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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
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
June 14, 2025Planet Earth is Still Warming and the Effects Are Obvious
May 17, 2025With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
March 15, 2025Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
September 14, 2024Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
September 15, 2022Transportation and the Transition Revolution
May 12, 2022PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
April 29, 2022Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
September 12, 2021Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
June 9, 2021Maya Lin, Ghost Trees and Sea Level Rise
April 15, 2021Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
February 13, 2021Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
October 15, 2020The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
October 15, 2019Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
October 11, 2018“That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
February 5, 2017Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
March 6, 2016Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
August 15, 2015“Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
July 15, 2015Permanent Press and Permafrost: Are They Really Permanent?
May 1, 2015Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
February 1, 2015Trees Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air and Help Moderate Earth’s Climate
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
December 7, 2014Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
November 15, 2014War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
September 15, 2013Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
August 5, 2013Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
May 6, 2013Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
February 15, 2013Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
January 15, 2013Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
December 15, 2012Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
May 15, 2012Climate change no longer a puzzle
December 15, 2011Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
December 15, 2010Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
September 15, 2010Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
August 15, 2010Coal consumption: carbon dioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
June 15, 2010Earth's climate changes - a long story