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August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
June 13, 2026He Is on The Way - El-Nino That Is
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
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
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
July 12, 2025Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
May 17, 2025With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
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
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
February 10, 2024F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
October 15, 2023Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
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
March 15, 2023Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
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
July 15, 2022It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
January 7, 2022Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With Climate Change?
November 18, 2021Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
July 15, 2021An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
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
January 15, 2021We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
November 15, 2020Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
April 13, 2020Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
August 12, 2018Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
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
December 3, 2015“The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
July 15, 2015Permanent Press and Permafrost: Are They Really Permanent?
June 15, 2015Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
May 1, 2015Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
April 5, 2014The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
February 12, 2014With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
December 1, 2013Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
August 5, 2013Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
July 25, 2013Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
March 15, 2013We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
February 15, 2013Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
January 15, 2013Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
November 15, 2012Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change