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 […]
What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?
(1 November 2013) Read my new blog post ‘What do citizens and scientists expect of each other?’ Over the last couple of weeks I have found myself in three very different settings in which challenging questions have been asked about the relationship between scientific knowledge and personal belief and social behaviour. Each time this has […]
The future of nature: documents of global change
(31 October) This new book from Yale University Press – ‘The future of nature: documents of global change’ – is newly published. It contains a commentary by me on John Tyndall’s original 1859 experiments into the greenhouse effect and also includes an abridged version of my 2011 Osiris article ‘Reducing the future to climate’, which […]
Climate knowledge and international politics
(13 October) ‘Climate knowledge and international politics – the future of the IPCC’. As the IPCC meets this week to consider its future assessment strategy, read my new essay posted at e-International Relations.
The public life of climate change: the first 25 years
(27 September) ‘The public life of climate change: the first 25 years’. A new essay marking the 25th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s speech on climate change to the Royal Society: 27 September 1988.
Podcast: A more pragmatic politics of climate change
(27 September) ‘Podcast: a more pragmatic politics of climate change is needed, not more weighty science’. Listen to my thoughts following the IPCC’s latest scientific assessment.
