In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters

The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily

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Anyone going to AGU 2026 - submit to our session! GC036: Data-driven approaches to quantifying climate impacts on human well-being. If your research deals with the causal effects of climate variability + change on people, we want to hear about it. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

Writing tip: Before submitting your manuscript, read it aloud to yourself from beginning to end. Then go to the refrigerator and open its door. If the manuscript is good, all the potatoes will have turned into birds who fly out singing your name.

🌟 Congratulations to LDEO climate scientist Maureen Raymo, awarded the prestigious Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences for pioneering development of hypotheses that explain climate change across Earth’s history and her educational leadership in the Earth system sciences. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Pa7t21

Elated to announce a banner NSF GRFP year for my lab group: Grad student Anna Oehlerking, ugrad researcher Kyan Shlipak (MIT bound), and incoming grad student Maggie Gonzalez were all selected. Proud of these amazing young scientists, and honored to work with them.

Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why.

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Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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For anyone wondering, global sales of internal combustion vehicles peaked in 2018. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

🚨🧪🚨New research from Dr. Peter Graffy, just published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics: Heat and hearts: An exposure-anchored computational phenotyping framework for assessing cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat. 🔥+❤️=❤️‍🔥&🥵 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

New review on the role of soil moisture in compound hazards led by Chuxuan Li, just out in Nature Geoscience #meteo #hydro #geo 🌧️🌲🗻🔥🧪

Nature Geoscience@natgeosci.nature.com · 5mo ago

⚒️ Review: The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New review led by Chuxuan Li (UCLA) on The Critical Role of Soil Moisture in Compound Hazards, out today in @natgeosci.nature.com. w/ @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social, @yannquilcaille.bsky.social, and many more

The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards - Nature Geoscience

Soil moisture drives critical land–atmosphere interactions and compound hazards. Closing gaps in data and models is key to integrating soil moisture into predictive frameworks for improved hazard fore...

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Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo ago

Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds

🚨🧑🏼‍🔬I’m hiring a postdoc to start in the fall! Come join our growing group here in Bloomington, Indiana. Please apply if you’re interested in climate impacts, extreme heat and health, climate change attribution and any related topic. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32142

New research - #airpollution from home wood burning in the US leads to about 8600 premature deaths a year www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion

Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.

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New research out today in #ScienceAdvances, in which Kyan Shlipak et al. explore the health impacts of burning wood for heat across the U.S. Of note: ~8600 premature deaths w/ more urban impacts than expected, disproportionate impacts to POC www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion

Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.

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How do you make rollback of clean air regulations pass a cost-benefit test? Don't count any of the benefits! People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars

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🚨New research, led by Dr. Peter Graffy, that identifies temperature thresholds in Chicago associated with increased CVD and coronary heart disease mortality – published in Journal of the American Heart Association @ahajournals.bsky.social, w/ Drs. Ben Barrett, Abel Kho, & Nori Allen

Critical Temperature Thresholds for Identifying Vulnerability to Heat‐Related Excess Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality | Journal of the American Heart Association

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People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo ago

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Pleased to share new research from @victorialangwx.bsky.social that computes differences in air quality & GHG changes between heavy- and light-duty vehicle electrification scenarios. I.e., for our electric transition, which vehicle type should we prioritize w/ incentives? 🧪 doi.org/10.1088/2752...

CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Chicago completed installation of 277 pollution sensors and said it will make data publicly available early 2026, allowing residents to get a detailed look at air quality in their own neighborhoods. trib.al/d0US9Pe

Chicago moves a step closer to neighborhood air-pollution monitoring

A network of almost 300 air sensors installed across the city is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The pollution data are expected to be made public next year.

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🎉 It’s official! Today, we announce the launch of CLaSH: Center for Land Surface Hazards an NSF supported initiative to advance the science of cascading geohazards to enable a resilient society. Follow along as we share updates, opportunities, research, and collaborations! 🌎✨ #CLaSH #NSF

Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry

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Chicago is racing to put up 277 air-pollution sensors by the end of summer as city officials try to get a handle on the poor air quality that severely affects the polluted Far South Side, Southwest Side and West Side neighborhoods. trib.al/2zr9ghn

Chicago aims to have largest number of air-pollution monitors in the U.S.

The city is racing to put up 277 sensors. Once installed, Chicago will have the biggest number of high-quality air monitors in the country, a model that rivals only London.

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🚨Job Alert🚨 We're hiring in the broad area of *Earth Surface Dynamics Geophysics* Please help me advertise this (rare) opportunity for a full-time tenure track assistant professorship. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Pleased to share the final chapter of Dr. Chuxuan Li's PhD thesis, "Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential" now published in @agu.org's GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential

Meteorologically informed hydrologic modeling and K-means clustering improve understanding of widespread landslide triggers A regional-scale water balance analysis from process-based modeling off...

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Northwestern University researchers studied tens of thousands of data points to figure out who is most likely to get sick or die from extremely hot weather and will present 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives. https://trib.al/1MvHweu

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

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Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly Chicago heat wave that killed more than 700 people. The city still has work to do to protect its residents. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

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Chicagoans said in a survey that they want the city to plant more trees and create additional greenspace, protect outdoor workers and provide more cooling centers during extreme weather. https://trib.al/JW78ku9

Chicagoans want more greenspace, worker protections ahead of heat waves, survey finds

Thirty years after a heat wave left more than 700 people dead, Northwestern researchers asked residents to rank solutions for the city to improve planning before extreme heat hits.

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