Data That Matters March 2024

Support for authoritarians is near-majority (47%) for lower income but is much lower (27%) for higher income. Income inequality tied Continue reading →

Sea Level Rise Rises

Sea level rise continues to rise, and at least lately, has accelerated. Since 1993, sea levels have risen 103 mm. Continue reading →

Radically Denser Data

CDs, then DVDs, then came the cloud, and few folks worried about slipping a disk into a drive to store Continue reading →

Data That Matters January 2024

US coastal areas are sinking by about 2-5 mm per year directly affecting about 2,000,000 people and 800,000 properties. As Continue reading →

Climate Death Estimate

Over 4,000,000 people have died from climate change since 2000. That is a conservative estimate; and that is with an Continue reading →

Yearly Monthly Record Heat

2023 set records for global temperatures, which is news, but such news is frequently dismissed as normal variations by some Continue reading →

US East Coast Sinking

Ground subsidence is happening around the world. Some places are actually rising, naturally. Unfortunately for the east coast of the Continue reading →

Data That Matters December 2023

In one real-world test, in two-thirds of the cases (37 out of 55), drones have delivered automated defibrillators faster than Continue reading →