providing this important context!

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Laura Millan @lauramillan.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥 A record summer of blazes in Europe shows how governments and local communities can’t keep up with brutal fire conditions exacerbated by climate change

story via @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Climate Change: Wildfires in Europe Hit Area the Size of Cyprus This Year

A record summer of blazes on the continent shows how governments and local communities can’t keep up with brutal fire conditions exacerbated by climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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