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2 months ago | 
jasonanthony.substack.com | Jason Anthony |Chloe Hope |Katharine Hayhoe |David Roberts
Hello everyone:I offered an essay with this title two years ago, and this new one borrows a bit from it, but this is otherwise a new adventure. The impulse behind the do-over is a particular ambition; I’m playing with the idea of writing a book with this title. More on that, if it happens, in the months to come. As always, please remember to scroll past the end of the essay to read some curated Anthropocene news.
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2 months ago | 
meganjherbert.substack.com | Megan Herbert |Maggie Smith |Bill McKibben |Katharine Hayhoe
I did not coin the term “beauty emergency”. It’s an idea that came from poet ’s wonderful book “Keep Moving”. According to Maggie, a beauty emergency is “one of those things you have to look at now, before it’s gone.” Something like a sunset, or three rainbow lorikeets on a branch, or that otherworldly blue-gold light that comes just after a storm. You yell it to loved ones - “Quick! Beauty emergency!” - who understand, and come running.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe
Negotiations at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, ended this weekend. The final proposal asks wealthy nations to provide $300 billion a year to help poorer nations make the energy transition and adapt to climate change. This is more than the $100 billion commitment from a few years ago. However, most countries didn't even deliver on that.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
illuminem.com | Katharine Hayhoe
This week I am so happy to have Christiana Figueres as my guest editor. Christiana is the former Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the most indomitable and tenacious advocate for climate action I know. For decades, she’s faced down ministers and presidents, fossil fuel lobbyists and obstructionists on her path to securing the historic Paris Agreement. COP29, the next big UNFCCC meeting, kicked off this Monday.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe
These days, every headline is filled with the impacts of climate disasters. In the U.S., at least half the rain from Hurricane Helene was supercharged by climate change. As the waters recede, we’re only beginning to grasp the full extent of the damage—just as Milton, another record-breaking hurricane, threatens Florida. Over the last four weeks, there have been floods all across Asia including in Thailand last week, Nepal the week before, and India, China, and Vietnam before that.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe
Many people feel that climate action doesn't align with their values. This is especially true in the U.S., where climate change has been a highly polarized issue for nearly 20 years. However, research shows we can change this. Framing climate change through values like faith or national security can significantly shift opinions, a Yale University study found.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe
Compelling climate narratives in television shows and movies can help shift attitudes on climate change, a new study finds! Over a thousand participants were recruited, and researchers divided them into two groups. Half watched a climate-focused episode of Madam Secretary about a super typhoon menacing the Pacific Island nation of Nauru. The other half watched another episode of the same show about U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe |Anne Therese Gennari |Zeke Hausfather
Last week, my newsletter focused on the risks of extreme heat around the world, and how to stay safe: but I could write about this every week. The US National Weather Service just introduced a new Heat Risk forecast map showing where people will face dangerous levels of heat. Last week, the entire southern US, from California to Florida, wasbaking in yet another early-season heatwave, with Phoenix, AZ setting a new daily high of 112F (44C) last Thursday.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
talkingclimate.ca | Katharine Hayhoe
My friend Patricia Solis is a geographer who studies resilience and helps people prepare for climate-induced disasters. Not long after she arrived at Arizona State University (ASU), she was working with community members to map heat-related deaths in the city and noticed a peculiar hot spot. “Why would death rates be clustered there?” she wondered. “It must be a data error.” A few days later, driving to campus, she neared that hotspot.
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May 15, 2024 | 
sustainableviews.com | Katharine Hayhoe |Michael E. Mann
Michael Mann is presidential distinguished professor and director of the Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is “Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis”. Katharine Hayhoe is a horn distinguished professor and endowed chair of public policy and public law at Texas Tech University, and chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy.
