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August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
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
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
July 12, 2025Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
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
March 22, 2024Sea Surface Temperatures are High: Good Chance for Another Record Weather Year
February 10, 2024F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
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
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
December 11, 2021Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
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
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
March 31, 2020There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
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
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
July 2, 2017Climate Change: Let’s Cool it and Talk About Ice
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
February 5, 2017Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
November 1, 2015A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
October 7, 2013Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
August 5, 2013Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
July 25, 2013Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
May 6, 2013Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
February 15, 2013Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
April 15, 2012Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
November 15, 2011The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
May 15, 2011Earth's climate system: a study in process
December 15, 2010Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle