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 …’
Cosmopolitan climates
NEW Publication (25 May) Cosmopolitan climates: hybridity, foresight and meaning Theory Culture & Society 27(2/3), 267-276 (part of a special issue on ‘Changing Climates’)
A new direction for climate policy
(11 May) Re-thinking climate change. I am one of 14 authors of The Hartwell Paper, published today (and here in Chinese), which outlines a new direction for climate policy following the crash of 2009. See my editorial in the BBC Green Room, Richard Black’s commentary on it, and also The Economist. I have published a separate essay […]
Quotes about Why We Disagree About Climate Change
(April 2010) Read what people are saying about Why We Disagree About Climate Change.
The IPCC, consensus and science
(April) The IPCC, Consensus and Science. Mike Hulme examines the different meanings attached to the idea of consensus in science and how it is used by the IPCC.
‘Heated debate’ – feature article
(30 March) Read my feature article on the climate change debate in the spring issue of the Royal Society of Arts’ Journal. “There’s no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to tackling climate change. That’s why we need to stop looking for scapegoats and engage in honest discussion”.
