(5 September) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change on Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm, at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Reading and Writing Festival. Venue: The Auditorium, University of Sheffield.
News
How to report a scientific consensus – impartially
(9 August) How to report a scientific consensus – impartially. Read my comments on last month’s report into the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of science.
Science-policy interface: beyond assessments
(8 August) The participants of the Leipzig workshop on the role of nested networks in the design of the new Intergovernmenal Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have correspondence in the journal Science this week. We suggest the IPCC is not a suitable model for IPBES to follow.
Climate Pragmatism
(26 July) Read Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience and No-Regrets, a new policy report for the USA released July 26 by the Hartwell group.
Framing climate change
(5 July) ‘You’ve been framed: six new ways to understand climate change’. I join in The Conversation down-under about climate change, public engagement and policy development. Translations into French and Chinese are available.
Paper published in Osiris
(20 June) My article ‘Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism’ is published today in the history of science journal Osiris, Vol.26(1), pp.245-266. If you don’t have access to the journal, a version of the submitted manuscript is available here.
How to design IPBES
(17 June) ‘Making a difference with IPBES’. The outcome of the Leipzig workshop I participated in on the role of nested networks in the design of the new Intergovernmenal Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has been posted here. We suggest the IPCC is not a suitable model for IPBES to follow.
New review of Why We Disagree …
(16 June) A new review of Why We Disagree About Climate Change has just been published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management … ‘there are many ways to use Hulme’s book in teaching …’
Restructuring climate policy for a partisan era
(17 June) You can now watch on the ABC web-site ‘Big Ideas’ my public lecture – ‘Restructuring climate policy for a partisan era’ – at the Hot Science, Global Citizens symposium in Sydney, 5th May.
New speaking engagements
(20 May) Forthcoming speaking engagements. I shall be contributing to a symposium on ‘Climate politics beyond the predictive paradigm’ at the University of Lancaster, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, on Thursday 2 June, 3-6pm. At the Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen on Thursday 9 June, 6pm, I shall be giving a public lecture ‘Climate change: what […]
