(15 July 2014) Recorded extracts from my evening event at Stratum Lounge in Berlin last month, discussing my book Streitfall Klimawandel, can be found here.
Author: Mike Hulme
‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’
(30 June 2014) NEW Paper: “Climate change and virtue: an apologetic” as part of the special issue on The Challenges of the Humanities of the open-access journal Humanities.
Attributing weather extremes to ‘climate change’
(11 June) NEW Paper: “Attributing weather extremes to ‘climate change’: A review” has been published on-line at Progress in Physical Geography. If you don’t have access to the journal then the original submitted version is found here.
Governance of global expertise
(28 May) NEW Paper : ‘Towards a reflexive turn in the governance of global expertise’, published in the journal GAiA and co-authored with Silke Beck and 14 others. The role and design of global expert organizations such as the IPCC or IPBES needs rethinking. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, we suggest a […]
Why we should not engineer a global thermostat
(1 May 2014) ‘Why we should not engineer a global thermostat‘. Read my blog at the Climate Engineering Conference 2014 website, which summarises the argument of my recent book, ‘Can Science Fix Climate Change?’ This was reviewed by Tim Kruger in last week’s issue Nature.
Climate and Cultures
(29 June) NEW Book Series. ‘Climates and cultures: the SAGE Library of the Environment‘. My six volume edited set contains 88 important journal articles and book chapters from the last 25 years dealing with: 1.Cultures of Climate Knowledge, 2.Historical...
Affiliations and Influences
This page summarises my professional and personal networks, roles and affiliations, revealing some of the responsibilities and influences that shape my thinking. Journals Since September 2007 I have been the founding Editor-in-Chief of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) Climate Change, whose first issue was published in January 2010. From 2003 to 2009 I co-edited with Neil Adger and Kate […]
Climate change: one, or many?
(8 April) “Climate Change: One, or Many?” On Tuesday 8 April I gave a talk in the opening Presidential Session of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Tampa, Florida. The slides from the talk are available here.
The colour of risk
(4 April) NEW Publication: This study of the history of the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram, newly incarnated in the AR5 WG2 Report’s Summary for Policy Makers, has just been published in Birgit Schneider and Thomas Nocke’s new book ‘Image politics of climate change’ … Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2014) The colour of risk: expert judgement and […]
‘Culture and climate change communication’
(2 March) I have a short commentary on the Section ‘Culture and climate change communication’ included in this newly published book, ‘Culture, politics and climate change: how information shapes our common future‘ (eds.) Crow,D.A. and Boykoff,M.T., Routledge, 252pp.
