ICSUSA Articles
Institute of Climate Studies original articles about Climate Change by Raymond Johnson, PhD
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 and its impact through article publications, research, and presentations of peer-reviewed data.
- 2024 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2024 - Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
- November 2024 - The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
- October 2024 - Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
- September 2024 - Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
- August 2024 - New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
- July 2024 - We Have Been Through Energy Transitions Before
- June 2024 - Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
- May 2024 - Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
- April 2024 - Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
- March 2024 - Sea Surface Temperatures are High: Good Chance for Another Record Weather Year
- February 2024 - F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
- January 2024 - “Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
- 2023 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2023 - COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
- November 2023 - Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
- October 2023 - Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
- September 2023 - This and That; Climate Chaos Has Many Fronts
- August 2023 - The “Out of the Mouth of Babes” Proverb Shows the Wisdom of Youth and Helps in Our Fight Against Climate Chaos
- July 2023 - Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
- June 2023 - Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
- May 2023 - Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
- April 2023 - Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
- March 2023 - Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
- February 2023 - In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
- January 2023 - A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
- 2022 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2022 - Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
- November 2022 - Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
- October 2022 - Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
- September 2022 - Transportation and the Transition Revolution
- August 2022 - Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
- July 2022 - It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
- June 2022 - Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
- May 2022 - PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
- April 2022 - Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
- March 2022 - Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
- February 2022 - Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
- January 2022 - Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With Climate Change?
- 2021 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2021 - Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
- November 2021 - Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
- October 2021 - Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
- September 2021 - Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
- August 2021 - Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
- July 2021 - An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
- June 2021 - Maya Lin, Ghost Trees and Sea Level Rise
- May 2021 - Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
- April 2021 - Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
- March 2021 - Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
- February 2021 - Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
- January 2021 - We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
- 2020 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2020 - Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
- November 2020 - Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
- October 2020 - The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
- September 2020 - Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
- August 2020 - Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
- July 2020 - Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
- June 2020 - In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
- May 2020 - Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
- April 2020 - Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
- March 2020 - There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
- February 2020 - Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
- January 2020 - Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
- 2019 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2019 - Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
- November 2019 - Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
- October 2019 - Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
- September 2019 - Climate Change and Losses
- August 2019 - Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
- July 2019 - Climate Change and the Irony of it all
- June 2019 - Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
- May 2019 - Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
- April 2019 - Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
- March 2019 - Climate Change and The Power of One
- February 2019 - Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
- January 2019 - Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
- 2018 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2018 - Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
- November 2018 - Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
- October 2018 - “That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
- August 2018 - Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
- July 2018 - Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
- June 2018 - Leadership and Climate Change
- May 2018 - “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
- April 2018 - ERoEI and Climate Change
- March 2018 - Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
- February 2018 - Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
- January 2018 - The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
- 2017 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2017 - Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
- November 2017 - Climate Change and the Great Disruption
- October 2017 - Climate Change: Carbon Diem
- September 2017 - Climate Change and Y2K
- August 2017 - Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
- July 2017 - Climate Change: Let’s Cool it and Talk About Ice
- June 2017 - Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
- May 2017 - Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
- April 2017 - Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
- March 2017 - Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
- February 2017 - Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
- January 2017 - Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
- 2016 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2016 - Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
- November 2016 - Climate Change Changes Everything
- October 2016 - Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
- September 2016 - Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
- August 2016 - Climate Change: The Story Continues
- July 2016 - Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
- June 2016 - Climate Change and Ocean Impacts
- May 2016 - Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
- April 2016 - In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
- March 2016 - Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
- February 2016 - Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
- January 2016 - “History is a Race Between Education and Catastrophe”: Climate Change
- 2015 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2015 - “The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
- November 2015 - A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
- October 2015 - Climate Change, What Me Worry?
- September 2015 - Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
- August 2015 - “Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
- July 2015 - Permanent Press and Permafrost: Are They Really Permanent?
- June 2015 - Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
- May 2015 - Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
- April 2015 - The Arctic: Still Revealing Its Mystery
- March 2015 - Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
- February 2015 - Trees Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air and Help Moderate Earth’s Climate
- January 2015 - The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
- 2014 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2014 - Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
- November 2014 - War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
- october-2014---climate-change-mission-impossible-maybe-maybe-not
- September 2014 - Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
- August 2014 - “The Wind of Change is Blowing.....” Climate and Energy
- July 2014 - Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
- June 2014 - Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
- May 2014 - Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
- April 2014 - The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
- March 2014 - Climate Change: Challenges in Getting the Big Picture
- February 2014 - With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
- January 2014 - Solar: One of Many Renewable Solutions for Our Energy Needs
- 2013 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2013 - Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
- November 2013 - Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
- October 2013 - Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
- September 2013 - Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
- August 2013 - Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
- July 2013 - Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
- June 2013 - Climate Change: New Milestone Has Been Set
- May 2013 - Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
- April 2013 - Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
- March 2013 - We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
- February 2013 - Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
- January 2013 - Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
- 2012 ICSUSA ARTICLES
- December 2012 - Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
- November 2012 - Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
- October 2012 - Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
- September 2012 - A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
- August 2012 - Carbon and Its Compounds Have Many Properties
- July 2012 - Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
- June 2012 - Oceans Absorbing Lots of Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels: But it Comes With a Cost
- May 2012 - Climate change no longer a puzzle
- April 2012 - Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
- 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 Fingerprint 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: carbon dioxide 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
- 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