(3 February 2010) Read here on SciDev.net my thoughts about the mini-crisis now afflicting the IPCC.
News
The road from Copenhagen: the expert’s views
(29 January 2010) Read my thoughts on the future of climate policy in the light of Copenhagen, as interviewed for Nature Reports Climate Change.
Claims About Mountain Glaciers
(23 January 2010) Mountain glaciers have been very much in the news with the recent controversy about erroneous IPCC claims of disappearing Himalayan glaciers. I have a paper ‘in press’ with the journal Science as Culture about another controversy about disappearing mountain glaciers, this time those on Mt Kilimanjaro. You can read it here – Claiming and adjudicating […]
The end of a ‘unified framework’
(12 January) Read my comments on the outcome of COP15 here at Seed Magazine.com, a US-based e-magazine reflecting on science, culture, innovation and society. My argument is that we must use the 12 months until Mexico City to cut our losses and rethink a more pragmatic set of approaches for managing climate and its attendant risks.
Chosen by The Economist as one of the ‘books of the year’
(4 December) One of The Economist magazine’s select ‘Books of the year’: Why We Disagree About Climate Change: understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. The citation says “How global warming has been transformed from a physical phenomenon that is measurable and observable by scientists into a social, cultural and political one, by a professor of climate […]
Book Projects
The results of the ADAM Project will be published through a mini-series of four books from Cambridge University Press. The first of these – the synthesis volume, Making Climate Change Work For Us – is now published (see below), and the three other books will appear from CUP early in 2010: Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012 (eds. Biermann et al.), […]
Op-eds on science and politics
(3 December) THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. Read my reflections on the relationship between the science and politics of climate change in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and a second take on the same matter in The Guardian newspaper, ‘Laboratories’ Outer Limits’.
Climate Change (AGW): Let’s take it seriously
(December) Read this review and interesting interpretation of Why We Disagree About Climate Change from Richard D North.
The lessons from ‘ClimateGate’
(1 December) ‘SHOW YOUR WORKING’: What ClimateGate means. Read this Green Room Commentary, written with Jerry Ravetz, from the BBC News On-line web site.
10th most cited author on climate change
(November 2009) Thomson Reuters reports Mike Hulme as the 10th most cited author in the world in the field of climate change, between 1999 and 2009 (ScienceWatch, Nov/Dec 2009, see Table 2).
