(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.
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(12 November 2012) ‘What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?’ I have a new Working Paper posted on the 3S web-site, derived from a series of talks I have given over the last few months.
Climate change and food security: health impacts in developed countries
(1 November 2012) NEW Publication: Lake,I.R., Hooper,L., Abdelhamid,A., Bentham,G., Boxall,A., Draper,A., Fairweather-Tait,S. Hulme,M., Hunter,P.R., Nichols,G. and Waldron,K. (2012) Climate change and food security: health impacts in developed countries Environmental Health Perspectives 120(11), 1520-1526
A review of ‘Climate change and society’
(2 October 2012) My review of John Urry’s book — Urry,J. (2011) Climate change and society Polity Press, Cambridge, 217pp. — has been published here in a Book Review Symposium in the journal Sociology.
