Michael Schmeltz, DrPH

Great forum, looking forward to your write-up

I also try to avoid driving as much as possible. Our 2015 car still has less than 50k miles on it. Every time we take it to get checked/serviced, they always refer to the car as 'still a baby' - I'll take it as a compliment 😆

It all looks so beautiful and delicious! Love baking from scratch too, it's so rewarding (for everyone 😂).

I think any of us who studied extreme heat also understood that extreme cold was a huge driver of mortality. Whether it be AC/HVAC/Heating Systems, we have the tech to protect vulnerable populations but still allow an economic injustice to harm people - programs like LIHEAP helped, now...

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

My colleague @askellyphd.bsky.social just published this great paper and while they focused on COVID-19 you could easily substitute it for #ClimateChange impacts to public health and come to similar conclusions - great insight into public health systems and gov response

Great topic and great listen - appreciate your point about needing to come together and find common ground to move forward. It’s there - but it does get complicated with varying interests. I’m still hopefully CA will be the leader in figuring it out.

Great write-up - more of these stories are needed. It is the Bay Area but also communities across the US. These grants were to help the most disadvantaged clean up pollution and protect their environment so they could have clean air and clean water - just like every American should.

Couldn’t agree more 🙂‍↔️

EPA freezing green groups' bank accounts "strikingly illegal," prof says The Trump administration wants to claw back $20 billion in climate funding authorized by Congress. But the agency has shown no evidence of any wrongdoing.

After weeks of the Trump Administration trying and failing to find evidence of wrongdoing in the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, these funds remain illegally frozen.

Just another example of Trump and Musk trying to steal funding allocated by Congress to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I’m optimistic when I see bills like the one from Rep Underwood - ‘Climate and Health Protection Act’ that codifies climate & health into the Public Health Service Act - very much needed (but may not get far in this Congress) - I think it’s the 3rd time, it’ll stick eventually- keeping hope alive! 😄

Five pain au chocolate pastries on a white plate. Golden brown with some glimpses of chocolate in the middle of the rolled pastry.

Timeline cleanse - baking photo of the week.
One of my favs (to eat!) Pain au chocolate - takes time to make but worth it #baking

'65 – or so – percent': Donald Trump says EPA administrator planning major cuts "I spoke with Lee Zeldin and he thinks he's going to be cutting 65 or so percent of the people from environmental," Trump said.

This will be devastating to public health/environmental health

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

EPA head Lee Zeldin wants to steal $20B of green It's even dumber than you think, and yet Trump's DOJ is playing along.

EPA head Lee Zeldin wants to steal $20B of green
www.publicnotice.co/p/lee-zeldin...

Stack of five Pineapple Buns with the distinctive criss cross pattern in the crunchy topping of the sweet bread bun.

Timeline cleanse!
Weekly baking post: my attempt at making Bolo Bao or Pineapple Buns - didn’t get the classic yellow color but they tasted great 😊

Just got two of them in the span of 10 minutes 🙄

Off white plate with black and red circles around the edges. On the plate are about 10 Madeleines. Each cookie is half-covered in dark chocolate encrusted with chopped pistachios.

Weekly baking post: Madeleines dipped in dark chocolate sprinkled with chopped pistachios #Baking

Thank you 😊

Five rows of French macarons, with tops next to bottoms. The macaron tops are yellow and the filling on the bottom macaron is a swirl of white cream cheese frosting with black specs of poppyseed. A dollop of bright yellow lemon curd sits gently in the center.

This weeks baked good: French macarons with a lemon poppyseed cream cheese and lemon curd filling - ready for assembly! One of my favorite things to bake #baking

A white frosted cake with five plump strawberries in a circle on top of the cake. A snowman and Christmas tree made of fondant along with some plastic gifts are also on top of the cake as decorations.

This weeks sweet treat - Christmas Cake - Strawberry shortcake with some fondant decorations (snowman and tree, presents were plastic if I remember) I usually make this every Christmas and have a couple of different ones that may pop up here #Baking

Three small green colored cupcakes on a white plate. Each has a swirl of green colored frosting. Powered sugar is lightly dusted on top of each cupcake.

Failing miserably at my weekly Wednesday baking posts this year already😅

Mini green tea cupcakes with matcha butter cream

I am a new RSC member myself and would love to have you or your colleagues join me (you can be based anywhere in the US)! You help to advise on the important research that CARB performs on air quality and climate which supports the health and well-being of all Californians (and beyond!) 🥰

The California Air Resources Board is looking for Research Screening Committee members
-Natural Working Lands/Ag
-Community-based research
-Transportation services and vehicle tech
-Urban planning
(Applicant link: shorturl.at/WbWb8) - Apply by Feb 4th!

More info here: lnkd.in/gqVAsEh8

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Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...

White frosted cake on a cake stand with decorative swirls of frosting on top. In each swirl is half a candied lemon slice arranged around the cake in a repeating pattern.

Already lapsed in my Wednesday baking posts this year 😓
Was my birthday this week and made a lemon layer cake with lemon buttercream and candied lemon slices

Excited to announce the inaugural Health Politics and Policy Research Conference at Dartmouth College!

The conference will be held May 30 - June 1, 2025

We encourage proposals focussing on American, comparative, and global health politics/policy.

Please apply!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zs1a8...

A bar graph showing observed temperature trends over the lower 48 states by season. Source: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-seasonal-temperature

As record snowfall blankets the US this week, it’s a good time to remember that (a) winter is the season that is warming fastest and (b) warmer air holds more water vapor – which means more water vapor for storms to sweep up and dump as rain, or snow!

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnMJ...

Another view from the Mall, in addition to joggers I spotted some skis
@capitalweather.bsky.social

Of course joggers are still out 😁

Current conditions on the Mall, not many footsteps to walk in @capitalweather.bsky.social