Bud Ward, longtime environmental journalist (file photo)

The Northern Neck Audubon is pleased to announce an open public meeting with a presentation by longtime environmental journalist, Bud Ward, a resident of White Stone. This meeting will be held on Monday, October 7th beginning at 3:15 at the Lancaster Community Library, 16 Town Centre Drive in Kilmarnock. The presentation will be “Weather and Climate – Now and in the Future”. With the disturbing declines in bird and insect populations in the US, the changes in weather and climate are of particular interest to all who appreciate our native birds. His presentation will be informative and enlightening.

Bud has a bachelor’s and master’s communications degree from Penn State and spent more than 30 years covering environmental news from Washington, DC. Researching and writing about nature’s changes, he has focused on the climate and weather for many years. In 2009, George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication named him “Climate Change Communicator of the Year”. He is the founder and editor of the Yale University’s “Yale Climate Connections” website and a daily radio program that airs on public radio stations across the nation.

Ward will discuss the current scientific research and analysis of climate change and how this relates to all of us in the Northern Neck and the Chesapeake Bay region. He will review the physical and social science aspects of this issue and why this is so vitally important to us, our children, grandchildren and the earth.

Following the presentation, we will have time for questions and social gathering, with drinks and snacks, to discuss weather, climate, birds and birding in the Northern Neck.