An SN! Revisit: Climate Change and Public Health

Episode 52 September 20, 2021 00:55:50
An SN! Revisit:  Climate Change and Public Health
Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org
An SN! Revisit: Climate Change and Public Health

Sep 20 2021 | 00:55:50

/

Show Notes

Planetary heating and climate change are in the news more and more, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just issued a very pessimistic report on humanity’s and the world’s prospects. In a revisit of a show from 2020, Host Ronnie Lipschutz and Guest Dr. Rupa Basu talk about about climate change and public health. Dr. Basu is Chief of the Air and Climate Epidemiology Section at California Office on Environmental Health Hazards and a lecturer in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.  She is coauthor of a review article in JAMA Open Network about the effects of air pollution and climate change on birth outcomes.  She is featured in an article on the health effects of high temperatures in The San Francisco Chronicle, on Sunday, August 29, 2021.

Other Episodes

Episode 177

March 01, 2026 00:53:17
Episode Cover

Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College

Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort by biologists, economists and others to put a value on nature’s services: what...

Listen

Episode 57

November 18, 2021 00:59:24
Episode Cover

Oil and Water Don’t Mix!

Join hosts Ronnie Lipschutz and Brooke Wright for a conversation with Fred Keeley, a well-known political person about town and across the Monterey Bay...

Listen

Episode 125

August 17, 2025 00:56:45
Episode Cover

"What's in Those Plastics, Anyway?" with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara

The world is awash in plastic. According to a study published in 2020, total production of plastics since 1950 is now over 10 billion...

Listen