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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
95 columns on How we know
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
June 13, 2026He Is on The Way - El-Nino That Is
May 9, 2026Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
January 14, 2026The Arctic Is Changing: The John Franklin Expedition
December 13, 2025Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
October 11, 2025And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
September 13, 2025All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
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
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
February 10, 2024F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
August 22, 2022Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
February 15, 2022Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
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
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
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
September 15, 2020Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
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
September 15, 2019Climate Change and Losses
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
November 11, 2018Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
August 12, 2018Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
June 9, 2018Leadership and Climate Change
February 1, 2018Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
October 7, 2017Climate Change: Carbon Diem
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
August 9, 2017Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
February 5, 2017Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
December 6, 2016Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
October 2, 2016Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
August 15, 2016Climate Change: The Story Continues
February 6, 2016Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
January 3, 2016“History is a Race Between Education and Catastrophe”: Climate Change
November 1, 2015A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
October 4, 2015Climate Change, What Me Worry?
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
June 15, 2015Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
December 7, 2014Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
August 4, 2014“The Wind of Change is Blowing.....” Climate and Energy
April 5, 2014The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
February 12, 2014With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
December 1, 2013Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
September 15, 2013Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
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
January 15, 2013Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
May 15, 2012Climate change no longer a puzzle
April 15, 2012Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
March 15, 2012We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current MeaningJuly 15, 2011Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
May 15, 2011Earth's climate system: a study in process
March 15, 2011Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
December 15, 2010Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
November 15, 2010Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
October 15, 2010Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
August 15, 2010Coal consumption: carbon dioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
July 15, 2010Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
June 15, 2010Earth's climate changes - a long story
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
November 15, 2009Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate changeJune 15, 2009Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?April 15, 2009Case of the disappearing ice - Part I