(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.
Books Published
Hulme,M. (2013) Exploring climate change through science and in society: an anthology of Mike Hulme’s essays, interviews and speeches Routledge, Abingdon, 353pp. Hulme,M. and Neufeldt,H. (eds.) (2010) Making climate change work for us: European perspectives on adaptation and mitigation...
Knowledge, authority and the construction of climate change
(22 August 2013) I am an international collaborator on this project, Cultures of Prediction, led by Professor Matthias Heymann at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. It is funded by the Danish Research Council and examines the emergence of climate modeling as a culture of prediction in the formative period between ca. 1960 and 1985. Climate modeling has […]
An editorial on WIREs Climate Change
(19 August) ‘WIREs Climate Change after 4 years: an editorial’. I have written a new editorial reflecting on the first four years of the journal and also the changing academic publishing landscape around the topic of climate change.
Climate change and the art of memory
(19 August) I shall be joining novelist Maggie Gee, eco-critic Greg Garrard and philosopher Claire Colebrook to discuss ‘Climate change and the art of memory’ at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 7pm on Wednesday 9 October.
What has changed since Climategate?
(9 August) ‘The 97.1% consensus’. While I was away on holiday, my criticism at Making Science Public of the Cook et al. study in Environmental Research Letters attracted a fair amount of comment on several climate blogs (for example see here). In partial response I have posted here an extract from one of my new […]
‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’
(7 August) I have a short on-line commentary ‘400ppm: symbolism, dread and panic’ at Society and Space (Environment & Planning D), one of a number of essays commenting on the Mauna Loa CO2 concentration exceeding 400ppm for the first time.
Should politics really be taken out of climate change?
(10 July) ‘Should the politics really be taken out of climate change?’ See my short comment over at the 3S Blog on a recent Guardian on-line commentary calling for Australian climate policy to be set by experts not politicians.
Climate change and virtue: an apologetic
(13 May) ‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’. The transcript for my Annual Religious Studies Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, 1 May 2013, can be found here.
