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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
July 9, 2026The Arctic: Climate Change is Changing the Chemistry … and More
June 13, 2026He Is on The Way - El-Nino That Is
May 9, 2026Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
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”
January 14, 2026The Arctic Is Changing: The John Franklin Expedition
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
September 13, 2025All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
July 12, 2025Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
December 15, 2024Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
September 14, 2024Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
August 15, 2024New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
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
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
November 15, 2023Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
September 15, 2023This and That; Climate Chaos Has Many Fronts
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”
June 11, 2023Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
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
October 8, 2022Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
September 15, 2022Transportation and the Transition Revolution
August 22, 2022Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
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
April 29, 2022Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
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
July 15, 2021An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
June 9, 2021Maya Lin, Ghost Trees and Sea Level Rise
May 8, 2021Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
March 13, 2021Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
February 13, 2021Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
December 15, 2020Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
November 15, 2020Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
September 15, 2020Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
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
April 13, 2020Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
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 [?]
December 13, 2019Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
November 15, 2019Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
October 15, 2019Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
September 15, 2019Climate Change and Losses
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption