Hulme,M. (2017) Calculating the incalculable: is SAI the lesser of two evils? Ethics and International Affairs 31(4), 507-512 Hulme,M. (2017) Climate change (concept of) Entry in: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology (eds.) Richardson,D., Castree,N., Goodchild,M.F., Kobayashi,A.L., Liu,W. and Marston,R., John Wiley & Sons, Malden, Oxford, 9,120pp. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0343 Hulme,M. […]
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Telling one story, or many? An ecolinguistic analysis of climate change stories in UK national newspaper editorials
This article, co-written with one of my Master’s students from King’s College London–Cherry Norton, has been published today in the journal Geoforum. The abstract is reproduced below. Media reporting of climate change plays a key role in shaping public perceptions and influencing climate policy. Scholarly debates about the representation of climate change in the mass […]
Major Publications 2018
Castree,N., Hulme,M. and Proctor,J.D. (eds.) (2018) Companion to environmental studies Routledge, Abingdon, 848pp. Gannon,K.E. and Hulme,M. (2018) Geoengineering ‘at the edge of the world’: exploring perceptions of ocean fertilization through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation GEO: Geography and Environment 5(1), e00054, 21pp. Hulme,M. (2018) “Gaps” in climate change knowledge: Do they exist? Can they be […]
Prospective PhD Students
I am interested to receive approaches from students who would like to study for a PhD with me in the areas of the cultural history of climate change, STS approaches to studying climate science and knowledge, representations and discourses of climate in the media, and the philosophy of climate and climate change. Please state clearly your […]
Climatism and the Reification of Global Temperature
Over the last 40 years global-mean surface air temperature – ‘global temperature’ for short – has gained an extraordinary role in the science, politics and public discourse of climate change. What was once a number crudely calculated through averaging...
Against climate emergency
The recent Special Report from the IPCC on Global Warming of 1.5C (IPCC SR15) has (again) heightened the climate change rhetoric and generated another splurge of dramatic headlines: ‘We have 12 more years to limit climate change catastrophe’, ‘World...
Geoengineering at ‘the edge of the world’
This new paper, co-authored with Kate Gannon from LSE and based on her PhD completed under my supervision, is now on-line in the journal GEO: Geography and Environment. Drawing upon ethnography amongst the Haida peoples of British Columbia, it...
Cultures of Climate – Sydney, 23 April
As part of the Australian Museum’s HumanNature series of public talks, I shall be speaking on Monday 23 April, at 6pm in the Museum, on the topic ‘Cultures of Climate’. In this talk, based on my book Weathered: Cultures of Climate, I examine how different cultures give shape and meaning to the idea of climate. […]
Weather-Worlds in the Anthropocene and the End of Climate
This new essay has been written as a contribution to a collaborative double issue of the journal Weber with the Rachel Carson Center, on the theme ‘Transformations of the Anthropocene’. It is scheduled to appear in autumn 2018 (Issue...
Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?
In a forthcoming article in Ethics and International Affairs, Christopher J. Preston uses the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit...