See the Tabbed Pages for links to video tutorials, and a linked list of post titles grouped by topic.

This blog is expressly directed to readers who do not have strong training or backgrounds in science, with the intent of helping them grasp the underpinnings of this important issue. I'm going to present an ongoing series of posts that will develop various aspects of the science of global warming, its causes and possible methods for minimizing its advance and overcoming at least partially its detrimental effects.

Each post will begin with a capsule summary. It will then proceed with captioned sections to amplify and justify the statements and conclusions of the summary. I'll present images and tables where helpful to develop a point, since "a picture is worth a thousand words".

List of Linked Posts

 

Complete Linked Listing of Posts in Three Categories - Newest First

  

Tutorials and Science Background

Major Faiths Support Climate Action 10/31/21

What, Again? Sea Level Will Continue Rising for Centuries  10/13/2021

What, Again? Global Warming Continues Unabated 10/07/21

What, Again? Greenhouse Gases Accumulate in the Atmosphere 09/30/21

Carbon Dioxide Is Not Just Hot Air 09/09/21

Removing  Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere 04/12/19

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue Increasing 12/07/18

Foundations of Climate Science: Scientific Endeavor Before the Age of Politics 08/01/17

Scientific Underpinnings of Modern Medicine – Vaccination  07/15/17

Scientific Underpinnings of Modern Medicine – DNA, Cancer and Immunotherapy 07/12/17

Our Life in a Technology-Driven World 06/14/17

Science and Technology in Modern Life 05/31/17

Essentially All Climate Scientists Agree: Man-Made Global Warming is Real 04/29/16

New Analysis Does Not Support a Warming “Hiatus” 06/09/15

Deniers Mistakenly Say that Global Warming Has Ended 10/17/14

Record Greenhouse Gases Continue to Accumulate in the Atmosphere 09/22/14

A Denier Clouds Reality by Misrepresentations and False Accusations 05/21/14

Denying Global Warming Has No Scientific Basis 05/15/14

The U. S. National Climate Assessment: Warming Is Due to Human Actions 05/08/14

How Sea Level Rises: A Tutorial 05/04/14

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Part 1: The Physical Science Basis 10/01/13

CO2 and Temperature Changes Are Correlated for 800,000 Years

Modern CO2 Levels Far Exceed Any in the Past 800,000 Years 05/21/13

An Earth System Model Envisions High Future Global Temperatures 03/14/13

Storm Surges and Sea Level Rise 12/14/12

Fossil Fuels and Global Warming: Video 11/14/12

Review: “Climate Change Policy Failures” by Howard A. Latin 10/29/12

Carbon Capture and Storage Investment Is Strongly Needed 07/31/12

Light and Heat - The Greenhouse Effect: Video 07/20/12

Induced Earthquakes A Potential Hazard for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide 06/28/12

Our Invisible Energy 06/18/12 (Video)

Clouds Probably Amplify the Effects of Global Warming 05/10/12

Increasing CO2 Caused Global Temperature Increase as the Last Ice Age Receded 04/27/12

Carbon Capture and Storage: A Needed yet Unproven Technology 12/23/11

A Prominent Climate Skeptic Now Affirms that Global Warming is Real 10/28/11

Rejecting the Science We Don’t Like 09/29/11

Economics of Renewable Energy 07/15/11

Carbon Dioxide – The Waste Product of Our Energy Economy 04/19/11

Global Warming Is Responsible For Extreme Rainfall 03/04/11

Ice, Water and Water Vapor 03/04/11

Electric Cars: Global Warming Fallacy, Until… 11/03/10

The CO2 Bathtub 10/27/10

Why We Need A Massive Effort for Alternative Energy 10/12/10

Today’s CO2-Emitting Devices Add to Tomorrow’s Global Warming 09/29/10

Denying Global Warming 09/25/10

Light And Heat – The Greenhouse Effect 09/21/10

Climate Science, Global Warming and The Scientific Method 09/13/10

Invisible Energy 09/11/10

Saving CO2 Emissions At No Cost 09/08/10

 

U. S. Issues and Policies

We Can No Longer Delay Minimizing Global Warming/Climate Change 12/21/21

Major Faiths Support Climate Action 10/31/21

What, Again? Sea Level Will Continue Rising for Centuries  10/13/2021

What, Again? Global Warming Continues Unabated 10/07/21

What, Again? Greenhouse Gases Accumulate in the Atmosphere 09/30/21

“U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a ‘Lost’ Opportunity” 12/18/19

From Lone Climate Protester to A Worldwide Movement: Greta Thunberg 12/13/19

We All Feel the Increasing Impacts of Global Warming 07/12/19

Our Children: The Climate Activists We Need! 04/30/19

Removing  Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere 04/12/19

How Do We Answer Our Children? 03/16/19

Former Vice President Biden Says Climate Change Is An “Existential” Threat 01/24/19  

