Jonathan Overpeck
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Environmental/Climate scientist for 35+ years; NAS Member. Samuel A. Graham Dean, @UMSEAS @UMICH. Tweets my own. Thinking grad school? Join us at @UMSEAS.
Jonathan Taylor Overpeck is an American climate scientist. Since 2017, he has served as the Samuel A. Graham Dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. Overpeck has authored more than 220 scientific publications. In 2007, he was a coordinating lead author on a report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. .. more
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The State of the Climate 2026 | Ep242: Zeke Hausfather
How do we model the climate system? How warm will 2026 be? And can geoengineering be anything more than a bandaid? This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington sits…
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Excellent pod on recent and future climate change, climate action, and geoenginneering pros/cons. www.cleaningup.live/the-state-of...
What the China-Canada EV Trade Deal Really Means
Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 01/28/2026 · 46m
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Interesting pod: More Chinese EVs coming to N America, and “Fortress America” and continued anti-EV federal policy could mean American carmakers will “crumble.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
‘Ghost forests’ are even more widespread than we thought
These haunting landscapes, with their unmistakable gray, barren tree trunks rising like sentinels, offer one of the most startling and recognizable signals of a changing climate.
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Guess what’s killing trees. “The coastal forests most at risk from sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion sequester massive amounts of carbon. They mitigate the impact of storms, play a key role in water quality for nearby communities and provide habitat...”
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We just finished writing an update on how climate change is impacting the CO River flows - chapter 2 in this short compilation on the growing CO River crisis. www.colorado.edu/center/gwc/2...
Fate of Colorado River hangs in balance as political battle brews
The fight over the dwindling Colorado River has long been nonpartisan. Now an unprecedented meeting of governors over the issue raises the political stakes.
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Amazing this piece doesn’t highlight the primary cause of the dwindling river flows - climate change caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.
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True enough: “People see it right outside their windows. So they’re just not going to win on the science…It is EPA’s duty under the Clean Air Act to curb the emissions that are driving those disasters.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...