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von David Introcaso, Ph.D.
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Stanford's Mark Jacobson Discusses the Likely Climate Effects of the OBBBA & the Current Status of Renewable Energy Development
The climate crisis is not a tragedy. It’s a crime. The July 4 signing of HR1, is the latest if not the greatest climate crime considering the current state of the earth’s energy imbalance or the ever-increasing amount of atmospheric GHG emi
The Institute for New Economic Thinking's Thomas Ferguson Discusses Congressional Realities That Explain Passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
Last week’s signing of the OBBBA serves as federal policymakers’ latest reverse Robin Hood effort, or to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. Per a February RAND report, over the past 50 years $79 trillion in wealth has been redis
The World Council of Churches' Ms. Frederique Seidel Discusses the WCC's Recently-Published Handbook, "Hope for Children Through Climate Justice, Legal Tools to Hold Financiers Accountable"
Anthropocentric warming, the greatest threat to human health and survival, disproportionately threatens children. Children pay the greatest climate penalty. Per the World Health Organization, children suffer more than 80% of climate crisis-
Eneration's Jeff Rich and Laura Olson Discuss Their Efforts to Vastly Improve Healthcare Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
Frequent listeners of this podcast are well aware healthcare emits an immense amount of carbon pollution at over 600 million metric tons annually. This is substantially due to energy waste or inefficiency. For example, hospitals, that accou
Stanford's Dr. Chris Callahan Discusses Attribution Science & His Recently Related Article Published in "Nature"
Due to the federal government’s ongoing failure to effectively address the climate crisis, over 50 subnational entities have been taking increasingly aggressive steps to mitigate carbon pollution. Recently, Vermont (VT) and New York (NY) pa
Director Don Lieber Discusses the "First Do No Harm" Campaign
Despite the fact US healthcare has $7.6 trillion market cap and is beyond capital intensive, industry executives have been loathe to divest in fossil fuels. For example, per “The Lancet’s” 2023 and 2024 annual “Countdown on Health and Clima
Johns Hopkins' Economics Prof. Melinda Buntin Discusses Slowing Healthcare Spending Growth Over the Past Two Decades
US healthcare costs and spending are extreme made evident by the fact healthcare at a $5 trillion annually accounts for roughly half the global healthcare market. This reality led Princeton’s Nobel Prize Economist Angus Deaton to conclude i
CUNY's Dr. Lyndon Haviland Discusses the Government's Response to the Measles Outbreak
At present, measles, one of the most contagious communicable diseases for which there is no treatment, disproportionately sickens - and kills - preschoolers. The outbreak is present today in 21 states ranging from Alaska to Vermont. As of l
Healthcare Policy Attorney Alissa Smith Discusses What To Know If/When ICE Knocks
The Trump administration has made no secret it intends to aggressively enforce immigration laws, made evident by the recent arrest of a Columbia University grad student and green card holder on Columbia’s campus. Since the White House has r
Alexander Howard Discusses HHS Secretary Kennedy's Richardson Waiver Recission
Two weeks after being sworn in, last Friday HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy announced, “effectively immediately, the [1971] Richardson Waiver is rescinded and is no longer policy of the Department.” He explained his decision by stating “the ex
Prof. John Abraham Discusses Accelerated Ocean Temperature Warming and Heat Content
Last year was the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5°C above the 1850-1900 average. Since 90% of global warming is occurring in the ocean, due to the earth’s rising energy imbalance resulting from continuing
Hip Hop Caucus' Stephone Coward and Stand.earth's Hannah Saggau Discuss Citi's Contribution to Cancer Alley
Under the Biden administration the US once again became the world’s largest producer of oil and gas. Because all fossil fuels projects are politically constituted via permitting, etc., it is no surprise that of the nearly $7 trillion of fos
Attorney Andrea Rodgers Discusses Children's Litigation Efforts to Achieve Climate Justice
To begin my 14th year podcasting . . . , per the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Unversity, as of last September there were 1,850 climate crisis-related cases filed in the US challenging climate policy under constitutional,
Prof. Stephanie Alice Baker Discusses TikTok's Promotion of Fake Cancer Cures
After heart disease cancer is the leading cause of death in the US. Forty percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer has always been a concern made worse by the COVID pande
310th Interview: John Washington Discusses His Just-Published, "The Case for Open Borders"
The human rights/public health crisis known as US border policy serves as further proof of what Richard Hofstadter termed in 1964 the “paranoid style in American politics.” To his credit Mr. Washington’s work attempts explain the recent phe
