Katharine Hayhoe



Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at  where she is Director of the Climate Science Center. She is also an evangelical Christian.

Newt Gingrich was reportedly pressured to drop her from a planned book on climate change due to climate change denialist pressure groups.

Hayhoe performs a lot of outreach to Christian communities, talking to them about climate science. Nonetheless, she has stated that she gets about a hundred times more pieces of hate mail stating that she couldn't possibly be a real Christian if she's a scientist than the other way around.