Katharine Hayhoe Talks Climate Change

Katharine Hayhoe Talks Climate Change

Author: frontporchrepublic July 1, 2022 Duration: 57:21
Katharine Hayhoe is a professor at Texas Tech and the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy. Her most recent book is Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. Dr. Hayhoe, a Christian, swings by the Porch to discuss faith and science; effective communication on controversial topics; and the role of disinformation in our discussions about global warming. She also shares on her personal encounters with President Barak Obama and Speaker Newt Gingrich, plus gives her opinion on the East Anglia email disclosure and its impact on climate scientists. A shorter written version of the podcast is available on the Plough website. Host:  John Murdock  Guest: Katharine Hayhoe     Highlights  1:30  A pine forest smells like home  2:45  The gendered physics of a scientific career  5:45  Friction from the fellow faithful  10:15 Working with Gingrich, Obama, and Trump  15:30 Pelosi and Gingrich were on the couch.  So, what went wrong?  20:45 COVID, climate, and the Church of Facebook  24:30 Dr. Fauci, East Anglia emails, and arrogance  28:30 Tree rings, Skeptical Science, and the “trick”  33:30 Nit-picking on emails?  37:00 Al Gore enters the conversation  39:45 Rolling loaded weather dice  41:45 What communicates in a polarized time?  45:45 Dealing with the “dismissives”  49:00 Scriptural models for the overly skeptical  52:00 N.T. Wright and the end of the world as we know it?  55:00 Katharine’s vast media empire explained    Resources  Dr. Hayhoe’s website  PBS Global Weirding series  The latest book:  Saving Us  Skeptical Science  Murdock on Skeptical Science and “hide the decline”  Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home 

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