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September 12, 2026Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
July 9, 2026The Arctic: Climate Change is Changing the Chemistry … and More
May 9, 2026Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
November 8, 2025Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements
May 17, 2025With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
February 25, 2025The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away
December 15, 2024Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
November 12, 2024The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
September 14, 2024Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
August 15, 2024New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
February 10, 2024F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
July 25, 2023Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
May 15, 2023Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
February 10, 2023In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
June 14, 2022Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
December 11, 2021Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
November 18, 2021Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
September 12, 2021Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
May 8, 2021Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
April 15, 2021Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
October 15, 2020The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
September 15, 2020Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
March 9, 2019Climate Change and The Power of One
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
August 12, 2018Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
July 15, 2018Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
July 2, 2017Climate Change: Let’s Cool it and Talk About Ice
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
December 6, 2016Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
July 15, 2016Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
December 3, 2015“The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
October 5, 2014Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe Not
November 15, 2012Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
July 15, 2012Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
April 15, 2012Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
January 15, 2012Leadership In the Face of Climate Change: Steady but Slow Progress
October 15, 2011The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
April 15, 2011Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
July 15, 2010Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
May 15, 2010Antarctica: the pole apart
March 15, 2010The sun: driver of all weather
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeApril 15, 2009Case of the disappearing ice - Part I