Katharine Hayhoe

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and why it matters to us here and now. Hayhoe is a distinguished professor and endowed chair at Texas Tech University and Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy. She is the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

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In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful—Not the Other Way Around

In the 1850s, an American scientist named Eunice Foote deduced, based on experiments she’d conducted, that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were higher, the planet would be warmer. And in the 1890s, a...

By Katharine Hayhoe
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