(29 January 2010) Read my thoughts on the future of climate policy in the light of Copenhagen, as interviewed for Nature Reports Climate Change.
Audio & Video
The end of a ‘unified framework’
(12 January) Read my comments on the outcome of COP15 here at Seed Magazine.com, a US-based e-magazine reflecting on science, culture, innovation and society. My argument is that we must use the 12 months until Mexico City to cut our losses and rethink a more pragmatic set of approaches for managing climate and its attendant risks.
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’.
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.
‘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.
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’.
Mike Hulme in India
Listen in to my on-line interview with India’s first and most respected science-and-environment magazine, Down to Earth, recorded during my recent visit to India. Read too my interview with The Times of India on why we need more politics in climate change debates.
Why we disagree about climate change
I shall be presenting the argument of my book Why We Disagree About Climate at a seminar at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, 75 George Street, Oxford, on Tuesday 24 November at 5pm.
