Quark Soup by David Appell

Sources: World Annual Global Wheat production , Our World in Data  World population , Our World in Data

The annual minimum in Arctic sea ice extent is 7th-lowest in the 46-year old record. It looks early too.

A paper in this week's issue of Science  by Judd et al has a reconstruction of the lasts 485 million years of Earth's climate (clic...

Andew Dessler :

I haven't followed methane much because I couldn't find a good data source, but now I have, from NASA . And even better source is th...

The other day I gave the data on global ocean acidification, which I'm reproducing below. But first, here are the projections from the ...

Here's what the PredictIt US Presidential Race market shows after last night's debate: PredictIt is a market where buy and sell ...

 A human brain (average size 1,300 grams) versus a dolphin brain (1,600 g). However   "The human brain has a far more developed hippoca...

From a site called the Institute for Environmental Analytics : So that's a pH change of about -0.075 in 40 years, or an average of -0.01...

There's an article in JAMA ( Journal of the American Medical Association ) titled "As Extreme Heat Becomes More Common, the Unprec...

 Here's the monthly data , just updated with August's number: Source : Solar Influences Data Analysis Center, Royal Observatory of B...

finir There's no point anymore. I will delete this blog in a few days. I would really like to be done with this and just stop ...

The last couple of weeks for the current year are always subject to changes (increases). I'm not going to start wearing a mask yet , but...

I didn't expect this, but world per capita emissions peaked in 2012, according to OurWorldInData : Notably this doesn't include...

Here's a plot of NOAA's annual global temperature (anomaly) versus the annual change in atmospheric CO2 as measured at Mauna Loa Obs...

"They left, saying they would return after five o'clock if they received permission to prune, and on their way out they muddied the...

"9 Things Musk and Trump Said About Climate Change, Annotated: In a conversation on X, Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk spoke for a bit a...

An interesting article that just came out: "The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s: It wasn't ju...

The Hunga Tonga volcano , the underwater volcano that erupted in January 2022 and has been blamed for the recent warming spike, crop failure...