Atmospheric Scientist to Speak at Samford University About Finding Hope Amid Climate Change

On Tuesday, Feb. 13, atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe will deliver Samford University’s Howard College of Arts and Sciences annual J. Roderick Davis Lecture in partnership with Cumberland School of Law and The Office of the Provost. The discussion is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Leslie S. Wright Center. The event is free and open to the public, but you must reserve tickets.

Hayhoe is best known for bridging the gap between scientists and Christians. She has been named Christianity Today’s 50 Women to Watch and the United Nations Champion of the Earth. She serves as the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador and the science advisor to organizations from Young Evangelicals for Climate Action to the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. She is the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World and a weekly newsletter, Talking Climate, and hosted the PBS digital series Global Weirding: Climate, Politics and Religion. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Distinguished Professor and Chair at Texas Tech University.