(13 April) NEW Publication. “Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social scientists can extend the conversation of the Anthropocene” has been accepted for publication in Global Environmental Change. Eva Lovbrand, myself and 6 co-authors argue that social scientists should not take for granted the framings of the Anthropocene offered by natural scientists.
News
‘Climate change: Inconvenient facts?’
(31 March) ‘Climate change: Inconvenient facts?’ Costing the Earth on BBC Radio 4, broadcast today 3.30pm (also tomorrow at 9pm). I am one of four panelists discussing what happens when observed climatic behaviour doesn’t conform to the standard climate change narrative. If both Michael Mann and Andrew Montford think it is a biased frame and a […]
‘Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate’
(30 March) NEW Publication: ‘Climate emergencies do not justify engineering the climate‘ recently published in Nature Climate Change. We argue that current climate engineering proposals do not come close to addressing the complex and contested nature of conceivable ‘climate emergencies’ resulting from unabated greenhouse-gas emissions.
Can science fix climate change? The case against climate engineering
(13 April 2015) Read these reviews of Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering: in Progress in Physical Geography (Noel Castree), from the London School of Economics (Amelia Sharman) and the Australian Institute of International Affairs...
Major publications 2014
Hulme,M. (2014) WIREs Climate Change after 4 years: an editorial essay WIREs Climate Change 5(1), 1-5 Beck,S. …., Hulme,M. … and 14 co-authors (2014) Towards a reflexive turn in the governance of global environmental expertise. The cases of the IPCC and the IPBES GAiA 23/2, 80–87 Hulme,M. (2014) Climate change and virtue: an apologetic Humanities […]
Why We Disagree About Climate Change … top 20 influential books
(11 November 2015) Top 20 ‘most influential books’. For their academic book week, Cambridge University Press have selected 20 books that have most “influenced policy-making, contributed to social change and altered the intellectual landscape“. Included in their top 20,...
‘The collapse of Oreskes and Conway’
(10 November) Book Review: ‘The collapse of Oreskes and Conway’, my review, published on H-HistGeog, of Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway’s recent novelette ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization‘.
Does this climate narrative really change anything?
(24 September) Book Review: ‘Does this climate narrative really change anything?’ Read my review for New Scientist of Naomi Klein’s new book ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate’.
Why we need to stop talking about ‘geo-engineering’
(27 August) Blog Post: Why we need to stop talking about ‘geo-engineering‘. Lumping all geo-engineering techniques under one label risks making sensible options guilty by association.
Making tracks to the Rachel Carson Center
(25 August 2014) Read here my blog post at the Rachel Carson Center, outlining my interest in weather and culture and my progression from studying climate change through statistics to studying it through environmental humanities.
