Daniel Horton
@danethan.bsky.social
Earth System, Climate, Atmospheric, and Air Quality Scientist; Interdisciplinary! – impacts, extremes, hazards, equity, solutions, etc. – Prof @ Northwestern U; USAF 15WX Veteran; https://sites.northwestern.edu/danethan/
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It's not just about heat stroke — a new study finds extreme heat drives emergency room visits in Chicago for everything from accidental injuries to chronic disease. With climate change bringing more heat waves, healthcare professionals need to get ready.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...
In Chicago ERs, Extreme Heat’s Toll Goes Far Beyond the Obvious - Inside Climate News
New research finds a wide range of medical emergencies spiked during heat waves in recent years.
insideclimatenews.org
August 26, 2026 at 6:25 PM
It's not just about heat stroke — a new study finds extreme heat drives emergency room visits in Chicago for everything from accidental injuries to chronic disease. With climate change bringing more heat waves, healthcare professionals need to get ready.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2608202...
Pleased to share a new @buffett.northwestern.edu Defusing Disasters publication on Chicago emergency dept. (ED) visits during heat days. We borrow methods from genome-wide association to identify heat-related disease & injury diagnoses in EDs over the past 10 yrs. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed3977
Identifying heat-related diagnoses in emergency department visits among adults in Chicago: A heat-wide association study
Extreme heat is an escalating public health concern. Although prior studies have examined heat-health associations, their reliance on restricted diagnoses and diagnostic categories may miss or misclas...
doi.org
August 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Pleased to share a new @buffett.northwestern.edu Defusing Disasters publication on Chicago emergency dept. (ED) visits during heat days. We borrow methods from genome-wide association to identify heat-related disease & injury diagnoses in EDs over the past 10 yrs. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed3977
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Protecting mature trees from storms and disease can reduce Chicago deaths, study finds
Protecting mature trees from storms and disease can reduce Chicago deaths, study finds
www.chicagotribune.com
August 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Protecting mature trees from storms and disease can reduce Chicago deaths, study finds
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August 11 8:45AM CT: Heads up to the Chicago metro area. An intensifying line of thunderstorms is approaching, and already has a history of >85 mph straight-line wind gusts. This will likely meet the derecho definition.
Could be a very impactful / damaging few hours ahead.
Could be a very impactful / damaging few hours ahead.
August 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
August 11 8:45AM CT: Heads up to the Chicago metro area. An intensifying line of thunderstorms is approaching, and already has a history of >85 mph straight-line wind gusts. This will likely meet the derecho definition.
Could be a very impactful / damaging few hours ahead.
Could be a very impactful / damaging few hours ahead.
Very pleased to share a new @buffett.northwestern.edu study on the protective effects of Chicago’s tree canopy: Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods. Link: doi.org/10.1029/2025... & PR: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...
As urban tree shade shrinks, mortality rises
New study finds that protecting mature trees could help save lives
news.northwestern.edu
August 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Very pleased to share a new @buffett.northwestern.edu study on the protective effects of Chicago’s tree canopy: Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods. Link: doi.org/10.1029/2025... & PR: news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...
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In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:
The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters
The state of energy transition research and the need for fossil phase-out: evidence from Environmental Research Letters, Grubert, Emily
iopscience.iop.org
July 20, 2026 at 2:41 PM
In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:
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Writing tip: Before submitting your manuscript, read it aloud to yourself from beginning to end. Then go to the refrigerator and open its door. If the manuscript is good, all the potatoes will have turned into birds who fly out singing your name.
May 14, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Writing tip: Before submitting your manuscript, read it aloud to yourself from beginning to end. Then go to the refrigerator and open its door. If the manuscript is good, all the potatoes will have turned into birds who fly out singing your name.
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🌟 Congratulations to LDEO climate scientist Maureen Raymo, awarded the prestigious Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences for pioneering development of hypotheses that explain climate change across Earth’s history and her educational leadership in the Earth system sciences. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Pa7t21
May 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
🌟 Congratulations to LDEO climate scientist Maureen Raymo, awarded the prestigious Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences for pioneering development of hypotheses that explain climate change across Earth’s history and her educational leadership in the Earth system sciences. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Pa7t21
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Elated to announce a banner NSF GRFP year for my lab group: Grad student Anna Oehlerking, ugrad researcher Kyan Shlipak (MIT bound), and incoming grad student Maggie Gonzalez were all selected. Proud of these amazing young scientists, and honored to work with them.
April 13, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Elated to announce a banner NSF GRFP year for my lab group: Grad student Anna Oehlerking, ugrad researcher Kyan Shlipak (MIT bound), and incoming grad student Maggie Gonzalez were all selected. Proud of these amazing young scientists, and honored to work with them.
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Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.
Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why.
chicago.suntimes.com
April 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.
