(11 January 2011) “Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism” This manuscript has been accepted by the history of science journal Osiris and will appear in the summer of 2011 in a special collection of papers ‘Klima’, an exploration of cultural histories of climate change edited by Jim Fleming and […]
Major publications 2010
Hulme,M. (2010) Cosmopolitan climates: hybridity, foresight and meaning Theory, Culture and Society 27(2/3), 267-276 Hulme,M. (2010) Four meanings of climate change Chapter 2 (pp.37-58) in: Future ethics: climate change and apocalyptic imagination (ed.) Skrimshire,S., Continuum Press, London Hulme,M. (2010) Claiming and adjudicating on Kilimanjaro’s shrinking glaciers: Guy Callendar, Al Gore and extended peer communities Science as […]
12 months since Climategate
(14 December) Listen to me being interviewed about my views on the last 12 months of climate change – science, policy, society – at ThinkGloballyRadio, a Swedish local radio station (search episode archive for 5 December 2010 – ‘101205’).
Climate change, culture and time
(16 December) Listen to this panel discussion (available through iTunes, choose item #9) on ‘Climate change, culture and time’, part of the OU’s Mediating Climate Change project which seeks to explore the wider cultural dimensions of climate change.
WIREs Climate Change: Issue Number 6
(8 November) WIREs Climate Change: Issue Number 6. The sixth issue of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change is now available on-line. The 12 review articles in this issue include these topics: a history of climate engineering; climate change and social movement theory; climate and volcanoes; and climate castatrophes and fear. There is free global access to WIREs Climate Change until January […]
The past year has changed our view of climate
(9 December) “L’annee ecoulee a bouleverse notre vision du climat” Read my interview with Swiss newspaper Le Temps about how the last 12 months has changed our views of climate change.
Climate Change Master Class
(8 December) A WIREs “Climate Change Master Class” collection brings together a number of Overview articles recently published in WIREs Climate Change. These articles are written by leaders in their fields and offer ideal entry points for students to different fields of climate change study or for readers from particular disciplines seeking the current state-of-knowledge about climate […]
BSc/MSci in Environmental geography and climate change
(December) New Degree Programme for 2011/12: ‘Environmental geography and climate change’. I am convening this new degree programme in the School of Environmental Sciences, available from September 2011. Study climate change from an inter-disciplinary perspective for 3-yr (BSc) or 4-yr (MSci) degrees.
12 months after Climategate
(17 November) A year ago today, emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were placed, unauthorised, on the internet. Read my essay in Environment Guardian, reflecting on what has changed in 12 months: ‘The year climate science was redefined‘.
(Mis-)representing Gulf Stream collapse
NEW publication in print (17 November) Jennings,N. and Hulme,M. (2010) UK newspaper (mis-)representations of the potential for a collapse of the thermohaline circulation Area 42(4), 444-456
