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Raymond N. Johnson’s monthly column, also in the Press-Republican. Every column since 2009. Also on Substack →
47 columns on Wind power
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
March 14, 2026Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
February 14, 2026Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
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
April 10, 2025Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
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
April 8, 2023Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
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?
April 29, 2022Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
March 14, 2022Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
May 8, 2021Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
February 13, 2021Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
January 15, 2021We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
August 7, 2020Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
March 31, 2020There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
January 16, 2020Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
November 15, 2019Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
May 10, 2019Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
February 15, 2019Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
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
December 3, 2017Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
November 15, 2017Climate Change and the Great Disruption
September 3, 2017Climate Change and Y2K
April 2, 2017Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
January 15, 2017Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
September 15, 2016Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
May 30, 2016Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
September 26, 2015Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
August 15, 2015“Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
December 7, 2014Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
June 1, 2014Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
December 1, 2013Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
July 25, 2013Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
June 8, 2013Climate Change: New Milestone Has Been Set
October 15, 2012Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
July 15, 2012Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
September 15, 2011Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
February 15, 2011Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change