Posts By KATHARINE HAYHOE

Houston Climate Week

“After COVID-19 cancelled our plans for an in-person Climate Action Plan launch in April, the idea of a virtual Houston Climate Week was born,” said Mayor Sylvester Turner. “To reach… Read More

How to Change the Way We Talk about Climate Change

Although addressing the online audience remotely from Lubbock, Texas, Katharine Hayhoe, the 2020 Esri Science Symposium keynote speaker, was anything but remote. In her dynamic and interactive presentation, “The First… Read More

Climate Change: Science, Solutions, Hope

With climate change unfolding and affecting the gears of civilization, science is refining its communication methods to better explain climatic data and atmospheric phenomena to the public and policy makers…. Read More

Global Weirding Video Resource

Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe is well-known for her skills as a climate science communicator and educator. Search the internet for her name and you’ll get abundant results, many… Read More

CLIMATE IMPACTS IN ALASKA

Don’t like hot, dry, fiery summers? Get used to them

Enjoy the smoke this summer? Get used to it. Wildfires around Alaska will get bigger and more frequent as climate change triggers higher temperatures and dries out the forests. A raging spruce bark beetle infestation, speeded by dried-out trees and warmer summers, has also infected half a million acres spruce forest, much of it in Southcentral Alaska.

 

Why Talking About Climate Change Might Be The Most Important Thing You Can Do

Here’s Why Talking About Climate Change Might Be The Most Important Thing You Can Do

Katharine Hayhoe often encounters people in the US and Canada who still regard climate change as an issue best left for the distant future. “That it affects future generations, not me, it affects others but not me, it affects people who live over there, but not me,” she said.

 

Katharine Hayhoe reconciles Christianity and climate science

Katharine Hayhoe reconciles Christianity and climate science | Juneau Empire

Katharine Hayhoe asked her Juneau audience how a Christian, like herself, could truly say they were pro-life if they ignored the damage being done by climate change. “I’m a climate scientist because I’m a Christian,” she said. Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist, a professor of political science at Texas Tech, and a climate advocate.

 

Canadian Professor Katharine Hayhoe named UN Champion of the Earth

Canadian Professor Katharine Hayhoe named UN Champion of the Earth

Canadian climate scientist Professor Katharine Hayhoe awarded United Nations’ flagship environmental honor in science and innovation category Hayhoe recognized for expertise and passion in communicating real effects of climate change — Canadian climate scientist Professor Katharine Hayhoe has received a 2019 Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honor, for her stalwart commitment to quantifying the effects of climate change and her tireless efforts to transform public attitudes.