Katharine Hayhoe

Professor and Director, Climate Science Center, Texas Tech University

Katharine Hayhoe doesn't accept global warming on faith; she crunches the data. As an Associate Professor at Texas Tech University, Hayhoe's research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to evaluate the future impacts of climate change on human society and the natural environment. Hayhoe is also the founder and CEO of ATMOS Research, which bridges the gap between scientists and stakeholders by providing information on climate change’s many impacts.

In 2017, Hayhoe was named one of FORTUNE’s world’s greatest leaders and in 2018 she was awarded the eighth Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication and named a YWCA Woman of Excellence in science.

Hayhoe has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications and served as lead author on key reports for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the National Academy of Sciences. She has a B.Sc. in physics and astronomy from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Resilience

Climate One 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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The Eighth Annual 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.