Jerry Schnoor, environmental engineer. Climate change, water quality, sustainability, policy and action. Views are my own (of course).
Iowa City, Iowa USA
Joined November 2015
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Finished field season at Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant. Demo of source clean-up using bugs and trees for 1,4-dioxane, TCE, etc. Works great! Removed 1,4-D from 100 ug/L to 1 ug/L; TCE from 20 ug/L to 0.2 ug/L. Best of all: trees transpired all the water. ZERO DISCHARGE!
Hottest day on the planet in recorded history July 23, 62.88 F. The heat is accelerating. Hansen et al. below. #ClimateCatastrophe
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🎉 Congrats @PedroJJAlvarez for being named among the newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Science. LIST: buff.ly/4aPuux1
It's lost on most people that we are now affecting the entire open ocean with climate change. Warmer seas, more ice melting, powerful storms, and coral reef bleaching. #ActOnClimate pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Ocean heat and acidification bleaches coral for 5th time in 8 years. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Today, the WMO released the #StateOfClimate report. In 2023, the hottest year ever documented, records were broken for greenhouse gas levels, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea cover, and glacier retreat.
Full report: wmo.int/publication-series/s…
High temperature in Iowa City on February 26, 2024, was 72 degrees F. Previous record high temp for this day was 63 degrees F set in 1896. We are not just breaking records, we are shattering them. #ClimateCrisis
He was not allowed to live in the residence halls. He shined shoes to earn his way through college. He made everyone's life whom he touched, richer. Phil Hubbard, one of our greatest professors ever.
The climate is warming -- we are probably already above the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 C. But my granddaughters can still enjoy the snow, right? #ClimateEmergency
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Planting trees in cities is good for people, good for the economy and an important answer to the #climatecrisis.
We have solutions, implement them. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #Renewables #reforestation #nature #rewiliding #GreenNewDeal
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👀 Watch Aotearoa New Zealand MP Chlöe Swarbrick deliver the most formidably cogent summary of the 20th century economic order - and how it ruined everything.
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Summer temperatures over the last 144 years. Notice a pattern?
We're in a climate emergency. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #go100re
The biggest groundwater problem is a sight unseen. GW everywhere being depleted; it's free to the taker; and no one is in charge or monitoring it.
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"Today was a day that made history at COP."
@UNDP Global Director of Climate Change @Cassie_Flynn explains the decision to operationalize the Loss and Damage fund on the first day of #COP28 and why it's significant.
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ES&T Letters and ES&T present the latest scientific advances towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 in a new joint special issue led by Prof. Mihelcic. Read the research in ES&T Letters:go.acs.org/707, and ES&T: go.acs.org/708
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5th National Climate Assessment sobering report. “How much more the world warms depends on the choices societies make today,” states the report. “The future is in human hands.” #ClimateCrisis
It was great to see Charley Driscoll receive the 2023 Clarke Water Prize at UC Irvine Beckmann Center on Saturday evening. Well deserved! #CleanWaterAct
Here is a pic of our ESTCP pilot project at former Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) to clean-up 1,4-dioxane and chlorinated solvents from groundwater. It's working! We use trees and soil bacterium R. ruber 219 to degrade all the contaminants. #cleanwater
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Farmers in Kenya are using #solarpower to improve crop yields. The panels help reduce heat stress, reduce water loss, grow larger crops and cut energy bills.
We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #solar #climateaction