We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
More info on the lab here, including our roster of current and past all-star RAs, most of whom go on to grad school at great places www.stanfordecholab.com
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
🚨🔥 NEW: Increasing mortality from wildfire smoke is directly traceable to greenhouse gas emissions. In our new paper in @pnas.org , we show that every megaton of CO2 emitted costs the US more than 10 million dollars in health costs from wildfire smoke. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Should we be climate adaptation optimists? A nice new paper by Matt Burgess, Matt Kahn, and colleagues argues yes. I'm not so sure. Optimism is not a plan, and we need a plan. Some thoughts: www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/should-...
For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits.
Now, the equation is changing.
Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters.
Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
Huge thanks to @jonas-wallstein.bsky.social and Brandon de la Cuesta for all the hard work on this, and for StanfordEchoLab colleagues for testing.
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social confirms that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU.
📄 READ THE PAPER: ow.ly/ufQH50X8C2y
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/...
Cool and timely paper
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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
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.
SPACEWHALE is indeed pretty solid
Important new paper from
@marshallburke.bsky.social
on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in
@nature.com
"climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadly our wildfire smoke data start in 2006 - we depend on a satellite-based measure of wildfire smoke plumes that only came online then.
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
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. 👇
Thanks to @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social for seed funding. We are hoping to scale this substantially, so if you are a funder interested in this work, please get in touch! /n
Please get in touch if you have new evidence on the efficacy of a relevant intervention that we should include. We are launching a related small grants program to support this adaptation evaluation work, with first tranche of funds going out shortly (in an upcoming tweet). 9/
You can see estimates for your county or your census tract, and for your county you can download a summary pdf of exposures and impacts. All the methodology is explained in linked papers and in a (currently somewhat cursory) methods doc, linked on the about page. 8/
Impacts estimates in the maps are based on years of work we + others have done to statistically isolate the impacts of these exposures on health outcomes. The goal over time is to add new geographies, exposures, and impacts, as well as up to date info on intervention efficacy. 7/
See interventions page for extreme heat and cold interventions: adaptationatlas.org/interventions
A key finding is that a lot of interventions being tried have very little evidence backing them, and some “interventions” not aimed specifically at climate impacts at all (e.g. better access to health services) might be some of our best tools for limiting impacts. 5/
Summarizing what’s know about intervention efficacy was itself a very big task that we worked on as a lab for over a year. We took a hard line on what counted as high-quality causal evidence. 4/
