Topics and people mentioned include: early interests in science, engineering, astronomy; years at Columbia University; Study of Man's Impact on Climate (SMIC); arrival at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Joint Evaluation Committee (JEC); Climate Club; Climate Impact Assessment Program (CIAP); William Kellogg; Warren Washington; Philip Thompson; Bob Dickinson; Walter Orr Roberts; Mickey Glantz; move toward earth systems science and a multidisciplinary approach; evolution of computer modeling; Climatic Change journal; First World Climate Conference in Geneva; television appearances; tenure as Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) director; Turko, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack and Sagan (TTAPS); nuclear winter; Curt Covey; Starly Thompson; Carl Sagan; Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA); politics of doing science; Vladimir Alexandroff; Defense Science Board; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment - Effects of Nuclear War (SCOPE-ENUWAR); climate change; Stanford University; and the Woody Allen movie shot at NCAR, Sleeper.