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Climate Science
Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
110 columns on Solar power
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
April 12, 2026Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
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
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
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
March 15, 2025Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find
January 15, 2025Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
November 12, 2024The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
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
May 18, 2024Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
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
January 19, 2024“Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
November 15, 2023Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
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”
June 11, 2023Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
May 15, 2023Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
February 10, 2023In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
January 15, 2023A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
December 15, 2022Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
November 12, 2022Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
August 22, 2022Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
July 15, 2022It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
June 14, 2022Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
April 29, 2022Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
March 14, 2022Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
February 15, 2022Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
August 15, 2021Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
July 15, 2021An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
February 13, 2021Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
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
February 15, 2020Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
September 15, 2019Climate Change and Losses
August 15, 2019Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
December 9, 2018Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
November 11, 2018Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
October 11, 2018“That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
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!”
April 8, 2018ERoEI and Climate Change
March 1, 2018Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
December 3, 2017Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
March 4, 2017Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
February 5, 2017Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
December 6, 2016Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
August 15, 2016Climate Change: The Story Continues
May 30, 2016Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
November 1, 2015A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
March 2, 2015Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
January 4, 2015The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
October 5, 2014Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe NotSeptember 7, 2014Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
July 13, 2014Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
May 4, 2014Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
April 5, 2014The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
January 15, 2014Solar: One of Many Renewable Solutions for Our Energy Needs
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
May 6, 2013Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
April 8, 2013Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
March 15, 2013We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
January 15, 2013Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
October 15, 2012Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
September 15, 2012A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
July 15, 2012Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
December 15, 2011Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 15, 2011Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
December 15, 2010Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
November 15, 2010Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
September 15, 2010Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
July 15, 2010Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
June 15, 2010Earth's climate changes - a long story
April 15, 2010Ice ages: They come and go - but why?
March 15, 2010The sun: driver of all weather
September 15, 2009Extreme weather events and connection to climate changeAugust 15, 2009Going north to discuss climate changeApril 15, 2009Case of the disappearing ice - Part I