Jason West

Professor of environmental engineering @UNCpublichealth. Working on climate change, air pollution, energy, and human health. @LeopoldLP, @AAAS_STPF

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

My new opinion piece for #COP26.

I put #climate talks in the context of solving a second global challenge - the plague of fossil-fueled #AirPollution.

https://t.co/YCrIdROMs6

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

I am the enemy from within.
#IAmTheEnemyFromWithin

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

Words not in the 2024 Republican Platform:
climate
warming
pollution
chemical
greenhouse
carbon
co2
ipcc
unfccc
paris
sea
ocean
arctic
air
'environment' only out of context
'clean' once
'fire' only for terminating employment

Looks like a GOP goose egg on the environment!

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

I and others will present the Air Quality Chapter of the National Climate Assessment #NCA5 tomorrow at 3 PM Eastern. Register below and join us!

[U.S. Global Change Research Program @usgcrp]

Climate change has profound negative effects on human health. It can increase the likelihood of pandemics like COVID-19 and worsen their impacts.

Join us for this #NCA5 webinar, on Feb 14th at 3pm EST. https://t.co/1TsXWo0aD5

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

The EPA PM2.5 air quality standard is lowering to 9 ug/m3, down from 12 ug/m3, protecting air quality and health in the US.
https://t.co/LsXofwlGWA

[Angel Hsu @ecoangelhsu]

🚀 Job Alert! Seeking a 2-year post-doc for @NASA-funded urban heat disparities project. Use ML & satellite data for urban climate modeling, exposure analysis, and mitigation planning. Join our team at UNC! #PostDoc #NASA #UrbanHeat #MLJobs 🌆🛰️ https://t.co/0nVndLWx7z

[AP Climate @AP_Climate]

Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” the National Climate Assessment says. https://t.co/4KQbIga8kY

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

"It is foolish to deny that climate change is happening now... Anyone who continues to deny the impacts of climate change is condemning the future ... None of this is inevitable."
Joe Biden speaking on release of #NCA5 just now.

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

6) Action on climate change can be planned to bring multiple benefits (health, economic, employment) and to reduce current inequities.

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

The US 5th National Climate Assessment #NCA5 is now publicly available. https://t.co/tVczuuPOWG

Here are some key points from the report (in my words):

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

5) Technologies that are already known can substantially reduce GHG emissions. But new reduction technologies are also important to reach net zero emissions.

[Dan Goldberg, PhD @DGoldbergAQ]

Really like this image from the Air Quality section of the National Climate Assessment (led by @ProfJasonWest), showing best strategies for the most climate & AQ health benefits: Renewable energy + EVs 👍

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

The US 5th National Climate Assessment is now publicly available.
https://t.co/YzNeVLnzi7

It documents how climate change impacts the US and what we can do about it.

I was happy to have contributed to this over the last 2 years.

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

If you'd like to use our updated dataset, for atmospheric science, health impact assessment, epidemiology, crop studies, etc., feel free to contact me.

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

We have updated our global fine resolution ground-level ozone dataset for 1990-2017, by adding a new bias correction.

Using Regionalized Air Quality Model Performance and Bayesian Maximum Entropy data fusion to map global surface ozone concentration https://t.co/G9w93EyHcB

[Jason West @ProfJasonWest]

#UNC lockdown and be safe. Stay clear of the area around the pit.