Paper published in Osiris

(20 June)  My article ‘Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism’ is published today in the history of science journal Osiris, Vol.26(1), pp.245-266.  If you don’t have access to the journal, a version of the submitted manuscript is available here.

Understanding perceptions of abrupt climate change

(1 May)  “Beyond the ‘tipping point’: understanding perceptions of abrupt climate change and their implications”  This manuscript, co-authored with one of my students, has now been published in the journal Weather, Climate and Society.  It reports an empirical study using Cultural Theory of how peoples beliefs affect their perceptions of proposed ‘tipping points’ in the Earth system.

Explorations of a heatwave

(3 March)  I have a new paper which is under review for the journal Climatic Change as part of a special issue edited by Georgina Endfield.  “‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave” is an exploration of how climatic episodes can be imagined and studied in different ways, each of which yields […]

Shakespeare’s Climate

(11 February)  Read about ‘Shakespeare’s climate’, an essay which I have written to appear in the forthcoming The Cambridge Shakespeare Encyclopedia:  Vol.1 Mapping Shakespeare’s World, edited by Bruce Smith.

Reducing the future to climate

(11 January 2011)  “Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism”  This manuscript has been accepted by the history of science journal Osiris and will appear in the summer of 2011 in a special collection of papers ‘Klima’, an exploration of cultural histories of climate change edited by Jim Fleming and […]