(25 May) NEW Publication. “Climate and its changes: a cultural appraisal” published in the new Open-Access journal from the Royal Geographical Society, GEO: Geography and Environment.
‘Climate’ – a Lexicon entry
(24 May) NEW Publication. “Climate” — an entry in the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities.
Why fossil fuel divestment is a misguided tactic
(17 April) ‘Why fossil fuel divestment is a misguided tactic‘. Read my latest comment at The Guardian.
Who speaks for the future of Earth? How critical social scientists can extend the conversation of the Anthropocene
(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.
‘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‘.
