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August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
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.
June 14, 2025Planet Earth is Still Warming and the Effects Are Obvious
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
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”
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
March 15, 2023Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
October 8, 2022Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
March 31, 2020There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
February 15, 2020Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
January 10, 2019Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
August 12, 2018Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
February 1, 2018Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
April 3, 2016In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
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?
December 7, 2014Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
November 15, 2014War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
July 13, 2014Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
September 15, 2013Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
March 15, 2012We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
February 15, 2012Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
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
January 15, 2010Ozone: It's more than just a gas
November 15, 2009Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?May 15, 2009Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II