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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 Batteries and storage
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
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
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
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
October 15, 2024Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
August 15, 2024New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
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
December 16, 2023COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
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
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
October 8, 2022Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
September 15, 2022Transportation and the Transition Revolution
May 12, 2022PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
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?
December 11, 2021Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
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
December 15, 2020Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
July 11, 2020Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
June 8, 2019Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
January 7, 2018The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
June 15, 2017Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
March 2, 2015Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
December 7, 2014Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
October 5, 2014Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe Not
April 15, 2012Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future