Faster Ocean Warming Means We Need Net Zero Emissions Sooner 11/06/18

IPCC Report on Global Warming Warns of Need for Immediate Action 10/09/18

New Storage Technologies for Renewable Energy 10/02/18

Politics Trumps Science at the Environmental Protection Agency 10/26/17

Extreme Rainfall with Flooding in the U. S. South 08/30/17

The Earth Continues Warming:  The Fourth National Climate Assessment Draft Report 08/15/17

Foundations of Climate Science: Scientific Endeavor Before the Age of Politics 08/01/17

The Centennial Celebration of the Paris Agreement Arrives 99 Years Early 04/07/17 

EPA Administrator Pruitt Wrongly Dismisses Reality of Man-Made Warming 03/09/17

Carbon Fee and Dividend Is Proposed by Conservative Economists 02/08/17

Inquisitor Trump Might Delete U. S. Global Warming Data 01/22/17

Open Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump on Global Warming 12/05/16

“Trump is Global Warming Danger”: Letter to the Hartford Courant 11/17/16

The Will to Change: Private Enterprises Reduce Their Emissions 08/24/16

The Will to Change: Oil Companies Should Embrace Renewable Energy 08/11/16

Rediscovering the Will to Change: A New Energy Economy 07/28/16

Connecticut’s First Wind Farm and the Growth of Wind Energy 07/12/16

Shipping Coal Abroad Is Banned by Oakland, California 06/29/16

Essentially All Climate Scientists Agree: Man-Made Global Warming is Real 04/29/16

Representative Lamar Smith Wrongly Asserts Global Warming Has Halted 03/24/16

Attribution of Extreme Events to Global Warming 03/17/16

The Centennial Commemoration of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. II. 03/04/16

The Centennial Commemoration of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement 02/20/16

Sources and Content of Contrarian Communications about Climate Science 12/10/15

The December 2015 Paris Conference on Global Warming 11/14/15

Pope Francis Urges Action on Climate in His U. S. Visit 09/28/15

California Backtracks on Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Program 09/15/15

Drought and Extremes of Heat Reduce Farm Yields and Worsen Wildfires 08/25/15

President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to Reduce Emissions 08/04/15

President Obama Says Global Warming Harms U. S. National Security 05/27/15

President Obama Regrettably Approves Oil Drilling in the Arctic Ocean 05/14/15

Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Global Warming 04/30/15

Why Care About Global Warming? “No Man Is An Island” 03/30/15

Why Care about Global Warming? Droughts, Poor Harvests, and Social Upheaval 03/09/15

Americans Support Action on Global Warming 02/16/15

2014 Was the Warmest Year Globally Ever Recorded 01/19/15 

The U. S. and China Announce Joint Emissions Reductions 11/14/14

Why Care about Global Warming? 11/05/14

Deniers Mistakenly Say that Global Warming Has Ended 10/17/14

A New Analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline: Global Emissions Would Increase 08/17/14

The EPA Program to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Power Plants 07/22/14

Sea Level Rise: Mitigation and Adaptation in the Risky Business Model 07/09/14

The Risky Business Project Report: a Business Perspective on Global Warming 07/01/14

The U. S. National Climate Assessment: Effects of Warming and Measures to Counteract Them 06/21/14

The U. S. National Climate Assessment: Warming Is Due to Human Actions 05/08/14

The U. S. Needs a Unified Global Warming Agency, As Other Nations Have 03/26/14

The U.S. Needs a Single Department/Agency Dedicated to Global Warming 03/19/14

Secretary Kerry’s Global Warming Initiative 02/26/14

Comment Sent to the State Department on the Keystone XL Pipeline 02/15/14

Our Children Look Us in the Eye: President Obama’s State of the Union Speech 01/29/14

The Faithful Oppose Global Warming: Stewardship of God’s Creation 01/02/14

The Sun Shines at Night: Solar Thermal Power with Storage 10/22/13

The Keystone XL Pipeline Would Significantly Worsen Global Warming 09/19/13

Enact a Carbon Tax, Not a Cap-and-Trade System 08/21/13

Four Republicans Propose a Fee on U. S. Carbon Sources 08/07/13

President Obama: Combating Global Warming vs. All of the Above Energy 07/19/13

Americans Believe Global Warming Affects Our Weather 05/08/13

Develop Renewable Energy, Not the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline 04/18/13

Americans Support Expansion of Renewable Energy, Surveys Show 04/09/13

We Need to Begin Abatement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Right Away 02/25/13

 Coal Fuels Developing Countries, but We Need to Decarbonize Energy Right Away 01/31/13

