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
Environmental science
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Geology
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Urbanization is projected to increase local surface temperature by 2100 - Communications Earth & Environment
By 2100, urbanization contributes an average local warming of 0.1 degree centigrade, and up to 16 percent of urban areas experience extreme warming exceeding 1 degree centigrade, according to an analy...
www.nature.com
The need for climate-resilient urban planning only gets more important with time and greater climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Erasing a Home’s Risks on Zillow Doesn’t Make Them Go Away
We live in a golden age of magical thinking, and I’m not just talking about the trillions of dollars being burned on artificial intelligence. When it comes to our rapidly heating planet and its effect...
www.bloomberg.com
Heads Up... (no kidding)
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Rescue teams racing after last week's flooding in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand
Rescue teams are racing to reach communities isolated by last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as over 800 people remained missing.
apnews.com
W/ climate change, rainfall amounts are becoming more extreme around the world. This often means more flooding & landslides as well. Strategies are needed to halt climate change, but also to keep people & infrastructure safe from the extreme rainfall we can't avoid. apnews.com/article/indo...
Asia-Pacific faces ‘$500bn-a-year’ hit from rising seas if current policies continue - Carbon Brief
Coastal flooding could bring $500bn of annual damages to the Asia-Pacific by the year 2100, if countries do not adapt to rising sea levels.
www.carbonbrief.org
This is what climate change looks like for the Asia-Pacific region: $500Billion per year for the sea level rise alone. And the climate change challenge is global.
www.carbonbrief.org/asia-pacific...
www.carbonbrief.org/asia-pacific...
New energy tech like small nuclear reactors requires careful, and fair, implementation "Technology needs to work, but the most important thing is that it works for people”
news.umich.edu/report-and-w...
news.umich.edu/report-and-w...
Report and webinar: New nuclear requires strong governance to avoid making old mistakes
Nuclear energy has long been considered essential for meeting growing global energy demands, but the potential expansion of advanced nuclear energy systems, like small modular reactors, creates—and in...
news.umich.edu
And don't forget that the US still does not have a workable plan for the safe long-term storage of high level radioactive waste. (Yucca Mountain turned out to be deeply flawed, and the NM WIPP repository has already had a waste explosion and airborne release of radiological material).
And don't forget that the US still does not have a workable plan for the safe long-term storage of high level radioactive waste. (Yucca Mountain turned out to be deeply flawed, and the NM WIPP repository has already had a waste explosion and airborne release of radiological material).
Report and webinar: New nuclear requires strong governance to avoid making old mistakes
Nuclear energy has long been considered essential for meeting growing global energy demands, but the potential expansion of advanced nuclear energy systems, like small modular reactors, creates—and in...
news.umich.edu
New energy tech like small nuclear reactors requires careful, and fair, implementation "Technology needs to work, but the most important thing is that it works for people”
news.umich.edu/report-and-w...
news.umich.edu/report-and-w...
Fish In The US Are Shrinking And Scientists Are Concerned - BGR
Scientists poring over decades of data from Michigan lakes have found that fish are shrinking and populations are crashing thanks to climate change.
www.bgr.com
Warming lakes make it harder for fish to thrive, so we're ending up with smaller fish. www.bgr.com/2036101/scie...
Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – how Tehran got into water bankruptcy
Iran’s sprawling cities and irrigated agriculture, along with tight market controls, have left the country vulnerable to drought. There are steps that would help.
theconversation.com
Sound familiar? "Iran’s escalating water & environmental problems are the predictable outcome of decades of treating the region’s finite water resources as if they were limitless." A deeper dive into Iran's growing hot drought & water problems.
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
theconversation.com/irans-presid...
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
theconversation.com
A great piece on the importance of building resilience through writing & how you write. As the world shifts to using AI to think and write, those who keep thinking & writing at the same time will likely be at an advantage. Read this & think about it...
theconversation.com/writing-buil...
theconversation.com/writing-buil...
750 Million at Risk: New Study Warns Extreme Water Scarcity Is Closer Than We Think
Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from rese...
scitechdaily.com
Something tells me that the number to be affected by water scarcity due to climate change and overuse will be higher than this number unless climate change is halted sooner than later. scitechdaily.com/750-million-...
Climate change threatens Spain’s ‘resilient’ economy, warns report
Despite steady GDP growth, a new report warns Spain is among the European countries most 'exposed' to climate change.
www.euronews.com
The Mediterranean... where there is hot drought, there is often fire. www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
A climate scientist reflects on 30 years fighting the 'forces of unreason'
Thirty years ago, the IPCC agreed on a historic finding: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
thebulletin.org
IPCC history from a top climate scientist: "Every IPCC assessment after 1995 upped the level of confidence in the identification of human-caused climate change signals." In 2021" “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land.”
thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl...
thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
Mediterranean getting hit hard by climate change... "scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...