(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.
On the ‘two degrees’ policy target
(3 October 2012) ‘On the two degrees policy target’. I have written this short essay (read here: see pp.122-125), explaining why ‘two degrees’ is unhelpful as a policy target, as a contribution to the newly published book edited by Ottmar Edenhofer and colleagues — Climate change, justice and sustainability: linking climate and development policy Springer, Dordrecht, Germany, 380pp.
The colour of risk: the IPCC’s ‘burning embers’ diagram
(6 October 2012) NEW Publication: Mahony,M. and Hulme,M. (2012) ‘The colour of risk: an exploration of the IPCC’s “burning embers” diagram’ Spontaneous Generation: a Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6(1), 75-89. Written with one of my PhD students, this paper examines the problems of representing visually the abstract risks associated with climate change.
