In response to Pres. Obama’s pledge to reduce carbon emissions, China proposed to reduce its “carbon intensity”. This concept simply means increasing energy efficiency in GDP, which just follows from what it means to be a developing country. (We need to reduce fossil carbon emissions, so both proposals are good, but don’t go far... »
Here’s a bit of local data on rainfall and runoff. The rainfall data comes from Durham’s NWS COOP Station No. 312515, and the Jordan Lake inflow data comes the Army Corps site for the reservoir. Here’s the daily rainfall for the last 10-11 years: So-called “best... »
Just to be clear, higher family income promotes better scores on standardized tests. Here I show data from North Carolina counties, plotting SAT scores versus family income, measured over the 100 counties: Overall, a pretty dramatic dependence. These data don’t really belong in “environmental inequity”,... »
