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- 2009–2026
2026
14 items- We All Love Records of Some Sort: But Newer Climate Ones Are Not So Good
- Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data
- A Research Strategy for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal and Sequestration
- CO/2 Reduction Newsletter — Week Ending September 12, 2026
- Transitions Often Brings Out Creativity, New Ideas and Solutions
- CO/2 Reduction Newsletter — Week Ending September 5, 2026
- Transitions are Messy and Our Move to Renewables is no Exception
- The Arctic: Climate Change is Changing the Chemistry … and More
- June 2026 He Is on The Way - El-Nino That Is
- Climate, Renewables, War: Trying to Make Sense of it All
- Stable Climate: In Balance; Today: Imbalanced
- Renewables and Electrification: Still Going Strong Everywhere
- Climate Science: “Rise of the Renewables”
- The Arctic Is Changing: The John Franklin Expedition
2025
18 items- Weather, Climate and Atmospheric Rivers
- Our Planet Earth is Rare and So Are Many of its Elements
- And The Renewable Energy Story Continues: It is Unstoppable
- Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare (2025)
- All Things Electric: Ferries, Buses, Cars. It’s Happening; Now.
- Flash Drought, Heat Domes and More
- Sophie’s Planet - James Hansen
- Toxic tides: Centuries-old mercury is flooding the arctic food chain
- Despite Catastrophic Flooding, Drought Persists in Parts of Central Texas
- Accelerated glacial melt and monsoon rains trigger deadly floods in Pakistan
- Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’
- Extreme Weather, Climate Change, Global Warming: It is Here
- Planet Earth is Still Warming and the Effects Are Obvious
- With Warming Climate, Planting Zones Are Changing: Animals Are Noticing Too
- Renewable Energy; Good News, Really!
- Climate News and Weather Forecasts, but Climate Data May Be Hard to Find
- The Data Still Stands: Unlike Ice It Will Not Melt Away
- Information and Individuals Matter; and More Progress
2024
14 items- Counting the Cost 2024 A year of climate breakdown
- Earth’s Climate System: Complex, But Our Understanding Grows
- NOAA's 2024 Arctic Report Card says tundra is now a net source of carbon to the atmosphere
- The Oceans, Their Complexity and Their Major Role in Earth’s Climate
- Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
- Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
- New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
- We Have Been Through Energy Transitions Before
- Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
- Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
- Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
- Sea Surface Temperatures are High: Good Chance for Another Record Weather Year
- F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
- “Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
2023
16 items- COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
- Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
- Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
- This and That; Climate Chaos Has Many Fronts
- The “Out of the Mouth of Babes” Proverb Shows the Wisdom of Youth and Helps in Our Fight Against Climate Chaos
- Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
- Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
- 2022 Weather Power Year in Review
- Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
- A conversation with Ray Johnson: Recent Climate Data, the Energy Transition, IPCC Report and More.Apr. 12th at noon on Zoom
- Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
- 2023 IPCC Report
- Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
- Resources For the Future Annual Report 2022
- In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
- A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
2022
15 items- Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
- COP27: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh
- Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
- Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
- Transportation and the Transition Revolution
- Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
- It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
- Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
- PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
- Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
- Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
- 2022 Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States Report
- Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
- Weather Power tool
- Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With Climate Change?
2021
18 items- 2021 Climate Change in the Irish Mind Report
- Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
- 2020-2021 ANNUAL REPORT Energy. Transformed. 2020-2021 Annual Report features the progress on the global energy transition.
- Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
- Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
- Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
- Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
- An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
- Maya Lin, Ghost Trees and Sea Level Rise
- Ray Johnson Q/A at the SUNY Plattsburgh's Ethics Institute
- REPORT: Net Zero by 2050
- Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
- Ray Johnson Climate Science Presentation
- Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
- At-Home Water Conservation Starter Links
- Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
- Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
- We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
2020
13 items- Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
- Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
- The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
- Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
- Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
- Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
- In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
- Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
- Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
- Climate scientist and Ethics Institute senior scholar discuss Ethics in a time of plague: a capsule conversation on public good vs. private good
- There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
- Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
- Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
2019
22 items- Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
- Arctic Report Card: Update for 2019
- Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
- Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
- Climate Change and Losses
- Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
- Climate Change and the Irony of it all
- Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
- Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
- Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
- Climate Change and The Power of One
- Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference
- Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
- 2019 Climate change is roasting the Himalaya region, threatening millions
- 2019 Carbon Free Boston Report
- 2019 How Fast Are the Oceans Warming?
