One brisk morning in March, two years ago, I found myself at a bustling diner in Salt Lake City sitting across the table from Steven Amstrup. Lanky and affable, he… Read More
People already care about climate change – my foreign policy essay
Category Communication
There Must Be More Productive Ways To Talk About Climate Change
With the White House threatening to pull out of the Paris accord, environmentalists are speaking up more strongly than ever about the need for policies that help reduce the effects… Read More
Fortune’s 50 Greatest Leaders of 2017
Katharine Hayhoe Director, Climate Science Center, TexasTech Many lament that, in these politically charged and contentious times, Americans can’t even agree on science anymore. Indeed, attitudes toward climate change-whether, despite… Read More
One Incredibly Simple Thing You Can Do About Climate Change
What’s one of the most important things we can do about climate change? Talk about it. Seventy-two percent of people in the US are cautious, concerned, or alarmed about climate… Read More
Green Sports Blog Interview!
GSB: As a climate change communicator myself—I give the Climate Reality Project slide shows, basically an updated version of Al Gore’s slide show from “An Inconvenient Truth”—to community groups of… Read More
The Guardian: Texas scientist takes to the web
“Speaking of shills, if she teaches in Texas she probably gets grants from the oil industry.” This is one of the more polite social media missiles Katharine Hayhoe has had… Read More
NY Times: A climate explainer who stays above the storm
A member of Katharine Hayhoe’s church asked her a question after services a couple of weeks ago: “Do you feel our weather is getting more extreme?” Time was, the question… Read More
Talking Climate with Obama and Leo
SXSL: President Obama Participates in SXSL Discussion
The White House
Money and Politics, God and Global Warming
I live in Lubbock, Texas. After Provo UT, It’s the second most conservative city in the U.S. Here, we don’t just have Republican candidates running for office – we… Read More
POLITICO 50: The conservative case for fighting climate change
Even as the 2016 Republican platform threw doubt on the idea that global warming is caused by humans, the percentage of conservative Republicans who believe in climate change has doubled… Read More