MountainTrue hosts events focusing on faith and climate

From MountainTrue:

MountainTrue, the Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina and Krull & Company – socially and environmentally responsible investment management and financial planning – are pleased to present climate scientist and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe for four special events, April 5-6. Katharine Hayhoe is featured in the Showtime documentary, “Years of Living Dangerously” and is on Time magazine’s 2014 list of 100 most influential people in the world.

Please join us! For more information and to RSVP, visit: mountaintrue.org/hayhoe/

Schedule of Events:

Day of Prayer for Climate, offered by Young Evangelicals For Climate Action
April 5, 3:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC 28801

Collaborative Communities Reception with Katharine Hayhoe
April 5, 5 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.
Lenoir Rhyne Graduate Studies Center
36 Montford Avenue (Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce)

Science, Faith and our Changing Climate, An Evening with Katharine Hayhoe
April 5, 7 p.m.
First Baptist Church
5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC 28801

Spiritual Leadership Breakfast: Communicating Change: A faithful approach to our Changing Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
April 6, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
789 Merrimon Ave, Asheville

About Katharine:

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution climate projections to understand what climate change means for people and the natural environment. She is an associate professor and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She has a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois.

Katharine has served as a lead author for the Second and Third U.S. National Climate Assessments, and has conducted climate impact assessments for a broad cross-section of organizations, cities and regions, from Boston Logan Airport to the state of California. Her work has resulted in over 100 peer-reviewed publications that evaluate global climate model performance, develop and compare downscaling approaches, and quantify the impacts of climate change on cities, states, ecosystems, and sectors over the coming century. In 2014, her outreach work was featured in the Emmy award-winning documentary “The Years of Living Dangerously,” awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Climate Communication Prize, and led to Katharine being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and the Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.