(28 February) “Can (and should) ‘loss and damage’ be attributed to climate change?” Read my new blog post over at The Fletcher Forum for World Affairs. Following Doha and the COP18, the ‘loss and damage’ agenda now has institutional force, and the coming months and years will see rounds of technical and political negotiation about […]
Writing and climate change
(26 February) I will be speaking alongside authors, poets and playwrights at the UEA Centre for Writing and Science’s day event on Saturday 25 May at the University of East Anglia: “Writing and climate change: the story so far … how do writers and scientists communicate the controversies of climate change? Register here.
The emergence of the geoengineering debate …
(27 February) NEW Paper: “The emergence of the geoengineering debate in the UK print media: a frame analysis” has been published on-line in The Geographical Journal, written with one of my PhD students, Kate Porter. Reference as: Porter,K.E. and Hulme,M. (2013) The emergence of the geoengineering debate in the British print media: a frame analysis The Geographical Journal […]
Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?
(13 February) “Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?” This was the title of my talk at last week’s STEPS Centre Conference on ‘Credibility across cultures‘. A longer version of this is being prepared for a book, but I have posted here a summary of my argument. It has also been picked up […]
What climate is – or should be – normal?
(30 January) ‘What climate is – or should be – normal?’ … my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. Does it matter that we have a proliforation of baseline climates from which deviations are calculated?
Environmental Politics: Scale and Power
(25 January) Read my review of Shannon O’Lear’s book Environmental Politics: Scale and Power, prepared for the current issue (2(3)) of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I conclude my review thus: “It is one thing to promote a critical reflexivity about the environment – which is something Environmental Politics: Scale and Power does very well. […]
How models gain and exercise authority
(25 November) NEW Publication: My chapter ‘How climate models gain and exercise authority’ is newly published Routledge book edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup ‘The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature’. The chapter is a written-up version of my talk in September 2010 to the Cambridge CRASSH meeting ‘Challenging models in the face of uncertainty’.
Paying more attention to uncertainties
(16 January) ‘Paying more attention to uncertainties’. See my new post over at The Merton Stone, the blog of the 3S Group here at UEA. I ask the question: have climate researchers paid more attention to ‘uncertainties’ in their work since Climategate? The answer is ‘yes’.
Major publications 2012
Hastrup,K., Schaffer,S., Kennel,C.F., Sneath,D., Bravo,M., Diemberger,H., Graf,H-F., Hobbs,J., Davs,J., Nodari,L., Vassena,G., Irvine,R., Evans,C., Strathern,M., Hulme,M., Kaser,G. and Bodenhorn,B. (2012) Communicating climate knowledge: proxies, processes, politics Current Anthropology 53(2), 226-244 Hulme,M. (2012) ‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological reading of a Norfolk heatwave Climatic Change 113(1), 5-21 Hulme,M. (2012) Climate change: Climate engineering […]
Debating climate change at the Institute of Economic Affairs
(Updated 26 November 2012) You can listen here to my opening remarks in the debate on the science and politics of climate change, held at the Institute of Economic Affairs on 23 November 2009.
