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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 10/12/2025

Looking at my kids wishlist. This URLs a bit on the nose:

A screenshot of a URL saying: bath boat. In the URL string it says "Assorted-phthalates"

Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 09/12/2025

This short-term memory is seen across the country when we look at national clicks on this data. As @hatethegamebook.com said: "A major fire or storm can jolt home buyers into paying attention to climate risk because the event feels fresh and likely to happen again, but this urgency is fleeting." 📊

This line chart shows national average rates of clicking on climate risk data on Redfin listings. This period shows dramatic spikes in behavior during the Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the L.A. wildfires, and the Texas flash floods.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 09/12/2025

After the L.A. wildfires in January, clicks on climate risks jumped 48% higher than average for California Redfin users. Interest waned though and behavior was back to normal by April. Rates did not increase during the wildfire season: 📊

This line chart shows clickthrough rates of California homebuyers from December 2024 through the end of October 2025. The rate of users clicking on the climate risk tab jumps past 6% (a 48% increase) from average during the Palisades and Eaton wildfire period. After that peak, things return to average rates by April. These are weekly averages.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 21/10/2025

Researchers modeled different consumer level interventions like lowering food waste, substituting beef for chicken... going "meatless mondays," which amount to 51% when taken together: 📊 @naemas.bsky.social

This bar chart shows the reductions on an individual action like swapping half beef for chicken, cutting food waste in half or Meatless Mondays (33%, 16%, and 14% respectively). Or when taken altogether... which isn't a sum, it's when modeled as an intervention in tandem (51%).

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 21/10/2025

You can see the breakdown of your city's consumption and overall hoofprint as it lines up. New York metro area is below average. 📊 But in terms of overall consumption, the area exceed ghg emissions of Maine and New Hampshire combined.

This is a screenshot of the lookup tool in the story. The selection is on New York which shows an annual emissions per capita of 945 kgCO2 equivalent. The text reads: "People in New York–Newark emit 945 kgCO₂ equivalent per year, on average, when eating 176 pounds of meat (80 kg) per capita. Meat consumption is above the national average, while emissions per capita is below the national average."

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 21/10/2025

Researchers modeled feed, cattle raising, and processing supply chains to identify main sources of ghg emissions. Interestingly, there's little correlation between per capita consumption and a city's hoofprint. So much comes down to how the livestock's raised: 🌎 @naemas.bsky.social 📊

This U.S. contiguous map shows cities colored by how much they emit by capita. The title reads "Hoofprint" in U.S. cities and the range is from less than 800 kg CO2 equivalent per capita to greater than 1.5K. Labels on this map identify low emission areas like Pennsylvania and the Upper Midwest where dairy cattle are culled for consumption. Higher emission areas are in places like the border town McAllen, Texas. Lower emissions in California are from a mix of lower intensity crop in feed and feedlots that are local. Much of the cornbelt and south have higher than average hoofprints because of either high intensity ghg emissions, feedlots, or a combination of both.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 20/10/2025

ICE detention centers are built in some of the hottest places in the country. Planned expanded and new facilities will only exacerbate these environmental hazards our analysis found. 🎁: wapo.st/3JlmQlm latest by me and Amudalat Ajasa 📈.

A bar chart shows the amount of potential detainees exposed to heatwaves at ICE facilities. The first bar shows around 40K detainees exposed before planned expansions with that amount growing by 79% after planned expansions according to internal documents made available to The Post. The note at the bottom says: "Note: "Heat waves" are defined as five or more consecutive days of dangerous heat. Previous capacity based on July 28 capacity figures, according to internal planning documents obtained by The Post."

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025

An unforgettable moment was the conclusion of the burn on Tishaniik Farm. After burning the perimeter, practitioners, volunteers, community members (ahem @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social), let the fire take over the field. At an unbelievable clip. @byaliceli.bsky.social caught the action:

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025

Burns like these tend to bring greater biodiversity, as well as lower wildfire risks, Gavin Jones a leading pyroecologist (cool title) told us. Much of the country likely benefited from fire regimes like these.

Two maps of California presenting FEMA's wildfire risk assessment and the USDA's LANDFIRE vegetation departure index. This represents how much flora has changed since colonization and their intersection with wildfire risk.

This US map shows the same vegetation index across the US with the FEMA wildfire risk. Much of the western US shows the overlap of these two metrics.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025

I was surprised how much sun could shine through otherwise dense forests. Hiking for years in California did not prepare me for the difference in fauna over these burned areas.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025

Margo Robbins, co-founder of the Cultural Fire Management Council, as well as @culturalfire.bsky.social gave us their time and access to see what fire treatment does to the landscape. They are part of a generational movement spreading lessons from cultural fire.

Robbins’ grandmother, a masterful weaver, never completed this basket shown in the photo. But Robbins has hopes to finish it one day herself. This basket is made possible by burning hazel and encouraging straight shoots for weaving.

A photo of Bill Tripp by fires started on the Tishaniik Farm in Orleans, California. Flames are spreading through the dry brush in evening light.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 14/10/2025

Traditional knowledge tells us fires have been a part of the landscape for millennia. Burn scars data show but a slice of that history of fire in the forests until Western colonization all but snuffed it out starting in the 19th century 📊:

This chart shows burn scar data from every year starting in the 1600s to 2015 based on research from Alan H. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Carl N. Skinner, and Scott Stephens. There are solid lines indicating presence of fire starting in the 1600s. The lines fade in the 1900s when the U.S. began a total fire suppression model for managing forest fires.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 17/06/2025

the effects can be attributed to influences to the subtropical jetstream as the globe warms.

This diagram shows the global and illustration of the jet stream with a simplified explanation of the jetstream interactions. The text reads:

Foudad’s study found a majority of change in the U.S. appears in the southwest along the subtropical jet stream — a high altitude band of wind that wraps around the globe.

Along the edges of this jetstream, two layers of air at different

temperatures encounter one another.

Extreme weather intensifies temperature differences of these layers,

allowing wind speeds to change over short distances.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 17/06/2025

much of travel through the southwest of the US will feel the brunt of these changes in Foudad's models... here's a flight from LAX to CHS:

this map shows the interactive map that allows readers to put in arrivals and destinations to see where sever turbulence will impact their flights and for how long. this flight travels from California to South Carolina. The text says: A flight from LAX to CHS typically experiences high amounts of turbulence. At two degrees of warming the flight would experience more turbulence. On average, passengers should be prepared for 53 seconds more of bumpy air.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 04/03/2025

many thanks to @chrisalcantara.com for his work, especially this astounding intro

A screenshot from the story where push notifications blanket the background and a text box above says: "Have you struggled to keep up? That's by design."

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 16/01/2025

at home testing is ephemeral at best at gauging your risk of exposure, say experts. and boiling water risks aerosolizing any present harmful compounds

A diagram of a house and the risks of exposure to harmful chemicals when boiling or using contaminated tap water.

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 29/06/2023

SCOTUS struck down affirmative action at harvard and unc. to understand how this impacts diverse student bodies, we looked at 30 yrs of admissions data to see what happens when states ban affirmative action: www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…

This dumbbell chart compares states where affirmative action is banned in public schools and where it is not along racial and ethnic categories. The analysis found that Asian and White populations are more overrepresented in states where it is banned, while all other groups remained at or below racial parity in those compared states. The headline reads: "In states with bans, Hispanic and Native Americans were less represented"

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