From NOAA’s Global Climate Report – November 2020: The combined global average temperature over the land and ocean surfaces for November 2020 was 0.97°C (1.75°F) above the 20th century average of 12.9°C (55.2°F). This was the second warmest November in the 141-year global record, behind the record warm November set …
Read More »How has COVID-19 changed geographically?
The Pew article The Changing Geography of COVID-19 in the U.S. by Bradley Jones and Jocelyn Kiley provides data about the geographic impact of COVID-19: Early in the course of the pandemic, the health impacts were felt most severely in dense urban centers. From March to May, congressional districts in …
Read More »How are the top 0.1% doing?
The EPI article Wages for the top1% skyrocketed 160% since 1979 while the share of wages for the bottom 90% shrunk by Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra (12/1/2020) reports: As Figure A shows, the top 1.0% of earners are now paid 160.3% more than they were in 1979. Even more …
Read More »What is the Indo-Pacific warm pool?
The climate.gov article A warm pool in the Indo-Pacific Ocean has almost doubled in size, changing global rainfall patterns by Alison Stevens (12/3/2020) is your primer on the Indo-Pacific warm pool. Due to human-caused climate change, our planet’s ocean has been heating up at a rate of 0.06 degrees C (0.11 …
Read More »How many people live in poverty?
It depends on what we mean by poverty. The World Bank blog post A quarter of the world lives in societal poverty by Marta Schoch, Dean Mitchell Joliffe, & Christoph Lakner (12/2/2020): Measures of absolute poverty, such as poverty at the US$1.90, US$3.20 and the US$5.50 international poverty lines, have the advantage of …
Read More »Where is state level covid data?
The 91-DIVOC page An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19 has excellent visualizations of state level data along with world data. For example, the graph downloaded from their visualization here is the top 10 states for deaths per 100,000 (day 0 is 11/30/2020). You might find it surprising …
Read More »Fossil fuel free shipping?
This is not my typical post with charts, graphs, and data, but as a fan of both wood and boats the BBC article The futuristic cargo ship made of wood by Jocelyn Timperley (11/17/2020) is one I had to share. In a small, rustic shipyard on the Pacific coast of …
Read More »Data on Sustainable Development Goals?
The World Bank has 17 sustainable development goals and a portal to information about the goals as well as an abundance of data: Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals One path from this page is the World Development Indicators page: The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and …
Read More »How hot was October 2020?
From the NOAA Global Climate Report – October 2020: The October 2020 global land and ocean surface temperature was the fourth highest for October since global records began in 1880 at 0.85°C (1.53°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.1°F). Only Octobers of 2015 (+1.03°C / +1.85°F), 2019 (+0.95°C …
Read More »How frequently are high tides occurring?
NASA’s Vital Signs of the Planet article Beating Back the Tides by Jenny Marder (11/11/2020) provides an update on the increasing frequency of high tides (see the graph copied here for one example). Between 2000 and 2015, high-tide flooding in the U.S. doubled from an average of three days per …
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