--- title: Katharine Hayhoe | TIME description: 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 canonical: https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Katharine Hayhoe ## 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](https://www.nature.org/en-us/). She is the author of [_Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World_](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saving-Us/Katharine-Hayhoe/9781982143831) ## Katharine Hayhoe Articles2Collections1 *  Jul 10, 2025 ### [What the Texas Floods Tell Us About Climate Change](https://time.com/7301528/climate-scientist-in-texas-floods/) “Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and it’s getting w... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 12, 2021 ### [In the Face of Climate Change, We Must Act So That We Can Feel Hopeful—Not the Other Way Around](https://time.com/6089999/climate-change-hope/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/","name":"Katharine Hayhoe"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/"},"name":"Katharine Hayhoe","jobTitle":null,"description":"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","url":"https://time.com/author/katharine-hayhoe/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```