- Leveraging Sustainable Finance Leadership in Canada
- 2018 New Insights in Climate Science online Report
- Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
- Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II 2018 Northeast
- 2018 Arctic Report Card and Handout
- Bill McKibben talks at Plattsburgh United Methodist Church
2018
20 items- Science@30City on Clean Technologies and Climate Change
- Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
- Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
- “That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
- Domino-effect of climate events could move Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
- Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth's Climate
- Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
- The Economics of Electrifying Homes
- Leadership and Climate Change
- Tracking Clean Energy Progress
- “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
- To The Ends of the Earth
- ERoEI and Climate Change
- Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
- Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
- Carbon-free City Handbook
- DHSS publishes comprehensive report on health impacts of climate change
- Why People Ignore the Science Behind the Climate Crisis (and What You Can Do)
- The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2017
24 items- Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
- Halting Hades Film released
- New Study: 100% Renewable Electricity worldwide is Feasible and More Cost-Effective than the Existing System
- Climate Change and the Great Disruption
- Interactive World Map of Geoengineering Experiments
- Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability
- Accelerating innovation in China's solar, wind and energy storage sectors
- Tony Seba: Clean Disruption - Energy & Transportation
- US STATES, CITIES AND BUSINESSES KEEP US CLIMATE ACTION ON TRACK
- Climate Change: Carbon Diem
- Climate Change and Y2K
- Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
- Learning about climate change can help youth become active global citizens
- Climate Change: Let’s Cool it and Talk About Ice
- Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
- Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
- Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
- Carbon Dioxide Removal/Negative Emissions Technology Workshop
- Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
- Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016
- Outcomes of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Marrakech
- Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (2017)
- Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
- Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
2016
14 items- Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments: Proceedings of a Workshop (2016)
- Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change
- Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
- Climate Change Changes Everything
- Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
- Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
- Climate Change: The Story Continues
- Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
- Climate Change and Ocean Impacts
- Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
- In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
- Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
- Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
- “History is a Race Between Education and Catastrophe”: Climate Change
2015
12 items- “The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
- A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
- Climate Change, What Me Worry?
- Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
- “Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
- Permanent Press and Permafrost: Are They Really Permanent?
- Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
- Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
- The Arctic: Still Revealing Its Mystery
- Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
- Trees Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air and Help Moderate Earth’s Climate
- The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
2014
12 items- Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
- War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
- Climate Change Mission Impossible? Maybe, Maybe Not
- Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
- “The Wind of Change is Blowing.....” Climate and Energy
- Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
- Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
- Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
- The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
- Climate Change: Challenges in Getting the Big Picture
- With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
- Solar: One of Many Renewable Solutions for Our Energy Needs
2013
12 items- Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
- Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
- Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
- Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
- Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
- Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
- Climate Change: New Milestone Has Been Set
- Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
- Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
- We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
- Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
- Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
2012
12 items- Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
- Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
- Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
- A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
- Carbon and Its Compounds Have Many Properties
- Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
- Oceans Absorbing Lots of Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels: But it Comes With a Cost
- Climate change no longer a puzzle
- Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
- We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
- Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
- Leadership In the Face of Climate Change: Steady but Slow Progress
2011
12 items- Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
- The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
- The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
- Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
- Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
- Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
- The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
- Earth's climate system: a study in process
- Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
- Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
- Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
- Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
2010
12 items- Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
- Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
- Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
- Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
- Coal consumption: carbon dioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
- Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
- Earth's climate changes - a long story
- Antarctica: the pole apart
- Ice ages: They come and go - but why?
- The sun: driver of all weather
- Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
- Ozone: It's more than just a gas
2009
9 items- Permafrost and methane - a chilling story
- Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?
- Climate change in the Champlain Valley, Northeast
- Extreme weather events and connection to climate change
- Going north to discuss climate change
- The carbon dioxide story - cont'd
- Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?
- Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II
- Case of the disappearing ice - Part I
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