亚洲AV鈥檚听听has been a busy man as of late,听and听his efforts听in the fight against global climate change听haven鈥檛 gone听unnoticed.
Maibach, a University Professor in Communication and the director of Mason鈥檚听, recently received a $250,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate Health to organize, empower and amplify the voices of America鈥檚 doctors to best convey how climate change is harming our health and how climate solutions will improve it. The consortium includes 30 medical society members and 55 partner health organizations.
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鈥淔or the past five years, we鈥檝e worked to mobilize the voice of America鈥檚 doctors to clearly articulate that climate change isn鈥檛 about plants, penguins, and polar bears,鈥 Maibach said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 about people, too. It鈥檚 about our health. In a very real sense, we have skin in the game of climate change鈥攐ur own skin. Who better to explain that to anybody who will listen than America鈥檚 doctors?鈥
Mason鈥檚听Mona Sarfaty, the director of the Program on Climate and Health within the Center for Climate Change Communication, serves as the executive director for the consortium.
The grant is just the latest accolade for Maibach, who had previously been announced as a co-recipient for the 10th annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication. Maibach will share the honor with Yale University鈥檚 Anthony Leiserowitz when the two men are formally recognized during a virtual ceremony on Jan. 13.
The $15,000 award, which was established in honor of听Stephen Henry Schneider,听one of the founding fathers of climatology,听is given to a natural or social scientist 鈥渨ho has made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that knowledge to a broad public in a clear and compelling fashion,鈥 according to the press release.
The award鈥檚 jurors decided that Maibach and Leiserowitz听exemplified the rare ability to simultaneously be both superb scientists and powerful communicators in the mold of Schneider.
鈥淣o one has done more to help us understand how the American people understand climate change than Tony Leiserowitz and Ed Maibach,鈥澨齭aid juror听Naomi Oreskes. 鈥淭heir work has set the standard for social scientific investigations of what Americans think about climate change and why they think it.鈥
Maibach has focused exclusively on climate change as the world鈥檚 most pressing threat to public health and well-being since听2007.听He played a critical role in the formation of the Yale/Mason Climate Change in the American Mind survey project听that has听consistently been听featured in numerous major听media outlets听throughout the country听for more than听a听decade.
听鈥淚t鈥檚 a thrill in every way,鈥 he said of the honor. 鈥淚t鈥檚 particularly a thrill to be winning this award with Tony Leiserowitz, whom I鈥檝e been working with so closely since day one of creating our center here at Mason. So the work I have done is really the work we have done and, thus, winning this award is a double thrill.鈥
The Stephen H. Schneider Award is presented by Climate One, a project of the Commonwealth Club of California, a nonprofit and nonpartisan public forum founded in San Francisco in 1903.