In celebration of my 100th column in this esteemed paper — The Manila Times — I am very excited to share with you the views of one of the climate scientists that I admire and follow — no less than professor Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University in the United States. In 2019, she was recognized as Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers and United Nations Champions of the Earth. I have followed her speaking engagements worldwide and have cited her works in my presentations.

One common question that admired climate scientist Hayhoe has been getting these days, as she shared in her Twitter account, is: “What does coronavirus disease — Covid-19 — have to do with climate change?”

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