Early Warning

Kevin Drum sounds a little bit down in the mouth : If you were teaching a graduate seminar in public policy and challenged your students t...

Chinese leader's family now worth billions .  Amazing investigative piece by NYT - wonder how this news will go down in China? Iran ha...

Automation and globalization central to US middle class decline .  These issues have been much discussed on this blog; good to see them bec...

Is the eastern US cooling in winter due to global warming? Tar sands extraction not so pretty . British supermarkets starting to sell ...

China trying to fix US election as well as currency? Winners and losers in the US natural gas boom. "Although the bankers made a lo...

Are we losing interest in the Eurozone crisis? Visualizing the US drought from satellite gravity measurements . How and why some folks a...

The above map shows the fraction of new houses that are Energy Star rated according to the EIA .  Overall, 26% of new construction is ene...

Declining northern hemisphere snow cover .  Note that the decline is mainly in spring/summer/fall - December snow cover has actually increa...

Human impact  of the US drought (recent map above). Currency plunge in Iran - capital flight -  riots in the streets  - trade with Iran ...