April 2023

Earth’s Energy Imbalance Hansen and Sato 12-2022 Report

Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Climate Response Time (mailchi.mp) Short erm and long term response to a doubling in CO2, note logarithmic scale. LS  

Public Health, Data, Laws, and Rules

End of data sharing could make Covid-19 harder to control, experts and high-risk patients warn | CNN   Perhaps we will need a Constitutional Amendment to allow for federal data collection and or adequate public health rules and…

Public Health, Covid-19 Evolution and the Dearth of New and Needed Responces

COVID will eventually evade Paxlovid, Deborah Birx says | Fortune Well

Climate Change in US Western Forests PNAS 3/2023

Climate change, tree demography, and thermophilization in western US forests (pnas.org) US forests are failing to keep up with climate change, finds study (phys.org)

Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River in AZ With a Condor, Photos by Damon Deru

Horseshoe Bend (Arizona) – Wikipedia Meander – Wikipedia    

NM Petroglyphs

Petroglyph National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) Three Rivers Petroglyph Site | Bureau of Land Management (blm.gov)  

Possible Increase in Parkinsons from Long Covid-19

Why long COVID could be a ticking time bomb for public health | Salon.com

NYC Cost of Living

Half of NYC residents can’t afford to live in the city anymore: report (fastcompany.com)

Gentrification in the US West

In Montana, an Avalanche of Wealth Is Displacing Workers – In These Times The Vail-ification of the West – In These Times

On the Rise of Fungal Infections

Putting the “Fun” in Fungal Apocalypse – Ko-fi ❤️ Where creators get support from fans through donations, memberships, shop sales and more! The original ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ Page.

Valley Fever, Now and With Climate Change

Fungal infections: How climate change is advancing cases of Valley fever – Vox Expansion of Coccidioidomycosis Endemic Regions in the United States in Response to Climate Change – PMC (nih.gov)

El Norte

The American Madrassas

Fully 50% who profess to attend a religious service in the USA on a weekly basis support Christian Nationalism. LS PRRI In previous polling it was found that those who claim to attend religious services on a regular basis in the USA are…

Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah

Map of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (doi.gov) Utah – Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument | Bureau of Land Management (blm.gov) Grand_Staircase-big.jpg (1700×483) (wikimedia.org) How was the Grand Staircase…

The Slide of Democracy

Autocracy Is Winning – The Atlantic

US Food Prices as a Percent of Disposable Income Since 1950

U.S. household food expenditure – HumanProgress USDA ERS – Food Prices and Spending In 2021, U.S. consumers spent an average of 10.3 percent of their disposable personal income on food—divided between food at home (5.2…

Vermillion Cliffs, a Portion of the Grand Staircase

Grand Staircase – Wikipedia Vermilion Cliffs National Monument – Wikipedia Vermilion Cliffs – Wikipedia Lees Ferry – Wikipedia   How was the Grand Staircase Formed? – Canyons and Chefs    

Bird Declines in the Anthropocene

Taxonomic List of On-Alert and Tipping Point Species – State of the Birds 2022 Three Billion Birds Lost 1 in 4 breeding birds have been lost from the United States and Canada in the past 50 years.  

Trophic Rewilding

The Proud Holobionts: Trophic Rewilding: A Cure for a sick Planet?

Covid-19 and Mental Health Outcomes

St. Louis research warns of mental health crisis from COVID-19 | ksdk.com

US Malnutrition Deaths May be Trending Up

The Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Has Accelerated | KFF Health News

Poverty and Premature Death in the USA JAMA

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Cicerone’s Van

America’s Most Endangered Rivers 2023 Report

AR_2023-Most-Endangered-Rivers_lowres-3.pdf (americanrivers.org)

Plant Intelligence

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Last Words of Suicidal Men

A Researcher Studied The Most Common Last Words Of Suicidal Men | by Carlyn Beccia | Invisible Illness | Apr, 2023 | Medium According to a 2021 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics study, 30% of wives now earn more than their husbands. But as…

Uto Aztecan Language Family Distribution

US Elevation Map

Mental Health Status of the World Report 2022

Mental-State-of-the-World-2022.pdf (mentalstateoftheworld.report)

Public Health and the Security of Public Health Labor Force

Attacks on Scientists and Health Professionals During the Pandemic: Proceedings of a Symposium – in Brief | Attacks on Scientists and Health Professionals During the Pandemic: Proceedings of a Symposium—in Brief |The National…

Scaling Laws

The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization | Journal of Experimental Biology | The Company of Biologists

New Zoning Laws for Colorado?

