27 Quotes by Katharine Hayhoe

I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

There’s no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced.

I feel like a physician, one who’s done a scan of the patient’s body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn’t exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.

The word “evangelist” means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it’s hard to come up with good news. In many ways I feel more like a Cassandra or a Jeremiah than a good-news evangelist.

A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real – and here’s why we have to care about it – I think that we “unicorns” do pose a threat to people who want to muddy the waters and keep others in the dark.

People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.