From NOAA’s August 20022 Global Climate Report: The August 2022 global surface temperature departure was the sixth highest for August in the 143-year record at 0.90°C (1.62°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F). The ten warmest Augusts on record have all occurred since 2009. August 2022 also marked …
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The Fraser Institute does an annual economic freedom report (9/8/2022), which ranks countries and interesting also states in the U.S. The main page includes an explanation of what goes in the economic freedom score. The most recent data, 2020, and the sub scores are available to download. The U.S. ranks …
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Obviously, I wouldn’t ask the question is the answer was no. The graph here is from the NSIDC Greenland Surface Melt Extent Interactive Chart. I’ve selected the years with notable peaks. The blue line is 2022 and we see what we might called a record late peak pushing about a …
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The image (2020), which I find fascinating, is from the NASA earth observatory article Falling for Corn: The natural-color image above was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Terra. The map below shows lands that were planted with corn in 2020 (marked in yellow). The map was built from …
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The Pew article Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 by Emily A. Vogels, Risa Gelles-Watnick, and Navid Massarat (8/10/2022) is filled with data on teen social media use. I was a little surprised by the graph copied here and less surprised by this: In addition, the share of teens who …
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Back to more serious data stuff today. Now, you may have been wondering where to get a visualization and the data for CO2 measurements collected on Mahe Island, Seychelles. All you have to do is start on NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory where you will find a map with a bunch …
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This is not my usual post but since most of you reading this are in some math area I just had to share this. I’ll be more serious on Thursday.
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From NOAA’s July 2022 Global Climate Report: The July 2022 global surface temperature departure was the sixth highest for July in the 143-year record at 0.87°C (1.57°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). The five warmest Julys on record have all occurred since 2016. July 2022 also marked …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C7sqVe2Vg It is often difficult to comprehend quantitative differences. MetaBallStudios‘ YouTube channel has a collection of comparison videos, such as the depth of oceans, to aid in understanding differences. There are a number of great videos that could be useful in a quantitative literacy based class. Take a look as …
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The Bloomberg article The End of Snow Threatens to Upend 76 Million American Lives by Baker et. el. (8/3/2022) has some excellent graphs, such as the one copied here, and overview of the water issues in the west. The West’s mountain snowpacks have shrunk, on average, 23% between 1955 and 2022. By …
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