Legislative Proposal in Colorado Aims to Tackle Urban Sprawl, a Housing Shortage and Climate Change All at Once – Inside Climate News

Slot Canyons in Southern UT

Hiking Slot Canyons | Best Hikes Utah | Visit Utah

The New Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in NV

Avi Kwa Ame National Monument | Bureau of Land Management (blm.gov)  

Covid-19 and Healthcare Workers

Study notes high rate of COVID-infected healthcare workers still caring for patients | CIDRAP (umn.edu)

Possible Earth System Trajectories in the Anthropocene, PNAS

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (pnas.org)

Prostate Cancer, Microbiome and Food

The Possible Microbiome-Prostate Cancer Connection (healthcentral.com)

Violent Crime Rate by County

Violent crime is down overall in America, but many communities have actually seen increasing rates  (dwcdn.net) File:Violent Crime Rate by U.S. state.svg – Wikimedia Commons

Property Crime Rate by State

REV_Property-Crime-Rate-by-State_Map-3-1024×768.png (1024×768) (reviews.org)   Since the vast majority of reported crime is property crime, and I have not found a property crime map by county, I am providing this total crime…

Domestic Violence in the USA

Domestic Violence by State 2023 (worldpopulationreview.com)

The Distant Past Determines Todays Global Rate of Energy Consumption?

esd-13-1021-2022.pdf (copernicus.org)  

Long Covid in OH Children

Hospitals Intensify Efforts to Treat Long COVID in Kids and Teens | Healthiest Communities Health News | U.S. News (usnews.com)

Ranked Democracy Index of the US 50 States and DC

Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

1000+ Peer Reviewed Studies on Covid-19

CovidStudies | Zotero

Covid-19 and Evolutionary Pressure

Within-host genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 lineages in unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals | Nature Communications

More Erratic Winter Weather Ahead

Researchers correlate Arctic warming to extreme winter weather in midlatitude and its future: Study shows that melting Arctic ice may lead to unpredictable winter weather across the globe — ScienceDaily

Adam Smith on a Cognitive Bias

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”…

Long Covid Reseach Needed

We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID – Scientific American

Public Health is Becoming Less Popular

Did Republican state senators block a meningitis vaccine mandate for Wisconsin children? – Wisconsin Watch

Plants can Make sounds When Hurt

Plants Make Sounds When Hurt, Scientists Confirm, And Now You Can Hear It (vice.com)

Repeat Covid-19 Infections

(1) T. Ryan Gregory on Twitter: “Here’s why I reject the notion that early and repeated childhood viral infections are an inevitable aspect of normal human biology, or necessary to build up immunity, or a “good…

On the Increase in Narcissism in the USA

The Increase in Narcissism in College Students – Owlcation

Is Alzheimer’s an Autoimmune Disease?

Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Expert Says : ScienceAlert

A Law School Graduate Opposing the Rule of Law

DeSantis: Florida won’t cooperate with Trump extradition | The Hill This Harvard Law School graduate tweeted that he is opposed to the US Constitutional requirement of extradition between states on 3-30. Also signaled that his lack of…

Treason/Quid Pro Quo, Ronald Reagan, Bush and “Democracy”

Reagan’s Treason: October Surprise and the $23 Million Payoff – Greg Palast

US College Dropout Rates

The “Pathways to Prosperity” study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2011 shows that just 56 percent of college students complete four-year degrees within six years. Only 29 percent of those who start two-year…

Domestic Violence and Female Income

Domestic violence increases in heterosexual couples when the woman earns more money (phys.org)

Covid-19 Drug Resistance

Study finds evidence of resistance to COVID-19 drugs (medicalxpress.com)

Income and Life Expectancy Before Covid-19. Financial Times data

Why are Americans dying so young? | Financial Times (ft.com) The USA was 69th in Health Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE) in 2019. List of countries by life expectancy – Wikipedia The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in…

Recent Record US Western Drought/Heatwave

1,000-Plus Years of Tree Rings Confirm Historic Extremity of 2021 Western North America Heat Wave (columbia.edu)