(1 May) “Beyond the ‘tipping point’: understanding perceptions of abrupt climate change and their implications” This manuscript, co-authored with one of my students, has now been published in the journal Weather, Climate and Society. It reports an empirical study using Cultural Theory of how peoples beliefs affect their perceptions of proposed ‘tipping points’ in the Earth system.
‘Living in denial’
(14 April) I have reviewed Kari Marie Norgaard’s new book ‘Living in denial: climate change, emotions and everyday life’ for Nature Climate Change and this is now posted on-line here.
Australian speaking tour
(13 April) Updated: I shall be visiting Australia during the first week of May and speaking at a number of events in Victoria and New South Wales, including the keynote lecture at the Hot Science, Global Citizens symposium in Sydney (5-6 May), a public lecture at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum (5 May), a lunchtime lecture at the […]
Transcending disciplines through imagination
(1 April) Read my review of Valerie Brown’s excellent book ‘Tackling wicked problems through the transdisciplinary imagination’, published last year by Earthscan. This review was published in ECOS, the magazine of the British Association of Nature Conservationists, Vol.31(3/4).
New review of Why We Disagree …
(13 March) The latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech has a review of Why We Disagree About Climate Change written by Michael Svoboda … “Hulme helps us understand the decades of wandering the desert of climate policy”.
Explorations of a heatwave
(3 March) I have a new paper which is under review for the journal Climatic Change as part of a special issue edited by Georgina Endfield. “‘Telling a different tale’: literary, historical and meteorological readings of a Norfolk heatwave” is an exploration of how climatic episodes can be imagined and studied in different ways, each of which yields […]
Interview with Theory, Culture & Society
(11 February) The journal Theory, Culture & Society has interviewed me, with a post here. This follows my article – ‘Cosmopolitan climates: foresight, hybridity and cosmopolitanism‘ – published in the journal last year.
Shakespeare’s Climate
(11 February) Read about ‘Shakespeare’s climate’, an essay which I have written to appear in the forthcoming The Cambridge Shakespeare Encyclopedia: Vol.1 Mapping Shakespeare’s World, edited by Bruce Smith.
Book review symposium in Progress in Human Geography
(4 February) The February issue of Progress in Human Geography has a book review symposium based on my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change. David Demeritt and Diana Liverman contribute essays, with a response by me. You can read these contributions here.
“Science under attack”
(25 January) “Science under attack” Read here for some of my thoughts on how Sir Paul Nurse, incoming President of the Royal Society, mounted his defence of (climate) science in last night’s BBC2 screening of Horizon’s documentary.
