The Pew article, A record number of women are serving in the 117th Congress by Carrie Elizabeth Blanzina and Drew Desilver (1/15/2021) reports: Counting both the House of Representatives and the Senate, 144 of 539 seats – or 27% – are held by women. That represents a 50% increase from …
Read More »How well are we vaccinating?
Our World in Data now has a vaccinations as part of their Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer. As you can see the U.S. is doing relatively well. Now, Israel is doing much better than anyone and they aren’t on the graph because it makes it hard to see the rest of …
Read More »How hot was 2020?
In my last post we saw that December 2020 was only the eighth warmest December. So, how did 2020 fair overall? From NOAA’s Global Climate Report – Annual 2020: With a slightly cooler end to the year, the year 2020 secured the rank of second warmest year in the 141-year …
Read More »How hot was December 2020?
From NOAA’s Global Climate Report – December 2020: The global land and ocean surface temperature for December 2020 was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average and the eighth highest departure from average for December in the 1880–2020 record. Compared to recent months, this value was the smallest monthly temperature …
Read More »How big are new single family homes?
The Census Bureau report New Single-Family Homes Sold Not as Large as They Used to Be by Philip Thompson (12/21/2020) notes: The average square footage of new homes sold in the United States increased from 2,457 in 2010 to 2,724 in 2015 but dropped in 2019 to 2,518, according to …
Read More »What book do I Recommend?
I’ve never done a book recommendation before and that changes today. If you are looking for a book that has about 75 excellent graphs and uses paleoclimatology data to connect changing climate as it impacts society during the time period of roughly 1200 to 1500, then I recommend Bruce M. …
Read More »What ten things should we know?
Kevin Drum provides an answer is his post the Top Ten Things You Might Not Know But Probably Should (12/31/2020) and each one has a graph. I copied the graph from 3, The Federal Judiciary Is About the Same As It’s Always Been: The Supreme Court gets all the attention, …
Read More »What are the projections for northeast high school graduates?
The last post, What are the projections for high school graduates? provided national high school graduation rates from WICHE. I noted in that post that regional data and reports are available along with race and ethnicity. The graph here (for public high school only) is from the report for the …
Read More »What are the projections for high school graduates?
The 10th Edition of Knocking at the College Door (Dec 2020) is a report produced by WICHE: The latest edition of Knocking at the College Door includes projections of high school graduates through the Class of 2037. These data include projections for the nation, regions, and 50 states and DC for public …
Read More »What is the current state of drought?
The United States Drought Monitor provides weekly updates of drought in the U.S. Maps such as the one here can be downloaded. For classroom use there is a data page where full data sets can be downloaded including GIS data. There is also an interactive time series graph.
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