(27 June) “Are there ‘solutions’ to global environmental change?” – read my new blog post at The Merton Stone, the blog of the Science, Sustainability and Society (3S) Group.
Author: Mike Hulme
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(20 June) My Copenhagen Sustainability Lecture is tomorrow – Thursday 21 June at 10am – at the University of Copenhagen. The script of my speech can be downloaded here.
Video: Imagining Change
(16 April) Imagining Change: Coastal Conversations is a new 17 minute film which features three projects from the AHRC Lanscape and Environment Programme for which I was an advisor. The film showcases different kinds of creative engagements between arts and humanities scholars and coastal landscapes and is suggestive of how environmental sciences and humanities can together understand the cultural dimensions […]
Two new pre-publications
(21 May) Two new pre-publication manuscripts: a review article for Progress in Physical Geography on ‘Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection‘ and a chapter ‘How climate models gain and exercise authority‘ for a forthcoming Routledge book edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup ‘The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature’. This latter is […]
Climate Science and the Changing Nature of Uncertainty
Workshop “Climate science and the changing nature of uncertainty” – Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May.
Climate knowledge and anthropology
(13 April) The April issue of Current Anthropology features an interdisciplinary forum addressing the communication of cultural knowledge of environmental change. Titled “Communicating Climate Knowledge: Proxies, Processes, Politics,” the forum is the product of discussion at a Climate Histories conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2011. I make a small contribution.
Mike Mann and the ‘unwinnable war’
(31 March) NEW. My review of Mike Mann’s book ‘The Hockey-Stick and the Climate Wars’ is now published at Nature Climate Change.
Key questions in science-policy research
(10 March) NEW Publication: Sutherland,W.J. … Hulme,M. and 49 co-authors (2012) A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda PLoS ONE 7(3), e31824 which lays out 40 key questions about the interaction between science and policy which deserve research attention. Nature have a commentary on the paper “The ‘most important questions’ in science-policy short-listed“.
New review of Why We Disagree …
(28 February) A new review of Why We Disagree About Climate Change has been published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol.65(5), pp.621-622, written by Vigya Sharma. Worldwide sales of the book have now passed 13,000.
“Telling a different tale”
(11 February) My article “‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave” has been published in Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0400-1. It is part of a forthcoming special issue on ‘Cultural spaces of climate’ edited by Georgina Endfield.
