http://mikehulme.org Professor Mike Hulme's Site Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:16:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (August)   Read my review of Wolfgang Behringer's book  'A Cultural History of Climate' at the on-line Reviews in History. http://mikehulme.org/2010/08/review-of-a-cultural-history-of-climate/ (24 August)   Read my extended essay 'Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge' to appear in the 20th Anniversary Issue of the journal Global Environmental Change. http://mikehulme.org/2010/08/problems-with-making-and-governing-global-kinds-of-knowledge/ I am giving a number of public/invited talks, lectures and panel debates this autumn, which seek to develop some of the themes of my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change and apply them to new questions emerging in science, policy and society. Thursday 2 September, 6.45pm (RGS, London) - 'Enquiring into ... http://mikehulme.org/2010/08/autumn-speaking-schedule/ (21 July)   'The IPCC on trial: experimentation continues'   Read my Talking Point essay at Environmental Research Web. http://mikehulme.org/2010/07/the-experimental-nature-of-the-ipcc/ (8 July)  New Publication   My extended essay 'Learning to live with recreated climates' has just been published in the journal Nature & Culture. http://mikehulme.org/2010/07/learning-to-live-with-novel-climates/ On 28 June 2010, I shall be part of a panel discussion, hosted by The Royal Society and the Science & Democracy Network, addressing the question: 'The experimental society: what happens when evidence, uncertainty and politics collide?'  Places are still available. http://mikehulme.org/2010/06/the-experimental-society/ NEW Publication (June).   ‘What do we know about the IPCC?’   This review article – Hulme & Mahony, 2010 - has been published on-line in the journal Progress in Physical Geography.  The article surveys all of the significant published research from the early 1990s onwards about how the IPCC works and what impacts its knowledge assessments have had. (15 ... http://mikehulme.org/2010/06/what-do-we-know-about-the-ipcc/ (7 June)  'Climate intervention schemes could be undone by geopolitics'.  Read my opinion article posted here at Yale environment 360, which includes a scenario of the year 2028 when the first solar radiation management intervention scheme is sanctioned by the UN Secutiry Council. http://mikehulme.org/2010/06/could-climate-intervention-schemes-ever-work/ (28 May)  'The climate change debates'.  The journal Science has commissioned a review essay by philosopher of science Philip Kitcher in which he assesses the arguments put forward in a number of recent books about climate change, including Why We Disagree About Climate Change.  There is an on-line forum to discuss the ... http://mikehulme.org/2010/05/the-climate-change-debates/ (28 May)  In Philip Kitcher's wide-ranging essay in Science on 'The Climate Change Debates' I am struck by two things - which are not very new, but which are very important. First, is how the framing and public discourse around climate change differs between countries: as Kitcher puts it, where 'societies ... http://mikehulme.org/2010/05/response-to-philip-kitcher/