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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
56 columns on Forests
July 9, 2026The Arctic: Climate Change is Changing the Chemistry … and More
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
November 8, 2025Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements
June 14, 2025Planet Earth is Still Warming and the Effects Are Obvious
December 15, 2024Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
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
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”
March 15, 2023Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
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
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, 2020Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
November 15, 2019Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
July 15, 2016Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
August 15, 2015“Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
February 1, 2015Trees Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air and Help Moderate Earth’s Climate
November 15, 2014War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning ItSeptember 7, 2014Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
May 4, 2014Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
October 7, 2013Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
September 15, 2013Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
April 8, 2013Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
March 15, 2013We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
December 15, 2012Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
February 15, 2012Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
April 15, 2011Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
December 15, 2010Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
October 15, 2010Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
September 15, 2010Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
December 15, 2009Permafrost and methane - a chilling story
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate change
July 15, 2009The carbon dioxide story - cont'dJune 15, 2009Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?May 15, 2009Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II