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Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
46 columns on The grid
September 12, 2026Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
June 13, 2026He Is on The Way - El-Nino That Is
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
September 13, 2025All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
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
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
November 15, 2023Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
October 15, 2023Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
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.”
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
June 14, 2022Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
December 11, 2021Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
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
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
July 11, 2020Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
April 13, 2020Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
December 3, 2017Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
May 1, 2015Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
October 5, 2014Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe Not
July 13, 2014Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
May 4, 2014Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
May 6, 2013Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
October 15, 2012Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
March 15, 2012We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future