32 Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Science and Christianity

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🗓️ 2 May 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian, has had quite the run lately. A few weeks back, she was featured in the first episode of the Showtime series The Years of Living Dangerously, meeting with actor Don Cheadle in her home state of Texas to explain to him why faith and a warming planet aren't in conflict. Then, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2014; Cheadle wrote the entry.Why is Hayhoe in the spotlight? Simply put, 25 to 30 percent of Americans are evangelical Christians, and their belief in the science of global warming is well below the national average. And if anyone has a chance of reaching this vast and important audience, Hayhoe does. "I feel like the conservative community, the evangelical community, and many other Christian communities, I feel like we have been lied to," explains Hayhoe on this week’s episode. "We have been given information about climate change that is not true. We have been told that it is incompatible with our values, whereas in fact it's entirely compatible with conservative and with Christian values."On the show this week we talked to Hayhoe about climate change, science, religion, and not only why Evangelicals should care about our changing climate, but why they should feel compelled to do something about it.This episode also features a discussion of recent findings that laboratory mice respond differently to male researchers, and new breakthroughs in "therapeutic cloning," or the creation of embryonic stem cell lines from cloned embryos.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-mindsSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:09.7	For today's show, I interviewed Catherine Hayho.
1:13.1	She is a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, and she also, I think, unlike most
1:18.7	climate scientists, happens to be an evangelical Christian.
1:22.2	And she was recently featured quite prominently on the new Showtime series, The Years of Living
1:27.0	Dangerously, which is about
1:28.2	climate change. And in the series, Don Cheadle, the actor Don Cheadle, goes down to Texas, not just
1:33.6	to interview Catherine Hayho, but basically to present her and her story as a bridge between
1:39.3	science and religion. And Hayho, I should say, was also recently named by Time Magazine as one of 2014's
1:45.6	100 most influential people. So her way of trying to bring the message about climate change to
1:50.8	evangelicals is really, really resonating. So in the interview, I wanted to hear from her,
1:56.1	both about how she reconciles her religion and the fact that she's aligned with a historically anti-science community in this country, how she reconciles her religion and the fact that she's aligned with a historically
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