If you live along the cost you might be interested in how much sea level has risen. Climat.gov has the answer on their page Interactive map: How has local sea level in the United States changed over time? by Rebecca Lindsey, et. el. (Updated 3/2/2022). Zoom in on the map …
Read More »What are the challenges for young adults?
The Pew article Most in the U.S. say young adults today face more challenges than their parents’ generation in some key areas by Stella Sechopoulos (2/28/20220) provides the survey response graph copied here. There are generational difference in these responses: While majorities across all age groups say young adults have …
Read More »What are the sources of methane emissions in the U.S.?
The iea has a Methane Tracker Data Explorer which has information of methane emissions by country or for the world. In 2021 the U.S. emitted 31,460 kt of methane which is 8.8% of the global emissions. There are various graphs, such as the one copied here, and links to download …
Read More »What is the connection between attending college and parental income?
The World Inequality Database summarize the paper by Bonneau and Grobon in the article Unequal Access to Higher Education (2/7/2022). In this paper, Cécile Bonneau and Sébastien Grobon provide new stylized facts on inequalities in access to higher education by parental income in France. At the bottom of the income distribution, 35% of …
Read More »What new record was set in Feb?
The Antarctic has broken the record low for sea ice extent and doesn’t appear to be done. The chart here is from the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph page. Data is available from the Sea Ice Data and Analysis Tools page.
Read More »How hot was Jan 2022?
From NOAA’s Global Climate Report – January 2022: The global surface temperature for January 2022 was 0.89°C (1.60°F) above the 20th century average and the sixth highest for January since global records began in 1880. The last eight Januarys (2015–2022) rank among the 10 warmest Januarys on record. Similar to …
Read More »What are the predicted climate changes for your state?
NCICS (North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies) hosts the State Climate Summaries page. On this page you can select a state to arrive at a climate summary for the state. For example, the NYS page has ten graphs, including the one copied here, and summaries such as Since the beginning …
Read More »How do vaccination rate differ?
The Pew article Increasing Public Criticism, Confusion Over COVID-19 Response in U.S. by Alec Tyson and Cary Funk (2/9/2022) has the graph copied here, which seems unrelated to the title but is interesting. I’ll leave you to decide what is surprising and what isn’t. Further: Some demographic differences in vaccination …
Read More »Are cancer deaths declining?
The graph here from Our Word in Data’s Cancer page is a tutorial in quantitative literacy. From 1990 to 2019 the total number of cancer death’s in the U.S. increases 43.5%. So, cancer deaths are up. But the overall population is growing so we need to normalize and we need …
Read More »How hot are the oceans?
The abstract from The recent normalization of historical marine heat extremes by Kisei R. Tanaka and Kyle S. Van Houtan (2/1/2022) in PLOS Climate: Climate change exposes marine ecosystems to extreme conditions with increasing frequency. Capitalizing on the global reconstruction of sea surface temperature (SST) records from 1870-present, we present …
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