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Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
April 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
🚨🧪🚨New research from Dr. Peter Graffy, just published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics: Heat and hearts: An exposure-anchored computational phenotyping framework for assessing cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat. 🔥+❤️=❤️🔥&🥵 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...
March 25, 2026 at 10:32 PM
🚨🧪🚨New research from Dr. Peter Graffy, just published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics: Heat and hearts: An exposure-anchored computational phenotyping framework for assessing cardiovascular vulnerability during extreme heat. 🔥+❤️=❤️🔥&🥵 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...
New review led by Chuxuan Li (UCLA) on The Critical Role of Soil Moisture in Compound Hazards, out today in @natgeosci.nature.com. w/ @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social, @yannquilcaille.bsky.social, and many more
The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards - Nature Geoscience
Soil moisture drives critical land–atmosphere interactions and compound hazards. Closing gaps in data and models is key to integrating soil moisture into predictive frameworks for improved hazard fore...
doi.org
March 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
New review led by Chuxuan Li (UCLA) on The Critical Role of Soil Moisture in Compound Hazards, out today in @natgeosci.nature.com. w/ @fuldenbatibeniz.bsky.social, @yannquilcaille.bsky.social, and many more
Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org
Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds
Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds
Wood is primary heating in 2% of homes but contributes to producing 21% of country’s wintertime particle pollution
Air pollution from home wood burning is estimated to lead to 8,600 premature deaths in the US each year, according to research.
Just 2% of US homes use wood for primary heating. Another 8% burn wood for pleasure, aesthetics or supplementary heating, but combined they produce 21% of the country’s wintertime particle pollution. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Great coverage of Kyan Shlipak's recent #ScienceAdvances study on the health impacts of U.S. residential wood burning, by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social, for the @theguardian.com @science.org
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New research - #airpollution from home wood burning in the US leads to about 8600 premature deaths a year
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion
Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.
www.science.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM
New research - #airpollution from home wood burning in the US leads to about 8600 premature deaths a year
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New research out today in #ScienceAdvances, in which Kyan Shlipak et al. explore the health impacts of burning wood for heat across the U.S. Of note: ~8600 premature deaths w/ more urban impacts than expected, disproportionate impacts to POC www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
Ambient air quality and health impacts of PM2.5 from US residential wood combustion
Air pollution from residential wood burning contributes to thousands of premature deaths annually, with unexpected urban impacts.
www.science.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
New research out today in #ScienceAdvances, in which Kyan Shlipak et al. explore the health impacts of burning wood for heat across the U.S. Of note: ~8600 premature deaths w/ more urban impacts than expected, disproportionate impacts to POC www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
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How do you make rollback of clean air regulations pass a cost-benefit test? Don't count any of the benefits!
People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:42 PM
How do you make rollback of clean air regulations pass a cost-benefit test? Don't count any of the benefits!
People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
People value their health and don't like breathing poisonous air. But Trump's EPA doesn't care.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
🚨New research, led by Dr. Peter Graffy, that identifies temperature thresholds in Chicago associated with increased CVD and coronary heart disease mortality – published in Journal of the American Heart Association @ahajournals.bsky.social, w/ Drs. Ben Barrett, Abel Kho, & Nori Allen
Critical Temperature Thresholds for Identifying Vulnerability to Heat‐Related Excess Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality | Journal of the American Heart Association
www.ahajournals.org
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 AM
🚨New research, led by Dr. Peter Graffy, that identifies temperature thresholds in Chicago associated with increased CVD and coronary heart disease mortality – published in Journal of the American Heart Association @ahajournals.bsky.social, w/ Drs. Ben Barrett, Abel Kho, & Nori Allen
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People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
People will get sicker. More people will have heart attacks and lung disease and other health challenges because of pollution. People’s lives will get worse, and shorter. People you know. Maybe me. Maybe you.
Pleased to share new research from @victorialangwx.bsky.social that computes differences in air quality & GHG changes between heavy- and light-duty vehicle electrification scenarios. I.e., for our electric transition, which vehicle type should we prioritize w/ incentives? 🧪
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
Watts-to-wheel comparison of the air quality, health, and equity impacts of light-v. heavy-duty vehicle electrification in the U.S. Midwest - IOPscience
Watts-to-wheel comparison of the air quality, health, and equity impacts of light-v. heavy-duty vehicle electrification in the U.S. Midwest, Lang, Victoria A, Camilleri, Sara F, Montgomery, Anastasia,...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Pleased to share new research from @victorialangwx.bsky.social that computes differences in air quality & GHG changes between heavy- and light-duty vehicle electrification scenarios. I.e., for our electric transition, which vehicle type should we prioritize w/ incentives? 🧪
doi.org/10.1088/2752...
doi.org/10.1088/2752...