So I was playing more with the gasoline data . I added two more lines: yellow line is the latest price green line is what I call the "reverse average"; for any point on the x-axis, it's the av...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/more-about-gas-prices.html
My team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, sadly missed the NHL playoffs this year. They had a thrilling comeback in the last ten games but fell short due to lackadaisical play in the early and mid-season...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/top-five-goals.html
If you correct for inflation, the average price of gasoline in the US is about the same as in 2005 (when it bumped up due to Hurricane Katrina). And it's lower than the price during about half of...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/price-of-gas-is-not-high.html
Tonight the Pittsburgh #Penguins played their last game of the season. Despite an amazing charge at the end--they were 6-1-1 this month (wins-losses-overtime losses). Yesterday they were eliminat...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-why-hockey-is-best-sport.html
I've seen a couple zoomed-in pictures of solar flares during last week's eclipse, but this is the best I've seen so far: > 100x zoom on the solar eclipse > > byu/ArchontheWings > ...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/hip-eclipse-clip.html
Top left and clockwise: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and dBarack Obama This didn't happen, because, of course, US's Electoral College , whereby the president is elected by votes in ...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-last-30-years-if.html
> "It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we > admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, > understanding and feeling are the con...
In the US. From "Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision," JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), April 12, 2024: Conser...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/spike-in-tube-ties-and-vasectomies.html
From the NY Times : Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS has an article in a recent issue of Nature about how scientists can't explain the recordbreaking temperatures seen in the last nine months ...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/recordbreaking-atmospheric-ocean-heat.html
We were slated to get a peak solar eclipse of 22.4% blockage. Instead we got this: The nice thing about the 2017 total eclipse here in Oregon was that it happened in August, and in summer ...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-solar-eclipse-from-here-eclipse2024.html
There was a scary but touching moment in yesterday's Pittsburgh Penguins vs Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game. A referee and a Tamba Bay player collided head-on and blind, and both went down on the...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/players-respect-for-injured-referee.html
They used to say this couldn't be done. Though I would like to see the same numbers if you count production and service these countries have outsourced to other, less wealthy, more polluted coun...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/04/countries-that-have-uncoupled-co2.html
I just asked Siri (my iPhone) "when was Memorial Day in 1996?" She gave one of these "here are some options, check it out" useless responses so I quickly typed into Google on my PC's browser "M...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/03/things-are-listening.html
Just calculated that, when I was born, US population was only 54% of what it is today. World population was 38% of today's. Not really sure why, but these numbers make me kind of nostalgi...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/03/pop-cp-when-i-was-born.html
From an article about ice fishers in New England having to pull their bobhouses off the ice earlier than in the past: > “I had to help pull out a bob-house out that fell in thre...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-greenhouse-effect-strikes-again.html
$1 in compensatory damages from Steyn, $1 M in punitive damages. $1 in compensatory damages from Simberg, $1 K in punitive damages. NY Times: Michael Mann, a Leading Climate Scientist, Wi...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2024/02/breaking-michael-mann-wins-defamation.html
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/11/why-science-teachers-should-not-be.html
Copernicus: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/world/hottest-summer-record-climate-intl
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/09/warmest-summer-since-at-least-1940.html
UAH/Roy Spencer just published their temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere. It's the warmest August since their records start in 1979 (by 0.30°C!) and the 2nd-hottest month since 19...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/09/uah-second-warmest-month-in-their.html
China's working-age population has peaked. Not good news if you want continued national economic growth. Via The World Bank , via Paul Krugman in the NY Times . He writes: > "At a f...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/09/chinas-wap-decline.html
Roy Spencer usually publishes their temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere for the month just ended on the first of the month. But it's not published today . (As of Sept 1, 4:54 pm Cent...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/09/roy-spencers-temperature.html
By Joel Pett , 2009: From Wikipedia: > The cartoon, which first appeared in USA Today in December 2009, > around the time of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change > ...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/08/oldie-but-goodie.html
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 hockey season starts--three and a half weeks before the...
They're expensive. From CNN : > The Biden administration on Friday announced its first major > investment to kickstart the US carbon removal industry – something > energy�...
https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2023/08/bidens-carbon-capture-programs.html