Jonathan Overpeck
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5 Reasons Why a Global Agreement to Prop Up Oil Prices Won't Work
Even if the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia make a historic show of cooperation, any respite for the oil industry will be short-lived.
India Savors a Rare Upside to Coronavirus: Clean Air
Delhi residents are stunned by how blue the sky really is as a strict lockdown cuts back drastically on air pollution.
Foreign farms pumping western Arizona groundwater, exporting hay
While foreign farms export hay, people in western Arizona ask: Shouldn’t they have to pay for the water?
Coronavirus myth-busting: The truth about empty shelves and toilet paper shortages
The sudden shift in the way Americans shop is stunning.
Jonathan Overpeck
What is up with the toilet paper hoarding and much more?! Featuring @UMSEAS Prof Shelie Miller.
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How Will We Know When It’s Time to Reopen the Nation?
Experts offer four benchmarks that can serve as a guide for cities and states, eliminating some of the guesswork.
Jonathan Overpeck
When's it safe to start reopenning the nation? Hospitals must exit crisis mode, testing (PCR!) must be widespread, states need to be able to monitor confirmed cases, and we need to see reduced cases for at least 14 days.
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Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels
Using lipid residues absorbed in potsherds, the ages of pottery from various archaeological sites are determined and validated using sites for which the dates are well known from other methods.
U-M researchers launch a wide range of efforts to study and address coronavirus pandemic
ANN ARBOR—Research projects and innovations related to COVID-19 have ramped up quickly across the University of Michigan, spurred by doctors, public health experts, scientists, economists and engineers, and encouraged by research leaders.
Even...
The next outbreak? We're not ready
In 2014, the world avoided a global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers -- plus, frankly, some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all...
Jonathan Overpeck
+ if you wonder why you should be listening to @BillGates about the pandemic we are in, listen to him predict back in 2015 that it was coming.
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Watch CNBC's full interview with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the coronavirus pandemic and his work toward a vaccine
CNBC's Becky Quick interviews Bill Gates, the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft. Gates breaks down his past warnings about the potential dangers of a global pandemic, about China getting back to business, and how the United States might emerge...
Jonathan Overpeck
Watch the whole interview here. Interesting case for schools (and universities) being up and running by fall, but only if certain steps are taken. Doesn’t feel return to stadium sports will come as fast - risks outweigh economic benefits.
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Bill Gates: Schools will reopen in the fall, but economy won't magically return to the way it was
The Microsoft co-founder sees poor students getting hit the hardest as schools close down across the U.S.
Jonathan Overpeck
Best interview on COVID19 and what’s ahead: @BillGates makes clear the risks of America trying to go back to normal too soon, and the steps that are needed to do it safely.
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Forty Thermal Power Units Stop Lifting Coal as Demand Sees Sharp Drop - ET EnergyWorld
CIL’s subsidiary Central Coalfields is the worst hit as almost all its power consumers are refusing to accept supplies and make payments
Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070
Fully decarbonizing global industry is essential to achieving climate stabilization, and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050–2070 is ne…
Seeing the COVID-19 crisis is like watching a time lapse of climate change. Will the right lessons be learned? | Opinion
In both cases there is a curve that must be flattened in order to avoid the worst outcomes, and in both cases disinformation is readily ramped up and must be countered.
Cities that went all in on social distancing in 1918 emerged stronger for it
Jonathan Overpeck
Pandemics and economies: "For cities with the most aggressive interventions, there’s no trade-off apparent in this data between saving lives and hurting the economy."
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Time to meaningfully invest in health care worker safety
Poorly protected health care workforce threatens any attempt to manage the alarming swiftness and lethality of the current pandemic.
What models are predicting about coronavirus apex in Michigan
Social distancing, changing test numbers, and other variables make it hard to make accurate coronavirus models and predict an apex, experts say.
Jonathan Overpeck
Interesting state-level infection curves. Still going up, but seem to be flattening. What about all the other states? freep.com/story/news/loc… pic.twitter.com/EM4dDEDWrC
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COVID Community Vulnerability Map
This map allows you to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic factors driving that risk.
Jonathan Overpeck
COVID Community Vulnerability Map - US-wide data - can drill down to census block level data. covid19.jvion.com/# pic.twitter.com/n78k4Emgct
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Report: Outbreak triggers drop in climate-changing emissions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite mocking the idea of climate change, President Donald Trump will preside over one of the country’s sharpest drops in climate-damaging emissions on record, as the economic...
Jonathan Overpeck
Globally, “we’re seeing radical declines in transportation emissions and drops in other sectors of the economy...We haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression.”
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Leaders & Best
U-M is both public and prestigious. A place globally recognized as the leaders and best because of the array of resources available here.Through this great institution, you can become a victor for the greater good, transform lives, shape the world,...
Jonathan Overpeck
Really impressed and thankful what our Chinese colleagues @UMich are doing to help to build international cooperation around the coronavirus, and to help the situation in the U.S. Thanks!
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