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September 12, 2026Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
January 14, 2026The Arctic Is Changing: The John Franklin Expedition
November 8, 2025Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements
September 13, 2025All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
May 18, 2024Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
October 15, 2023Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
August 19, 2023The “Out of the Mouth of Babes” Proverb Shows the Wisdom of Youth and Helps in Our Fight Against Climate Chaos
July 25, 2023Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
February 15, 2022Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
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
April 15, 2021Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
December 13, 2019Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
September 15, 2019Climate Change and Losses
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
January 10, 2019Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
July 15, 2018Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
March 4, 2017Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
February 5, 2017Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
April 3, 2016In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
March 6, 2016Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
December 3, 2015“The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
August 15, 2015“Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
March 2, 2015Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
November 15, 2014War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning ItSeptember 7, 2014Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
July 13, 2014Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
July 25, 2013Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
October 15, 2012Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
July 15, 2012Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
March 15, 2012We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
December 15, 2011Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
October 15, 2011The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
November 15, 2010Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
May 15, 2010Antarctica: the pole apart
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
January 15, 2010Ozone: It's more than just a gas
December 15, 2009Permafrost and methane - a chilling story
November 15, 2009Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeMay 15, 2009Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II