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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
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
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
July 12, 2025Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
June 14, 2025Planet Earth is Still Warming and the Effects Are Obvious
May 17, 2025With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
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
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
September 14, 2024Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
August 15, 2024New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
July 15, 2024We Have Been Through Energy Transitions Before
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
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
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
October 15, 2023Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
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
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
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?
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
November 18, 2021Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
September 12, 2021Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
July 15, 2021An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
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
January 15, 2021We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
December 15, 2020Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
November 15, 2020Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
October 15, 2020The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
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
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
December 13, 2019Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change