(1 November 2012) NEW Publication: Lake,I.R., Hooper,L., Abdelhamid,A., Bentham,G., Boxall,A., Draper,A., Fairweather-Tait,S. Hulme,M., Hunter,P.R., Nichols,G. and Waldron,K. (2012) Climate change and food security: health impacts in developed countries Environmental Health Perspectives 120(11), 1520-1526
Publications – Recent
On the ‘two degrees’ policy target
(3 October 2012) ‘On the two degrees policy target’. I have written this short essay (read here: see pp.122-125), explaining why ‘two degrees’ is unhelpful as a policy target, as a contribution to the newly published book edited by Ottmar Edenhofer and colleagues — Climate change, justice and sustainability: linking climate and development policy Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 380pp.
The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram
(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.
IPBES: learning from the IPCC
(23 August) IPBES: learning from the IPCC. I have co-authored a Commentary in Nature in which we draw lessons from the IPCC experience about how knowledge, culture and policy can better be brought together in international assessments. Turnhout,E., Bloomfield,B., Hulme,M., Vogel,J. and Wynne,B. (2012) Conservation policy: listen to the voices of experience Nature 488, 454-455.
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 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.
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“.
“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.
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 […]
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.
