A number of agencies have reported that 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record. The report from NASA GIS, 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend, According to NASA, NOAA (2/6/19) includes a short video showing the warming of the planet while including other facts. The report also includes …
Read More »Did a wall impact violent crime in El Paso?
Kevin Drum has an excellent post, Here’s a Closer Look at President Trump’s Big Lie About El Paso, addressing El Paso crime as an example of deceiving with charts. He first quotes the state of the union: The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates …
Read More »How has the U.S. annual temperature changed?
The NOAA National Centers for Environmental information Climate at a Glance page allows users to select a parameter (ave temp, max temp min temp, precip, etc), a time scale, month, start year, and end year. The output will be a chart and a link for the data. The graph here is …
Read More »How has growth is emigration by region changed?
The Pew Research Center article Latin America, Caribbean no longer world’s fastest growing source of international migrants by Luis Noe-Bustamante and Mark Hugo Lopez (1/25/19) provides an overview emigration changes by region. The graph copied here shows how the growth in emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean has drooped from 58% …
Read More »Where will our electricity come from in next two years?
The EIA Today in Energy report, EIA forecasts renewables will be fastest growing source of electricity generation (1/18/19), provides projections for electricity generation. EIA expects non-hydroelectric renewable energy resources such as solar and wind will be the fastest growing source of U.S. electricity generation for at least the next two …
Read More »How many people in the world don’t have electricity?
Our World in Data’s latest visualization is a bar chart from 1990 to 2016 of the number of people with and without electricity. In 2016, out of about 7.5 billion people nearly 1 billion lived without electricity or about 12%. In 1990, 1.5 billion people were without electricity, a decrease …
Read More »How much money do parents spend on children?
The graph here from the American Sociological Review paper Income inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments by Schneider, Hastigs, and LaBriola (5/21/18) summarizes changes in spending on children by income. The past 40 years have witnessed historic increases in income inequality in the United States (Piketty and Saez …
Read More »How quickly is Antarctica losing ice?
The new paper, Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979–2017, by Eric Rignot, et. el (PNAS 1/14/19) states The total mass loss from Antarctica increased from 40 ± 9 Gt/y in the 11-y time period 1979–1990 to 50 ± 14 Gt/y in 1989–2000, 166 ± 18 …
Read More »What’s new at sustainabilitymath.org?
The first two interactive graph have been posted at sustainabilitymath.org. They can be found at the new Interactive Graphs page. The two graph represent mean and median wages by race and gender with regression lines from 1973 to 2017 (data from EPI). Check them out because they are interesting and both …
Read More »How much coal does the U.S. consume?
According to the EIA article U.S. coal consumption in 2018 expected to be the lowest in 39 years: EIA expects total U.S. coal consumption in 2018 to fall to 691 million short tons (MMst), a 4% decline from 2017 and the lowest level since 1979. U.S. coal consumption has been …
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