mitchtobin.bsky.social
❄️ Journalist and photographer covering the snowpack, climate change, and Western water | ✍️ Author of snow.news |💧Co-director of waterdesk.org, University of Colorado Boulder | 🏔️ Based in Durango
👤 Joined on 28 February 2024
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@mitchtobin.bsky.socialScientists estimate global warming more than quadrupled the odds of the West’s snow drought when compared to the preindustrial climate, before human greenhouse gas emissions. "The amount of snow we’re missing is about the size of Lake Mead." @mitchtobin.bsky.social waterdesk.org/2026/08/clim...
Show PostCan’t believe I said cranes. Nevertheless, great shot.
Show PostVery honored that my reporting is among the work selected in this year's @sejorg.bsky.social Awards. It's inspiring to read the many outstanding stories and projects on this list. Congratulations to all the SEJ members who are doing vital journalism. www.sej2026.org/awards
Show PostFrom @mitchtobin.bsky.social: "In the dark humor of Wall Street, a 'dead cat bounce' is a brief, deceptive resurgence in stock prices after a market crash. That same pattern is now playing out in the mountains of the American West ... But this late-season storminess is too little, too late."
Show PostFrom @mitchtobin.bsky.social: "When our snowpack is meager—or entirely missing—it underscores how much we depend on this seasonal accumulation of ice crystals, even during the summer and far beyond the region."
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