<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-leaked-un-report-warns-worst-is-yet-to-come-on-climate-change-heres-how-you-can-help">A leaked UN report warns ‘worst is yet to come’ on climate change. Here’s how you can help | PBS NewsHour</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/wp2016/">Katharine Hayhoe | Climate Scientist</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096340213485947">Katharine Hayhoe: Preaching climate to the unconverted (sagepub.com)</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I've for years been following Katharine Hayhoe, who has an admirable ability to present what might be daunting, complex science in simple, direct terms.  </div><div><br></div><div>Also rather incredible, she is an outspoken Evangelical Christian, who with her pastor husband Andrew Farley, wrote a book on climate: "A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions."  Surprise, surprise!   Unlike with most evangelicals, this book does not downplay the seriousness of human caused global warming.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Consider her commentary on yesterday's PBS NewsHour regarding what in some circles is still considered debatable recent questionable science: that burning fossil fuels releases heat trapping gases warming our planet, science going back to the 1800s!</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:700px;color:rgb(49,68,93);background-color:rgb(241,248,252)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,31,45)">Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist, Texas Tech University:</span></p></div><div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,31,45)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:700px;color:rgb(49,68,93);background-color:rgb(241,248,252)">I can't comment specifically on the contents of the draft because it is a confidential document that was provided to governments and experts for review.</p><div><span style="background-color:rgb(241,248,252);color:rgb(49,68,93);font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:normal">But what I can say is that the results should be no surprise, because we have known since the 1800s that digging up and burning coal then, now gas and oil, are producing heat-trapping gases that are wrapping an extra blanket on the planet.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(241,248,252);color:rgb(49,68,93);font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:normal"><br></span></div></span></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:700px;color:rgb(49,68,93);background-color:rgb(241,248,252)"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit">In 1965, scientists were sufficiently concerned about the risks of climate change for humans that they formally warned a U.S. president. And that was Lyndon B. Johnson.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Akkurat,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:700px;color:rgb(49,68,93);background-color:rgb(241,248,252)"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit">----------------------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Akk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