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2024 ICSUSA ARTICLES
September 2024 - Earth Time is Changing and Renewables Too
August 2024 - New Vocabulary, Intense Rainfall, Renewables, and Then Norway
July 2024 - We Have Been Through Energy Transitions Before
June 2024 - Dead Trees Can Talk to Us, in a Way; Our National Electrical Grid
May 2024 - Change is in the Air, and That Does Not Mean the Seasons
April 2024 - Dunkelflaute? Zombie Fires? New Issues and Words Used in the Climate Crisis
March 2024 - Sea Surface Temperatures are High: Good Chance for Another Record Weather Year
February 2024 - F.U.D. … A Climate Related Acronym
January 2024 - “Let’s Do the Numbers,” For Earth’s Climate That Is
October 2024 - Warmer Ocean Waters, Climate Tidbits, Renewables and More
2023 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2023 - COP 28, … And The Circus Continues
November 2023 - Dueling Banjo’s: Dueling Energy Report and Giant Oil’s Responsd
October 2023 - Climate Chaos: Climate Anxiety and the S-Curve
September 2023 - This and That; Climate Chaos Has Many Fronts
August 2023 - The “Out of the Mouth of Babes” Proverb Shows the Wisdom of Youth and Helps in Our Fight Against Climate Chaos
July 2023 - Geologists Say We Are in the Holocene Epoch; Others Call it “Anthropocene,” Some, “Pyrocene”
June 2023 - Solar: Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transportation and Power Generation
May 2023 - Perspective: The Nations Clean Power Goals Will Require Changes In
April 2023 - Connectedness, The Recent Climate IPCC Report, and More
March 2023 - Youth at Work! … Also, We Now Have a New Mantra, “Electrify Everything.”
February 2023 - In Time?: Globally, The World Invested $1.1 Trillion in 2022 on Renewables
January 2023 - A Distant View of Earth: “Earth Set” from Beyond the Moon
2022 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2022 - Antarctica: A Birthday of Sorts, The Antarctic Treaty
November 2022 - Permafrost Regions: What is Happening There?
October 2022 - Science and Research: Understanding the Workings of Our Planet
September 2022 - Transportation and the Transition Revolution
August 2022 - Time for a Refresher: Basic Climate Change Science and Current Trends
July 2022 - It’s All About Time, Do We Need a New Name for Earth’s Condition Today?
June 2022 - Let’s Talk About Biomass: Is It Really Part of the Climate Solution?
May 2022 - PPM Means a Lot in Climate Science: Just Like in Wine or Cooking
April 2022 - Energy of all Kinds: Plans for Change do Change
March 2022 - Doomsday Vault, the Black Box and Renewables: Quite A Mix
February 2022 - Blue Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen; What’s with these Colors and Their Connection to Climate Change?
January 2022 - Greenwashing? What Does This Have to do With Climate Change?
2021 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2021 - Oceans: Our Buddy for Ameliorating Climate Change; But There Are Limits
November 2021 - Artists See Climate Change in Paintings; They Do Not Need a Thermometer
October 2021 - Oceans, The Twilight Zone, its Wonders and Importance
September 2021 - Weather Happenings and Some Peoples Response
August 2021 - Domes, the Climate Crises and the Energy Transition
July 2021 - An Artist and Science Look at Sea Level Rise, Drought and More
June 2021 - Maya Lin, Ghost Trees and Sea Level Rise
May 2021 - Climate Crises: The New Clock is Ticking, and it’s in Union Square, NYC, No Less
April 2021 - Rivers of Air, Rivers of Water: Major Parts of our Changing Climate System
March 2021 - Greenland: A World Apart is Changing
February 2021 - Transitions, Transitions and More Transitions
January 2021 - We Have a Climate Emissions “Gap” Problem but Solutions Exist
2020 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2020 - Climate Change: Banks Are a Major Source of the Problem ... and the Solution
November 2020 - Transitions, Disruptions, Problems and Possibilities
October 2020 - The Science of Climate Change and the Role of Greenhouse Gases
September 2020 - Supply and Demand: It Matters, and Some Oil Companies Are Getting the Message
August 2020 - Pandemic or Not, Large Renewables Projects are Moving Forward
July 2020 - Transitions and Disruptions of the Status Quo
June 2020 - In New York State the Grid [Not Grill] Just Got Cleaner
May 2020 - Phenology: It’s All In The Timing
April 2020 - Climate Change, Clean Energy Transition, and now COVID-19
March 2020 - There are Report Cards, and Then, .... There are Report Cards
February 2020 - Small Particles from Combustion of Fossil Fuels Impact Human Health
January 2020 - Renewable Energy: Coming of Age, Here and Now, and Perhaps Just in Time [?]
