Data That Matters May 2021

Instead of 561,594 people dying from Covid-19 in the US, the total is over 905,000. Worldwide the number of deaths Continue reading →

Data That Matters April 2021

From 2006 through 2019 the percentage of people having recently felt stress has risen from 29% to 35%. That jumped Continue reading →

Data That Matters January 2021

Instead of zero, the average increase in global temperature is 0.32F (0.18C) per decade, and accelerating. Estimates for the US Continue reading →

Data That Matters September 2020

For people born in the 40s, the chance of earning more than their parents was ~90%. For people born in Continue reading →

Data That Matters December 2019

“Go West, young man” (person, whatever) is less likely to happen as mobility in the US declined from about 20% Continue reading →

Data That Matters September 2019

Zero. Alaska had no sea ice within 150 miles of its shores for the first time since written records were Continue reading →

Data That Matters August 2019

Fossil fuel subsidies are ~3.7 times greater than subsidies for renewable energy. The cost of gun deaths in the US Continue reading →

Data That Matters July 2019

Alaska land temperatures exceeded typical highs by 25F and water temperatures by 20F. Carbon emissions from power production in the Continue reading →