Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor John P Holton Endowned Chair in Health & the Environment Faculty appts: Nelson Institute & Dept. Population Health
University of Wisconsin
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Check out my TEDx youtube.com/watch?v=r_Dpkn_w… on #climatechange & #health. #ClimateChangeIsReal #climatechangeshealth #energyefficiency #NCDs @GlobalEcoGuy @KHayhoe @NelsonInstitute @UWGlobalHealth @ELPCenter @ClimateCentral @Climate4Health @WBG_Climate @JustinHGillis @c40cities
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Important Op Ed below on the #LA_Wildfires and #climatechange and #fossilfuels
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Attending @TylerPrize with the 2025 Laureates Sandra Diez and Eduardo Brondizio #conservation #biodiversity #climate
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Over 1,900 researchers describe 'assault' on #Science by White House: 'We see real danger' abcnews.go.com/Health/2000-s…
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Big #banks worried about #climatechange according to this article in @sciam
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Key news below re #science #health #climate #medicine #EnvironmentTerroristRevanthReddy
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Global Citizen Festival 2024: Global Citizens Take a Record 3.4 Million Actions to Defeat Poverty, Defend the Planet, and Demand Equity glblctzn.co/JwMslGk7uNb #globalcitizen
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A Climate Week, health a core theme and former UN Secretary calls for shifting to root of #ClimateCrisis and transition away from fossil fuels. @WIClimateHealth @climandhealth @WHO @DrMariaNeira
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Really exciting scientific discovery. Check it out.
A new studies finds that tree bark removes methane from the atmosphere, making trees 10% even more better for climate than we previously thought!
phys.org/news/2024-07-trees-…
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Today we are celebrating Madison, WI sister cities, @BahirDar is We all need to be cultural ambassadors! Thanks to my better half! @bahirdar @BahirDarUnivers @ethembassyUS @EPDNInti @USEmbassyAddis @em_mehari @jonathanpatz
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My esteemed colleague @GregNemet on mitigation of the #ClimateCrisis
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Researchers with the @UWLaFollette and the Nelson Institute helped author the 2024 State of Carbon Dioxide Removal report that finds that around 7–9 billion tonnes of CO2 per year will need to be removed from the atmosphere. Get the full scoop at lafollette.wisc.edu/news/la-…
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The heat in the Southwest U.S. is incredible. #Vegas saw its fifth day with temps of at least 115°F (46°C). During the first nine days of July, ~2.2 billion gallons of water just vaporized from Lake #Shasta.
This isn't normal. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
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The earth is sending bigger bills like #droughts, #floods, #heatwaves, says @jrockstrom at @TEDTalks: "This implies a 19% GDP loss by 2050 if we follow the current path. It equals $38 trillion loss yearly. It’s starting to hurt, socially & economically."
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The earth has lost 28 trillion tons of ice in just 23 years. We are in a #climatecrisis.
There is no time to wait. Make 2024 the year we #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #ClimateEmergency #GreenNewDeal
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New polling data shows that most Americans would agree with @MaibachEd's essential climate truths:
It's real, it's us, it's bad, experts agree, but there's hope.
Climate Change in the American Mind: Beliefs & Attitudes, Spring 2024 out now!
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#Wildfire(s) doubling according to new study. #climatecrisis
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Here’s a 1 minute glimpse of the incredible flash flood today on highway 163 between Mexican hat & Valley Of The Gods in far southeastern Utah. Incredible amount of water! This was from the same supercell that dropped golf ball size hail on lake mead #utwx
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Youth activists win ‘groundbreaking’ climate settlement in Hawaii theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
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South Korea is looking to quadruple solar power from factory rooftops and parking lots: buff.ly/3UG8BZP
Shouldn't every roof and parking lot get a solar upgrade?
We have the solutions. #ActOnClimate
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Well Beyond the U.S., Heat and #Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions nytimes.com/2024/06/21/clima…
And @ReneeNSalas_MD says, we must transition away from fossil fuels... everything else is just a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.”
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Singapore's floating #solar farm is made up of over 122,000 #solarpanels, its over 45 pitches long & can power Singapore's entire water system.
We have the solutions. Stop the delays. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal
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