(6 February) ‘Can climate change be seen?’ You can see here my short remarks on this question which I prepared for a screening of the movie Chasing Ice, which was shown at King’s College London on Monday evening this week. The SoundCloud of the full public event, with supporting material, is available here.
Global warming is dead; long live global heating?
(4 February) ‘Global warming is dead; long live global heating?’ Together with Brigitte Nerlich and Warren Pearce, I explore the changing language of climate change, prompted by the hiatus in global temperature. This is posted as part of the Making Science Public programme at the University of Nottingham.
Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change
(4 February) I have this new post over at The Conversation: ‘Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change‘, reflecting on last week’s oral evidence to the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change into the latest IPCC report.
Debating climate engineering with David Keith
(2 December 2013) You can watch here on YouTube my debate with David Keith – ‘The Case For and Against Solar Climate Engineering’ – which took place at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, on Monday 2 December, 2013. My book ‘Can Science Fix Climate Change? A Case Against Climate Engineering’ is published April 2014 […]
Streitfall Klimawandel: warum wir uns in Kontroversen verlieren und dabei versaumen, das Klima zu retten
(9 January 2014) German translation of “Why We Disagree …”Streitfall Klimawandel: warum wir uns in Kontroversen verlieren und dabei versaumen, das Klima zu retten” will be published in March by Oekom publishers, price €25.
Major Publications 2013
Porter,K.E. and Hulme,M. (2013) The emergence of the geoengineering debate in the British print media: a frame analysis Geographical Journal 179(4), 342-355 Hulme,M. (2013) How climate models gain and exercise authority pp.30-44 (Chapter 2) in: The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature (eds.) Hastrup,K. and Skrydstrup,M., Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 240pp. Hulme,M. (2013) Lessons […]
AHRC PhD studentships in climate, history and culture
(2 December 2013) AHRC PhD studentships available at King’s College London in the area of climate, history and culture. Closing date 29 January 2014.
Rachel Carson Fellowship
(7 November 2013) I have been awarded a Carson Writing Fellowship for 2014 at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. This is a personal award and will allow me to spend 5 months from April-September 2014 as a Fellow of the Center. The Rachel Carson Center is part of […]
The public life of climate change: the first 25 years
(7 November) My public lecture at the Centre for International Governance and Innovation (CIGI) in Waterloo, given on Thursday 24 October 2013, is now up on-line here, along with the 40 minute Q&A session following the lecture.
‘Can the climate system be managed by humans?’
(1 November) My public lecture at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo on Thursday 24 October 2013, ‘The public life of climate change; the first 25 years’, has been blogged about here by Erin Baxter of CIGI … “Whether climate can be managed by humans is the question that set the scene for […]
