The EPI has detailed report on CEO pay, CEO pay remains high relative to the pay of typical workers and high-wage earners. The article includes data, such as the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay that was used to create the graph here. Although the ratio has decreased since its peak of …
Read More »Greenland Ice, Changing Albedo, and a Feedback Loop
The BBC reports: Sea Level Fears as Greenland Darkens. The article discusses a possible feedback loop where as temperatures warm algae growth may flourish, which darkens the surface and changes the albedo to increase melting. One concern now is that rising temperatures will allow algae to flourish not only on …
Read More »How Big is the Pay Gap Between Black Women and White Men?
A recent article, Black women have to work 7 months into 2017 to be paid the same as white men in 2016, from the EPI answers this question. The article has pertinent comparisons. Myth #2: Black women can educate themselves out of the pay gap. The truth: Two-thirds of black …
Read More »No El Nino, Yet 2017 on Track to be 2nd-Hottest
Climate Central reports, At Midway Point 2017 Is 2nd-Hottest Year on Record, and notes in the first line that this is a surprise given it is not an El Nino year (graph here is by and links to NASA). “Personally, I wasn’t expecting it to be as warm as it …
Read More »Life Expectancy by Health Expenditure with Comments on Differences by Race
Our World in Data has an interactive graph of life expectancy by health expenditure for a number of countries, with downloadable data. The U.S. spends more money per person on health care, by far, than the other countries represented, without corresponding gains in life expectancy. At the same time, there …
Read More »Where Do Carbon Emissions Go?
Where do carbon emissions go seems like an obvious question. Into the air of course. If so, then one would expect a near perfect linear relationship between emissions and atmospheric CO2. The graph here has yearly carbon emissions in million tonnes per year (as reported by the Global Carbon Project) …
Read More »Oceans as a Heat Sink: Possible Feedback Loop
Ocean currents are a complex mechanism that contribute to absorbing CO2 and heat. The NASA article, NASA-MIT study evaluates efficiency of oceans as heat sink – atmospheric gases sponge, discusses the role of ocean currents as part of climate change. The possible feedback loop is suggested by this: In addition, they …
Read More »Life Expectancy vs Income Per Person
With health care in the news, let’s take a look at the knowledge that can be gained by using Gapminder. For example, the graph here is life expectancy vs income per person for 2015, with the bubbles representing population size of the country. Can you guess the bubble for the …
Read More »New Data: Pretax Income Growth
How much has pretax income grown by earner percentiles? The graph here, from Chicago Booth Review’s article New Data: Inequality Runs Deeper than Previously Thought, provides the answer. So Piketty, Saez, and Gabriel Zucman of University of California at Berkeley combined tax, survey, and national-accounts data to create distributional accounts that they …
Read More »A Trillion Ton Iceberg
If you have been following this blog you might know that we are talking about Larsen C. Project MIDAS reports: Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg. What does this mean? The iceberg weighs more than a trillion tonnes (1,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes), but it was already floating before it calved away …
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