President Obama Proposes Expanded Growth of Sustainable Energy 01/21/13

American Public Opinion Supports Measures to Combat Global Warming 01/16/13

One-Year Extension of Tax Credits for Renewable Energy in the U. S. 01/06/13

Storm Surges and Sea Level Rise 12/14/12

Hurricane Sandy: Economic Costs and Global Warming 12/04/12

Production Tax Credit for Wind Energy in the U. S. 10/19/12

The Case for a Carbon Tax 10/04/12

Warming Temperatures Bring Droughts and Nutritional Stress 09/13/12

Extreme Weather Events and Global Warming 08/12/12

Carbon Capture and Storage Investment Is Strongly Needed 07/31/12

Induced Earthquakes A Potential Hazard for Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide 06/28/12

Public Attitudes about Extreme Weather and Increased Global Average Temperatures 04/19/12

The Environmental Protection Agency Proposes to Limit GHG Emissions 04/05/12

Federal Subsidies for the U. S. Energy Industry 03/16/12

Efficiency and Decarbonization of Transportation 02/28/12

Drastically Reducing California’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050 01/06/12

Americans Are Losing Sight of Global Warming as an Important Issue 10/19/11

Energy Policy for the Coming Decades: Renewables and Energy Efficiency 09/15/11

TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline: Not in the U. S. Long-Term Interest 09/01/11

Estimated Costs of U.S. Extreme Weather Events 08/17/11

Expanded Employment and Economic Activity from Renewable Energy 08/05/11

Summer Heat Waves, Carbon Storage and Natural Gas 07/22/11

Economics of Renewable Energy 07/15/11

President Obama Considers Increasing the Fuel Economy Standard for Cars 07/08/11

Public Attitudes on Global Warming and Their Political Ramifications 06/30/11

Economic Costs of Extreme Weather Events Due to Global Warming  06/17/11

Extreme Wildfire Events and Global Warming 06/10/11

Energy Efficiency: A U. S. National Academies Report 06/03/11

Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings: The “Low Hanging Fruit” of Mitigation 05/27/11

America’s Climate Choices: The U. S. National Academies Report  05/19/11

Wind Energy: A Growing Source of Renewable Energy 05/05/11

Esty and Porter Recommend Imposing a Price on Carbon Emission in the U. S. 04/28/11

Producing More Natural Gas in the U. S.: The Pickens Plan  04/14/11

America’s Energy Security: President Obama’s Plan 04/02/11

Public Attitudes on Global Warming and Effects on Politics  03/11/11

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative of the New England and Mid-Atlantic States  02/15/11

Federal Energy Research Projects Win Venture Funding Support 02/09/11

Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord  02/03/11

Carol Browner, President Obama’s Climate Policy Assistant, Will Leave  01/25/11

The Western Climate Initiative to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 01/22/11

California’s Global Warming Solutions Act: Bold Action on Greenhouse Gases 01/12/11

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by The United States: Past Growth and Future Trends 01/05/11 

Renewable Energy Tax Credits Enacted in the U. S. 12/17/10

Steven Chu, U. S. Energy Secretary, Advocates “Sputnik” Level Support for Energy R&D 11/30/10

California Voters Preserve the State’s Law Combating Global Warming 11/09/10

Electric Cars: Global Warming Fallacy, Until… 11/03/10

Present Federal Expenditures for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Are Inadequate 10/15/10

Why We Need A Massive Effort for Alternative Energy 10/12/10

What’s Needed: An Alternative Energy “Moon Landing Project” 10/04/10

Blunting California’s Global Warming Solutions Act 09/17/10

 

International and Global Issues

Major Faiths Support Climate Action 10/31/21

What, Again? Sea Level Will Continue Rising for Centuries  10/13/2021

What, Again? Global Warming Continues Unabated 10/07/21

What, Again? Greenhouse Gases Accumulate in the Atmosphere 09/30/21

Carbon Dioxide Is Not Just Hot Air 09/09/21

“U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a ‘Lost’ Opportunity” 12/18/19

From Lone Climate Protester to A Worldwide Movement: Greta Thunberg 12/13/19

We All Feel the Increasing Impacts of Global Warming 07/12/19

Our Children: The Climate Activists We Need! 04/30/19

Removing  Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere 04/12/19

How Do We Answer Our Children? 03/16/19

Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue Increasing 12/07/18

Faster Ocean Warming Means We Need Net Zero Emissions Sooner 11/06/18

IPCC Report on Global Warming Warns of Need for Immediate Action 10/09/18

Extreme Rainfall with Flooding in the U. S. South 08/30/17

The Earth Continues Warming:  The Fourth National Climate Assessment Draft Report 08/15/17

The Centennial Celebration of the Paris Agreement Arrives 99 Years Early 04/07/17 

Open Letter to President-Elect Donald Trump on Global Warming 12/05/16

“Trump is Global Warming Danger”: Letter to the Hartford Courant 11/17/16

The Will to Change: Private Enterprises Reduce Their Emissions 08/24/16

The Will to Change: Oil Companies Should Embrace Renewable Energy 08/11/16

Shipping Coal Abroad Is Banned by Oakland, California 06/29/16

Essentially All Climate Scientists Agree: Man-Made Global Warming is Real 04/29/16

Attribution of Extreme Events to Global Warming 03/17/16

The Centennial Commemoration of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. II. 03/04/16

The Centennial Commemoration of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement 02/20/16

A Global Agreement on Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions 01/21/16

The December 2015 Paris Conference on Global Warming 11/14/15

A World-wide Climate Agreement by the End of 2015 10/08/15

Pope Francis Urges Action on Climate in His U. S. Visit 09/28/15

Beirut’s Garbage Crisis Mirrors Our Planet’s Global Warming Crisis 09/02/15

President Obama Says Global Warming Harms U. S. National Security 05/27/15

Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Global Warming 04/30/15

Why Care About Global Warming? “No Man Is An Island” 03/30/15

Why Care about Global Warming? Droughts, Poor Harvests, and Social Upheaval 03/09/15

2014 Was the Warmest Year Globally Ever Recorded 01/19/15

India Disdains a Global Approach to Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions 12/03/14

The U. S. and China Announce Joint Emissions Reductions 11/14/14

Why Care about Global Warming? 11/05/14

The European Union Continues on Its Course to Lower GHG Emissions 10/31/14

U.N. Climate Summit Underscores Perennial Differences on Climate Change 10/02/14

Record Greenhouse Gases Continue to Accumulate in the Atmosphere 09/22/14

China Plans a Nationwide Carbon Market 09/11/14 

A Denier Clouds Reality by Misrepresentations and False Accusations 05/21/14

Denying Global Warming Has No Scientific Basis 05/15/14

The U. S. National Climate Assessment: Warming Is Due to Human Actions 05/08/14

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Part 3: Mitigation of Climate Change 04/16/14

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Part 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability 04/02/14

Secretary Kerry’s Global Warming Initiative 02/26/14

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Part 1: The Physical Science Basis 10/01/13

China Considers Programs to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions 09/06/13

President Obama: Combating Global Warming vs. All of the Above Energy 07/19/13

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme Has Been Voted Down 04/17/13

An Earth System Model Envisions High Future Global Temperatures 03/14/13

We Need to Begin Abatement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Right Away 02/25/13

 Coal Fuels Developing Countries, but We Need to Decarbonize Energy Right Away 01/31/13

Conference on “Global Climate Policy without the United States” 11/16/12

Warming Temperatures Bring Droughts and Nutritional Stress 09/13/12

China Moves Toward Reducing Its Energy Intensity 08/27/12

Extreme Weather Events and Global Warming 08/12/12

OECD Warns of Dire Consequences of Climate Inaction 03/28/12

Efficiency and Decarbonization of Transportation 02/28/12

Increasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Developing Countries 02/14/12

The European Union’s Energy Policy.  II. Emissions Reduction Technologies 02/02/12

The European Union’s Energy Policy.  I. The Emissions Trading System  01/23/12

Durban Platform Agreement Concludes 2011 Climate Change Talks 12/12/11

New Evidence for Warming of the Globe While Policymakers Contend with Each Other in Durban 12/05/11

Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters: Analysis and Forecast of the IPCC 12/02/11

Worldwide Emissions of CO2: Background for the Durban Conference 11/21/11

The Annual U. N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa 11/10/11

A Prominent Climate Skeptic Now Affirms that Global Warming is Real 10/28/11

International Energy Outlook 2011: A Report by the U. S. Energy Information Agency 09/22/11l

Energy Policy for the Coming Decades: Renewables and Energy Efficiency 09/15/11

Summer Heat Waves, Carbon Storage and Natural Gas 07/22/11

Economic Costs of Extreme Weather Events Due to Global Warming  06/17/11

Extreme Wildfire Events and Global Warming 06/10/11

Decreased Worldwide Crop Yields Are Tied to Global Warming 05/10/11

Wind Energy: A Growing Source of Renewable Energy 05/05/11

China’s 12th Five Year Plan: Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions 04/10/11

The European Union’s Energy Roadmap for 2050 03/23/11

The Libyan Oil Crisis Argues for Developing Renewable Energy 02/25/11

China and Global Warming: Past Growth and Future Trends 12/27/10

The Cancun Conference on Global Warming, Nov.-Dec. 2010 12/14/10

Is Adapting To Global Warming A Surrender Or A Needed Part of the Solution? 12/06/10

From Copenhagen to Cancun – Pursuing a Global Climate Agreement 11/22/10

World Energy Outlook 2010: Climate and Energy Projections 2008-2035 11/16/10

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