Talking climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe dares us to do scary things like talk to others about climate change.

Hope and healing

My favorite climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, has a great new newsletter, Talking Climate. It’s short with sweet and not-so sweet news and is always ever-hopeful that we’ll come to our senses. Check it out here.

Don’t be scared!

Katharine Hayhoe is currently the Chief Scientist at the Nature Conservancy and also the author of a favorite book, Saving Us: A case for hope and healing in a divided world , in which she urges us to do something frightening: talk to others about climate change. On her PBS series Global Weirding I loved how she explained complicated science with animations. Her work is funny, relatable and makes you think: it’s not such a scary thing to want to save the earth.

Katharine Hayhoe says of her life path:

“Climate change isn’t just an environmental issue – it’s a threat multiplier. It takes the most serious humanitarian issues confronting climate change today – hunger, poverty, lack of access to clean water, injustice, refugee crises and more – and it makes them worse.

Learning this, I thought: how could I not do everything I could to help fix this huge global challenge?”