Climate Change

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Switzer Fellows present at 2024 AAG conference

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...
April 17, 2024
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Miner proposes changes to decadal survey to observe a rapidly warming world

Since 2007, the National Academy for Sciences Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) has recommended Earth Science research and investment priorities every 10 years. The Decadal Survey balances the continuation of essential climate variable time...
April 17, 2024
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Expanding the bull’s eye of solar development on public lands

“For a meaningful and productive conversation it is critical to see these issues—opposition to use of public lands versus opposition to large-scale solar—as distinct," Dustin Mulvaney writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
April 17, 2024
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Municipal finance shapes urban climate action and justice

“What happens in the budget office or with people who are making decisions about municipal bonds, all of those things are very opaque,” said lead author and 2023 Switzer Fellow Claudia Diezmartínez.
April 17, 2024
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Swain: climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

“Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.”
December 22, 2023
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Santiago and Rodriguez-Cruz speak on climate change opinion and engagement in Puerto Rico

Sara Santiago moderated this conversation with Marija Verner, Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz, and Ada Monzón about a recent global survey conducted by Meta and YPCCC, challenges and opportunities in the agricultural sector, and current initiatives to engage different audiences in Puerto Rico.
December 22, 2023
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Sims Gallagher speaks to NPR about COP28 expectations

In advance of this year's UN climate summit, NPR interviewed Switzer Fellow Kelly Sims Gallagher, an environment and resource policy expert and dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University about her expectations for the COP28. Highlights...
December 22, 2023
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Mulvaney on why climate advocates have hesitated to criticize Uyghur genocide

Dustin Mulvaney was featured in a November 2023 story by Nithin Coca in Coda exploring the question: “Why are climate skeptics speaking out about the Uyghur genocide?”
December 22, 2023
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A just transition to what, for whom and by what means? A case study by Dylan Harris

“We hope to highlight that any transition without critical attention to histories of power and powerlessness is likely to further harm those who stand to benefit the most from a truly just transition.”
December 22, 2023
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Lave captures socio-ecological history of flooding in Wisconsin via news archives

“Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic climate change. The region, which has played a central role in environmental knowledge production, has a storied history of resilience practices and flood experience.”
December 22, 2023