(13 September) ‘Where next for the IPCC?‘ Read my essay following the IAC Review of the IPCC, published last week in Research Fortnight News (8 Sept 2010).
Review of ‘A Cultural History of Climate’
(August) Read my review of Wolfgang Behringer’s book ‘A Cultural History of Climate’ at the on-line Reviews in History.
The experimental nature of the IPCC
(21 July) ‘The IPCC on trial: experimentation continues’ Read my Talking Point essay at Environmental Research Web.
Learning to live with novel climates
(8 July) New Publication My extended essay ‘Learning to live with recreated climates’ has just been published in the journal Nature & Culture.
The experimental society
On 28 June 2010, I shall be part of a panel discussion, hosted by The Royal Society and the Science & Democracy Network, addressing the question: ‘The experimental society: what happens when evidence, uncertainty and politics collide?’ Places are still available.
What do we know about the IPCC?
NEW Publication (June). ‘What do we know about the IPCC?’ This review article – Hulme & Mahony, 2010 – has been published on-line in the journal Progress in Physical Geography. The article surveys all of the significant published research from the early 1990s onwards about how the IPCC works and what impacts its knowledge assessments have had. (15 June) On the nature […]
Could climate intervention schemes ever work?
(7 June) ‘Climate intervention schemes could be undone by geopolitics’. Read my opinion article posted here at Yale environment 360, which includes a scenario of the year 2028 when the first solar radiation management intervention scheme is sanctioned by the UN Secutiry Council.
The climate change debates
(28 May) ‘The climate change debates’. The journal Science has commissioned a review essay by philosopher of science Philip Kitcher in which he assesses the arguments put forward in a number of recent books about climate change, including Why We Disagree About Climate Change. There is an on-line forum to discuss the issues raised, including this comment from […]
Response to Philip Kitcher
(28 May) In Philip Kitcher’s wide-ranging essay in Science on ‘The Climate Change Debates’ I am struck by two things – which are not very new, but which are very important. First, is how the framing and public discourse around climate change differs between countries: as Kitcher puts it, where ‘societies … are inclined to see […]
What does ‘the science demand’?
(24 May ) Read here at Spiked on-line an interview with Mike Hulme – ‘We must stop saying ‘the science demands …’
