School segregation between Black and white students has returned to 1968 levels.
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“Fires per 100,000 vehicles sold
- EVs: 25 fires
- Petrol/diesel: 1,530 fires
- Hybrid: 3,475 fires”

'Michael Mann and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected' via #PennToday (Penn Arts & Sciences Mann Research Group) @Penn News: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/2024-trop…

Biggest takeaway? USDA's testing policy is creating misleading surveillance for H5N1. Instead of testing to help protect farm workers and to detect worrisome viral changes, it feels like we're shining the dimmest light possible in hopes of not finding infections in cows.

Overall, Americans drive 30 percent less than government forecasts anticipated in 2002.

It seems like a combination of
- slowing population growth
- miles driven per capita suddenly flatlined in the 2000s after decades of steady increase

One way to see just how truly 'gobsmackingly bananas' North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are right now is to remove the 'less anomalous' year 2023 from the graph.

This just looks impossible in real life.

Incredible graph showing that change in cancer survival rates, (via Scott Alexander, by @ourworldindata). The 'War on Cancer' hasn't been won, but humanity is (too) slowly winning

⁦Brian Deese⁩ recently calculated that providing GLP-1 drugs for all Americans with obesity could soon cost $1 trillion annually. That would make semaglutide more expensive than the US military. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

Such beautiful numbers! ❤️

“Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children under 5 years, of whom 101 million were infants.

For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10·2 billion years

In China, EV sales have quadrupled in four years. Chinese EVs now account for about two thirds of all global EV sales.

Great Barrier Reef, 2024: “The condition of the reef was really appalling, with much of the coral either fluorescing (stressed), bleached or already dead and covered in macro algae.”

Informative thread below. The problem is federal and state animal health officials are not turning over cases as aggressively as human health officials would, because they’re balancing economic concerns about impacts to farmers. So, ultimately Congress and Biden Admin needs to

Blackouts could trigger an extreme heat Katrina: A study last year estimated that if power went out in Phoenix for two days during a heat wave, 789,600 people would require emergency department care and 12,800 people would die.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

“Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years. High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones including hurricanes, accounted for 80% of all power interruptions over the last 20 years.” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

'We have the ability in ERCOT to connect dispatchable resources faster than any place else in the country. Batteries, I believe, are going to respond and start to fill in a lot of that,' [ERCOT CEO Pablo] Vegas said.'
houstonchronicle.com/business/energ…

Impressive that this AI-generated 'quick facts' box Google threw up when I searched for 'the 7 Years War' says that the UK lost the war, which is both wrong and not in the Britannica article that is its apparent source. Hope kids don't rely on this junk for their homework!

“Even with Chinese growth slowing into the longer term to the 3% range, the country would still be adding a Brazil or South Korea to the global economy every other year.”

New @wmo on the consequences of extreme heat in Europe: 'Heat-related mortality has increased by around 30% in the past 20 years and heat-related deaths are estimated to have increased in 94% of the European regions monitored.'

wmo.int/news/media-cen…

No matter if you love or hate Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), I think it is quite fair to say that it is one technology which has never lived up to expectations...

Blue: current capture capacity
Purple: Net Zero 2050 pathways

iea.org/topics/cop28-t…

'2024 is virtually certain to be either the warmest or second-warmest year on record,' at 1.5C above preindustrial level, writes Zeke Hausfather on Carbon Brief

He says if 2024 heat ends like 2023, we might be entering 'unchartered territory' for the climate

carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-c…