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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
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
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.
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
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
May 18, 2024Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
March 22, 2024Sea Surface Temperatures are High: Good Chance for Another Record Weather Year
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
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”
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
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
July 15, 2022It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
June 14, 2022Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
May 12, 2022PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
February 15, 2022Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
January 7, 2022Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With 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
October 15, 2021Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
May 8, 2021Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
January 15, 2021We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
July 11, 2020Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
February 15, 2020Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
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
November 11, 2018Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
October 11, 2018“That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
December 3, 2017Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
April 2, 2017Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
March 4, 2017Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
May 30, 2016Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
May 1, 2015Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
March 2, 2015Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
November 15, 2014War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
October 5, 2014Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe Not
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
May 4, 2014Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
April 5, 2014The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
June 8, 2013Climate Change: New Milestone Has Been Set