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60 results for “Our World in Data”
August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
January 14, 2026The Arctic Is Changing: The John Franklin Expedition
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
May 17, 2025With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
March 15, 2025Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find
February 25, 2025The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
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
July 15, 2024We Have Been Through Energy Transitions Before
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
April 14, 2024Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
February 10, 2024F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
October 15, 2023Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
September 15, 2023This and That; Climate Chaos Has Many Fronts
July 25, 2023Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
June 11, 2023Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
September 15, 2022Transportation and the Transition Revolution
July 15, 2022It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
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
March 14, 2022Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
November 18, 2021Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
October 15, 2021Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
April 15, 2021Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
March 13, 2021Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
January 15, 2021We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
September 15, 2020Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
February 15, 2020Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
January 10, 2019Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
November 11, 2018Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
July 15, 2018Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
February 1, 2018Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
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
March 6, 2016Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
January 3, 2016“History is a Race Between Education and Catastrophe”: Climate Change