(17 December) “Transparency and the limits of ‘see-through’ knowledge” – my unpublished essay on the drive for limitless scientific knowledge and for total transparancy in social relations and what we may lose along the way.
Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding?
(11 November) Read my policy forum article on this topic, published today in Science. We argue that claims that attributing extreme weather events to human influence has relevance for the allocation of existing and new international climate adaptation funds are misguided and unhelpful. Cited as: Hulme,M., O’Neill,S.J. and Dessai,S. (2011) is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation […]
BEST, peer review and public knowledge
The most interesting thing about the public release yesterday of the first results from Berkeley’s Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is their timing. It is no surprise to me – nor to most people who have ever ‘got their hands dirty’ working with climate data – that the BEST curve closely follows the three other […]
November speaking dates
(16 October) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change at two new venues: on Wednesday morning 2 November in Amsterdam at the 6th Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Symposium and on the evening of Tuesday 15 November at Trinity College, Dublin, to the Dublin University Geographical Society.
How do climate models ‘move’?
(18 October) My paper with Martin Mahony – ‘Model migrations: mobility and boundary crossings in regional climate prediction’ – has been published on-line at Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. This is an exploration of the outreach of the Met Office’s PRECIS model, drawing upon theory from STS and geographies of science.
Symposium at Wageningen
(29 September) ‘Climate change: knowledge, risk and governance’ – I shall be speaking at this symposium at Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University on Tuesday 1 November (0900-1600hrs), along with Prof Marjolein van Asselt from Maastricht University.
Talk at Off the Shelf Festival in Sheffield.
(5 September) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change on Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm, at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Reading and Writing Festival. Venue: The Auditorium, University of Sheffield.
How to report a scientific consensus – impartially
(9 August) How to report a scientific consensus – impartially. Read my comments on last month’s report into the accuracy and impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of science.
Science-policy interface: beyond assessments
(8 August) The participants of the Leipzig workshop on the role of nested networks in the design of the new Intergovernmenal Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have correspondence in the journal Science this week. We suggest the IPCC is not a suitable model for IPBES to follow.
Climate Pragmatism
(26 July) Read Climate Pragmatism: Innovation, Resilience and No-Regrets, a new policy report for the USA released July 26 by the Hartwell group.
