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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
May 9, 2026Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
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
November 8, 2025Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
July 12, 2025Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
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
December 15, 2024Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
November 12, 2024The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
August 15, 2024New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
May 18, 2024Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
April 14, 2024Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
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
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.”
February 10, 2023In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
October 8, 2022Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
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
March 14, 2022Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
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
October 15, 2021Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
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
April 15, 2021Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
March 13, 2021Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
November 15, 2020Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
October 15, 2020The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
March 31, 2020There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
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
September 15, 2019Climate Change and Losses
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
February 15, 2019Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
October 11, 2018“That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
August 12, 2018Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
July 15, 2018Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change