Question for tenure letter writers: What's your approach when the request asks you to state whether the person would get tenure in your dept and the answer is no, but your dept is higher-ranked/has a higher bar than theirs? Just ignore that part of the request? Answer honestly?

My take on what happened (and did not happen) in Glasgow at COP26 ... robertstavinsblog.org/2021/11/14/wha…

New paper on energy-water nexus: Long-term transition of China’s power sector under carbon neutrality target and water withdrawal constraint. With lead author Chao Zhang and coauthors Josiah Johnston, and Lijin Zhong. Paper link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… DM for a pdf.

The Climate Grand Challenges flagship project co-led by IDSS core faculty Noelle Selin will build climate models that are more accurate, more nimble and easier for governments, industries, and communities to use. bit.ly/3ebQd9J

Job alert: come work with us at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to help implement our campus #climate plan and its goals on #policy & #education. A 2 year position, ideal for someone who wants to bridge research and #climate action working closely with faculty. Pass it on! careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

Just out today! Risks of decoupling from China on low-carbon technologies science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Job Alert! I am looking for a postdoc and PhD/MS students to join my group NC State MEAS to work on atmospheric chemistry modeling, remote sensing, and data assimilation. More info: zhenqu.wordpress.ncsu.edu/join-us/ Please RT Jobs in Atmos. Chem. & Aerosols - Now on Bluesky Earth and Environmental Science Faculty Jobs Academic Job Bot

New Publication alert! Science Advances With Minghao Qiu and Cory Zigler, we examined the air quality and health benefits of US wind power with data and modeling. We found that wind deployment in the 2010s had $2 billion in health benefits! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵(1/n)...

Applications are now open for the 2023 Graduate Climate Conference (GCC)--the annual conference *for grad students, by grad students!* This year, GCC will be hosted by MIT on Nov 2-4 in Woods Hole, MA! 🌎 Apply here by June 7th: tinyurl.com/d35dk2wn

New from REPEATProject.org: With dust settled on the historic 117th Congress here's a preview of our updated, 'final' analysis of the emissions impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act & Infrastructure Law. How much climate progress do these laws make? repeatproject.org/reports

New preprint out today! We've built an open-source platform called CHEEREIO that makes it easy for scientists to use observations -- like from satellites -- to make maps of emissions of various pollutants. Here is a demo with global methane🧵

🎉Check our new NatureSustainability paper led by Xinyuan Huang !🎉 Does climate mitigation always improve air quality & health? Yes in most cases. But we need to pay more attention to land use changes. Open access: rdcu.be/dcrTW Journal link: nature.com/articles/s4189… 1/7

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Worth remembering that while these high PM levels during “wildfire days” are way larger than what we in the US are used to, most of the world’s population experiences much higher levels, all year round:

Not 1, not 2, but 3 PhD positions at the interface of energy technology, policy and finance ETH Zürich Zurich, together with our sister group Climate Finance and Policy Group (Prof Bjarne Steffen). More info and the links to each position: epg.ethz.ch/open-positions…

I am looking for 1-2 PhD students to join my group at Stony Brook University in Fall 2024. Positions are fully funded. We use data, statistical, and physical models to study climate change and air quality to inform global policies! More details: mhqiu.github.io/opportunity

I'm excited to share this Perspective in PNASNews which I coauthored with @amandagiang & William C. Clark -- a 🧵pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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