The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health

Our communities are paying twice for extreme heat: first through its toll on health and safety, then through unaffordable electricity bills. Utility shutoffs deepen the harm. Families deserve energy security, not another crisis to survive. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/u...

The brain is a terrible thing to pollute, at any stage of life. Even the brains of fetuses can be harmed by the air pollution their mothers’ breathe—and the consequences can burden them for their entire lives. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Our health is always on the ballot. With #ElectionDay less than two weeks away, our latest episode explores why equitable civic participation matters and how improving voting access and strengthening public trust can help build a healthier future for all. Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica

Much of the climate-related content we see on social media leaves out health, creating a gap too often filled by misinformation or silence. Our next climate communications training session will address how health professionals can close that gap. medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/commun...

Earth's vital signs are flashing red. A new report finds record extremes in seven key climate indicators, with growing threats from heat, wildfire smoke, and extreme weather. "This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present."

🚫 Across the US, people don’t want data centers coming to their communities. Opposition cuts across political groups and people with different beliefs about climate change.

New #ClimateCheckup out now: The Wrong Parties Are Paying for the Health Consequences of Climate Change "As climate damage grows, the bill will only get larger. The companies that profited should pay their fair share." @medpagetoday.com @lisapatel.bsky.social

Federal energy policy changes could cost #California households an extra $100 billion by 2040, per a new Energy Innovation analysis. A Bay Area pediatrician warns of about 140,000 more childhood asthma attacks a year statewide. #EnergyCosts #PublicHealth @docsforclimate.bsky.social

100%! It is imperative that every nation— including and especially the U.S.—stop investing in new fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and production. The health and wellbeing of humanity depends on it. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @psr.org @cughnews.bsky.social

🎧 Weekend listening! On Monday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Suncor v. Boulder. Tune in to our latest #HealthyClimateAmerica episode to learn more about the case and what it could mean for Big Oil accountability. Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica @climateintegrity.org

Today is Children’s Environmental Health Day! All children deserve clean air, clean water, safer food and products, and healthy places in which to live, learn, and play. Make your voice heard today in support of these basic rights for children. Visit cehday.org #CEHday

Warmer oceans Contribute to an increased fraction of tropical cyclones that strengthen quickly...aka rapid intensification. From 1980 to 2025, 190 Atlantic tropical cyclones rapidly intensified, and nearly one-quarter of these storms rapidly intensified at extreme rates.

Federal agencies are required to seek public comment when writing regulations or approving large projects. The Trump administration is systematically undercutting that process, stifling public input on environmental decisions, writes Jody Freeman.

Join us on Friday for our next Climate & Health Equity webinar! Dr. Marcos Moreno will examine how culture, community connection, and traditional practices function not as supplements to care, but as forms of medicine in their own right. Register here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Lorraine Boissoneault calls it "body weather": the unpredictable shifts of chronic illness. In this episode of #HealthyClimateAmerica, she shares what that experience can teach us about living in a changing climate and caring for one another. bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica @lodrinkswater.bsky.social

Months after the Maui wildfires, residents were still finding high levels of heavy metals in their bodies. New research finds that might be harming their lungs. Our latest on the long aftermath of disasters, and how they impact human health: insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

Rolling back fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks will not "deliver relief to families," as the administration claims. It will cost us more at the pump and the doctor's office.

🚨 Action Alert 🚨 - The EPA is proposing to eliminate its authority to regulate climate pollution from fossil-fuel power plants. Help make sure the public record reflects why this is a major threat to our health. Learn how you can take action here ⬇️

Call it a nor'easter...call it a coastal storm... whatever we call it, it will impact the Northeast through the weekend. Dangerous surf Coastal flooding Breaking waves 15ft+ 3" - 5" of rain Storm like this in late September? Not totally unusual. The water this storm is developing over, however...

"If the Supreme Court takes an aggressive stance in support of the oil industry, it will indicate something troubling about how the Supreme Court is thinking about its role in our constitutional system," said Chris Winter of the University of Colorado Law School.

Whether it’s ‘super’ or ‘Godzilla,’ El Niño is already breaking records

Join us next week for the first session of our 2026 climate communications training series! Get updated guidance on how to speak more confidently and intentionally about climate change, health, and equity. Register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/commun...

