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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
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August 29, 2026Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
May 9, 2026Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
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
September 13, 2025All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
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
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
April 14, 2024Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
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
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
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
July 15, 2022It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
February 15, 2022Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
September 12, 2021Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
March 13, 2021Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
February 13, 2021Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
December 15, 2020Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
July 11, 2020Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
March 31, 2020There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
November 15, 2019Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
July 15, 2019Climate Change and the Irony of it all
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!”
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
March 4, 2017Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
November 6, 2016Climate Change Changes Everything
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
August 15, 2016Climate Change: The Story Continues
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
November 1, 2015A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
August 15, 2015“Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
June 15, 2015Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
March 2, 2015Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
February 12, 2014With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
December 1, 2013Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
November 3, 2013Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
August 5, 2013Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
May 6, 2013Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
March 15, 2013We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
January 15, 2013Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
November 15, 2012Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
October 15, 2012Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
August 15, 2012Carbon and Its Compounds Have Many Properties
May 15, 2012Climate change no longer a puzzle
March 15, 2012We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
January 15, 2012Leadership In the Face of Climate Change: Steady but Slow Progress
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
June 15, 2011The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
March 15, 2011Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
August 15, 2010Coal consumption: carbon dioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
July 15, 2010Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
May 15, 2010Antarctica: the pole apart
April 15, 2010Ice ages: They come and go - but why?
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
October 15, 2009Climate change in the Champlain Valley, Northeast
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate changeMay 15, 2009Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II