Professor of environmental engineering @UNCpublichealth. Working on climate change, air pollution, energy, and human health. @LeopoldLP, @AAAS_STPF
Joined September 2018
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Climate change has profound negative effects on human health. It can increase the likelihood of pandemics like COVID-19 and worsen their impacts.
Join us for this #NCA5 webinar, on Feb 14th at 3pm EST. globalchange.gov/events
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🚀 Job Alert! Seeking a 2-year post-doc for @NASA-funded urban heat disparities project. Use ML & satellite data for urban climate modeling, exposure analysis, and mitigation planning. Join our team at UNC! #PostDoc #NASA #UrbanHeat #MLJobs 🌆🛰️ unc.peopleadmin.com/postings… – at West Region, Singapore
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Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” the National Climate Assessment says. apne.ws/EdE2FzC
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Really like this image from the Air Quality section of the National Climate Assessment (led by @ProfJasonWest), showing best strategies for the most climate & AQ health benefits: Renewable energy + EVs 👍
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🚨New paper alert🚨
Looking at the future air pollution health burden in different mitigation scenarios with @CLSReddington @oconnor_fm @ProfJasonWest and published here 👇1/2
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Congratulations to Marc Webb for successfully defending his PhD thesis today 🎉🎓🧪 You did a wonderful job, Dr. Webb! @UNCpublichealth
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#SATELLITE SPOTLIGHT: @NOAA's GOES16🛰️ is tracking the smoke from a #wildfire in Croatan National Forest in North Carolina today. Officials estimate the blaze has already burned more than 35,000 acres since Wednesday. #NCwx
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So so much underlying this wonderful @nytimes interactive map of US household climate-warming emissions - density, income, electricity sources, transit, equity. I highly recommend exploring this. nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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70 years ago from today, a black fog nicknamed the Great Smog descended on London, killing at least 3,000 people in a week.
The tragedy led to a wave of life-saving environmental regulations.
Today, the fight for clean air continues around the world: ow.ly/R3j650LVi7f
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As I wrote w/@MichaelEMann @latimes: When you’re in a hole, stop digging. #COP27 provides an opportunity to end all new #FossilFuel development & have global north fund south for #LossAndDamage, #CleanEnergy development, & #adaptation. #ClimateActionNow latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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As #COP27 kicks off…
Here is a thread on 2022 @LancetCountdown U.S. Brief & Global Report!
Global Report - 99 experts & 51 institutions - tinyurl.com/4w4an5d3
U.S. Brief - Working Group of 80+ orgs - tinyurl.com/yc769vkk
More 👇 #LancetClimate22
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Climate Change Seminar Course offered in Spring with @ProfJasonWest sign up today!
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I told @katemyoder @grist we should call it "heat-trapping pollution" rather than carbon emissions because everyone knows #pollution is harmful & something introduced unnaturally into the environment.
grist.org/health/how-carbon-…
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Unsung climate hero: Heat pumps can cool homes and lower emissions thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…
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Deadly wildfires and oppressive heat waves have swept across the globe, with multiple countries experiencing record-breaking temperatures. Dr. Jason West says greenhouse gas emissions are making extreme weather events “more frequent and more severe.” charlotteobserver.com/news/w…
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The Ghost of Summer Future: Dickensian take on the #HeatWaves #fires & #floods by @MichaelEMann & me @TheHill. We’ve been provided a premonition of what #climate-change-wrought catastrophes await us if we don't stop burning #FossilFuels. #ClimateActionNow thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…
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Starting today, everyone nationwide can use the #988Lifeline, the easy to remember code that connects people experiencing a mental health crisis to the services they need.
Call or text 988 or start a chat at 988lifeline.org. Pass it on and helps us save lives.
ALT 988 Lifeline. There is hope.
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Tomorrow, after years of advocacy by Americans working to improve our mental health system, 988 will become our new nationwide number for suicide prevention, mental health and substance use crises. Call or text 988 for a trained counselor who can provide support. #988Lifeline
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“We must change who is talking about climate, what they are saying and to whom.”
Climate communication has moved us from denial to deliberation — now we must act thehill.com/opinion/energy-e…
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This is our @CDCgov
X No warning on BA.5
X Still says 2 vaccine doses ="fully vaccinated"
X Says 5 days is all that's needed for isolation when 5 days is the median length of infectiousness
X 1 in 4 age 50+ w/ 2nd booster (<-survival benefit)
X Transmission is the accurate map👇
