ICSUSA Articles

ICSUSA Published Climate Change Newspaper Articles

These articles present evidence of climate change.  The intent of these articles is to present this information in a manner that facilitates an understanding of this complicated issue by the general public.  The author of these articles, Raymond N. Johnson, Ph.D., scientific career spanned 30 years in research and development as an organic/analytical chemist; he is currently founder and director of the Institute of Climate Studies USA (www.ICSUSA.org). Climate Science is published the first Sunday of every month both here on this site and in the Plattsburgh, New York newspaper Press-Republican.

The Institute of Climate Studies, based in Chazy, New York, was founded in 2008 as a noprofit (pending) organization.  The intent is to educate the public and encourage discussion of climate change, its impact on the North Country through research and peer-reviewed data presentations.

2012 ICSUSA Articles

• March 2012 - We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
• February 2012 - Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
• January 2012 - Leadership In the Face of Climate Change: Steady but Slow Progress

2011 ICSUSA Articles

• December 2011 - Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
• November 2011 - The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast 
• October 2011 - The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
• September 2011 - Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
• August 2011 - Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
• July 2011 - Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
• June 2011 - The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
• May 2011 - Earth's climate system: a study in process
• April 2011 Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerpring on Climate Change
• March 2011 - Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
• February 2011 - Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
• January 2011 - Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia

2010 ICSUSA Articles

• December 2010 - Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
• November 2010 - Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
• October 2010 - Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
• September 2010 - Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
• August 2010 - Coal consumption: carbondioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
• July 2010 - Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
• June 2010 - Earth's climate changes - a long story
• May 2010 - Antarctica: the pole apart
• April 2010 - Ice ages: They come and go - but why?
• March 2010 - The sun: driver of all weather, climate
• February 2010 - Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
• January 2010 - Ozone: It's more than just a gas

2009 ICSUSA Articles

• December 2009 - Permafrost and methane - a chilling story
• November 2009 - Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?
• October 2009 - Climate change in the Champlain Valley, Northeast
• September 2009 - Extreme weather events and connection to climate change
• August 2009 - Going north to discuss climate change
• July 2009 - The carbon dioxide story - cont'd
• June 2009 - Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?
• May 2009 - Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II
• April 2009 - Case of the disappearing ice - Part I