The 2023 Canadian wildfire season has been unprecedented: - 5% of Canada's forest area burned - 43 million acres of forest scorched, greater than the size of Florida - 3x more carbon produced than previous record wildfire year - 2.5x more acres burned than previous record year

This has been my experience too.

Its hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment. They have blown past anything we've previously experienced by a huge margin. Over at The Climate Brink, we try and visualize this summer of extremes in seven charts. theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizing-…

Ian Marchant has chosen The English Understand Wool as his favourite book of 2023 in Church Times churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/…

And now some news about your host. It falls to me now to lead PEN America. And to defend writers and free expression in this country and around the world. I promise to do my best. nytimes.com/2023/12/11/boo…

I have a lot of questions about this stray mention of Houthi Girl Scouts. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Terrifying. nytimes.com/2024/02/07/cli…

todd dillard Variant Literature Kelli Russell Agodon Two Sylvias Press Hanif Abdurraqib @MitchNobis No new book from Nick Arvin yet, but he did post this on Bluesky last year, which raises my hopes immensely that one might be around a near or distant corner. In the meantime, read MAD BOY! nickarvin.com/mad-boy

Can we...just accept that we suck at this? I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton. x.com/HillaryClinton…

With Chevron gone, ask your local congress representative what their stance on a railroads’ use of bearing defect detection systems is and their thoughts on DOT-111 tank cars.

Rare event! Competing heat domes in the Southeast and Southwest US crank out two huge all-time record highs. Palm Springs 124 and Raleigh=Durham 106 with a heat index of 118! Las Vegas is forecast to break their all-time high this weekend and even Death Valley may come close.

House of Bone and Rain is out today! A very personal novel. An emotional release. I wanted to talk about friendship and being dumb and extreme violence and colonialism and Borikén and monsters and magic. Hope you dig it and a million thanks for reading. 🖤 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/031642…

The rise of extreme heat in cities throughout the U.S. 🌡️

Japan has been collecting data on the date of peak cherry tree blossom since 812 See if you can spot climate change...

There are now papers showing that the migration of academic communities from Twitter to other social media sites mostly failed. But they never fully returned to Twitter either. I wonder if we will ever see so many different communities interacting in the same online space again.

Numerous locations in the western United States, extending from the San Francisco Bay Area in California to the Front Range of Colorado, are currently experiencing their hottest temperatures on record for any October date. #CAwx #AZwx #COwx

In this software-gilded age, let's pay tribute to the sullen monsters that keep the whole show on the road… The beasts of burden that carry our entire industrial civilization… Let's talk Heat Exchangers!

This is what things looks like at 1.5 degrees of warming. Think about what it looks like at twice that, which is where we’re headed unless we do a *lot* more very quickly.

Physics does not care about our politics, and ultimately the world will continue to warm until we get global emissions of CO2 to (net) zero.

Thanks to Carter Wilson and The Colorado Sun for including NO LIE LASTS FOREVER in the 2025 Summer Reading Guide. "Stevens has crafted a bad guy for the ages, and the chapters from the killer’s viewpoint will have you checking the locks on your door." coloradosun.com/2025/05/25/col…