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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
49 columns on Sea level
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
February 25, 2025The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away
November 12, 2024The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
May 18, 2024Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
July 25, 2023Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
February 10, 2023In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
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
March 13, 2021Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
June 11, 2020In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
December 13, 2019Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
April 17, 2019Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
October 11, 2018“That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
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!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
February 1, 2018Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
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
May 7, 2017Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
August 15, 2016Climate Change: The Story Continues
March 6, 2016Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
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”?
March 15, 2014Climate Change: Challenges in Getting the Big Picture
December 1, 2013Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
October 7, 2013Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
April 8, 2013Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
February 15, 2013Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
December 15, 2012Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
August 15, 2011Past Temperature Changes Have Current MeaningJuly 15, 2011Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
September 15, 2010Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
May 15, 2010Antarctica: the pole apart
February 15, 2010Separating the Seeds from the ChaffAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate changeJune 15, 2009Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?