Mike Hulme

(4 December) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity.  The citation says “How global warming has been transformed from a physical phenomenon that is measurable and observable by scientists into a social, cultural and political one, by a professor of climate change at the (now controversial) University of East Anglia. In the crowded and noisy world of climate-change publications, this book will stand out.” 

Read these reviews of Why We Disagree About Climate Change, by:

Karim Bardeesy from Toronto’s The Globe and Mail reviews it here alongside Al Gore’s Our Choice and James Hoggan’s Climate Cover-up.  She says, “Hulme’s open-minded approach can be used to help people who feel a nagging concern about climate change figure out the source of their concern and define what to do about it more clearly.”

Professor Gwyn Prins in the journal International Affairs  2009 (Nov), 85(6),  1261-1262

Sustainability Forum com review the book here. 

Ralph Underhill in the journal ECOS: a review of conservation,  2009 (Summer), 30(2),  100-102

(December)  Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.

ALL IN THE MIND.  Listen to this discussion on Australian national radio about my book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change.  I join anthropologist Jonathan Marshall and presenter Natasha Mitchell to discuss mythology, mental ecology and a changing climate.  Full transcript available.

(10 November)  Read my extended interview with Brazilian on-line magazine Pagina 22 (in Portuguese, but Google will translate for you) in which I draw out some of the implications of the arguments in my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change.

(23 October)  New York Times energy-environment blog interviews Mike Hulme on the idea of global climate engineering and how it relates to the arguments in his book Why We Disagree About Climate Change.

See here my essay ’Why We Disagree About Climate Change’ which appeared in the first edition (2009/10) of The Carbon Yearbook: the annual review of business and climate change, published by ENDS for the UK’s first Carbon Show.

(9 October 2009)   Why We Disagree About Climate Change is featured as the ‘book of the week’ at Rorotoko – the on-line venue for engaging the ideas behind contemporary books.  See the interview here and the author page here.

(2 October 2009) Andy Revkin of the New York Times has selected for the October edition of Nature Reports Climate Change my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change as his ‘must-read’ book for understanding the upcoming COP15 at Copenhagen in December.

I shall be presenting the argument from my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change, and responding to audience questions at the Battle of Ideas Bookshop Barnie at 1.30pm on Saturday 31 October 2009, at the Royal College of Art, London.