(3 October 2012) ‘On the two degrees policy target’. I have written this short essay (read here: see pp.122-125), explaining why ‘two degrees’ is unhelpful as a policy target, as a contribution to the newly published book edited by Ottmar Edenhofer and colleagues — Climate change, justice and sustainability: linking climate and development policy Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 380pp.
News
The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram
(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.
Religion and climate change
(26 September 2012) ‘How the world’s religions are responding to climate change: social scientific investigations’. This new book is to be published by Routledge next year, edited by Haluza-DeLay, Veldman and Szasz. I have written a short Forward to the book which can be accessed here.
IPBES: learning from the IPCC
(23 August) IPBES: learning from the IPCC. I have co-authored a Commentary in Nature in which we draw lessons from the IPCC experience about how knowledge, culture and policy can better be brought together in international assessments. Turnhout,E., Bloomfield,B., Hulme,M., Vogel,J. and Wynne,B. (2012) Conservation policy: listen to the voices of experience Nature 488, 454-455.
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(20 June) My Copenhagen Sustainability Lecture is tomorrow – Thursday 21 June at 10am – at the University of Copenhagen. The script of my speech can be downloaded here.
Two new pre-publications
(21 May) Two new pre-publication manuscripts: a review article for Progress in Physical Geography on ‘Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection‘ and a chapter ‘How climate models gain and exercise authority‘ for a forthcoming Routledge book edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup ‘The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature’. This latter is […]
Climate Science and the Changing Nature of Uncertainty
Workshop “Climate science and the changing nature of uncertainty” – Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May.
Climate knowledge and anthropology
(13 April) The April issue of Current Anthropology features an interdisciplinary forum addressing the communication of cultural knowledge of environmental change. Titled “Communicating Climate Knowledge: Proxies, Processes, Politics,” the forum is the product of discussion at a Climate Histories conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2011. I make a small contribution.
Mike Mann and the ‘unwinnable war’
(31 March) NEW. My review of Mike Mann’s book ‘The Hockey-Stick and the Climate Wars’ is now published at Nature Climate Change.
Key questions in science-policy research
(10 March) NEW Publication: Sutherland,W.J. … Hulme,M. and 49 co-authors (2012) A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda PLoS ONE 7(3), e31824 which lays out 40 key questions about the interaction between science and policy which deserve research attention. Nature have a commentary on the paper “The ‘most important questions’ in science-policy short-listed“.