Prof. Daniel Goldberg Discusses His Recently Published, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries"
Beyond roughly 1,700 NFL players, five to six million children participate in tackle football. As a collision sport, brain (or TBI) and other neurological, bone, joint, ligament, muscle, organ and tendon injuries are commonly occur and freq
Dr. Troyen Brennan Discusses His Just-Published Book, "The Transformation of American Health Insurance, On the Path to Medicare for All"
Harvard Chan School of Public Health’s Dr. Troy Brennan argues in sum that because government Medicare, Medicaid and ACA marketplaces have grown and evolved, meaning the feds have improved their ability to competently regulate the healthcar
Dr. Charles LeBaron Discusses His Just Published Book, "Greed to Good, The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids"
This century drug overdose deaths have equaled roughly 1.1 million largely due to overdose deaths among men that increased from 15,000 to 80,000. As Dr. LeBaron notes drug overdose fatalities this century have exceeded the sum of all servic
Prof. Tad Delay Discusses His Recent Work, "Future of Denial, The Ideologies of Climate Change"
Climate denial remains rife in the US. For example, in Washington, D.C., nearly 25% of the current members of Congress are, via their public statements, climate denialists. As for Health and Human Services (HHS), the department has steadfas
Ms. Alyson Rosenthal Discusses Food As Medicine
In the recent past, hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition have (re)gained policymakers’ interest largely due to the COVID pandemic and accelerating climate breakdown – that has among other things reduced the growth of global agricultural
Nathan Martinez Discusses the Government’s Attempt to Address Out of Network Healthcare Billing
In late 2020 the Congress passed the No Surprises Act largely intended to address patient “surprise,” or out of network bills, typically the result of ER visits. Should settlement between the healthcare provider, e.g., hospital, and insuran
Stephanie Wang Discusses the Health Disparities Think Tank
Over the past four decades the US has, per a 2019 JAMA-published study, made a “clear lack of progress on health equity.” Health equity or disparities have almost certainly worsened over the past five years due to COVID and accelerating cli
Columbia's Sabin Center's Executive Director, Michael Burger, Discusses State of Play Re: Climate Crisis-Related Litigation
Mr. Burger joins me to discuss climate crisis-related litigation here and abroad and its effectiveness in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Dedicated listeners may recall I interviewed Mr. Burger in May 2020 regarding the Trump administrati
Clayton Page Aldern Discusses His Recently Published, "The Weight of Nature, How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains"
Climate-related health effects are typically defined or limited to those resulting from extreme weather events, exacerbations of chronic disease and increases in vector borne diseases. Unfortunately, very little attention or even recognitio
300th Podcast Interview: Merle Hoffman Discusses Her Just-Published, "CHOICES, A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto"
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court in June 2022 reversed the court’s previous 1973 Roe v Wade decision, and 20 related cases, wiping out a half century of constitutional protections for women’s reproductive r
Dr. Mitchell Li Discusses Reforming Corporate Practice of Medicine Legislation
Over the past 12 years this podcast has discussed increasing corporate dominance of healthcare delivery, made evident in part by the fact the healthcare market is highly concentrated and highly leveraged, e.g., over the past decade private
Professor John Abraham Discusses Rising Ocean Heat Content
Research published last month in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences by Prof. Abraham and his colleagues once again show ocean temperatures, more specifically ocean heat content (OHC), once again dramatically increased in 2023. (As I noted las
Dr. Ajay Chaudhary Discusses "The Exhausted of the Earth, Politics in a Burning World"
In his soon-to-be-published book, Dr. Chaudhary argues the climate crisis or the Anthropocene era is the political product of rightwing climate realism - what he terms the “Rex Tillerson Position.” Listeners should be aware politics, not te
Dr. Robert Scoggins Discusses Medicare's Recent Regulatory Reform to Improve Sepsis Care
Sepsis presents an enormous public health threat. There are for approximately 1.7 million hospital cases and 270,000 deaths per year. Sepsis is consistently in the top five for hospital case volumes and is the most expensive and resource in
David Ropeik Discusses His Just-Published Book, "Curing Cancer-Phobia, How Risk, Fear and Worry Mislead Us"
In part because there are over 10,000 known human diseases and symptoms thereof may have numerous possible explanations, frequently diagnostic tests can be in-determinative or less informative than observing (termed: watchful waiting) a sus
