My selection of five great reads about the contested meanings of climate change has been posted at Shepherd’s, a new platform seeking to re-create something of the joy and serendipity of browsing the shelves of a real bookstore. As...
Books
A Critical Assessment of the IPCC
Today, my colleague Kari De Pryck and I submitted our completed book manuscript about the IPCC to Cambridge University Press. This book will appear, open-access, in the autumn as … De Pryck, K. and Hulme, M. (eds.) (2022) A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press. The edited book introduces […]
How to Frame Climate Change
This interview for the ‘Sustainability Agenda’ podcast with Fergal Byrne covers my expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs in general, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change– a reductionist framing of...
‘Climate Change’: A Synopsis
My new book on climate change, in the Key Ideas in Geography series from Routledge, is published on 27 July 2021. You can pre-order paperback or Kindle editions now with a 20% discount. Here is a synopsis of the...
‘Climate Change’ — Pre-Publication Overview
There is now a web-site for my forthcoming book ‘Climate Change (Key Ideas in Geography)’ from Routledge, where you can find the publication details, summary of contents and pre-publication reviews. The publication date is 27 July 2021. You can...
Is the concept of climate ‘tipping point’ helpful?
A new paper published today in Nature Communications suggest that “shifts in Earth ecosystems occur over ‘human’ timescales of years and decades, meaning the collapse of large vulnerable ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest and Caribbean coral reefs, may...
Climate change and Syrian war
Marwa Daoudy, a political scientist from Georgetown University, Washington DC, has just published her new book with Cambridge University Press — ‘The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security‘. Daoudy examines critically the claim that the...
Climate Change in Court
Last Friday, 17 January, a US court “reluctantly” quashed a climate lawsuit brought by 21 young people against the US government. The judge determined that “the plaintiffs’ impressive case for redress must be presented to the political branches of...
Published today: Contemporary Climate Change Debates
Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is published today—Thursday 12 December–and your pre-ordered copies will be on their way to you. Routledge are presently offering a special publication price when ordered through them of £27.99 for paperback and...
Pre-order Climate Change Debates
My new book Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer is now advertised and available for pre-order. Read what the reviewers think of it. An e-book version will also be forthcoming after publication. You can read my Preface which...
