Katharine Hayhoe

Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy; Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor, Texas Tech University

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Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. She is also the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. She has been named a United Nations Champion of the Earth and one of Time ’s 100 Most Influential People, and serves as the climate ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance. Hayhoe was a lead author for the U.S. Second, Third, and Fourth National Climate Assessments, hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and has written for The New York Times. Her TED Talk “The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Fight Climate Change: Talk About It” has been viewed over 5 million times. 


Her latest book is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World.

Photo Credit: Artie Limmer

 

Resilience

Live Event Appearances

Past event

Political Science

Michael Mann, Katharine Hayhoe, and Bill Anderegg tackled the political nature of climate science and their experiences as ‘climate warriors.’ Michael Mann warned the crowd that "we can't allow science to be killed. We can't allow the scientific agenda to be set by those that have vested interests to not have the truth be unveiled." The entire panel agreed that over the past decade, climate science has become increasingly politicized.

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Dr. Katharine Hayhoe: The 2018 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication

Many of us find it daunting to talk with our neighbors, colleagues and family members about climate change. But climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe says that having those difficult conversations is the first step towards solving the problem. Yet Hayhoe admits that even she sometimes ducks the conversation. “Some of it is, we’re afraid it’s gonna start a fight,” she says. “And I’m not gonna lie -- I live in Texas, and occasionally if I don't want to get into it with anybody when they say, ‘what do you do?’ I say I work at tech.”

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David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth

According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked — literally. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives — including how a five degree increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable.

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Katharine Hayhoe on Hope and Healing

Despite her identity as an evangelical, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe doesn't accept global warming on faith; she crunches the data, analyzes the models, and helps engineers, city managers and ecologists quantify the impacts.

Podcast Guest Appearances

David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth

May 6 2019 - 12:00pm

At what point does Planet Earth become inhospitable to life – let alone a flourishing human civilization?

In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives – including how a five degree increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable.

This Year in Climate

From extreme weather events to COP26 in Glasgow to the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal, 2021 has been a banner year. In this special year-end episode, hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious review the top climate news from the last year.