An Evangelical Climate Scientist Talks to David Remnick About Winning Over Climate Change Skeptics
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🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and a director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She’s also an evangelical Christian. She speaks with David Remnick about how she spends time outside of her research trying to convince skeptics, including her husband, of the urgency of global warming.
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| 1:13.6 | I'm Dorothy Wickend. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks to Catherine Hayhoe, director of the |
| 1:19.6 | Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. |
| 1:22.6 | An evangelical Christian, Hayho, is devoted to ending climate change skepticism. |
| 1:31.1 | Now next weekend, scientists from all over the country are going to be marching in Washington. |
| 1:37.1 | Thousands of people who believe in the science of climate change will show their support for the environment |
| 1:43.0 | and the political reforms needed to |
| 1:44.9 | preserve it. Needless to say, many more people who think, as the president does, that climate |
| 1:50.3 | change is a hoax, will not be at the march, which is where a woman named Catherine Hayho comes in. |
| 1:57.4 | Hayho is a climate scientist at Texas Tech and Lubbock, and you can find her all over YouTube |
| 2:02.6 | and television advocating for climate change. |
| 2:05.6 | She's also an evangelical Christian, and she spends time in churches across the country |
| 2:10.6 | trying to convince a tough audience of conservative skeptics that a belief in God can be reconciled with a belief in science. |
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