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Carlos Gould
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I study environmental health, air pollution, clean energy | Asst Prof at UC San Diego
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For those who want a figure! "... before 2003, sequencing a hot day after another hot day can nearly double the mortality effect of that hot day ... the compounding model yields an [Aug. 2003] death toll that is closer to the total ... than the standard model ..."
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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ccallahan45.bsky.social
🚨☀️🔥 NEW: In August 2003, Europe was struck by a catastrophic heat wave. What can we learn from this event today? Using new machine learning and econometric tools, we show in PNAS that climate change contributed to 6,000 out of 15,000 deaths in France… (1/2)

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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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atsblueeditor.bsky.social
Is a Microgram of Smoke Particulate Matter with an Aerodynamic Diameter ≤2.5 μm Worse for Respiratory Health? Interpreting New Evidence
@atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky

🔓 Open Access

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Is a Microgram of Smoke Particulate Matter with an Aerodynamic Diameter ≤2.5 μm Worse for Respiratory Health? Interpreting New Evidence | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
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November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A study in Nature Climate Change quantifies the potential for extreme heat events in Europe to generate mass mortality and projects tens of thousands of excess deaths. go.nature.com/483zJc3 🧪
This is figure 2, which shows temperature–mortality relationship across Europe.
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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alevermann.bsky.social
This is a remarkable paper on the climate-induced heatwave death in Europe and how they will increase in a warming world.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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fsi.stanford.edu
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social and colleagues indicates that while mitigating further global warming can reduce heat mortality, mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat.

📄 READ HERE: ow.ly/CPRy50XtOnv
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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jeffgoodell.bsky.social
In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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ccallahan45.bsky.social
📈🚨NEW: Extreme heat events are increasingly threatening to become mass mortality events. In @natclimate.nature.com today, we project tens of thousands of deaths in a single week across Europe if extreme heat domes coincide with rising global temperatures.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
gouldcf.bsky.social
I had no idea that there were journals that charged you money to submit an article - um excuse me!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
It's bing bong season.
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
October 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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linseymarr.bsky.social
Healthy indoor air is a proven prescription for public health that can help fortify our buildings and enhance people’s health, protecting against respiratory diseases and illnesses, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline.

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October 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
"...ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for a remarkable 5-12% of total deaths across countries in our sample, or hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU."
www.nber.org/papers/w34313
Understanding and Addressing Temperature Impacts on Mortality Marshall Burke, Andrew J. Wilson, Tumenkhusel Avirmed, Jonas Wallstein, Mariana C. M. Martins, Patrick Behrer, Christopher W. Callahan, Marissa Childs, June Choi, Karina French, Carlos F. Gould, Sam Heft-Neal, Renzhi Jing, Minghao Qiu, Lisa Rennels, Emma Krasovich Southworth #34313 Abstract: A large literature documents how ambient temperature affects human mortality. Using decades of detailed data from 30 countries, we revisit and synthesize key findings from this literature. We confirm that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for a remarkable 5-12% of total deaths across countries in our sample, or hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU. In all contexts we consider, cold kills more than heat, though the temperature of minimum risk rises with age, making younger individuals more vulnerable to heat and older individuals more vulnerable to cold. We find evidence for adaptation to the local climate, with hotter places experiencing somewhat lower risk at higher temperatures, but still more overall mortality from heat due to more frequent exposure. Within countries, higher income is not associated with uniformly lower vulnerability to ambient temperature, and the overall burden of mo! rtality from ambient temperature is not falling over time. Finally, we systematically summarize the limited set of studies that rigorously evaluate interventions that can reduce the impact of heat and cold on health. We find that many proposed and implemented policy interventions lack empirical support and do not target temperature exposures that generate the highest health burden, and that some of the most beneficial interventions for reducing the health impacts of cold or heat have little explicit to do with climate.
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Very glad to be part of this statement on the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding, including the unequivocal evidence climate change poses a risk to human health in the United States and abroad zenodo.org/records/1728...
Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health in the United States Comment on EPA's Proposed Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding
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October 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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michaeleddy.bsky.social
I love it when papers have accompanying websites!

also, neat when i found out @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social had a small role in supporting this work!

📄 & 💻by @marshallburke.bsky.social & a impressive team!

adaptationatlas.org/...
www.nber.org/papers/...
October 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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andrewdessler.com
Another expert review of the science behind the endangerment finding, this time from health professionals.

they conclude that CO2 emissions "pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being."

drive.google.com/fil...
This Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Health in the United States comprises 114 scientists with experience researching various dimensions of the health effects of climate change. We are submitting this public comment in response to the proposed reconsideration of the Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards. Our overall conclusion is that EPA is incorrect in its assessment of uncertainties in the 2009 Endangerment Finding as a reason to reconsider the rule, given that the scientific evidence since that time reduces the uncertainty regarding health harms from climate change stemming from greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions, by altering the climate and disrupting earth systems, pose a clear and indisputable danger to human health and well-being.
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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linseymarr.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to be leading, along with AJ Prussin II, an ARPA-H BREATHE team that will integrate new biosensors, risk assessment software, and engineering controls to bring clean and healthy indoor air to more buildings.

arpah.gov/news-and-eve...
BREATHE research teams kick off efforts to enhance indoor air quality to improve health, advance the future of smart buildings
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) supports transformative research to drive biomedical and health breakthroughs ranging from molecular to societal to provide transformative hea...
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September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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fsi.stanford.edu
A new study led by @marshallburke.bsky.social estimates that wildfire smoke emissions caused 41,380 excess deaths per year from 2011 to 2020, and rising temperatures could increase U.S. deaths from wildfire smoke more than 70% by 2050. ow.ly/RAp050WYWia
U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds
Wildfire smoke increasingly threatens lives across the country. A new study shows smoke exposure in the coming decades will cause tens of thousands of excess deaths and predicts where exposure will oc...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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siepr.bsky.social
This is startling. The number of deaths every year tied to wildfire smoke now outnumber traffic fatalities, according to @washingtonpost.com coverage of a new @nature.com study from @marshallburke.bsky.social and others.
marshallburke.bsky.social Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · Sep 18
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
shannonosaka.bsky.social Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · Sep 18
It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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marshallburke.bsky.social
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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shannonosaka.bsky.social
It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse.

new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Record wildfire smoke kills more people each year than car crashes. It’s about to get worse.
The past six summers have been the smokiest on record. New research shows that smoke could become the costliest consequence of climate change for Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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siepr.bsky.social
An extraordinary new tool from @marshallburke.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and Andrew Wilson. If you've got the evidence they're looking for, they want to hear from you. 👇
marshallburke.bsky.social Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · Sep 16
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
adaptationatlas.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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marshallburke.bsky.social
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
adaptationatlas.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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ccallahan45.bsky.social
🚨📈 Over the last 6 months a series of papers has advanced our understanding of the culpability of fossil fuel firms for climate change impacts. In April, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I showed that economic damages from rising extreme heat can be linked to companies like Exxon and Chevron. rdcu.be/ei0T5
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability
Nature - A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM