From the eia article June heat wave in the Northwest United States resulted in more demand for electricity by Johnathan DeVilbiss and Mark Morey (7/21/2021): A heat wave in the Northwest United States in late June led to more regional demand for electricity. During periods of high temperatures, electricity demand increases as …
Read More »How hot was March 2021
From NOAA’s Global Climate Report – March 2021: Following a strongly negative Arctic Oscillation (AO) in February 2021, a strongly positive AO was present in March 2021. In a positive phase, the jet stream strengthens and circulates the North Pole, confining the cold Arctic Air across the Polar Regions. The AO value …
Read More »Which top 40 metro areas don’t have a baseball team?
In honor of opening day the Census Bureau posted Major League Baseball is Back on April 1 (No Foolin’) by Derick Moore (3/30/21). Twenty-five of the top 40 metro areas in the United States have MLB teams. As the ranking table below shows, 20 teams are in the top 21 …
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 did CEOs do in 2019?
The EPI article CEO compensation surged 14% in 2019 to $21.3 million – CEOs now earn 320 times as much as a typical worker by Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra (8/18/2020) provides a detailed analysis of CEO pay. There are 6 charts/tables in the article with data as well as …
Read More »What’s New at sustainabilitymath?
The data sets for the calculus and statistics projects have all been updated. Along with the traditional Excel file each tile now has a csv file with the data used to create the graphs. The associated R file now pulls the data directly from the csv file. Of course you …
Read More »What are Warming Stripes?
The image here from ShowYourStripes has a vertical strip representing global average temperature anomalies from 1850 to 2019 where darker blue is cooler and darker red is warmer. This graphic style, warming stripes, is credited to Ed Hawkins. The ShowYourStripes page has similar graphics for different regions. On the Climate …
Read More »How important is eating local in the carbon footprint of food?
The Our World in Data post You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local by Hannah Ritchie (1/24/2020) provides the graph copied here. From the article: As I have shown before, food production is responsible for one-quarter of …
Read More »How are household numbers changing?
The Our World in Data post, The rise of living alone: how one-person households are becoming increasingly common around the world by Esteban Oritz-Ospina (12/10/2019), provides the chart copied here. National income per capita and the share of one-person households are strongly correlated… These correlations are partly due to the …
Read More »How is the white working class share of the population changing?
The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank post The White Working Class: National Trends, Then and Now by Bill Emmons, Ana Kent, and Lowell Ricketts (9/24/2019) looks at the share of the U.S. population for Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic or Minority Race (< 4 year degree) and Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic …
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