Thaw Threatens Global Seed Vault

The Global Seed Vault was established in 2008 as a biological archive and backup in case of a disaster. If Continue reading →

Sea Level Rise Estimate Rises

It is easy to overlook the caveats applied to data in the news. Frequently, climate change data is reported as Continue reading →

Long Term View Of CO2

Many of the charts demonstrating CO2 rise show the trend since the Industrial Revolution. On such a scale, the rise Continue reading →

Iceberg Swarms

Climate change isn’t just about sea level rise. Within the last week, the number of icebergs in the North Atlantic Continue reading →

Data That Matters March 2017

About 827,000 people in the US have jobs as delivery drivers. Ford is planning to launch a fleet of driverless Continue reading →

Record CO2 Levels Again

“The CO2 measured at the Mauna Loa Baseline Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii hit 405.1 parts per million last year, the Continue reading →

Data That Matters February 2017

The cause of the Great Recession was more likely rich foreclosures than poor ones because debt increased $1.6T for the Continue reading →

Extinctions Threaten Half By 2100

Currently, 20% of species are at some threat of extinction. The number is increasing rapidly enough to suggest that by Continue reading →