Tim Baker
@lostdogphotos.bsky.social
Semi-retired professor, occasional photographer, friend of dogs.
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Tim Baker
@lostdogphotos.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hi Bluesky, I'm an Emeritus Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources (i.e. mostly retired but still teaches on occasion) who goes on random adventures with an old golden retriever named Tuli.
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National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report
Things have changed since 2009: We’re more certain about the problems.
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records.
And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.
A short thread 🧵
And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.
A short thread 🧵
September 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records.
And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.
A short thread 🧵
And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected.
A short thread 🧵
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Speaking of “We’re all going to die”
A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee:
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS
Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection
Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids
Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit
Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax
June 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Speaking of “We’re all going to die”
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Highly recommend this Construction Physics blog post on the viability of solar power as the backbone of an electricity system.
Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed *so* fast, all your old cliches are outdated.
Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed *so* fast, all your old cliches are outdated.
Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV?
In the US solar energy has steadily risen in how much of our electricity it supplies.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Highly recommend this Construction Physics blog post on the viability of solar power as the backbone of an electricity system.
Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed *so* fast, all your old cliches are outdated.
Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed *so* fast, all your old cliches are outdated.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While we are all reeling from the budget and its major cuts to NASA, NIH, USGS, etc. I want to also draw attention to this little nugget about State Wildlife Grants, which is the mechanism for funding State Wildlife Action Plans. Eliminating SWG will destroy state natural resource agencies.
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So, so shortsighted, so wrong, so stupid
It’s finally in writing. The detailed President’s budget clearly wants to completely eliminate USFS Research
May 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
So, so shortsighted, so wrong, so stupid
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How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Redefining "harm" in the Endangered Species Act could undo decades of habitat protection for threatened species. The public has until May 19 to comment on the Trump Administration proposal to exclude habitat destruction from the definition. An ecologist and a law professor explain: buff.ly/RIZKUJh
May 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Redefining "harm" in the Endangered Species Act could undo decades of habitat protection for threatened species. The public has until May 19 to comment on the Trump Administration proposal to exclude habitat destruction from the definition. An ecologist and a law professor explain: buff.ly/RIZKUJh
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Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
May 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)
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May 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Trump Targets ANWR Again After Wiping Out Environmental Protections. Please Share. @mcuban.bsky.social @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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Trump Targets ANWR After Destroying Environmental Protections
YouTube video by Mr Global
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May 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump Targets ANWR Again After Wiping Out Environmental Protections. Please Share. @mcuban.bsky.social @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
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🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).
April 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).
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Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
A synthesis of free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments describing the response of forest net primary productivity (NPP) to elevated atmospheric CO2 published in 2005 has provided a valuable benchm...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Forest productivity response to elevated CO2 in free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments: the 23 percent solution, revisited
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He's been president for 81 days.
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
He's been president for 81 days.
A reminder that the Earth has a different timescale than we do.
April 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A reminder that the Earth has a different timescale than we do.
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The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
March 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy.
We must end that international embarrassment.
Yes. We need Medicare for All.
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Announced today, the Department of the Interior is making moves to open up 82 percent of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve and ALL of the 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
Interior Secretary Takes Steps to Unleash Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential | U.S. Department of the Interior
Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is taking immediate steps to unleash Alaska’s untapped natural resource potential and support President Donald J. Trump’s vision of American Energy Dom...
www.doi.gov
March 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Announced today, the Department of the Interior is making moves to open up 82 percent of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve and ALL of the 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
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Trump admin looking at @forestservice.bsky.social budget cuts:
- $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget
- $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget
via @eenews.bsky.social
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- $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget
- $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget
via @eenews.bsky.social
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E&E News: Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 layoffs
“We are sheep headed to slaughter,” one employee said as the Trump administration eyes further staff reductions.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Trump admin looking at @forestservice.bsky.social budget cuts:
- $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget
- $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget
via @eenews.bsky.social
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
- $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget
- $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget
via @eenews.bsky.social
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Madeleine A. Lopez, Jeffrey M. Kane & David F. Greene #SNFECO @tmtspringer.bsky.social
Read it here: fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Read it here: fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....
March 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Madeleine A. Lopez, Jeffrey M. Kane & David F. Greene #SNFECO @tmtspringer.bsky.social
Read it here: fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Read it here: fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....