- The price of wind power just hit a new low: $0.025/kwh.
- Facebook gets one billion visits in one day, a first.
- Sea Level rise is 3.21mm/year, 3.21cm/decade, 0.321m/century.
- US GDP was up 3.7% for 2Q15.
- The marijuana industry is growing at 74%, enough to make some commodity companies switch.
- Costa Rica went 94 days without using fossil fuel for electricity.
- California is sinking at 1-2 inches per month, because pumps are emptying aquifers.
- 24% of Americans don’t trust either party, up from 6% in 2002.
- The globe’s temperature reached a record high of 61.86F in July.
- Young Americans are more likely to see socialism (49%) rather than capitalism (47%) as more favorable.
- The largest sector of job growth for young people (8%) is self-employment.
- The direct cost of coal is $0.03/kwh, but the indirect costs are $0.18/kwh.
- Out of 834,065,926 votes cast from 2000 to 2014, only 35 pertinent allegations could be found.
- In July, US unemployment rate hit 6.1%, the job participation rate is nearly steady at 66.9%, and the underemployment rate dropped to 14.2%.
- Human population is expected to reach 11,000,000,000 by the end of the century.
- 22% of US children live in poverty, up from 18% in 2008.
- Terrorism kills a few dozen people a year while cars kill 35,000 and injure 2,000,000.
- In Kansas, tax cuts did not produce growth; instead, 2014 revenues were $700 million lower than in 2013.
Pretending Not To Panic 