Bill Frist, M.D.

As a doctor, I would never diagnose a patient from one test alone. I follow the full body of evidence.

Earth’s warming is measured by satellites, weather stations, oceans, tree rings, and ice cores. The oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat.

Different methods, all converging on the same conclusion.

#MythDiagnosis

@SenAlexander has been a governor, Secretary of Education and senator. At @MTSU, I asked my close friend how he got started.

“I had three really good mentors”: Howard Baker, Judge John Minor Wisdom and Bryce Harlow.

Read more about what each taught him today in Substack: tr.ee/3lessonsfromla…

Every discovery begins with a place. Ours is the Farm at Sinking Creek in Southwest Virginia, where ridges, forests, pastures, wetlands and clear streams each hold part of the land's story.

What landscape has taught you to look more closely?

The world around us shapes the health within us. That idea has guided my work for years, and today @TIME named me to the 2026 TIME100 Climate list, its annual list of the 100 most influential leaders in climate.

Proud to be included alongside leaders from around the world who are working to protect the health of people and the planet.

Photo credit: Hamilton Matthew Masters

Five of us. 85 years in elected office. One dinner after Election Day.

With Govs. @BillHaslam and @PhilBredesen and @SenAlexander and @SenBobCorker at the Howard Baker Policy Summit, talking Tennessee’s next decade.

Howard Baker’s lesson holds: consider that the other fellow might be right. @UTBakerSchool

Photo: Emily Loden