It's Fall y'all! Unfortunately, ragweed season is also sticking around. Since 1970, warming has extended ragweed’s freeze-free growing season in 88% of 202 U.S. cities analyzed — by 11 days on average. 🍂More from #ClimateCentral: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/fall-allergy-season

September is National Disaster Preparedness Month, and it’s easier AND more effective to plan with your community. Don’t know where to start? Here’s your guide. Save and share with your neighbors so you all have a plan when disaster happens.

The stench of this fossil fueled corruption of justice can be smelled from sea to shining sea. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @ucs.org

“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.” @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @apha.org @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social @ucs.org @nrdc.org

Climate change is a growing threat to brain health, affecting neurological function, cognition, mental health, and neurodevelopment. Yet it's often overlooked. A powerful new report from the Neuro Climate Working Group examines the state of the science and how we can take action.

🗣️ Our Climate Communications Training is back for another year! This four-part webinar series will provide practical strategies and tools to help you communicate with greater clarity, intention, and impact. Learn more and register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/commun...

Power plants are one of the largest sources of climate pollution. Tearing down these protections is a complete abandonment of the EPA's core responsibility, and our communities will pay the price.

Each additional day that schools aren’t given the support they need to modernize their bus fleets is one more day that children are subject to the threat of diesel exhaust. In a new op-ed, @lisapatel.bsky.social calls on state leaders to act and protect kids this school year.

🚨Heat sends thousands to the ER each year. How much does climate change contribute? New #ClimateCentral research finds that climate change accounted for about 1 in 4 heat-related emergency room visits in the U.S. during the warm season from 2018–2025. 🚑: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

The City and County of Boulder, CO, are suing ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to make them pay for their climate deception. Now the companies want to stop the case before it goes to trial. 🔊 Join us at the U.S. Supreme Court on 10/5 to support accountability and make our voices heard!

Congratulations to @finejulia6.bsky.social, @joshettinger.bsky.social, Teresa Myers, Yuan Yue, Lisa Patel, John Kotcher, and @maibached.bsky.social on a new article in Environmental Research: Health, published with Verasight survey data. 1/9

🗓️ Save the date! The Our Planet, Our Health Convention is back for another year, and we're excited to make 2027 the best one yet. Get ready for new ways to engage and a connected climate and health experience in the Washington, DC, area. Stay tuned for more details. #OPOH27

The US just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, beating the summer of 1936 — during the Dust Bowl era — as well as the summer of 2021, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Previously, those two years had tied for the hottest summer.

🌀 #HurricaneLowell brought torrential rainfall to Hawaii — and climate change helped make its Pacific environment unusually warm. Human-caused climate change made the unusually warm sea surface temperatures along Lowell’s path up to 60 times more likely.

This ruling comes as the Trump administration moves to weaken clean-water-related protections. "If we don’t protect our streams and wetlands, the cost of dirtier drinking water and increased flooding will flow downstream to households..."

New research from @unep.org on climate change & air pollution solutions shows acting on both delivers more benefit than acting on either alone. “Every dollar invested returns around 15 dollars, an internal rate of return of 60 per cent, with market returns exceeding costs within ten years.”

As heatwaves become more frequent and severe as a result of climate change, doctors and health organizations are warning that some of the most commonly taken drugs can make the heat harder to handle.

Big Oil knew decades ago that burning fossil fuels would lead to "globally catastrophic" climate change, but instead spent billions burying the science, promoting climate denialism, and blocking the transition to cleaner energy sources. These lying corporations must be held accountable.

NEW: the UN's weather and climate agency issued a stark and historic warning this morning about the supersized El Nino, issuing what it says is the most certain forecast in the history of the organization about the strength of the building phenomenon:

New link for our just-released updated report on the health harms of fracking for people who live nearby—from premature birth to premature death (also asthma, childhood cancers, heart attack, stroke, rashes, vehicular accidents). You can find our report on gas stoves here too 👇 www.sehn.org/chpny

Our September Climate & Health Equity Webinar is coming up soon! Join us to hear from Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome on what it means to build equitable environmental policy from the ground up. Register here: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/event/climat...

Earth is in the “climate overshoot” zone, according to a new UN report, and “we aren’t prepared for what’s coming,” one of the authors says.

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

Heat kills 9,000 in the US each year — at least 5x higher than the reported total — but likely even more, and climbing. The 2025 US murder rate was 4.1 per 100k citizens, about 14,000 people. The heat Big Oil caused and lied about for decades is now murdering nearly as many people as all murder.