Speaking from the heart on climate change with Katherine Hayhoe
\u201cIt was a complete breakthrough for me to realize that sharing from the heart, which is the opposite of what we\u2019re taught to do as scientists, was the way for me to connect with people,\u201d Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist, tells us in this episode of the Mongabay Newscast. She\xa0is an acclaimed climate communicator and a professor at Texas Tech University and last year, she teamed up with her local TV station to write and produce a web series called "Global Weirding," which tackles common questions, misconceptions, and myths around climate science, politics, and religion.
We check in with Hayhoe right as she\u2019s in the midst of shooting Season 2 of "Global Weirding."
We are also joined by\xa0Branko Hilje Rodriguez, a PhD student from Costa Rica, where he\u2019s studying the soundscapes of different successional stages of the tropical dry forest in Santa Rosa National Park, the largest remaining remnant of tropical dry forest in Mesoamerica.
In this Field Note segment, Hilje Rodriguez plays for us a number of the recordings he\u2019s made in the park, allowing us to hear the sounds of the dry forest during different stages of regrowth and different seasons, as well as some of the iconic bird species that call the dry forest home.
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