(22 December) NEW: A personal narrative of my research career, showing how my ideas about climate change have evolved since I was an undergraduate student (1978-1981) and placing my publications into this historical account.
Author: Mike Hulme
Sheila Jasanoff lecture
(20 December) Professor Sheila Jasanoff from Harvard University will be giving a public lecture at UEA on Wednesday 18 January 2012, 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre 2, on “Trust in science: public accountability and the lessons of ‘climategate’”. This is an inaugural lecture for the newly formed Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Group in the School of Environmental Sciences.
Financial Interests and Funding
In the interests of openness and transparency I here declare my professional sources of income and the funders of my research over recent years. I am employed by the UEA as a professor and receive a negotiable professorial salary. I also receive an annual honorarium of £5,000 from Wiley-Blackwell in recognition of my duties as Editor-in-Chief […]
Transparency and the limits of ‘see-through knowledge’
(17 December) “Transparency and the limits of ‘see-through’ knowledge” – my unpublished essay on the drive for limitless scientific knowledge and for total transparancy in social relations and what we may lose along the way.
Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding?
(11 November) Read my policy forum article on this topic, published today in Science. We argue that claims that attributing extreme weather events to human influence has relevance for the allocation of existing and new international climate adaptation funds are misguided and unhelpful. Cited as: Hulme,M., O’Neill,S.J. and Dessai,S. (2011) is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation […]
BEST, peer review and public knowledge
The most interesting thing about the public release yesterday of the first results from Berkeley’s Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is their timing. It is no surprise to me – nor to most people who have ever ‘got their hands dirty’ working with climate data – that the BEST curve closely follows the three other […]
November speaking dates
(16 October) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change at two new venues: on Wednesday morning 2 November in Amsterdam at the 6th Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Symposium and on the evening of Tuesday 15 November at Trinity College, Dublin, to the Dublin University Geographical Society.
How do climate models ‘move’?
(18 October) My paper with Martin Mahony – ‘Model migrations: mobility and boundary crossings in regional climate prediction’ – has been published on-line at Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. This is an exploration of the outreach of the Met Office’s PRECIS model, drawing upon theory from STS and geographies of science.
Symposium at Wageningen
(29 September) ‘Climate change: knowledge, risk and governance’ – I shall be speaking at this symposium at Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University on Tuesday 1 November (0900-1600hrs), along with Prof Marjolein van Asselt from Maastricht University.
Talk at Off the Shelf Festival in Sheffield.
(5 September) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change on Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm, at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Reading and Writing Festival. Venue: The Auditorium, University of Sheffield.