2019 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2019 - Tuktoyaktuk: An Inuvialuit Town at the Frontline of Climate Change
November 2019 - Yes, Carbon Dioxide is really the Problem
October 2019 - Climate Change: Climate Crises, What are We Doing?
September 2019 - Climate Change and Losses
August 2019 - Climate Change: Are Trees The Solution?
July 2019 - Climate Change and the Irony of it all
June 2019 - Climate, Its Complexity and the Clean Disruption
May 2019 - Climate Change and the Guard Dog Theory
April 2019 - Convergence: How Climate Change Brought Two Women Artists Together
March 2019 - Climate Change and The Power of One
February 2019 - Climate Change: “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
January 2019 - Climate Change: People vs. Entrenched Interests
2018 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2018 - Tapas, Tapas and More Tapas; Some Actions, Good and Not so Good, Impacting Climate Change
November 2018 - Climate Reports, Warnings and Progress on Renewable Wind Power
October 2018 - “That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star” – Climate and Man
August 2018 - Summer, Aphelion, Temperature Extremes: Earth\'s Climate
July 2018 - Climate Science and Smorgasbord Have a Lot in Common
June 2018 - Leadership and Climate Change
May 2018 - “Extra! Extra! Read All About It!”
April 2018 - ERoEI and Climate Change
March 2018 - Coal: Are We Beating a Dead Horse?
February 2018 - Artists Engage the Science of Climate Change
January 2018 - The Clean Disruption: Will Help Reduce Emissions Causing Climate Change
2017 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2017 - Climate Change: the Clean Disruption Continues
November 2017 - Climate Change and the Great Disruption
October 2017 - Climate Change: Carbon Diem
September 2017 - Climate Change and Y2K
August 2017 - Climate Science: It’s Carbon Dioxide Silly!
July 2017 - Climate Change: Let’s Cool it and Talk About Ice
June 2017 - Climate Science: Step Forward and Half Step Back
May 2017 - Climate Change and Earth’s Carbon Budget
April 2017 - Climate Change; Whales and Wind Energy
March 2017 - Climate Change and An Earlier Energy Transformation
February 2017 - Climate Change: Strawberry or Watermelon Ice?
January 2017 - Volcanos and Climate Change: It’s All in the Numbers
2016 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2016 - Climate Change: Our Children’s Trust
November 2016 - Climate Change Changes Everything
October 2016 - Is It Sin Nombre or Climate Change?
September 2016 - Yes, Climate Change is Evident, Right Now
August 2016 - Climate Change: The Story Continues
July 2016 - Climate Change: A story With Many Characters
June 2016 - Climate Change and Ocean Impacts
May 2016 - Climate Change and the New “Re-new”
April 2016 - In Climate Science “Little Things Mean a Lot”
March 2016 - Climate Change: Wit, Whimsy and Sea Level Rise
February 2016 - Climate Change: Alarmism or Realism?
January 2016 - “History is a Race Between Education and Catastrophe”: Climate Change
2015 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2015 - “The Times They Are A-Changing”: Climate Change
November 2015 - A Tale of Three Dimes and Climate Change
October 2015 - Climate Change, What Me Worry?
September 2015 - Carbon Atoms, Like Ice Cream, Have Different Flavors Too
August 2015 - “Laudato Si” (Praise Be to You); Pope Francis Sides With Climate Change
July 2015 - Permanent Press and Permafrost: Are They Really Permanent?
June 2015 - Climate Change: “Death by a Thousand Cuts”?
May 2015 - Can One-Half Trillion Dollars Evaporate? Coal and Fossil Fuel Based Investments Can
April 2015 - The Arctic: Still Revealing Its Mystery
March 2015 - Nuclear Energy: “Too Cheap to Meter”?
February 2015 - Trees Remove Carbon Dioxide From Air and Help Moderate Earth’s Climate
January 2015 - The Sun, Seasons and Global Warming
2014 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2014 - Climate Data Continue to Indicate Global Warming
November 2014 - War on Coal? Absolutely Not, But We must Stop Burning It
October 2014 - Climate Change, "Mission Impossible"? Maybe, Maybe Not.
September 2014 - Respiration: The Earth Breathes Too
August 2014 - “The Wind of Change is Blowing.....” Climate and Energy
July 2014 - Is the “Handwriting on the Wall” for Coal? Perhaps.
June 2014 - Climate Change: Coal Emissions Impacts us All
May 2014 - Megatons to Megawatts: all about energy, carbon dioxide emissions
April 2014 - The Climate is Changing: How About Us?
