Quark Soup by David Appell

By Joel Pett , 2009: From Wikipedia : The cartoon, which first appeared in USA Today in December 2009,[3] around the time of the 2009 Unite...

Hockey season is coming up, so please pardon the occasional post on this greatest (IMHO) of sports.  It's still two months until the NHL...

They're expensive. From CNN : The Biden administration on Friday announced its first major investment to kickstart the US carbon remova...

It's still pretty bad. Without doing the calculations, I'd say it looks more anomalously low than it was in July. Via University...

Interesting gif from Nature . 35°C=95°F.   The worse areas are well north of the equator. I'd like to see that top chart but for 45°C (...

Here's the video , it's on Facebook. (Don't know how to embed it.) This sure looks like it was done just for fun. Apparently rav...

The normal high/low for this Monday is 84° | 55°. I've been keeping track of daily Salem Oregon weather since I moved here on 9/1/2011. ...

Since I was born: The US Consumer Price Index has increased by a factor of 10.3 (=inflation) US population has increased by a factor of 1.87...

There is remarkably little change in world oil production per capita per year: Note the vertical axis scale is fairly refined, so the annual...

Finally getting to wash your hands when they're sticky 1 is one of life's small pleasures. -- 1  I don't mean dirty, I mean sti...

Things I've encountered : I am not at all in favor of this term "global boiling" that the UN is trying to introduce The e...

via the New York Times .

From an NY Times interview with John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania:

The US has emitted more CO2 cumulatively than has China. The current ratio, for CO2e starting in 1850, is 1.69. When will it equal one? Our ...

Norman Page is back at it with more predictions of global cooling. If you recall, our friend Norman Page PhD keeps making predictions of glo...

China's population fell for the first time last year, by 185,000 (-0.01%) compared to 2021. And India now has more people than China, by...

This is amazing and beautiful, but the video isn't embeddable so you have to watch it on YouTube . Here's a #short . Added 12/8...