My tweets

  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "By midcentury, those fires are expected to at least double, possibly grow sixfold, and conceivably more..."
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "...with each tree burned releasing carbon as surely as coal, along with unconscionable masses of particulate matter rec…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "The worst air quality in the world is now routinely registered in California, and although these record-setting events…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "Globally, wildfires produce only a fraction of air pollution, but the fraction is growing. Wildfire emissions from this…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: As we begin to draw down the pollution produced by burning within our control, we are unleashing a new wave of burning t…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: “What does it feel like to live on the brink of a vast historical change?” the novelist Kim Stanley Robinson asked recen…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: “A few weeks ago, my wife and I drove across the US east to west," he went on. "In Wyoming, we hit a pall of wildfire sm…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: Fire is eternal in the American west, of course, but when climate skeptics point to evidence of ancient megafires, they…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: When those alive today recall the great fires of their youths, they are remembering ones that burned a few thousand acre…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: One single blaze, the Mendocino Complex, burned more than a million acres, creating a new term, “gigafire,” along the wa…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: Each of these coughs up an unprecedented amount of smoke, indeed most of them so much of it the fire creates new weather…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: ...and sparking, where it lands, more fire, producing more smoke.
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: "The three worst years for wildfire in modern California history by acres burned are 2020, 2021, and 2018. The seven lar…
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: A chart of the 20 worst published by Cal Fire midway through the 2021 season tells the story even more vividly.
  • Sun, 23:28: RT @dwallacewells: About two thirds is made up of 2020 and 2021, with most of the remainder from the period 2000 to 2019, and just a tiny s…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: For most of that period, earthquakes offered a more vivid vision of local apocalypse, though as Mike Davis has sharply o…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Only recently, particularly since the Camp Fire, has fear of fire taken center stage; the climate scientist Daniel Swain…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: This summer, in the resort community of Lake Tahoe — where the Air Quality Index hit 700 — those trapped inside during o…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Fear of smoke is not just novel but logical, indeed adaptive. In many parts of the state, you can be confident your hous…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: You can avoid the flames of most wildfire, chances are. But smoke cannot be quarantined, which means it spreads across d…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: In California, already, air purifiers are now almost universal among the well-to-do, air-quality apps are designed for d…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: (“The West Coast’s Hottest New Trend? Finding Breathable Air” Eve Peyser recently wrote.)
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: And while better forest management in fire-prone areas can reduce the risk considerably...
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: ...the current excess of what is called in California with a horrifying informality 'fuel' means that perhaps 20 million…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Those 'controlled burns' are designed to release less smoke than the uncontrolled. But they do release some.
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: Already, in California, enough carbon is released each year from wildfire to undo all the green-energy gains made by the…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "The story is global, the world wrapped in smoke. In British Columbia, more carbon is now unleashed each year from fores…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In Australia, where bushfires are an enduring feature of both landscape and legend, 46 million acres burned in the 2019…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "The smoke in Sydney Harbour was so thick ferries couldn’t navigate it, and the particulates so dense that fire alarms w…
  • Sun, 23:29: RT @dwallacewells: "In Siberia, where ‘zombie fires’ now burn regularly through the Arctic winter, carbon released from forests in flames r…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: While no cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the United States, many experts say it may already be here, given…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: While it’s not clear how dangerous the new variant is, it’s adding urgency to efforts to get more people vaccinated — and to g…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: California health officials said the new variant “has many mutations in important areas of the virus that impact infectiousnes…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: The CDC, along with state and local agencies, said the best protection for now is following already-established COVID protocol…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @latimes: There is still so much unknown about the Omicron variant. One expert said it is difficult to predict when the variant might…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @MayorOfLA: Happy Hanukkah, Los Angeles. This year, let’s gather safely with our family and friends to light the menorah, sing songs, a…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @NWSLosAngeles: Elevated to brief critical fire weather conditions away from the coast through Thursday due to gusty northeast winds, lo…
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @NBCS49ers: The Niners are firmly back in the playoff picture 🙌 https://t.co/DzGSOndGDq
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @MikeSilver: The @49ers are the best football team in California right now
  • Sun, 23:34: RT @RMos_8Ball: Great day for some @49ers ball!!!