March 2014 - Climate Change: Challenges in Getting the Big Picture
February 2014 - With Climate Change Will Extreme Weather Become the Norm?
January 2014 - Solar: One of Many Renewable Solutions for Our Energy Needs
2013 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2013 - Science Supports Changing Climate: Positive Efforts with Renewables Underway
November 2013 - Coal: An Inexpensive Source of Energy With Many “Externalities”
October 2013 - Heat Transport to the Arctic and Corresponding Changes in Climate and Ecology
September 2013 - Climate Science: Big Numbers, Geography and Land Use Changes
August 2013 - Changing Climate, Changes the Jet Stream, which Changes the Weather
July 2013 - Ocean Temperatures and Fisheries Tell Their Own Climate Change Story
June 2013 - Climate Change: New Milestone Has Been Set
May 2013 - Climate Science Data: Cherry Picking
April 2013 - Climate Change: A Clear and Present Danger
March 2013 - We May Ignore or Deny It, But Climate Change is Occurring
February 2013 - Three Numbers That Will Define Our Climate Future
January 2013 - Climate Change Consensus and a Call to “Photovoltaic” Arms
2012 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2012 - Climate Change: Recent Past to Present
November 2012 - Recent Data Continue to Support Climate Change
October 2012 - Solar Energy: Clean Source of Electricity for the Planet
September 2012 - A Convergence: New Gardening Map and Temperature Area Records Agree
August 2012 - Carbon and Its Compounds Have Many Properties
July 2012 - Towards Energy Independence: Blowing in the Wind
June 2012 - Oceans Absorbing Lots of Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels: But it Comes With a Cost
May 2012 - Climate change no longer a puzzle
April 2012 - Earth’s Oceans: A Heat Sink for Energy
March 2012 - We Don’t Have a Carbon Dioxide Problem: We Have an Energy Problem
February 2012 - Billions of Dead Trees: the New Canary in a Cage?
January 2012 - Leadership In the Face of Climate Change: Steady but Slow Progress
2011 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2011 - Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
November 2011 - The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
October 2011 - The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
September 2011 - Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
August 2011 - Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
July 2011 - Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
June 2011 - The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
May 2011 - Earth's climate system: a study in process
April 2011 - Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
March 2011 - Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
February 2011 - Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 2011 - Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
2010 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2010 - Black carbon growing piece of climate change puzzle
November 2010 - Carbon dioxide: the 800-pound gorilla that we have to talk about
October 2010 - Arctic transformed at hands of climate change
September 2010 - Climate skepticism reminiscent of Galileo's plight
August 2010 - Coal consumption: carbon dioxide and Earth's energy imbalance
July 2010 - Events of 2010 fit description of Global Weirding
June 2010 - Earth's climate changes - a long story
May 2010 - Antarctica: the pole apart
April 2010 - Ice ages: They come and go - but why?
March 2010 - The sun: driver of all weather
February 2010 - Separating the Seeds from the Chaff
January 2010 - Ozone: It's more than just a gas
2009 ICSUSA ARTICLES
December 2009 - Permafrost and methane - a chilling story
November 2009 - Greenhouse gases: What are they? Why the concern?
October 2009 - Climate change in the Champlain Valley, Northeast
September 2009 - Extreme weather events and connection to climate change
August 2009 - Going north to discuss climate change
July 2009 - The carbon dioxide story - cont'd
June 2009 - Climate Change: And so what's wrong with carbon dioxide anyway?
May 2009 - Climate Change; Insects and Microbes are Moving North - Part II
April 2009 - Case of the disappearing ice - Part I
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2011 ICSUSA ARTICLES
2011 Institute of Climate Studies Articles
December 2011 - Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
November 2011 - The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
October 2011 - The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
September 2011 - Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
August 2011 - Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
July 2011 - Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
June 2011 - The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
May 2011 - Earth's climate system: a study in process
April 2011 - Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
March 2011 - Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
February 2011 - Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 2011 - Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia
December 2011 - Climate Legacies, Past, Present and Future
November 2011 - The Arctic Climate is Changing and Fast
October 2011 - The Chemistry of Planetary Atmospheres and Implications for Earth’s Climate
September 2011 - Denmark: Unified on Climate and Energy Plan for Future
August 2011 - Past Temperature Changes Have Current Meaning
July 2011 - Higher Temperatures and Drought Appear to be the New Norm
June 2011 - The Perfect Storm: Weather, Extreme Weather, and Climate Change
May 2011 - Earth's climate system: a study in process
April 2011 - Climate Science: Indicators of Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
March 2011 - Weirding Weather and the Human Fingerprint on Climate Change
February 2011 - Fossil fuel dependence affecting climate change
January 2011 - Black Carbon: Part 2 Changing Glaciers in Asia