(21 May) Two new pre-publication manuscripts: a review article for Progress in Physical Geography on ‘Climate engineering through stratospheric aerosol injection‘ and a chapter ‘How climate models gain and exercise authority‘ for a forthcoming Routledge book edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup ‘The social life of climate change models: anticipating nature’. This latter is […]
Climate Science and the Changing Nature of Uncertainty
Workshop “Climate science and the changing nature of uncertainty” – Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May.
Climate knowledge and anthropology
(13 April) The April issue of Current Anthropology features an interdisciplinary forum addressing the communication of cultural knowledge of environmental change. Titled “Communicating Climate Knowledge: Proxies, Processes, Politics,” the forum is the product of discussion at a Climate Histories conference held at the University of Cambridge in 2011. I make a small contribution.
Mike Mann and the ‘unwinnable war’
(31 March) NEW. My review of Mike Mann’s book ‘The Hockey-Stick and the Climate Wars’ is now published at Nature Climate Change.
Key questions in science-policy research
(10 March) NEW Publication: Sutherland,W.J. … Hulme,M. and 49 co-authors (2012) A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda PLoS ONE 7(3), e31824 which lays out 40 key questions about the interaction between science and policy which deserve research attention. Nature have a commentary on the paper “The ‘most important questions’ in science-policy short-listed“.
New review of Why We Disagree …
(28 February) A new review of Why We Disagree About Climate Change has been published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol.65(5), pp.621-622, written by Vigya Sharma. Worldwide sales of the book have now passed 13,000.
“Telling a different tale”
(11 February) My article “‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave” has been published in Climatic Change DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0400-1. It is part of a forthcoming special issue on ‘Cultural spaces of climate’ edited by Georgina Endfield.
My research career narrative
(22 December) NEW: A personal narrative of my research career, showing how my ideas about climate change have evolved since I was an undergraduate student (1978-1981) and placing my publications into this historical account.
Sheila Jasanoff lecture
(20 December) Professor Sheila Jasanoff from Harvard University will be giving a public lecture at UEA on Wednesday 18 January 2012, 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre 2, on “Trust in science: public accountability and the lessons of ‘climategate’”. This is an inaugural lecture for the newly formed Science, Society and Sustainability (3S) Group in the School of Environmental Sciences.
Financial Interests and Funding
In the interests of openness and transparency I here declare my professional sources of income and the funders of my research over recent years. I am employed by the UEA as a professor and receive a negotiable professorial salary. I also receive an annual honorarium of £5,000 from Wiley-Blackwell in recognition of my duties as Editor-in-Chief […]
