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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
109 columns on Extreme weather
October 10, 2026We All Love Records of Some Sort: But Newer Climate Ones Are Not So Good
September 12, 2026Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
August 9, 2025Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
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
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
March 15, 2025Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
December 15, 2024NOAA's 2024 Arctic Report Card says tundra is now a net source of carbon to the atmosphere
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
June 15, 2024Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
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
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
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
September 15, 2022Transportation and the Transition Revolution
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
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
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
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
November 15, 2020Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
July 11, 2020Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
May 8, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
February 15, 2020Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
December 13, 2019Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
October 15, 2019Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
January 10, 2019Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
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
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
May 13, 2018“Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
April 2, 2017Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
August 15, 2016Climate Change: The Story Continues
July 15, 2016Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
December 3, 2015“The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
October 4, 2015Climate Change, What Me Worry?
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?
June 15, 2015Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
May 1, 2015Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global WarmingSeptember 7, 2014Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
August 4, 2014“The Wind of Change is Blowing.....” Climate and Energy
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
April 5, 2014The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
February 12, 2014With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
September 15, 2013Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
August 5, 2013Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
July 25, 2013Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
April 8, 2013Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
March 15, 2013We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
February 15, 2013Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
November 15, 2012Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
August 15, 2012Carbon and Its Compounds Have Many Properties
May 15, 2012Climate change no longer a puzzle
February 15, 2012Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
November 15, 2011The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current MeaningJuly 15, 2011Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
September 15, 2010Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
July 15, 2010Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
May 15, 2010Antarctica: the pole apart
March 15, 2010The sun: driver of all weather
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate change