Bud Ward

A lot can happen over the span of a decade and a half. And also not much, and certainly not enough. That’s a sound-bite snapshot of the past 15 years for climate change and for this site since it first went live online. It’s been a great ride as founder and editor. Thinking back to those halcyon days, much about climate change indeed has happened. Much of it, despite the loss of precious time in having not done nearly enough over those years to address the problem, for the better.

Miracles indeed can happen. And sometimes do. Such is the case with enactment of major climate legislation, part of the Inflation Reduction Act now, with President Joe Biden’s signature, enacted. Not just passed by the Senate and the House on strict party-line votes, but passed by each chamber as presented to them, without amendments, without differences requiring a time-consuming and inscrutable House/Senate conference committee.

The subject of the July 30 three-and-a-half-minute interview with CNN weekend anchor Pamela Brown was the horrific flooding that by now has killed more than three dozen persons in Kentucky. Veteran meteorologist Bob Henson, since June 2020 a regular contributor to this site, delivered what might be considered a “master class” on how to conduct such an interview in a nationwide cable or broadcast context. His interview is posted here with permission from CNN.