(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.
Publications – Recent
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 […]
(Mis-)representing Gulf Stream collapse
NEW publication in print (17 November) Jennings,N. and Hulme,M. (2010) UK newspaper (mis-)representations of the potential for a collapse of the thermohaline circulation Area 42(4), 444-456
Exploring complexity, plurality and opportunity
(13 October) New publication: Hulme,M. (2010) The idea of climate change – exploring complexity, plurality and opportunity GAIA 19(3), 171-174
Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge
(20 October) Read my extended essay ‘Problems with making and governing global kinds of knowledge’ appearing in the 20th Anniversary Issue, 2010, Volume 20(4), pp.558-564, of the journal Global Environmental Change.
An Analysis of the 2009 IARU Copenhagen Congress
New Publication (6 October) O’Neill,S.J., Hulme,M., Turnpenny,J. and Screen,J.A. (2010) Disciplines, geography and gender in the framing of climate change Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 91(8), 997-1002
Adjudicating on Kilimanjaro’s glaciers
New Publication (16 September) Hulme,M. (2010) ‘Claiming and adjudicating on Kilimanjaro’s glaciers: Guy Callendar, Al Gore and extended peer communities’ Science as Culture 19(3), 303-326
