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September 12, 2026Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
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
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
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
February 25, 2025The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away
November 12, 2024The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
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
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
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”
May 15, 2023Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
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
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
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?
May 12, 2022PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
January 7, 2022Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With Climate Change?
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
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
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
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
February 15, 2019Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
November 11, 2018Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
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
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
February 1, 2018Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
December 3, 2017Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
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