Good reads & charts - February 10, 2024
In this edition: The NFL! Arm! and going to the bathroom while summiting Everest. Plus, the G7 economies, Big Oil's profits and green spending.
Good reads & charts provides an assortment of interesting articles and data that I have come across recently that do not warrant a full article and might not be related to something I have previously discussed, but I feel are worth larger consumption.Another hot one.
January 2024 was the warmest January on record globally…This is the eighth month in a row that is the warmest on record for the respective month of the year….The month was 1.66°C warmer than an estimate of the January average for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period….The global mean temperature for the past twelve months (Feb 2023 – Jan 2024) is the highest on record…1.52°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Source: In 2024, the world experienced the warmest January on record (Copernicus)
It’s sorta like the Tiger Slam or Serena Slam, but not quite as cool (literally).
The least surprising news ever
Sure, baseball is “America’s pastime”, but this Super Bowl weekend, it is pretty clear that football is America’s present. And honestly, I’m surprised the numbers in the below survey aren’t more lopsided towards football.
Source: By a wide margin, Americans say football – not baseball – is ‘America’s sport’ (Pew Research Center)
I sure hope you bought some Arm stock when it IPO’d…
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