The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press. The first of these – the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us – is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), […]
Author: Mike Hulme
Op-eds on science and politics
(3 December) THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.
Climate Change (AGW): Let’s take it seriously
(December) Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.
The lessons from ‘ClimateGate’
(1 December) ‘SHOW YOUR WORKING’: What ClimateGate means. Read this Green Room Commentary, written with Jerry Ravetz, from the BBC News On-line web site.
10th most cited author on climate change
(November 2009) Thomson Reuters reports Mike Hulme as the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009 (ScienceWatch, Nov/Dec 2009, see Table 2).
‘All in the mind’
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.
Climate change: a ‘means’ for various ‘ends’
(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.
Expectations for COP15 and alternative strategies
(16 November) Read my commentary on The Ecologist website about why we shouldn’t expect much from the Copenhagen negotiations, and thoughts about alternative strategies and, for a (very) different readership, at The Mail on-line.
Will Copenhagen climate summit succeed?
(10 November 2009) Listen here to Mike Hulme debating the prospects for COP15 in Copenhagen on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight – along with Cleo Pascal, Steve Rayner and Elliot Morley MP.
‘Believing’ in climate change
(November) WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ‘BELIEVE’ IN CLIMATE CHANGE? Read my reflections on the seminal UK legal case of Nicholson vs Grainger plc. in which an employment tribunal judge, Justice Sir Michael Burton, ruled on whether or not belief in climate change can be deemed to be ‘philosophical’.
